Half-Blood Prince

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183890


> Betsy Hp:

> However, in doing that handwaving, we lose a large chunk of Draco's 
> story.  It's that scene in CoS when Draco *doesn't* get the hand
that  lent the character so much depth and interest to me.  We were
told  Draco was a spoiled little boy, handed everything he ever
desired on  a silver platter, the wizarding equivalent to Dudley.  But
what we  *saw* was a little boy who wasn't living up to his father's 
> expectations and so wasn't given what he desired.

Pippin:
Um, *you* lost a large chunk of Draco's story.
What I saw was that Draco does get a racing broom in CoS, and a finer
one than Harry's, a year after he asked for it. So what I saw was a
Draco whose father eventually gives him what he wants, but on the
father's terms, not Draco's. That fits with getting the Hand of Glory
sometime later, and with the loyalty to Lucius that Draco showed in
shunning the ascendant Snape.


Pippin