Draco = Evil?(was: Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. )

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 124926


> Are we seeing a boy who aligns 
> genuinely with the ugly bigotry of his house and finds elite joy 
in 
> cruelty to an inferior being, or are we seeing a boy not unlike 
> James Potter stupidly availing himself to the cause of a flailing 
> ideology.
> 
> The most powerful wizard in James time was Voldemort, he reigned 
> terrifyingly over people like Lupin and Hagrid, and from their 
> perspective Lord Voldemort was the destroyer of their kind.


Why, then, did the Weasleys and the Potters fight against him?  

> 
> In the present day, Dumbledore is proclaimed most powerful and 
> through his influence, as we overhear in the Borgin and Burkes 
scene 
> in COS, the pureblood supremists are fearing the destruction of 
> their livelihood.

Are you suggesting that DD is the WW Lenin? In what other way is he 
a threat to the Malfoy's livelihood? 

> 
> From *a* neutral standpoint on the livelihood of the Malfoys, 
which 
> I would like to propose Draco has, Dumbledore is a threatening 
force 
> upon the livelihood of Draco's family and those who follow him 
(his 
> disciples) are perpetuance of the threat. James I believe held a 
> similar regard of Snape as Draco does to Hagrid. Snape to James 
was 
> a percieved "disciple" of the master power standing threat to the 
> life his father taught him to value, Hagrid to Lucius is a 
> percieved "disciple" of the Dumbledorian progression over the life 
> his Father taught him to value.

But one form of life has value, whereas the other doesn't. JKR is 
not a relativist. One side is dark, one side is light - it is 
therefore just and right to protect the one side, and wrong to 
>protect the other.
>  

Naama