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

[Kristin Hessenauer]

No: HPFGUIDX 146771

> > Betsy Hp:
> > <snip> I really don't think I'm stretching things to see 
> > something good in him <eg>.  I've never seen Draco as an 
> > entirely bad child.  
>
> a_svirn:
> <snip> Besides, even if he is not "entirely bad" he is not 
> generally known for his compassion either. I still don't see 
> how you managed to discern any even in the shut down, boxed 
> off and bottled up form.

tropicwhale:
Personally I think Draco was brainwashed, there is good potential 
in him, it is just that he is weak. He is too weak to change and 
too brainwashed to ever want to change.

Annemehr:
> I'm pulling for Draco, and I have been for pretty much the 
> whole series. In fact, my main beef against Snape has always 
> been, <snip> how he treated Draco, this boy in his house who's 
> been raised by a Death Eater and whose complete ease in Snape's 
> presence suggested that Snape had never challenged Draco's 
> world view in any way.
>
<snip>
>
> What are Snape's options? Trust Draco with the truth and hope 
> they can both succeed at fooling LV (or that Draco would even 
> agree to it)? Get Draco securely hidden and bluff about it to 
> LV? Just turning him over to LV at this point will result in 
> Draco becoming murderer or murdered -- very tragic collateral 
> damage, just because of whose son he happened to be.


tropicwhale:
I still say that Draco was just too weak to have an opinion on 
his own. There is a term in psychology (that I cannot find at 
the moment) during identity vs role confusion in Erikson's 
stages where he's failed as refusing to develop as his own person.
 
I agree that someone needs to challenage his worldview otherwise 
he's just going to remain Voldemort's and Lucius' playtoy for the 
rest of his life, which probably is going to be short now that he 
failed to kill Dumbledore, Voldemort was obviously looking for an 
excuse to off the Malfoys, they all failed at the jobs they were 
given, like keeping Voldie's diary safe in book two, gaining the 
prophecy in book 5 and killing Dumbledore in book 6. Draco was 
just caught in the middle of his Dark Lord and his parents.