Does JKR want us to hate Draco? (was: Re: Admonishing Snape)

[festuco]

No: HPFGUIDX 129673

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:
> Betty
> 
>  Why would JKR include those scenes?  Why 
> > would she have Draco working so hard to *impress* Harry in Mdm 
> > Malkins instead of merely sneering at the boy in the raggedy muggle 
> > clothes?  Why have Draco try and get Harry to shake his hand on the 
> > train?  Why have him *not* go running to the first professor he can 
> > find (or his head of house for that matter) when he realizes Hagrid 
> > has a dragon and Harry is in on it?  These are three occasions for 
> > Draco to come off as a complete and total drip, and instead JKR
> slips 
> > in strong suggestions that Draco actually *wants* to be Harry's 
> > friend.

Yes! I found my copy back. 

Scene 1): Immediately after Harry is placed nest to Draco, Harry gets
his robe slipped over his head. It is very well possible that Draco
did not get a good look at Harry's muggle clothes. So they are just
two boys in new school robes in a probably posh shop (Hagrid takes him
to the best shops.)

Scene 2): Already explained, not Harry for himself, but famous Harry
Potter....

Scene 3): Malfoy keeps his mouth shot, for a couple of weeks, in which
he comes to the hospital wing to gloat at Ron and to threathen him he
will display the secret. He does not once approach Harry to tell him
he will keep his mouth, and Hagrid's secretis safe. In the end he does
betray them, when he gets captured by McGonnagal, when Harry and Ron
are under the invisibility cloak. I must really miss something here,
as I cannot find any attempt  at friendship here. 

Gerry