Why not Actually Re-Write? Just for fun.

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 180457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:

> While I can see why you would have wanted to see it play out this way 
> (I'd have liked to have seen Draco make more of a visible 
> move "toward the Light" myself), I can definitely understand why it 
> played out exactly the way JKR wrote it in that scene.  Why?  Because 
> I think Draco has gotten the message, LOUD AND CLEAR, by this point, 
> that Voldemort can tell when someone is lying.  

va32h:

I agree on both counts (Draco making a more visible turn to the light,
but not in the Malfoy Manor scene). 

SO MUCH was made of saving Draco's soul in HBP.  For what, exactly? 
That cold nod on Platform 9 3/4?  

While Draco was in no position to help Harry in Malfoy Manor, I don't
understand why Draco was back to snotty-old-Draco in the RoR. Yes,
yes, he wanted to capture Harry to get back in favor with LV.  But by
this time, Draco ought to have known that nothing would get his family
back in LV's graces - the only way to be free of Voldemort was to help
get rid of him. 

va32h