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

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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.


Alla:

Bingo, Susan. I don't see Draco's losses are morally "neutral" at 
all, therefore I would like him much more if he actually ... stopped 
trying, took a  breath and realised that he is fighting not only 
LOSING battle, but WRONG battle, because I believe that right and 
wrong as moral pirnciples are absolute in "potterverse" ( Lupinlore 
and Nora argued it so well some time ago).

Dumbledore's side is set up as a Right one and Voldemort as Wrong 
one, therefore yes, I think that Slytherins, including Draco have 
much MORE difficult road in front of them, ( if Draco is going to 
travel this road at all, which I HIGHLY doubt) than Harry and Co do, 
because they are already on the RIGHT side as far as author is 
concerned, IMO. 
I mean sure Trio also has a lot of personal development to do, but 
on a big scale their hearts are in the right place , while 
Draco's... well, not.

Just my opinion of course,

Alla