The Importance of the Houses and Harry's judgement ( LONG)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 138065

 
Betsy Hp:

> <SNIP>
>  But I don't think Harry *ever* considered that Draco might 
> > actually be a victim of Voldemort's.
> 
  
Alla:
  
> I am with Phoenixgod - Draco started this adventure as being 
> Voldemort's accomplice, NOT a victim, IMO. He planned assacination 
> attempt because he wanted glory and even accused Snape of trying to 
> steal his glory. 

Hickengruendler:

I never thought I would defend the little ferret, but one doesn't 
necessarily exclude the other. I agree with Narcissa in thinking, 
that Voldemort chose it as a revenge for Lucius, and Snape seems to 
agree as well. Voldemort wanted Draco to fail and possibly getting 
killed in the course of the deed, to hurt Lucius and maybe Narcissa. 
I don't think Voldemort threatened Draco from the very beginning. He 
probably knew how to seduce him to the Dark Side, in promising him 
glory and telling him that he has the chance to take revenge on Harry 
for sending Lucius to prison. And I think Draco was naive enough to 
believe all of this and to willingly join Voldemort. That makes him 
indeed an accomplice. But it also makes him a victim of Voldemort's 
schemes, who exactly knew which cards to play, to get Draco, where he 
wants him to be. Draco, in spite of being really nasty and awful most 
of the time, is in some ways also really innocent. He was sheltered 
during his whole life and it wasn't necessary for him to face the 
harsh reality. Therefore when Voldemort offered him to join the Death 
Eaters, he agreed, because in theory it was all probably rather cool 
for him. But once he was being confronted with the harsh reality he 
realized, that he wasn't able to really do the deed to kill somebody. 
You could argue if it was out of cowardice ot because he grew a 
conscience, but nonetheless he wasn't able to do the deed. And he 
already missed the First Quidditch match in the school year, which 
was shortly after Katie was being injured. This is a canon point, 
that he probably felt bad for what happened to Katie, even though we 
didn't see it.   
 
Hickengruendler