possible Draco clue

[Alex boyd]

No: HPFGUIDX 124654

I've been following with interest the discussion on whether or not Draco is 
Lame, Sympathetic, and/or Doomed.

I'm not totally sure which are my choices from the menu....although I've 
comimitted fanfic in which he is Sympathtic, not Lame, and Almost Dead (I'm 
CousinAlexei at schnoogle.com)....  However, *if* he does turn out to be 
neither ESE nor a total zero (and it's a big *if*, I'm not ruling out 
either), I think he's going to turn out to have been Hiding Something 
Important all along.  Like a Secret Identity of some sort.  Why?  Because a 
significant percentage of the times we see him, he's disguised as or 
impersonating someone else.  In CoS he does a "cruel but accurate" 
impression of Colin Creevy (when Ron and Harry are in the Slytherin common 
room, also diguised, as Crabbe and Goyle).  In PoA he dresses up as a 
Dementor, and he also does (obviously cruel and perhaps also accurate) 
impersonations of Harry fainting.  I think he also imitates Harry crying 
over his dead mum.  I think there are others, but I can't remember them at 
the moment.   Now, this pattern of Draco pretending to be something he's not 
*might* be completely insignificant.  But if he turns out to have some sort 
of Secret Identity (like, maybe he's really a sweet, sensitive 
boy....President of the Slytherin House Muggle Appreciation Society....), 
then it'll be forehead-slappingly obvious that all of his disguises and 
impersonating stuff is foreshadowing.  I'm not saying he *will* turn out to 
have hidden depths, but if he *does* I bet it's not going to be a Sudden 
Change of Heart, but rather a revelation that there's been More To Him All 
Along.

I also can't quite take my mind off the school motto....the thingy about not 
tickling a sleeping dragon....but I think that's fairly likely to be an 
Evans.

Alex