[HPforGrownups] [TBAY] Re: ontongeny recapitulates philogeny?

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 170478

Ann:

Ann stares at the now-blank parchment glumly, before inspiration 
strikes. 'Faith,' she says, 'Refresh my memory: who's the one 
character we do know was ordered to try and become Harry's friend?'

'Draco Malfoy. Lucius told him to. Why?'

'Oh, nothing.' Ann grins, and gets to work on the parchment.

Magpie:
Err...we don't know that Lucius told Draco any such thing. Draco first
tries to talk to Harry in PS before he knows who he is. Then on the train
he comes looking for the famous Harry Potter. In CoS Lucius responds to his
complaints about Harry by saying it's not "prudent" to appear less than
fond of him because "their kind" say he rid them of the Dark Lord. But that
doesn't add up to Lucius ordering Draco to try to become Harry's friend. In
fact, in that scene Lucius sounds to me like he couldn't care less that
Draco and Harry aren't friends. He just wants Draco to act differently
about it.

-m