Random Thoughts on Draco

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125434



 "Steve"  wrote:

> As to whether Draco is pampered, spoiled, or indulged; I think not.
> Draco comes from a family of wealth, privilege, and status. 
Because of
> this, members of the family are expected to conduct themselves with
> dignity, restraint, and formality at all times. 

a_svirn:
And when and where did Draco demonstrate this "degree of restraint 
and formality"? I couldn't recall a single example. 

Steve:


> Notice that the Malfoys produced one male heir and stopped having
> kids. They had done their formal duty, they had done what society 
had
> expected of them, and that is all they were obligated to do. 

a_svirn:

Actually, it is considered prudent for those who are in habit of 
contracting strategic alliances to have at least two sons. A woman 
is said to have done her duty by her husband only when she's born a 
heir and a spare. The Prince of Wales's marriage being the case in 
point. 


Steve:
> 
> At their first meeting in Madame Malkin's Robe shop, Draco
> demonstrates his self-important formal privileged old-money
> aristocratic values. 

a_svirn:

Yes, he indeed "demonstrated" these values as you put it. And he did 
it precisely because he is spoilt rotten and rather unwise into the 
bargain. These values are not to be "demonstrated" they are to be 
implied as subtly as possible. Just imagine Prince William saying 
something of "not allowing commoners and all this riff-raff in 
Eton". I believe he could have caused a major constitutional crisis 
by remark like this! (Even though it would have been nothing but the 
truth).  The meeting at Mme Malkin's was the first of many wasted 
opportunities for Draco to show some of this vaunted "restraint and 
formality" instead of bragging about his wealth and status in the 
most ill-bread manner possible.