Draco's Personality

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 165075

> >>Betsy Hp:
> > <snip>
> > Draco made a choice to *not* be a killer, but I don't think he    
> > made an active choice to become something else.  I think he 
> > left the Tower in the middle of his crises of faith. <snip>

> >>Carol:
> <snip>
> I don't think he made a choice on the tower at all. Lowering the   
> wand a "fraction" is not an emphatic refusal to do the Death        
> Eater's will. It's simply a sign that he can't do what they want   
> him to do. If it were a courageous, deliberate choice, he'd have    
> tried to fight them, or at least said, "You'll have to kill me     
> because I'm not going to do this." 
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Draco does remain still while the Death Eaters around him urge him to 
kill Dumbledore.  (If IIRC, the ask him to do so three times.)  Draco 
has been tied with Sartre's philosophical concent of "bad faith".

And one of Sartre's examples is a woman frozen in the act of 
choosing, delaying the moment that she actively *becomes* something.

See here for full example, etc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Faith 

So while I agree that Draco has not *completed* his choice, I think 
it's a mistake to say that he hasn't *started* to.  Draco *stops* 
acting the role of perfect little Death Eater.  That's step one.  He 
needs to become who he is, yes (shown by choice, per the books). But 
I think he's made a start by no longer trying to be what he isn't.

Heh, I'm not exactly sure if I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you 
here, Carol. <g>  Because I wouldn't say Draco aggressively made a 
choice.  But his very passivity (one could almost call it *stubborn* 
passivity <g>) is a choice in and of itself.  But he does still need 
to make an active choice.
 
> >>Carol:
> I don't think that Draco will become a full-fledged Death Eater, but
> his moment of choice hasn't come.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Hmm, actually I think Draco is right in the middle of his moment of 
choice.  His story was very much left hanging.  Of course, who knows 
how long JKR will leave him dangling. <g>

Betsy Hp