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

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No: HPFGUIDX 146893

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
 
> Interestingly enough, the first question Harry asks Ron is if his 
> whole family are wizards.  He also regrets that he's lived with a 
> Muggle family and tells Ron how horrible they are.  And while 
> there's no mention of Harry's dead parents, Ron is quite eager to 
> hear about the night they died. (Ron obviously misses the 
> connection, as he will in GoF, so I'm not accusing him of cruelty or 
> anything.)  It's interesting to me because Ron's and Harry's 
> conversation is much like Draco's and Harry's.  Family lines and 
> wizarding purity is covered, the weirdness of muggles is discussed, 
> and Ron doesn't sympathize with Harry being an orphan at all.

The difference is that Ron is interested and Draco is prejudiced.
Draco asksing about Harry's parents being the right kind immediately
follows that they should not let the other kind go to Hogwarts. The
other kind being witches and wizards with Muggle parents, e.g. Harry's
mum! Ron is just curious about Harry and his completely different
upbringing. Why oh why am I not surprised Harry likes Ron much, much
better than Draco and why am I not surprised Draco reminds him of Dudley? 

Gerry