Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. (But not sympathetic)

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 124514



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> > Renee:
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> > The main reason for this is that Draco (unlike young Snape in the 
> > Pensieve Scene) never gets hurt without provocation. 
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> It's his own bullying and his filthy mouth that do him in. 
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nrenka:
<snip>  There's a 
> little too much spite and arrogance combined with frustration.  He 
> sets out deliberately to be a little provocateur, and then it 
> backfires upon him.  Hmm, this is an interesting setup...
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NS:
Reading through Betsy's post on Draco, it was enough to make me a bit 
sympathetic towards him. (Not enough to find him attractive though, 
just pathetic). Yes, on the one hand he gets what he deserves - he 
brings it upon himself, he has no mitigating circumstances like 
Snape. But on the other hand, he always gets a bit too much of what 
he had coming. I'm never left with any satisfaction at Draco's 
defeats, beacuse they're not ever fair fights. This is especially 
true where there isn't much humor covering it up - the ferret bounce 
was funny, so I didn't notice it, but Draco's fight with Harry and 
George left me wishing that Harry had gotten a few bruises there. 

Draco is a twerp, but the punishments he gets aren't equal to his 
crimes, and that makes me sympathetic. I'd be happier to just see him 
get detention a time or ten, not all these exotic injuries and 
humiliations - Slap, Ferret, cursed into oblivion twice on the train, 
etc.  

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> 
> -Nora marks Betsy down for a 'Draco will end up on the good side', 
> and Renee as a 'No he won't'; any other takers?

I think I'm supporting "no, he won't", despite finding Draco 
sympathetic. It's because at this point I don't think he really has 
room to grow into anything in the series, and other characters, like 
Theodore Nott, seem to have been set up as the "good Slytherins". 

Ok, my theory: Draco isn't about Draco at all, that's why he's such a 
shallow, yet sympathetic charecter - he's about Lucius. Draco is 
going to die in some spectacular, and rather pathetic fashion, and 
I'm going to feel really sorry for him. And then Lucius will either 
be unaffected (or he will have been the cause of it) or he will have 
some change of heart...possibly towards the side of good. 

I don't think the DE's so far have been portrayed greyly enough, and 
Draco is a dismal failure at showcasing that greyness, so it's going 
to have to be some other character - and yet Draco has been set up as 
sympathetic for some reason, so he is going to involved somehow - and 
so I'm guessing that at a critical moment Lucius will either be 
redeemed by his love for his son - or betray it. 

Or maybe he'll even be on the way to betraying Voldemort for his own 
nefarious purposes, when Draco will be killed by the good guys 
(possibly even by Harry) thus flinging him firmly back to LV. Draco 
is a sympathetic charActer beacuse then both Lucius's decision and 
Harry's killing are made greyer. 

Northsouth
Who had nothing at all to say about Lucius, when she started the 
post!