CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 31, O.W.L.s

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 118117


Juli: 
snip
> But maybe the reason is that JKR wanted it that way,
> and it's her world and she can do whatever she wants,
> she wanted Draco to fail or at least get a bad grade
> because he got distracted looking at Harry. I just
> loved that scene, Draco is busy looking as Harry is
> admired by his professor and then he blows up his
> exam. Well deserved.
> 

Potioncat:
Sorry, I can't man the canon at this moment. But I remember this as 
the one time I felt sorry for Draco.  Yeah, he's a rotten kid, and 
it's fun to see bad things happen to rotten kids, but it would be 
better for consequences to follow  misdeeds rather than happen 
randomly later.

Being distracted from your own test is no fun nor fair.  Although 
the WW is less fair than the RW. And this struck me (if memory 
serves, and it usually doesn't) as a classic Severus/James 
scenario.  Of course, we also hear about Harry and others messing up 
in portions of the tests.

Potioncat (who still enjoys the memory of ferret!Draco even though 
she shouldn't.)