[HPforGrownups] Re: What Came First: Task or Cabinet? - A tale of two Dracos LONG

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157725


> Betsy Hp:
> > The canon has this rather elegant story where a naive child is
> > chosen by Evil to do an evil deed.  The child did not choose to
> > become evil, but Evil has selected him and the child cannot choose
> > differently.  Or at least, so Evil would have the child believe.
>
> <SNIP>

> Alla:
>
> Does Draco mindset on the train not counts **at all*? Yes, he just
> does not know that he never had the way out, but as far as I am
> concerned whether he approached Voldemort or Voldemort approached
> him ( and yes, I am much in favor of Voldemort choosing him), Draco
> made a choice of evil by himself, hopefully he saw where it leads,
> hopefully.


Silmariel:
As I read the scene, Draco in the train is mainly trying to keep himself 
convinced that the turn in his life is for good and not for bad. He is 
repeating the version he has constructed but has nothing to do with reality, 
a version that doesn't depict him as a peon to be sacrificed in a 
psychopath's game.

Voldemort faced him with a suicidal task, and his mind happily refused to see 
the suicidal part of the question. If in order to acomplish that, he had to 
blissfully ignore the 'oh my god I've got to kill someone' part, let it be 
so. Brains are so complex traps. I think this is tied to Draco being an 
occlumens, and able to detatch from compassion, being able to shut off some 
parts of self or refuse to see them. (I think she said something to the 
effect in an interview)

So I read a coward that in this scene has managed to stay in denial. After 
pressure and time reality kicks in, as it usually happens, and we have the 
crying mess in the toilet.

Of course, it's only a reader's response <g> and I'm not going to enter in the 
'coming of age/parental figures' side, it has already been covered.

Silmariel