Draco

[Alice]

No: HPFGUIDX 177453

>Pippin:
> 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. 

Alice:
And I'll bet little Scorpius has been warned big-time not to ever,
*ever* get involved with some whacko dark wizard who wants to take
over the world.

>Betsy HP wrote:
>To see Draco engaged in a similar struggle in HBP, one in which he
>had absolutely no adult support (and yeah, I hated Snape for that),
>was a fascinating story-line for me. 

Um, I seem to recall Snape trying to *offer* support to Draco and
being turned away, both verbally and with occlumency ('I've got better
help than you!').  Though granted, Draco had no way to know Snape
wasn't on Voldemort's side and really *would* help him.  Then again,
Snape could hardly let Draco, a boy who has spent the five previous
years being something of a braggart and a tattler, in on his true
loyalties at this point.  But I agree, HBP was Draco's most
significant book (as it was Snape's, in a lot of ways).

MadAlice
>:>