[HPforGrownups] Draco the Dragon

[Sue White]

No: HPFGUIDX 124672

I think Draco's name is a clue to his character, but
not the dragon part at all. See below.

Draco = Constellation (like his lineage)
Malfoy = Bad Faith

This constellation is associated with the dragon slain
by Cadmus, the brother of Europa. The father sent
Cadmus to find Europa who was kidnapped by Zeus. But
though he searched for his sister everywhere he could
not find her. Because his father has threatened him
not to come back if he failed, he left the country and
search for help at the oracle of phoebus. The spell of
the oracle send him to a far away place where a
terrible monster, a dragon, lived, who killed all the
men Cadmus had with him. After he successfully killed
that dragon, the goddess Athena instructed him to
plant some of the teeth of the dragon. Surpised Cadmus
obeyed the goddess and the miracle happened: Armed men
grew from the soil; Cadmus, afraid of the new enemy,
started to lift his armes, when these people told him
not to interfere their internal fights. Immediately
they start to fight each other. All but five died and
***these five helped Cadmus to build a new city. This
city was the famous city called Thebes.***
(This story can be found in "Metamorphoses, III" by
the latin poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - 17 AC).)

from http://www.seds.org/Maps/Stars_en/Fig/draco.html


--- "rbrown at cp.tamu-commerce.edu"
<rbrown at cp.tamu-commerce.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> There are some interesting things in the canon of
> Draco.
> Like Harry, he is an only child.
> Like Harry, he is well off.
> Like Harry, he is powerful.
> Like Harry, he is an alpha male.
> Like Harry, he is well known due to a powerful
> family.
> 
> So why did JKR include Draco into the story?
> 
> 
> I agree with the comment that much to do with the
> sex appeal
> of Draco has to do with the movies, and Tom Felton
> who is
> really attractive and charming in reality. In the
> books he
> is the one you hate (like Snape) without question
> for being
> pure evil and because of how he treats Harry and
> company.
> 
> JKR said herself that Draco is pure evil. She did
> this on
> purpose.
> 
> Draco is Harry's first arch-nemesis: his opposite
> and his
> enemy
> Peer that developed due to Harry's rejection of
> Draco in
> the beginning and it was magnified in the movies
> with the
> staircase scene (that isn't in the book). 
> 
> Draco brings to the story complexity of ethics,
> angst, and
> drama. He is the symbol of pureblood vs. muggleblood
> racism,
> a central theme in JKRs storyline. Who better to
> give us the
> perspective of the dark side of the wizard world but
> an
> anti-matter Harry opposite the same age and social
> equal
> status? This is Light vs. Dark, and all that.
> 
> What child or adult cannot relate to a bully to deal
> with?
> The secret to successful fiction to me includes
> making a
> story believable, even in a make believe wizard
> world-we
> still need cornerstones of reality to make it seem
> real
> enough to stay interested and involved.
> 
> Harry is perceived as a hero character without
> question
> BECAUSE Draco is (by reflection)
> a villain. You can't have one without the other thus
> character development in a delicate, sharp and raw
> ongoing balance between the two.
> 
> This is just one more example of the genius of JK
> Rowling in
> action.
> Yes, Harry has to deal with evil adults from the
> start;
> however, he learns how to deal with evil from his
> peers-i.e.
> "Draco and company".
> This theme is so central to the storyline, and the
> amount of
> Harry/Draco shippers there are in fan fiction slash
> written
> by
> mostly 99.9% teenage girls out there is my final
> example of
> the inspiration and imagination Rowling's character
> calculus
> created.
> 
> Way to go Jo!
> ~bob
> 
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