Is Draco's Character Arc complete?

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 114658


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elfundeb2" <elfundeb at c...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dzeytoun" <dzeytoun at c...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > I was thinking this morning about Draco.  Lot's of people have 
> > expressed dismay a the lack of development of his character. 

<snip>
> Draco ranks far down on the list of Harry's antagonists.  From 
> Harry's perspective he has indeed become irrelevant; Harry's 
> principal antagonist is Voldemort.  Nevertheless, Draco does have a 
> rival in canon, and the prefect story arc sets it up:  his nemesis 
> is Ron.  
> 
Angie replies:
Yes!  I've been seeing Draco as Ron's nemesis for a while.  At least, 
I'm sure Ron feels that way.  Ron is always the one to jump in when 
Draco says something about Hermione and Draco and Ron are natural 
opposites:  rich, poor, smooth, a blunderer, etc.  Draco is downright 
cruel to Ron when he makes references about Ron's family being poor 
and making remarks about Molly.  I know Draco's said stuff about 
Harry's family, but it seems to me he'd made more remarks about Ron's 
family.

Of course Draco is Harry's nemesis too, and was markedly so in the 
first book, lesser in the second and well, we know what happened from 
there.  As the story of LV and to a lesser extent, Draco's father and 
the Death Eaters developed, Draco was heard from less often.  Draco's 
function in the last book had diminished to the point to where he was 
just a thorn-in-Harry's side.  

Truthfully, I hope to see more of Draco in Books 6 & 7, because I'd 
love to see both Harry and Ron mature to the point where they can 
annoy the heck out of him by not allowing him to bait them!