The Importance of being Draco Malfoy

[frugalarugala]

No: HPFGUIDX 114148

> --- sophierom <sophierom at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Draco seems to be more of a stupid 
> > school-yard bully with his two stupid sidekicks; he's become a
> > skinnier, magical version of Dudley.   

Ah, but Dudley *has* shown change. If the Dudley-Draco parallel 
continues, Draco might be beefed up as a baddie next book. The way I 
see it, Dudley's main form of indulgence was food--a diet forced his 
changes; Draco's main form of indulgence is money--his father's 
arrest will like cause put him on a monitary diet. (I doubt the 
Malfoys will be entirely broke--Narcissa is a Black after all.)


Magda:
> In fact, I think that is his function - to be a symbol of arrested
> maturity, of the unthinking parrotting of stupid ideas and values, 
of
> lack of personal effort in attaining one's goals as opposed to 
having
> everything handed to you on a tray.  We'll be able to contrast him
> with the Original Trio and the Additional Trio who will be maturing
> and growing in the last two books.

As much as I can see that being his fate, and an elegant one at that 
from a storyline point-of-veiw, I just can't help but hope otherwise. 
It would be just too depressing to turn out to be watching the 
forming of the next Snape. 

Magda:
> Just as there's not enough time for Draco to have a change of heart
> (or to develop a spine or grow a brain), there's not enough time for
> him to develop into Harry's deadly foe. Harry's got one of those
> already - his name's Voldemort.

I don't think he'll ever be Harry's deadly foe, no. But all he has to 
do is question what he was raised to believe, and 16 year olds do 
that all the time. Just look at Sirius, he moved out on his dark-arts-
loving family at 16... No, I don't think Draco will be either a main 
villian or a main hero, but I don't think all development is over. 
After all, Draco has idolizing his father, who's been hard on him for 
failure and is now under arrest which has to be seen as a huge 
failure of his own. I think the stage has been set for Draco to see 
Lucius as a hypocrite.