[HPforGrownups] Draco & Harry (was: Sirius and Prank again? )

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 130127

>> Magda:
>> Dumbledore's comment to Harry about Snape-James being like
>> Harry-Draco would also take on new meaning as I really believe
>> that as much as he goes after Harry so much Draco very much wants 
>> to be Harry's friend (as much as Draco understands the word).
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> I know this wasn't the main point of your post, Magda, but it 
> intrigues me.  I notice you used the *present* tense here.  Is that
> what you think?  That Draco still WANTS to be Harry's friend, or
> that at one time he truly WANTED to be his friend?  If the former, 
> I would love to hear more.


Magda again:

Well, as I said above, Draco's idea of friendship probably isn't the
same as Ron's or Harry's; for one thing, it would probably involve
sitting around listening to a LOT of talk about "my father says" and
hearing about what Draco got for Christmas.  But yes, I do think that
Draco would still like to "be friends with" Harry if he could figure
out a way to do it.  In Draco's mind it would require Harry coming to
him apologetically and Draco grandly forgiving Harry his foolishness
over the past five years.

I think that a lot of Draco's animosity to the people that Harry
cherishes - Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore - is based on Draco's
desire to supplant them.  (And yes I know he's a prejudiced little
git; I'm not saying that ALL of his animosity derives from his
feelings about Harry, only that as much as it's personal for him as
opposed to the stuff his parents' have been feeding him for years.)

All of this is up to the end of OOTP, of course.  There definitely
does seem to be a change in Draco's attitude during the final
chapter's confrontation so it could be that Draco's attitude has
changed.  We'll know in six weeks.

To reach back to James/Sirius/Snape: I wondered if the Marauders'
view that Snape followed them around to get them in trouble (at least
in the first few years) is accurate because I was re-reading PS/SS
and it occurs to me that before Hermione becomes friends with Ron and
Harry, what she does could be described as following them around
trying to get them in trouble.  When of course she's trying to make
friends with them, which is why Ron's comment that no one likes her
makes her hide in the bathroom and cry.

Magda

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