Harry and Draco WAS: Re: The Train Scene GoF / Draco's Crying (long)

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Kathyk:
> Draco gets no sympathy from me due to his calling Hermione a
> Mudblood. Harry has less tolerance for bullying at school because 
he
> has to put up with Dudley at home. The adults in Harry's life do 
him
> no favors because they do nothing to stop the abuse. When kids are
> left to handle bullies the results can be less than ideal.

Alla:

This is general comment of the sort, not directly replying to you, 
since I agree with you,but I thought that would be good enough place 
to put it, since I got a bit lost trying to find direct quotations I 
was thinking of.

I keep reading this thread and getting more and more surprised from 
the analogies of Harry behaving like James towards Draco, etc.

>From several posts I got the impressions that in the initial 
confrontation between them Harry misperceived Draco's  intentions, 
etc. I mean, really from the moment they met Draco insulted **the 
other kind ** of witches and wizards and lo and behold this is the 
kind of witch Harry's mom was. And of course afterwards Draco 
manages to insult Harry's first friend.

But even his insult of Ron falls behind Draco insulting muggleborn 
witches and wizards to me.

What else is that if not confrontation?

Of course maybe in Draco's head he wanted to become friends with 
Harry, I cannot pretend to know what was in his head at that time, 
but even if he did, he revealed what  he stands for to Harry.

I am not surprised at all that Harry did not want to be friends with 
the bigot, I really don't.

Harry probably already started to learn that Draco has a human side 
to him, but I completely disagree as I always do that Harry 
misinterpreted the part of Draco's personality that Draco revealed 
to him earlier. 

JMO,

Alla