Dangerous Contempt - Harry vs Draco

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 129247

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> >>Pippin:
> >Draco and Goyle have just lost their fathers  at Harry's hands, but 
> Harry never considers that they might feel this loss  just as 
> acutely as he would
> <snip>

> >>a_svirn:
> >I think he considers it. And it gives him no small satisfaction 
> too.<

> Betsy:
> Then Harry is a fool.  And will soon be a dead fool.  Draco and 
> Goyle are two against one.  Throw in Crabbe, who is never far from 
> the other two's side, and that's three against one.  We've yet to 
> see Harry even beat Draco in a one-on-one match (both have ended in 
> a draw).  Why should we expect he'd beat three wizards, two 
> furiously out for blood?
> 
> Harry was just lucky that Draco, Goyle and Crabbe chose to jump him 
> in front of members of the DA while on the train home.  I don't know 
> if Draco and Goyle would have stopped at a mere hexing.
> 
> Betsy

bboyminn:

First, it's hardly one against three; it's more like three intelligent
people (Harry/Ron/Hermione) against three self-aggrandizing idiots
(Draco, Crabbe, Goyle); not to mention another 20 or so DA Club
members on Harry's side. 

If we look at the reality of the situation, Draco, like many bad guys,
is his own worst enemy. Draco has more to fear from himself than he
does from Harry. In fact, to an objective observer, it was Lucius
Malfoy who landed himself in prison, and not Harry. To Draco and his
father, both of whose own sense of self-importants tells them that
they are outside the reach of such petty and mundane things as the
law, they must place the blame somewhere other than themselves.

Draco blunders, blusters, and bullies his way through life with a
royal sense of entitlement and privilege. That sense of entitlement
and privilege isolate and prevent him from considering the wisdom and
timing of his actions. He was stupid to attack Harry on the train, but
like all self-important people, the lowly commoners and ordinary
people need not be taken into account when making decisions. It's that
same thinking that dooms Voldemort time and time again. 

Harry really doesn't have to do anything, and in truth, Harry has only
extremely rarely initiated action against Draco, and even then he was
provoked, all Harry has to do is stand back, and Draco will
self-destruct. Of course, Draco is certainly capable of doing
collateral damage in the process of self-destructing.

Draco can never defeat Harry because much like Voldemort Draco is
wholly convinced of his own wisdom and absolute superiority over all.
That means that any plan he has is instantly a good plan by virtue of
the fact that he himself thought of it. It's mere existance is all
that is needed to validate it. Which again is exactly how Voldemort
thinks and exactly what guaranttees the doom of any plan he may have.

Harry is dispassionately trying to find a way out of or around any
situation he is in, whereas Draco is driven forward blinded by his own
arrogance and emotions; hardly seems a fair battle to me.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn

"Tyranny is the architect of it's own doom"