[HPforGrownups] What's in the Box?

[Sharon Hayes]

No: HPFGUIDX 176964

Potioncat:
<snip>What event that must have happened off page,
whether or not it was
described, is one you'd like to read? So? What
would you be looking
for?

Sharon:

Anything do do with Snape or Draco I would devour!
I want to know what Snape was thinking more,
though of course she probably didn't write
anything about that so it probably wouldn't be in
the box anyway. I want to know how Draco thinks
through HBP, how he feels about working for the
Dark Lord, and most of all, whether he actually
had the Dark mark.  Personally I do not think he
did have the dark mark, I think that JKR was just
throwing out a false clue when she says he is
showing something that scared Borgin at the
beginning of HBP. The fact that Harry thinks it's
the dark mark only reflects how Harry would think,
and he is often wrong in his deductions, so he is
no doubt wrong about the dark mark. he does notice
that Draco pulls his arm away when being fitted
for robes at madame malkins, and again assumes
it's the dark mark, but it could have just been
that mmme malkin pricked him with a pin, or
soemthing just as innocuous.

All this of course reflects my deep seated wish
for Draco to be redeemed! But I also think that
Draco was way too young to be given the dark mark,
as he himself remarks to Pansy and Blaise on the
train in HBP referring to the job he has to do for
Voldemort:  "Maybe he doesn't care if I'm
qualified. Maybe the job he wants me to do is
something you don't have be qualified for." (p.145
AUS version) Seems to me he wouldn't say that if
he had the dark mark, he'd simply say he WAS
qualified.

Sharon, who thinks Draco should have gone over
when Dumbledore asked him to.


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