QUESTION!!!! (Draco & Harry)

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 112684

A.J. wrote:
>>I can never get over how Draco repeatedly misses the connection that
Voldemort killed Harry's parents. How can he think Harry would want
to associate with Death Eater types after that? It must be either
extreme nearsightedness or a Slytherin assumption that others care
just about associating with power for their own benefit.<<

HunterGreen:
I think its a mixture of short-sightedness and just plain taunting 
Harry. I've also wondered how that would have helped Harry if he had 
indeed aligned himself with Draco and the Slytherins (now that sounds 
like a good band name). Voldemort would still want to kill him, it 
would just be a lot *easier* for him in that case. Perhaps Draco is 
just too stupid to see that connection, his statements would make a 
lot more sense if it had been *Ron* that he had tried to befriend. 

I think that Draco genuinally tried to make friends with Harry 
(probably because he thought Harry would be a powerful friend to 
have), and has been forever angry (and possibly hurt) that Harry 
rejected him. That was probably what that comment was about, trying 
to make it Harry's *stupididy* that didn't choose him, and by 
implication nothing about him. 

A.J.:
>>Draco misses the point as well in taunting Harry for fainting around
dementors when it is because Draco's family's crowd and LV caused the
memories that make Harry pass out.<<

HunterGreen:
He probably didn't exactly know the mechanism of the Dementors, and 
even if he did, making fun of Harry for fainting was just too easy in 
this case (like making fun of things that kids can't control, like 
being short, or having horrendous acne, or having a large nose...).

A.J.:
>> And he says, "I'll kill you" at
the end of OOTP after Harry simply landed Lucius in jail via fighting
back-- does Draco not realize how stupid and ironic any of this is?
If he is angry at Harry for causing Lucius to be in jail, how can he
expect Harry to go along with Death Eaters or LV who killed his
parents...<<

HunterGreen:
Yeah that didn't make sense. Its *Lucius'* fault for going to the DoM 
in the first place. However, it makes about as much sense as Harry 
blaming Snape for Sirius' death, which we know he did. So Draco could 
be suffering from the same displaced rage (rather than being mad at 
his father for being a DE and getting caught as one, he's made at 
Harry for getting him caught).