Happy Birthday, Draco

[B.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 130097

  
> JKR has said she finds the Draco worship very worrying - yet by 
> wishing him 'happy birthday' she seems to be changing her tune.  
> Then there's the infamous 'Draco's Detour' chapter of HBP, and 
that 
> deleted scene where she'd 'wanted to show how Draco acted when 
with 
> someone he considered an equal.'  It seems late in the day for JKR 
> to bring about a conversion of her junior arch-baddie, yet I'm 
> beginning to wonder if that is what she has in mind.
> 
> Or is she just leading along all the poor fangirls out there?  
> Surely not.
> 
> Hannah


JKR has stated that she has had the whole story in her head from the 
beginning.  So it doesn't make sense that she would bow to popular 
opinion.  She knows all about her characters and has gradually fed 
us bits and pieces that fall into place as the story unfolds.  I, 
for one, think that Draco is not a pure blood and that may be HIS 
detour - he will have to re-evaluate who he is.  The bit and piece?  
Draco's dad wanted him to go to Dumstrang, his mother did not.  She 
said she didn't want him that far away from home.  Why? It is not as 
if she visits him at Hogwarts.  I think that Dumstrang screens its 
students thoroughly and this would have revealed that Draco (on his 
mother's side)was not a pure blood.  

I doubt that Draco and Harry will ever be friends but he may join 
the DA eventually and fight against his father who turned against 
him and his mother when the truth was revealed.  

IMHO of course
BG