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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124578


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 
> >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

Valky:
Well yeah actually, I do believe in the end he will probably not be 
*good* so much but actually balanced.

It will involve him accepting the inner Hufflepuff of Draco Malfoy, 
which would be a natural consequence of maturity. 

It will involve Hagrid showing *loyalty* in a way that makes Draco 
somewhere deeply question his fear of being a "Hufflepuff-like 
idiot" - A Neville.

It will involve Harry leading Ron (especially), Hermione and the DA 
into forgiving Draco's past and accepting his alliance in the future.

It may or may not involve his death, but in any case he *will* be 
redeemed before he dies, and not after.

So yeah, things have changed here in my head, and I really do think 
that Draco will be redeemed.

Valky (who is not sure how Betsy managed to make her see it this 
way.)