Draco

[pippin_999]

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Adam (prep0strus)
> I don't think Draco gets sense smacked into him, because he doesn't
> really lose very much.  And we never see his internal conflict.

Pippin:


All that misery and indecison in the bathroom and on the tower was
just fluff? He definitely lost his sense that Draco Malfoy is a Master of
the Universe. 

You mentioned Draco's money about six times in your post. Were
you expecting him to lose it?

It's not as if Draco has vastly misused his fortune and deserves to
be deprived of it. At the time of the story it's not even clear he has
control of it. And if wealth is a sign of evil, JKR's in trouble and
how <g>

I think he did learn a lesson. He'd been raised to think the rules didn't
apply to him, that he could brag, bully or buy his way through life.

That was his idea about the Dark Arts, that the rules forbidding them
were for other people's protection. Purebloods didn't need them, just
as they didn't need protection from Lord Voldemort. 

It's a big step from that outlook to being a law-abiding citizen, and
there's no hint in the epilogue that he's anything else, unlike
Lucius, who was always up to something shady.  There's a 
hint of "They shall strike at your head and you shall strike at their 
heel" in Draco's nod and Scorpius's name, but also a reminder
that a sinister image is not necessarily the reality.

 Pippin