Moaning Myrtle was a Mudblood...

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 146144

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dillgravy" <monalila662 at e...> 
wrote:
>
> Sounds like a deranged nursery rhyme, but anyway...
> Has anyone explored theories on the Draco/Moaning Myrtle thing. I 
realize that dear Draco 
> (said with honest loathing) is under a lot of stress (poor thing-- 
again, sarcastic tone) but 
> why would he cry and confess to a (he said it, not me) filthy 
little mudblood. He does know 
> that Myrtle isn't pureblood. It would be against everything that 
little git stands for to be 
> befriending a mudblood ghost--- regardess of whether or not he was 
going to carry out 
> Voldemort's plan.


Magpie:

There's no reason to assume Draco knows anything about Myrtle's 
background or the fact that she was killed by the same person 
threatening him.  He made a reference to Myrtle in CoS in speaking 
about the Heir of Slytherin opening the chamber and a Muggleborn 
dying, but he doesn't necessarily know that Myrtle is the ghost of 
that girl.  He didn't necessarily ask her anything about her 
background.  The fact that Draco is bonding with a Muggleborn, one 
whose murder he'd dismissed years before, even going so far as to 
claim he wished he could help her murderer, could simply be ironic.  
Now he's gotten his wish and is helping the Heir, and it's 
terrible.  It would be cool for him to find this out if he doesn't 
know it already, but I couldn't predict what his reaction would be 
to finding out Myrtle was Muggleborn.

-m