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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 124929


--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Malfoy shouted a "death threat" . You call it an excuse for mob 
> justice. I call it a justifiable provocation for what Malfoy and Co
> got, when they appeared uninvited in Gryffs appartment.
> 


Actually, it wasn't a death threat; Draco didn't threat to kill
anyone.  He made an observation about who would be likely to get
whacked and definitely made it clear that it was all fine by him, but
technically he didn't utter a death threat.

A technicality, perhaps, but one crucial to Draco's character.  A man
of action, Draco is not.  A blabbermouth, Draco definitely is.  This
falls into blabbermouthing territory.

On the whole I think Betsy is loading too much weight onto a straw
man; Draco is simply not a sympathetic character and there really is
not much wiggle room - to date - on that point.  

Up to the end of POA, I'd have given Draco a pass for simply going
along with his father but by GOF and definitely by OOTP he's old
enough to account for his own opinions and choices.

Magda


		
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