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

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> Betsy, who not only snipped SSSusan fairly ruthlessly but also 
> quoted her out of order.

SSSusan:
I have NO problem w/ snipping ruthlessly or rearranging the order of 
comments as long as things still make sense... and they do.  
Besides, I'm going to rearrange yours, too. :-)


Betsy:
> That's the only point I'm trying to make.  That we will not see 
> Slytherin house or a Slytherin character in a complete three 
> dimensional way until Harry allows one into his inner circle.  
> Whether that Slytherin will be Draco, I don't know.  I really 
> don't. 

SSSusan:
I couldn't agree with this more.  I suspect if these books were 
written from a Slytherin's PoV, we'd be saying the same thing -- 
that we'll never see a 3-D Gryffindor, as opposed to just a bunch 
of "goody-two-shoes," until one of them entered the Slytherin inner 
circle.


Betsy:
> He's a nasty little kid, but he is just a kid, 
> still. There have been hints that his home life is not as happy as 
> Harry et al believe it to be, or as Draco says it is.  Draco 
> definitely marches to his father's drum, and if he keeps doing so, 
> he'll end up a Death Eater and most likely dead 

SSSusan:
As long as you would also cut James & Sirius some slack for the 
pensieve scene with Snape by saying they were just *kids.*  If you 
do, then you're consistent in your view.  If you don't, then I'd 
point out that they're close to one & the same thing: mean, nasty, 
bullying behavior from 15-year-olds.


Betsy:
> But he's a tenacious little bastard (love Nora's "Energizer Bunny 
> of Schoolboy Nasties" btw <g>) and so he'll keep trying and 
> trying.  Weirdly enough, this is one of the things I like about 
> Draco.  For all that we describe him as cowardly and pathetic and 
> weak, he will not give up, no matter how badly he's been hit 
> before.  (As an aside, I think if JKR would let Draco win 
> now and again, I'd have less sympathy for him as a reader.)


SSSusan:
And here's where we still differ.  If Draco's "losses" were in 
everyday, run-of-the-mill, non-morally-charged things like being 
passed over for the Quidditch team or for Prefect or for getting 
points taken away unfairly by a teacher who just doesn't like him, I 
might be able to feel bad for him.  As it is, I see his "losses" 
coming out of his own poor or immoral or cruel choices.  So I just 
still see very little to like about him or his behavior.

Siriusly Snapey Susan