Draco and Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 147171

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> But what Draco has been taught is wrong.  Only his ignorace keeps 
> that belief going.  Any competent muggleborn proves his parents' 
> beliefs a lie.  If Draco had had a personal reason to hate 
> muggleborns (say Lily Evans killed his brother, or some such thing) 
> than it'd be a harder belief to change.  But since his belief is 
> based on a fairly shaky foundation it will only take a minor amount 
> of self-examination to destroy.
> 
Well, as soon as he sets foot in Hogwarts he gets to know such a
muggleborn. And guess what: he absolutely hates her. The relevant
quotes in COS are already mentioned so I am not going to repeat them,
but I think a major factor in his hatred of Hermione is that she -is-
the opposite of what she according to his prejudice should be. 

As for this kind of bigotry easy to root out, I watched a TV
documentary a couple of days ago about Soul music and of course there
were the marches for equal rights and the marches for white
surpremacy. People new each other, people had all opportunities to
examine their prejudices and do away with them, yet lots and lots of
people clung to them with heart and soul. Just as in South Africa,
just as in Europa in the times of the Jewish ghettos. The more empty a
prejudice is, the harder it is to get rid of for lots of people,
because their sense of self will not let them see themselves as the
kind of person who is misled by something so completely ridiculous
they should have seen through it immediately. Percy is an example of
someone who refuses to go through this on a personal scale. Draco, who
had six years of Hogwarts in when to know differently, did not change
one bit. So I think it will take a huge amount of self-examination and
courage for Draco to change

Now I do think Draco may change but it needs to be well written to be
believable.

Gerry