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

[vmonte]

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>Valky wrote:
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.

vmonte responds:
You think he'll turn out good in the end? I don't. In fact, I see his 
fate more along the lines of Regulus Black. If he lives at the end of 
the series it's going to be because Harry will have to save him.  

Vivian