The GoF Train Scene (was:Re: Humanity, Kant, Caricatures, and Draco)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 146684

> > Betsy Hp:
> > Draco *liked* Cedric.  I don't want to overstate it; they 
weren't 
> > best friends or anything. <snip> 
 
> Alla:
> 
> Hm, I am not going to touch on Draco's confusion about whether 
Fake!
> Moody is a friend or an enemy, others did it quite well, but I 
would 
> like to know where in canon you found that Draco actually liked 
> Cedric or Victor as PEOPLE, that he was actually seeking their 
> friendship or something like that, as opposed to simply cheering 
them 
> as someone who can beat Harry ( and sure those guys could have 
done 
> that, no question about that). <snip>

a_svirn
Personally I never noticed Draco liking Cedric either. But suppose – 
for the sake of argument – that he did. I find he chose a very 
strange way of showing it. All that jeering and sneering at the 
leaving feast, all that "Diggory was the first, you'll be the 
second". Honestly. If that's how he treats people he *likes* I'd say 
he certainly has the making of a fine Death Eater.