[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's arrogance (was Evil Snape)

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 154344

> >>Magpie:
> > It wasn't that Harry was right in knowing who was evil. Harry is 
> > Draco's peer and in certain ways understands him better than a 
> > lot of people.

> >>Marion:
> I call it the 'Harry-roulette'.
> If you put your money on 22 red and play long enough, one day the 
> little ball will fall on 22 red.
> Harry's been convinced that Draco was Up To No Good from the very 
> beginning (going so far as to polyjuicing himself as Draco's 
> sidekick because he was *convinced* that Draco was Slytherin's 
> Heir and petrifying people in second year. Don't know why or how, 
> but it's Draco Malfoy! He *must* be Up To No Good!)
> Well, finally he wins the table: and it took him only six years of 
> playing.
> Really, Harry's obsessive conviction that the people he doesn't 
> like are Evil Incarnate is getting rather unhealthy. 
> Harry Roulette. Just as much fun as Russian Roulette, and just as 
> deadly. :-)

>Betsy Hp:
>I think your "Harry-roulette" (love, the name by the way <g>) can be 
>applied more to Snape than Draco. While Harry has never liked 
>Draco, except for the Heir of Slytherin incident in CoS I don't 
>think he ever thought of Draco as the big bad. (Or even the little 
>bad, for that matter -- more the big annoying, I think.)

>So that Harry was the only one to recognize the very real danger 
>Draco presented throughout HBP was, I think, more than just Harry 
>making a lucky guess. Not that he saw Draco clearly, but it was a 
>clearer view than those around him. 


Marion:
My point exactly!
I just read a mail from somebody, claiming that in book 6 "Harry was wiser than anybody, including Dumbledore".
Harry is not wise. Harry is not even intelligent, or clever. He's frighteningly slow in the uptake. And he is tenacious to the extreme in his prejudices against people. He takes people he doesn't like (Snape and Draco) and projects unto them his own fears. 

It's pathetic, really. I mean, Draco is not a nice boy, I don't like his character at all (I adore Snape, but that's another story) but what does, until book 6, his 'evil' amounts to? There's namecalling, there's trying to get Potter into trouble by snitching on him, there's the odd hex or two (although in the hexing department Draco mostly seems to come off worse than Potter and co.), he takes advantage of the situation and becomes Umbridge's Brown Shirt in fifth year. Oh, and Draco and his cronies dress up as Dementors to scare Harry (sounds familiar? 'Scaring the git' pranks?) 
There's no doubt that Draco Malfoy is a spoiled, arrogant little tit, but six years long we hear the Trio malign him as a 'Death Eater in Training' (actually, this might be fanon, not canon. Anybody?)
I've heard fans call Draco a 'bully' (because he walks around with two thugs: that's classic bully alright), but we've never heard of Crabbe or Goyle really beating up people. Who *does* get a punch in the nose? Draco! By Littly Miss Bossyboots Hermione ('bossy' is just around the corner from 'bully' if you ask me) And Ron is a hotheaded 'hex first, think never' type. Draco has Crabbe and Goyle, Harry has Ron and Hermione. I know which I would be more afraid of.
Harry distrusts Draco because Lucius is a DeathEater. But it's *Harry* who has a curse-scar-which-is-a-direct-hotline-to-Voldemort, who has the dreams, who *cherishes* the dreams (because he thinks them 'useful')
Draco might boast as a silly little firstie that he would 'gladly help the Dark Lord rid the world of muggleborns', but when faced with outright murder Draco can't perform. Harry however has *twice* pointed a wand at people and shouted 'Avada Kadavra'. Granted, the ones he wanted to AK were, according to him, murderers, but the *reason* because his attempted AKs was hatred and revenge. Note that Draco's botched murderattempts on Dumbledore (and granted, Draco got *lucky* that no innocent bystander got killed) were inspired by fear for his family.

No, I'm not saying that Draco is Good and Harry is Evil. I'm just showing how scary Harry's selfreferencing way of thinking is. "I'm Good, so what I do is justified. They are Bad, so what they do is Bad. When I do the same things They do, it's For The Good. If They do the same things I do, it's Evil".

I don't like Harry *or* Draco. But of the two, I find Harry the most dangerous. Not because of what he does but the way he *thinks*.
He is the Chosen One, the Boy Who Lived and the Boy Who Is Destined To Kill Voldemort. 
People who refer to themselves in Capitals are bloody dangerous...



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