NECESSITY of killing?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:

a_svirn:
> > > As for Draco looking for the biggest bully, why should he? He 
> is  
> > > not in the least like Wormtail. 
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > I believe he is in some ways. 

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> > In Hogwarts, Draco is the king of Slytherin. He has had it  
> > drummed into him from early years that he is a Malfoy, he is 
> > privileged and he is expected to achieve great things. He is  
> > fawned on by his cronies, he enjoys trying to rile those he 
> > doesn't like and he is smarmy to teachers he likes. But he is 
> > looking to be with the biggest bully currently on the playground -
 
> > Voldemort. He wants to be a Death Eater and thinks that that will 
> > be a passport to a life of pleasure and ease.
> 
> a_svirn:
> Frankly I don't see from your description and indeed from the books 
> how come their cases to be similar. Draco does not have to enter 
> anybody's service to get a "passport to a life of pleasure and 
> ease". He never knew anything else.

Geoff:

I said in some ways, not in total. I have a feeling that he has known
something less, because I have a feeling, reading between the lines,
that Lucius has looked on him as a way of maintaining the family
standing and also brainwashing him to think that following Voldemort
is the best thing since sliced bread. If he doesn't enter his
service, then I think his "passport" will be withdrawn.

But overall, I feel we must place our views in the "agree to
disagree" category and not get into a "tennis match" over this.