[HPforGrownups] Draco and Sirius (was Re: Apologies and responsibility)

[lady.indigo at gmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 139340

On 9/1/05, rlai1977 <rlai1977 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Draco, the son of a DE, has been
>following daddy's footsteps for the past 17 years, is starting to
>re-examine his stance and might, just *might* choose to walk a
>different path.

I have to disagree to a small extent here. Draco has a conscience left, but 
he doesn't fail to murder Dumbledore based on some moral principle bubbling 
up and saying 'it's just not right!' It seems like any switch of allegiance 
he might have would be more out of fear. A mixture of both at the very least 


>Firstly, being a half-blood necessary means not much prejudices to
>begin with? Then what is Voldemort, a character from another series ^^?

No, but a character from another background and history, plus a decided 
sociopath who needs to think of himself as 'the specialist little wizard of 
them all'. Admittedly I'm only going by my interpretation of Snape here, but 
nothing I've seen outside the Lily incident has indicated to me he'd go by 
Voldemort's rules. (Though his trouble with his dad at home might have 
created negative thoughts about Muggles, true.)

>Draco, like Snape, was humiliated, and the first thing they thought
>to insult the girl with was a racist slur.

Again, completely different situation IMO. We'd seen Draco show pureblood 
sentiment repeatedly, before and after this and in a number of different 
contexts. Snape used it *once*, in my opinion simply as the insult that'd 
show him to be a big bad Slytherin and hurt the most, and Lily seemed 
surprised by it - as if by age 15 it had never happened before. Snape has 
targeted students, including and sometimes especially Hermione, for 
everything else and not gotten in trouble with Dumbledore... Wouldn't he 
have shown further bias for Slytherin at some point by using someone's 
heritage as a weapon?

>The reason Snape joined the DEs was never revealed, nor implied, what
>you are saying here is a *theory*. 

Er, yes. Which is why I said it was my opinion.

>He could very well have joined
>because he was at the time misguided to believe in pure blood
>supremacy, nothing in canon goes against that. 

True. I just get the feeling that's not the case. Snape's a lot of things, 
worse things IMO, but I just don't see this as being one of them.

>But the fact that he
>had willingly joined a group that was all about blood prejudice, kind
>of suggests to me he did have quite a bit of prejudice himself.

The Death Eaters offered power, glory, a place in the new world order, and 
all that good stuff. Any number of wizards could have fought on Voldemort's 
side for those reasons instead. Pinning Snape as a definite racist makes as 
little sense to me as the opposite does to you, so I guess we can't really 
know for sure. (Unless the Snape/Lily theory is proved right, of course. 
^_^)

- Lady Indigo


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