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

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Magda:
> I don't believe we're expected to see Draco as any kind of real
> threat to Harry (to Ron, that's another thing).  As Betsy says, 
> he's never tried to levitate anyone upside down.  On the other 
> hand, he's such a spineless little git up til the end of OOTP that 
> anything involving risk, initiative, a minimum amount of daring and
> intelligence is frankly beyond his capabilities.  


SSSusan:
Perhaps we see the Dementor stunt differently then, Magda.  
I saw that as definitely akin to levitating someone upside down.  

There's Harry, perhaps a hundred feet in the air on a broomstick, 
and below are Draco, et al., dressed up to give the impression that 
they're Dementors.  Draco KNOWS how Harry reacts to Dementors.  So 
what, exactly, was he attempting with this stunt?  To achieve a 
chuckle?  Perhaps that, as well, but I saw it that he was attempting 
to cause Harry to faint and fall from his broom.  Given that 
possibility, I'd say his stunt was:  1) certainly as bad as 
levitating someone upside down; and 2) something which involved 
risk, initiative & daring.

I'll grant you that it didn't show much intelligence, though. ;-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan