[HPforGrownups] Re: Being Good and Evil ( Draco and a bit of Ron)/Harry as DD man

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 154724


Phoenixgod2000:
>>>Two points. One, I think you are right about where the draco plotline 
is headed. I think JKR is going to redeem him. or at least try. short 
of a miracle happening, I'm not going to buy a redeemed Draco for one 
simple reason. regardless of his dark night of the soul, moral 
revelation about Daddy, or the scales falling from his eyes, Draco will 
still have broken the law. He will still have nearly murdered Ron and 
that other girl whose name escapes me at the moment, he will still have 
allowed death eaters into the castle, still have created the situation 
that killed Dumbledore and mutilated Bill. Its good that Draco might 
have a change of heart, but ultimately, so what? he still needs to pay 
his debt to the people he hurt through his actions.<<<


Marion:
I agree. Harry will still have to pay for nearly killing Draco whilst attacking the crying, distraught boy in the toilets (because let's face it, he only got a few detentions for near-murder and he resented even *that* little slap-on-the-wrist by Snape, whilst he *should've* been grateful that Snape healed Draco, hauling his bacon out of the fire yet *again* because if he hadn't Harry had been in Azkaban for murder) 
Hermione will still have to pay for disfiguring Marietta. Harry casts a Unforgiveble twice ('though unsuccesfully). Still has to pay for that.The Weasley twins will still have to pay for stuffing the Slytherin Prefect Montegue in a Vanishing Closet (God knows what happened to that child during the days between being stuffed into that cabinet and being found stuffed in the toilets. Can't have been healthy; we never hear from him again) this giving Draco the idea and the means of smuggling DE's in the castle. Arthur Weasley (and Ron and Harry) will still have to pay for illegally charming an Muggle object (a car) and flying it (breaking several international laws). 
I mean, talking of 'breaking the law'... That seems to be a Gryffindor speciality. Arthur Weasley, the head of the Department of Illegally Charmed Muggle Objects has an Illegally Charmed Object and doesn't mind when his underage children play with it. Hagrid kept a dragon as a pet: that's illegal too. Sirius is already dead, but if he were not, he would still have to pay for being an unregistred Animagus, not to mention that whole Werewolf Caper in his fifth year, which nearly ended in murder of a classmate. Because of that impeteous, rash, criminal 'prank', Dumbledore had to stop his experiment of allowing werewolves at Hogwarts. Who knows what damage that might have caused? How many werewolves are deprived of their magical inheritance and education? Might Voldemort have less werewolves for his 'army' if Sirius hadn't pulled that stunt?

I have no particular liking for Draco, but this is not about *liking*. This is about justice. About people breaking the law and people harming other people. Draco does not seem to have the monopoly on that one. But it seems that he is the only one of the above-mentioned who might even *realize* that he might have been amiss is Draco. The rest of them - Gryffindors all - don't even seem to realize that what they did (intentionally or not) was *wrong* or caused *harm*.

Gryffindors! Full of hot air, self-righteous and so obsessed with the splinters in other people's eyes that they don't even notice the beam in their own.

I'm all for holding Draco responsible for his actions, but if Draco Malfoy is held responsible for his actions, then so should Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys.





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