[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco's potion making skills WAS: Scary Teachers - Good Teachers

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153055


> Magpie:
> Are you honestly telling me that you didn't get that that line of Draco's 
> is > about Draco blowing hot air to scare other students?  Even with 
> Neville
> following it up by saying that his family is friends with Marchbanks and 
> she > never speaks about the Malfoys?  You think Marchbanks was in the 
> Malfoy's > pocket?
>

Alla:

No, I did not think that Draco was just scaring other students. I mean, 
think about it, if Marchbanks is indeed in Malfoys pocket , would she 
mention it to her friend?

Magpie:
If Marchbanks was in the Malfoy's pocket I think it would be dealt with in a 
storyline, most probably by the end of OotP. I really think Malfoy was just 
scaring other students.

Alla:
I mean it is POSSIBLE of course, but if I were to decide ( God forbid) that 
I am going to take bribe from anybody, believe me, I would NOT mention that 
to anybody, ever.

If for nothing else, then for the fear that my friend would I don't know be 
more law abiding citisen than me and would go to authorities.

So, I am NOT saying that Marchbank is necessarily in Malfoy's pocket, I am 
just saying that Neville line does not disprove it to me.

Magpie:
The line doesn't literally prove that it couldn't happen, but it doesn't 
really have to because it comes to nothing.  It's like using Ron's 
monologues where he's going over his great Quidditch being evidence that 
Ron's a great Quidditch player and all his problems are part of some 
conspiracy plot.  I think it's just a Malfoy character moment and introduces 
Marchbanks name.

-m