Draco and Harry (was:The GoF Train Scene - and beyond...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 146873

Betsy Hp:
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> It's for the best that Harry gets adopted by the Weasleys.  The 
> Malfoys would have been a disaster. 

Alla:

LOLOL. Harry adopted by Malfoys would have been a disaster indeed 
for the very simple reason that Harry may have not lived to see the 
next day after the day he was adopted. There is that small matter of 
Head of the Malfoy's household serving the monster who killed 
Harry's parents.

So, yes, disaster, I agree with you.

Betsy Hp:
 And Ron is much better in the 
> supporting role than Draco could have been.

Alla:

Can I change this sentence a bit? Ron is much better in the role of 
the loyal friends that Draco would have ever been, IMO of course. 
The kind of friend who will put his life on the line for Harry. Yes, 
I think Harry is very lucky to have Ron as a friend. 


Betsy Hp:
But I still think a union 
> between Harry and Draco is needed for Harry to defeat Voldemort.  

Alla:

Union? Maybe, but only in light of HBP events it became IMO a  
possibility. Friendship, I sincerely doubt it. IMO the best case 
scenario would be Harry tolerating Draco if he finally decides to 
join the right side.

Betsy Hp:
> Gosh, JKR practically came right out and said so during the 
sorting 
> in OotP.

Alla:

I still keep hoping that JKR will introduce a better candidate for 
good Slytherin among the students.


Betsy Hp: 
> And I do see Draco's and Harry's first meeting as the beginning of 
a 
> beautiful friendship.  It's the old "hate each other on first 
sight" 
> cliché, with all the misspeaking and misinterpretations such 
> clichés involve.

Alla:

Sure, hate each other at first sight is an old cliché, except their 
hate includes more than misspeaking and misinterpretations. Draco IS 
indeed on the wrong side. The side that IS eager to torture and kill 
Muggle and Muggleborns. It is not that Harry is mistaken from the 
first sight and then sees from different occurrences that Draco is a 
decent guy, IMO. When, if Draco puts aside the ideology of hate, 
then I can see a union between them. Again, I CAN see it after HBP, 
but I certainly don't see it as a definite possibility.

Amiable Dorsai:
> And Draco was so gracious, too--I mean, I'd be all over a person 
who,
> at our first meeting, bragged about himself, insulted my mother,
> insulted my only friend, sneered at my opinion about my only 
friend,
> and then interrogated me to see if my family was good enough to go 
to
> Hogwarts.

Alla:

Yes, that is the kind of friend I would just LOVE to have . :-)


Amiable Dorsai:
> Mrs. Weasley and the twins, by contrast, were ever so mean to him
> before they knew who he was...


Alla:

LOLOL. Indeed. But Twins are potential DE, so they do not count as 
genuine friends and protectors, you know. :-)

JMO,

Alla