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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124575


Betsy:
> It's (Good Slytherin making HRH feel guilty for hating him) a 
rather pathetic end for Draco, and I *hope* nothing like that will 
come to pass.  I'd like to see him grow up and out from his father's 
shadow.  But I agree that there's not much forshadowing for that 
particular scenario.  Which makes me sad.  I hope to be 
> pleasantly surprised, but if wishes were horses...  So I think 
you'll have to move me over, with great reluctance, to the Draco 
comes to a sticky end, column.
> 
> Betsy, who would totally sign a "save Draco!" petition if there 
was one and it would do any good.


Valky:
Well actually Betsy I hope Nora put it in pencil for you because 
there just *might* be a foreshadowing of *Draco* as the good 
slytherin.

First, I'll say that I think Draco's family loyalty makes a good 
statement about his character. I don't consider it an excuse for 
him, in the bad choices he's made at all. He's judgemental, greedy 
and bratty. But in those traits is reflected something that 
undercuts it all. He adores his parents.

There is nothing poor or innately evil about loving the people that 
raised you. Dracos loyalty to them finally forcibly revealed at the 
end of OOtP is a quality that may have made him a Hufflepuff. So 
tragic *fool*, too says a little more than it first seems, doesn't 
it.

He really values his loyalty, but it is to Slytherin people. A 
conflict in him a hurt/comfort scenario, no?

Blind loyalty is not exclusively Draco territory either. There is 
another.... (lol) Another character for whom this *good* quality is 
of high regard. The one I think will truly, eventually be Draco's 
opposite number.

In PS/SS Harry and Draco are pitted against each other. It works as 
a book scenario but in the scope of the series *who* is 
the "biggest"(lol) issue between Harry and Draco?

If you haven't guessed Hagrid yet then I don't know what books 
you've been reading ;D.

Hagrid is the one the one character that has conclusively chosen to 
believe that there are NO *good* slytherins. And Draco, has been the 
one who consistently, through his only *good* trait, (loyalty to his 
father) been a thorn in Hagrids side.

Ohh beautiful Irony... :D I never thought I'd be writing a redeemed 
Draco post..

So how do I think Draco will be redeemed then?

Gosh I don't know, I just thought I'd bring the foreshadowing to the 
table. :-\

What I can say is that I think it will be Hagrid who finally 
recognises Draco as the *good* slytherin, or that he will *have to* 
at some point because it is Hagrids failing working innately in 
Harry that prevents Draco from being saved instead of smashed down 
all the time.

Perhaps it's got to do with Grawp. Anyone else got an Idea?

Valky