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

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No: HPFGUIDX 139404

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
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> Betsy Hp:
> Yeah, and let me add that the interviews really don't count for me.  
> For one thing, they can be interperted in many different ways.  (ie 
> Draco was *preparing* himself to become a Death Eater by shutting 
> down compassion, however once he got on the road to becoming one he 
> realized he couldn't shut his compassion down so completely.)  For 
> another, if she can't say it in the books, than she ain't saying it.

Marianne:
Well, then how do you explain Draco's total lack of concern about the 
opal necklace and the poisoned mead?  IMO, we saw no evidence of 
Draco's compassion about the two students who were the unwitting 
recipients of those little gifts.  Yes, he couldn't kill DD when push 
came to shove on the tower, but whatever happened to Katie and Ron 
didn't seem to make Draco pause for even a moment to reconsider his 
position. To me, Draco didn't give a fig who might have died on the 
way to his killing of Dumbledore.  They were all collateral damage, 
which seems to fit in quite nicely with the DE code of conduct.

IMO, JKR *has* said it in the books - Draco is quite capable of 
killing anyone who gets in his way, as long as he doesn't have to 
actually look at them while he kills them. OTOH, he doesn't have the 
balls to actually kill someone face-to-face, so maybe he really isn't 
quality DE material.  

Marianne