Draco's bigotry and leadership

[rlai1977]

No: HPFGUIDX 144765

> Magpie:
> 
> I agree with your take on the scene, though I think it might be even 
> unwise to assign logic and intelligence to someone when we really 
> don't know them that well.  What I got from his scenes in HBP was 
> that Blaise doesn't show interest in *anything* much less his school 
> or career plans.  That's his thing, to put on airs of being haughty 
> and disinterested--it's a note hit a lot in his short page time. 
> Ginny claims his one talent is posing.  

I just went and reread the scene, and I have to admit I did make a
mistake assigning better command of words and logic to Blaise there-
my bad :-) Before rereading I only remembered that he rendered Draco
speechless and angry regarding the Slughorn business, and that was
because he had a better assessment of the situation. But he was given
a piece of information (that Slughorn was buddy-buddy with Nott's dad
and didn't look happy when he heard about Nott's dad getting caught as
a DE) that Draco wasn't. Just like when Blaise made a mistake assuming
16-years-olds are useless to Voldemort, because he didn't know 
Voldemort already *did* assign Draco a mission.

So in that scene neither boy appeared smarter than the other, they
were simply more informed about one matter each :-) 

> a_svirn:
> I don't think that he's anti-Voldi any more than he's pro-Voldi. He's 
> every bit as arrogant and bigoted as Draco, but he's smarter (at least 
> at first sight) and he seems to be more interested in becoming fully 
> qualified and getting on with his career plans (whatever they are) 
> than with entering anybody's service.

Well... It's not like Voldemort offered Draco his right to choose:
Education, or ME :-D? So I wouldn't say Blaise's not having entered
Voldemort's service yet said anything meaningful about him, in
comparison to Draco. 

RP