[HPforGrownups] Draco is quite the wizard

[Nicole M. Angle]

No: HPFGUIDX 160557

Eddie:

  -- SPOILERS FROM Books 5 & 6 AHEAD --

  Has anybody noticed that Draco is a pretty talented wizard? He made
  it into the 6th year Potions and DADA classes, manages the Protean
  charm on the coins to communicate with the Death Eaters (which Terry
  Boot says is N.E.W.T level spellwork), manages to fix the vanishing
  cabinet, disapparates when on the run at the end of HBP... and I'm not
  sure what else.

  Sure, there are extenuating circumstances: Snape coddled Draco through
  Potions, the Protean charm idea came from Hermione (although Hermione
  said she got the idea from the Death Eaters marks), it took all year
  for Draco to fix the cabinet. Nevertheless, he _DID_ these things.

  Thoughts?
 
Nicole:

  Really, as much as I can't stand the little punk, you are right.  One huge one you didn't mention, was that Bellatrix taught him something Harry failed to learn.  Draco learned Occlumency so well, that even Snape couldn't read his mind.   A big difference between them was that Draco had a caring teacher and he didn't have dreams he wanted to see. 
  But Harry somehow needs to learn it very quickly, and very well so the Dark Lord can't "one up" him. 
  As much as we can't stand Draco, when it comes to the dark arts, he is pretty good.  But do we know anything about his abilities to do something other than dark magic or to do dark deeds?

  Nicole