Draco is Evil and Lame

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 124812


> Antosha:
<snip>
> Imagine a black student at a newly integrated high school in the 
> sixties being threatened by three sons of prominent KKK members
> swinging chains and baseball bats. Are the threatened student and
> his friends wrong to treat the attackers with a certain level of 
> emphasis and force? In this case (and in the previous year's train 
> attack), I think the response is justified.
> <snip>

Now that's very serious, but that's not the way Draco and Co's attack 
on Harry is described. Objectively, we could view it this way, but 
Harry, and after him the text, aren't objective. This event is so 
insignificant to Harry that it dosen't even warrant a description, 
it's just mentioned in passing, and D&C&G don't seem dangerous at any 
time during it, they're silly and pathetic. Maybe, objectively, they 
deserved it, but the way it's written makes me, as a reader, think 
they didn't, since Harry didn't feel threatened by them at all. The 
way Harry treats it, it's not so much the local KKK thugs with bats 
getting hexed into pulp, as their 8 year old brothers with water 
pistols. 

Northsouth