Draco's bigotry and leadership

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 144543

> >>a_svirn:
> <snip>
> Slytherins do hang out together, so why should's Zabini sit in the 
> same compartment as Draco?
> <snip>
> However the whole scene was about two boys picking on each other   
> with Zabini winning every encounter. 
> <snip>
> Not what you might call a friendly exchange. Certainly there is 
> nothing in Zabini's manner to suspect that he sees Draco as a     
> leader of any kind. 

Betsy Hp:
So basically you're saying Blaise decided the best place to enjoy 
the long journey to Hogwarts was with a boy he disliked, smashed 
into a seat with two other large boys, so that the boy he disliked 
could lounge comfortably on the other seat with his girlfriend.  I 
don't get your logic here.  I also don't see Draco and Blaise's 
exchange as anything other than two friends talking.  But since I 
don't get your logic, I doubt you get mine. <g>

Though if Blaise *does* dislike Draco than he *must* see Draco as a 
rather powerful leader.  Someone worth sucking up to anyway.  It's 
the only way to explain the seating arrangement.

> >>a_svirn:
> <snip>
> All bigots get their bigotry somewhere. It's not an inherent      
> trait. 

Betsy Hp:
Can a bigot ever change? Or is it once a bigot, always a bigot?

Draco received his bigotry from his father, tied in with his support 
of the Death Eaters and Voldemort.  Draco has since learned that his 
father was wrong about Voldemort.  It's not a huge leap to think 
that Draco may well decide his father was wrong about other things.

Draco has reached a fork in the road.  He did start to lower his 
wand, so he must have been listening to what Dumbledore had told 
him.  Will he continue to lower his wand?  Only JKR knows for sure.  
But it would be a massive waste of writing, IMO, to set Draco up for 
such a huge life change and than have him decide not to take it. 

Betsy Hp