Draco and Harry

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 147222

Miles:

My impression of some listies who see Draco as
> "evil" is, that they more or less share Harry's PoV (which is 
parallel to
> the narrator's PoV), whereas others try to keep a distant and 
critical view
> of the narrator's evaluation - but we discussed this before to the 
point of
> disagreement (hi Alla :-) ).

Alla:

Yes, indeed. :) Because no matter which look I use when I read the 
book - either looking with Harry's eyes, which I certainly get the 
most enjoyment from the books, or with  the look of outside 
observer, Draco just does not become LESS bigoted to me, not at all. 
SO, yeah, up till now I see Draco as bigot. 'Evil" per se, maybe 
not, although three assasination attempts, two of which were almost 
succesful would be IMO enough to qualify character as quite evil, 
but Draco is quite young so he can still change, but do I see him as 
evil as much as "bigoted" character can be evil as of today? Sure I 
do. Unless of course the argument is that Draco did not really said 
those words to Hermione in CoS and narrator and/or Harry were 
hallucinating or having hearing problems and the same thing in GoF, 
when Draco was issuing death threats to Ron and Hermione, he was 
really saying something completely different.

I believe that POV has nothing to do with evaluating Draco as a 
bigot. POV of the narrator and Harry is INCOMPLETE, that is for 
sure, but what we SEE is what we get , IMO of course.

I also said in the past - I cannot blame Harry at all for not 
willing to look what is hidden behind Draco's bigotry. I would not 
be doing that either, unless forced and it is quite possible that 
Harry would be forced to do so in book 7. Hopefully Draco will 
figure out where he wants to stand by that time.

JMO,

Alla.