[HPforGrownups] Re: Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. (But not sympathetic)

[Sue White]

No: HPFGUIDX 124471

much much snipping

--- nrenka <nrenka at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Draco is the deserved object of Schadenfreude.
> 
> Draco Malfoy is a provocateur, and our narrative
> route into seeing 
> what the child of a Death Eater behaves like.  With
> some exceptions, 
> he brings trouble upon himself, and is taken down in
> ways that many 
> readers find distasteful, but many find rather
> gratifying.  

snip again

> After five years at Hogwarts, he seems not to have
> manifested any 
> ability to say "Maybe this ain't right".  In five
> years, what Draco 
> *is* has been manifested repeatedly, and OotP is
> only really an 
> intensification of it.
> 

Yes, this is all very true. However I firmly stand on
the side that says, either way, Draco has potential to
change. 

I see him as a contemporary foil for our friend the
young Tom Riddle. Now the future potential Voldemorte
must have had opportunities to be both good or evil.
We know he chose evil, but we don't know what specific
choice he made, in his young life that caused him to
go that direction.  Haggrid being an exception,
becuase it can't be substantiated within the text as
the thing which made Voldemort 100% evil. 

Similarly with Draco, we have seen him make choices,
but juvenile ones. He hasn't yet committed any genuine
evil, he's simply a pest. (not unlike a young James
Potter...) I'm still waiting to see him make a
decision with terrible consequence. I don't think
Buckbeak counts, because Buckbeak's death sentence is
not Draco's doing, but the doing of adults. 

Suffice it to say, I'm waiting for Draco to make a
significant moral decision before I decide. Maybe I've
overlooked something, but I just haven't seen it. 


		
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