Dark Book - Blood and Cruelty/ Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 177201

> Betsy Hp:
<SNIP>
  Draco isn't the big man on 
> campus.  Harry is.  And that's who Draco is continually throwing 
> himself against.

Alla:

That's a  debatable opinion and the one I strongly disagree with.

But of course if Draco is just poor dear who hopelessly fights 
against Big Man on Campus, it is much easier to justify Draco's 
behaviour, I understand. Just not buying.

I mean, Draco with the father who can buy all Governors in his 
pocket or Harry, who is of course very very well known and who as 
you said in the other post girls can swoon over sometimes, but the 
same Harry against whom whole school turn against at the slightest 
sign of trouble - witness Heir of Slytherin business or Harry 
supposedly throwing his name in the Goblet.

No, to me Harry is a very well known figure and somebody to admire 
to **sometimes** but just as viciously despised at times.

Big man on campus he is not to me.

 
> > >>bboymin:
> > This is classic bullying behavior.
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> It's not actually.  That's the odd thing about it.  Draco picks 
> fights he *cannot* win.  He's not picking on the mouse, he's the 
> mouse pulling the cat's tail.  Hence him always losing.  Bullies 
> generally go for the meek and mild where the win is gauranteed, 
and 
> that's not what Draco is doing.  Fred and George are more typical 
> bullies than Draco.  Draco is just... odd.

Alla:

I completely agree with Steve. Draco does not **know** that he 
cannot win those fights, does he? Where is the sign that he knows 
that he is picking the fight that he will not win?

I see overwhelming arrogance when he comes to Gryffs compartment and 
indeed all the signs of bully that Steve described so well.

Every time IMO Draco is confident that he will win the fight, since 
in his mind he is the man on campus. Again, IMO.

Alla