Draco's culpability (Was: My doubts about Snape being Evil)

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> > Betsy Hp:
> <snip> 
>   For one thing, we don't know if Draco 
> > actually *is* a Death Eater.  
> 
> 
> a_svirn:
> 
> Yes, we know this. We might not know for sure whether or not he 
has 
> the Mark yet, but what does that matter? For all intends and 
> purposes he *is* a DE. <snip>

Alla:

Moreover JKR in the interview specifically stated that Draco IS a 
Death Eater.


"But I thought of Draco as someone who is very capable of 
compartmentalizing his life and his emotions, and always has done. 
So he's shut down his pity, enabling him to bully effectively. He's 
shut down compassion — how else would you become a Death Eater?
So 
he suppresses virtually all of the good side of himself. But then 
he's playing with the big boys, as the phrase has it, and suddenly, 
having talked the talk he's asked to walk it for the first time and 
it is absolutely terrifying." - July 16 Interview.


Alla.