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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 153089

>> 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?
> 
> I mean, why share the fact that you are being bribed with your 
> friend?....
> 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.


In that case, JKR has failed as an author, because it's quite clear
that we're meant to see this as yet another pathetic attempt by Draco
to bludgeon everyone with his oh-so-wonderful family connections and
to have that effort punctured beautifully by Neville.

Draco's efforts to impress are getting more threadbare every year,
and what seemed barely understandable in an 11-year-old just away
from home is totally sad in a 15-year-old who should know better by
now.  Griselda Marchbanks isn't in anyone's pocket, and the Lucius
Malfoy we saw in COS who smacked down his son about his grades in
front of a storekeeper doesn't strike me as the kind of dad who'd
pull strings about something he figures Draco should be mastering
anyway.  Having a dud wizard as a son isn't something I can Lucius
accepting placidly.

Magda

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