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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125264

> 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.


Of course he was trying to hurt Harry; and I would say it was even
worse than levitating someone upside down.

But Crabbe and Goyle were there (as usual) and so was Marcus Flint,
so it's not like Draco was running any personal risk of getting
punched in the nose.  And Harry had no idea that it wasn't real, so
that Draco (as Draco) wasn't running a risk of being ID'ed.  Of
course he didn't know about the patronus so that didn't work out as
he'd planned (as usual)...

I'm sure you don't think I was saying that Draco has never tried to
hurt Harry or Ron physically; I think I made it clear that in my
opinion Draco only tries to do things from a safe distance, with his
toadies around him or in hiding somehow.

Magda


		
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