Draco an underdog?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 132091

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> > >>Phoenixgod:
 
> > >>Alla:
> > <snip>
> > He CHOOSES to pick up fights with Harry. Now, despite that fact I 
> > could have feel for him, IF he picked those fights with Harry for 
> > the RIGHT reasons. You know, if Draco was doing it to fight the   
> > bad guy. But Draco does it for all the wrong reasons, IMO. His    
> > lack of morals is what does it for me.
> > Now, you could argue that in Draco's mind  he IS doing it for the 
> > right reasons, but to me as I said before definitions of "right" 
> > and "wrong" in Potterverse very clearly defined whether we look 
at 
> > it with Harry's eyes or not.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Why?  Why not have just Harry beat on Draco 
> in OotP, instead of Harry and George?  

Hickengruendler:

I'm not sure, if you will like this answer, but IMO, the primarly 
reason for doing so was the plot. Jo needed an opportunity for Harry 
being thrown out of the Quidditch Team, so that readers like me, who 
find the Quidditch sections in the books pretty boring, don't have to 
read about more Quidditch than necessarily. ;-) Also, Harry went with 
Hagrid to see Grawp during a Quidditch match, and it was the only 
opportunity, since Umbridge was occupied with the Game at this point. 
Similarly, after being thrown out of the Quidditch Team, Fred and 
George didn't have any more reasons, to stay at Hogwarts (they said 
so themselves), leading to their glorious exit. This scene basically 
leads to the following events.