Punishing Draco (was:Re: Snape, Hagrid and Animals)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 143778

> >>Alla:
> <major snip>
> ...I think it is very telling that the one who gets hurt 
> during the lesson is Malfoy, who to my mind was needed a dose of 
> karmic punishment especially for CoS and badly.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
See, this is the thing I *really* don't get.  Draco is the series' 
punching bag in, I believe, each and every book.  And the amount of 
pain he dishes out himself is practically negligable.  So much so 
quite a few people were ready to write him off as totally 
unimportant to the series until HBP.  He *annoys* Harry and friends, 
but I don't recall him ever actually hurting them.

Alla, I think you're referencing Draco wishing Hermione gets killed 
in CoS in your above comment.  (It's the only "action" of Draco's I 
can think of.)  That, to you, deserved been torn into by a rather 
large and dangerous creature?  Doesn't Draco get hit in the face 
with a swelling potion in CoS?  (IIRC he has a hard time lifting his 
head after he's been hit.)  Why isn't that enough?  Harry has wished 
Snape dead at various points and times throughout the books -- does 
this mean he deserved the bloodletting Pettigrew put him through in 
GoF?

It's funny because Draco is often painted, within the fandom, as a 
popular boy with all the money and power lording over Harry.  In 
short, he's supposed to be the bullying cool kid our nerdy hero has 
to eventually overcome.  But from the very first book it's 
established that Harry is more popular, and has more money and 
connection than Draco.  Whenever Harry and Draco conflict, Harry not 
only wins, he pounds Draco into the ground.

So this idea that Buckbeak gives Draco something that's been coming 
to him.... It just doesn't work for me.  I kinda have to see someone 
win a lot before I can decide it's time for him to lose.

Betsy Hp