Dark Book - Blood and Cruelty/ Draco

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> lizzyben:
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> I keep forgetting that none of this matters anymore - it doesn't
> matter who starts the fights or who over-reacts or who is BMOC.
> Harry is the saved, Draco is the damned. Harry is the Elect,
> Snape is the reprobate. Harry wins because he's got God on his
> side. What's left to debate?
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Amy:

Not to be argumentative or anything, ('cause for the most part, I
agree with a lot of what you said here) but was Draco really "damned"
in the HP series?

I don't know if it's been discussed before, but even given the heavy
connotations of Slytherin = the damned in the final book, I'm hard
pressed to believe that anyone reading this series will not see a
forgiven, if not "redeemed" Draco in DH. The narrative was extremely
sympathetic to him. I'd say one of the major anvils in DH was that
Draco didn't want to be a Death Eater, in case no one got that from
HBP. I don't know exactly who said it, but Draco has a normal family,
wife and kid, in the epilogue, and that if anything indicated that
he'd been "redeemed" in JKR's world.

Amy