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

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>>SSSusan:
>Perhaps we see the Dementor stunt differently then, Magda. I saw 
that as definitely akin to levitating someone upside down.  
<snip>
>...I saw it that [Draco] was attempting to cause Harry to faint and 
fall from his broom.<

Betsy:
But as the children of Hogwarts would be well aware of, it's the 
*presence* of a Dementor that brings about the effect.  Harry faints 
in reaction to what the Dementor *does* to him.  He doesn't faint at 
the thought of one.  Draco implies that Harry faints because he is a 
coward, but I believe that Draco knows that it's actually how Harry 
is *effected* by Dementors that causes him to faint.  Especially 
since Draco knows personally the difference between the *idea* of a 
Dementor and the actual *presence* of a Dementor. (As per the twins, 
Draco was effected on the train by the Dementors, himself.)

Which is a really long and complicated way of saying that I think 
Draco's goal (and Flint's who was also involved, IIRC) wasn't 
necessarily to have Harry fall off his broom, but to throw him off 
his game and keep him from grabbing the Snitch.  Not a decent goal, 
no, but not a murdereous one, either.

Betsy, gleefully butting in.