Draco as Victim in GoF (was: Re: The Huge overreactions...)

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 150314

> > >>Joe:
> > That isn't entirely true. If in their minds the words were threats
> > that were reasonable and they had reason to believe that the
> > speaker would harm them then they could act legally.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> But is there a reasonable expectation of violence here?  You'd have
> to show that Draco is not only capable, but has a tendency towards,
> that sort of violence.  It's a hard argument to make.  I can't think
> of an example in canon to support it, especially to this particular
> date.

Amiable Dorsai:
Other than that whole First Voldemort War thing, of course.

This isn't schoolyard taunting, this is the KKK Junior Auxiliary
trying out their new cross-burning kit on the Gryffindor's front lawn,
and all eight of the people involved knew it.  

And all five Gryffindors knew in their bones where this was going,
knew that Draco was exulting over the return of evil so foul that few
dared speak its name.

Fred and George may be too young to remember their Uncles Gideon and
Fabian, and Ron certainly is, but they're all old enough to know their
mother's sorrow.

Hermione learned, almost as soon as she learned she was a witch, that
there were those who would kill her over an accident of birth.

And Harry... well, I don't need to tell you about Harry do I?

What do you do in the face of such evil?  Sign a petition?  

Not if you're a Gryffindor.  

Amiable Dorsai