First Impression of Draco (was:Re: Further Notes on Literary Uses of Magic...)

[Dondee Gorski]

No: HPFGUIDX 168319

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
> Betsy Hp:
> This is fascinating to me because I had *such* a different first 
> impression of Draco.  My first thought was actually, "ah, here's 
> Harry's soon to be best friend".
<big snip>


Dondee:

Draco made a serious blunder when he insulted Hagrid in Madame 
Malkin's but the fatal error was when he insulted Ron on the train.

Next to the Mirror of Erised scene, Harry's introduction to the 
Weasleys and to Ron in The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-
quarters is, IMO, the most tender and poingant sceen in PS/SS. Harry 
has met this boy who is so like and unlike him - his very first 
friend of his age who belongs to this wonderful, charming, teasing, 
loving family, who has grown up around magic, and yet is full of 
doubts and fears and has a lot to learn. In a short ammount of time 
they tell each other their life stories and bond over pumpkin 
Pasties and Quidditch, Chocolate frog cards and Every Flavor Beans. 

Poor Draco diddn't have a chance to compete with that even if he had 
gotten off on the right foot with Harry in Madame Malkin's.

Side note: It has always irked me that people read into Ron being 
the thing Harry values most in GOF that must mean that Harry has 
homesexual feelings for Ron. Just because you love someone of the 
same sex does not auttomatically mean that you want to jump their 
bones! ::exasperated sigh:: Okay, I'm fine now.

Cheers, Dondee