Moaning Myrtle was a Mudblood...

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 146143

Dillgravy wrote:
>
> Sounds like a deranged nursery rhyme, but anyway...
> Has anyone explored theories on the Draco/Moaning Myrtle thing. 
<snip> He does know 
> that Myrtle isn't pureblood. It would be against everything that 
> little git stands for to be befriending a mudblood ghost--- <snip>

Valky:
Agreed, Dillgravy :) And IMNSHO all the evidence leads compellingly
toward the notion that dear Draco's perefect 'pure' blood, which was
always, to him, a badge of pre-eminent entitlement and the pillar of
his effluent and privileged existence, has been tainted.

There are a couple of theories on this, and I have bent my ear to both
the Vampire!Draco theory and the Werewolf!Draco theory. There could be
a better one, I would love to hear it :)

One thing that strikes me as promising about a bitten Draco theory is
that his has potential to explain such strange behaviours in Draco in
HBP such as suddenly turning to the counsel of Moaning Myrtle, the
ghost of an inferior being to Draco whom, only a few years earlier,
would have been seen by him as a deserving victim of 'ethnic
cleansing'. If Draco's precious blood has been tainted, if he can no
longer rely on his claim to purity as the beacon, lighting his life's
purpose, what then? What do those who are *not* pure live for? Draco
wouldn't know, he was never told anything but that they did not
deserve life, he was raised to believe that anything or anyone who
possessed anything less than a pure wizards blood had no purpose in
life, so what then, when that purposeless, condemned creature, was him?

If Draco was in this frame of mind, if he had been sent into a chaotic
tail-spin of existential depression due to a loss of his purity, which
he had been raised to treasure above all else, then I would say that
approaching Moaning Myrtle would demonstrated either his will to live
on, or his death wish. One or the other, depending how you look at it. 

First Moaning Myrtle was a mudblood, she once lived as a Mudblood.
Myrtle, I would suppose, might be a source of some reassurance that
Draco might seek, if he were suddenly slighted by an inability to
qualify his own existence. Myrtle once lived, and sure as heck didn't
want to die, so how did she qualify her existence, what made her go on
living despite 'knowing' that she was disenfranchised of it. Looked at
that way, we could say that Draco wanted to live, in spite of the
nagging of his psychological programme, habitually reminding him of
his old will to deny life to anything that is not pure. 

Or we could look at it the pessimistic way and point out that Myrtle
died a profoundly depressed young woman, and that for fifty years she
laid, curled up in a toilet bowl, perfecting her torment and misery.
We can note that Myrtle would love nothing more than for a young man
to accept her offer of eternal apathetic sadness, together in the
u-bend. And looked at that way, if indeed it was a disempowered,
tainted Draco whom she attracted to her nest, it's quite evidently
possible that Draco reached the end of his anchor and had nowhere to
go, but down. 

 
Valky