[HPforGrownups] Re: HP and Moral Choices

[Sharon Hayes]

No: HPFGUIDX 176089

> zgirnius:
>Draco has a number of redeeming features. First,
Harry knows he would not have killed Dumbledore.
Harry started to pity him at the end of HBP, when he
realized this about Draco. Next, Draco surely lied
for Harry in Malfoy Manor, when he claimed not to
recognize Ron and Hermione. It did not help, but
Draco does, in my view of things, get credit for
trying. Finally, at the time when Harry rescues him,
Draco himself is trapped by the flames partly
because, instead of fleeing for his life, he
attempted to drag the unconscious (and enormous)
Goyle out of the RoR with him. Goyle is a 'bad guy'
so this is not an action useful to the 'good side'.
But in moral terms it is a selfless and courageous
action.

Sharon:
You are right -- Draco does hang back from
identifying them in DH and Harry must see that. I
may have been too hard on Draco it seems. I am not
sure if Draco hung back in the ROR to save Goyle
though -- I thought they were just stuck there. I'll
have to go back and reread HPB again as well. I
don't really remember Harry pitying Draco in HBP in
the tower scene - -although I do see your point
about Draco crying in the bathroom.


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