Draco's Detour?

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No: HPFGUIDX 126017







Draco has been paralleled to Dudley more times than enough, most 
likely due to their upbringing, but why? In Dudley's case, I think 
that Petunia overcompensates by attending to every whim to make 
Dudley feel that he is more important to her than Harry but why would 
Draco portrait the same type of characteristics as Dudley? What did 
the Malfoy's do that were A-typical of the Dursley's that made each 
of their offspring react similarly? Oh yeah they gave him everything 
he wanted. You see what happens when you put someone on a pedestal 
and spoil him like a prince. Draco is worthless, at least to 
Voldemort. Draco, like Dudley, expects to be served, not to serve.  
Draco is afraid of Voldemort; Voldemort would use him as a doormat. 
Draco is definitely not his father's son. Where did Draco learn to be 
non-typical of his silver-tongued father
 his mother? Lucius wanted 
to send Draco to Durmstrang but his mother didn't agree. Narcissa may 
not be what she has been perceived to be in its entirety! 


"
Father actually considered sending me to Durmstrang rather than 
Hogwarts, you know. He knows the headmaster, you see. Well, you know 
his opinion of Dumbledore- the man's such a Mudblood-lover- and 
Durmstrang doesn't admit that sort of riffraff. But Mother didn't 
like the idea of me going to school so far away. Father says 
Durmstrang takes a far more sensible line than Hogwarts about the 
Dark Arts. Durmstrang students actually learn them, not just the 
defense rubbish we do
" GOF pg. 165 U.S.

Narcissa in rejecting Durmstrang for her son may be giving a subtle 
indication that she is not in favor of their teachings although her 
reasons for not sending him to Durmstrang, as far as her son and 
husband are concerned, were that it was too far. What is too far away 
for a witch who can apparate or use floo powder, sounds like a lame 
excuse if I ever heard one, unless
Narcissa doesn't want her son to 
be like his father.  

If this is true, why did Lucius marry Narcissa if she did not have 
the same ruthlessness as her sister Bella and why did Narcissa agree 
to marriage if her ideals where not the same as her beloved
 two 
words, pure and blood. Even by Bella's own remarks at the Ministry, 
her main concern seemed to be about purity of blood: 

"Shut your mouth!" Bellatrix shrieked. "You dare speak his name with 
your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's 
tongue, you dare-"
"Did you know he's a half-blood too?" said Harry recklessly. OOP pg. 
784 U.S.

Bella at this point sent a stupefy spell at Harry but Lucius 
deflected it for fear of damaging the prophecy. Bella takes great 
pride in the pureblood status (even beyond sacrificing the precious 
prophecy orb) that the Black family holds near and dear. Sirius left 
his family for this very reason:

"Because I hated the whole lot of them: my parents, with their pure-
blood mania, convinced that to be a Black made you practically 
royal
" OOP pg. 111 U.S.

That is Bella's conviction about pure blood; it makes you practically 
royal and her sister Narcissa was also held in high regard by 
marrying a pure blood but did Narcissa want to marry Lucius or was he 
just a status symbol of the ideal pairing?

"The pure-blood families are all interrelated," said Sirius. "If 
you're only going to let your sons and daughters marry purebloods 
your choice is very limited
" OOP pg. 113

Aha! Was Narcissa limited in whom she chose to marry? Do you think 
Narcissa holds to the same values as her husband? If not, what do you 
think Narcissa may do now that her husband is in Azkaban? Do you 
think this might have anything to do with Draco's detour in the 
upcoming book?

I'm thinking Narcissa is much like Regulus (who after he got in too 
far and learned what was expected of him tried to leave), they both 
took stock in their pureblood status but not to the degree of Lucius 
or Bella; they're not willing to sacrifice or kill for it.  I think 
it may be very possible that Narcissa attempts to lead her son to a 
safe haven while the battle resumes. 

Of the three Black sisters who are cousins to Sirius, the first 
cousin, Bella, is a known and proud supporter of Voldemort. The 
second is, Andromeda, who denounced her pure blood standing and 
married a muggle born Ted Tonks so, what type of personality are we 
left with for the third sister, Narcissa? I am going with the Regulus 
type who is proud of his pure blood status and joined with Voldemort 
to support `the cause' but could not get out once he was in.  
Narcissa is like Regulus but not dark-mark-devoted to Voldemort and 
his agenda and therefore has an opportunity that Regulus did not 
have. Narcissa is not going to take her pride beyond the limit of 
social acceptance nor jeopardize her son's life, at least in my 
opinion. 

Just for the record, I think that Narcissa is the youngest and saw 
her previous sister's decisions and the family's reaction to them, 
which was what provoked her into marrying the pure blood Lucius. 

Snow- a recovering thinker going into relapse all the time