[HPforGrownups] Draco...Interesting?

[Sharon Hayes]

No: HPFGUIDX 177001

Katie:
<SNIP>So, I guess this is a plea to all those Draco
fans - why? Why is he so interesting? I'm not trying
to be obnoxious - I really want to understand the
fascination. Especially since so many other Snape
fans seem to be Draco fans, as well. Thanks! Katie

Sharon:
To me, Draco is a much more tortured character than
even Harry. Someone who appears so arrogant and
conceited, is a bully, but really quite scared on
the inside. You can tell he's lived a torturous life
with his father (figuratively if not literally)
beating the pureblood values into him.He really has
no choice but to be racist, conceited and a bulluy,
because he is modelled on his father. But you see
weakness in him at times and I think that perhaps
comes from his father bullying him. he has told all
his life that the malfoys are a force to be reckoned
with, that they can get whatever they want becuase
they are rich and powerful, and pureblooded. But
instead of treating his son like the Slytherin
prince he's supposed to be, Lucius bullies him and
stresses him out with his high expectations. For
example, see Lucius at the Quiddich game in COS
where Draco comes a cropper -- lucius looks utterly
disgusted and no doubt he told Draco as much
afterwards. he is only proud of his son when Draco
wins something. Otherwise he probably never quite
comes up to scratch.

That is why I was dissapointed that Draco never
rebelled in the 6th or 7th books. But then he
probably never could becuase his father's influence
on him turned him into an arrogant but weak kind of
person, instead of the arrogant, strong person
Lusius seems to be.

Sharon


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