Draco redeemed?

[John Paul Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 176937



  Sharon Hayes wrote:


> So it is my conjecture that Draco really had no choice but to be a
smirky, nasty
> little ferret. He had it drummed into him from birth at muggle-borns
and blood
> traitors were dirt, that money could buy him everything, that his
status as a
> Malfoy could get him anything he wanted.


JP:

Shanon I think you are more or less right on the money here.  However I
would expand it to not just Lucius, but his entire family, look at the
scene in the tailor shop where Draco's mother obviously shares the same
views.  You could expand beyond that and look at pureblood society as
well.  This is not just one trynnical patriarch, but a system that has
obviously been in place since the time of the founders of Hogwarts
(Slytherin).

The concept of pureblood and mudblood in this series is fascinating to
me, maybe more so because I am a person of mixed cultural/racial
heritage, which makes me a real life mudblood, lmao.  Has anyone ever
thought of the term "mudblood" and it's connection to racist history? 
Since it's inception, the KKK has used the term "mud people" to define
all non-arians.  It is really interesting how JKR weaves the use of
reality (rascism, for lack of a better term, coming of age, class
struggle, etc) within this purely fantastic setting.  I think that is
one of the reasons the books are so endearing; as fanciful as they are,
deep down, they are really quite human.