[HPforGrownups] Re: Half-Blood Prince

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 183900

BetsyHP:
 it's something that *can* be handwaved, as Lynda points out.

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.

Lynda:
Actually, that brought up more questions for me, when she included that bit
about him having an HoG because, as Betsy mentions, we have been told (by a
character in the story--not the narrator) that Draco is a spoiled kid who
gets whatever he wants, but Daddy refused to buy him the HoG. So. . . how
did he get it? Mum? Aunt Bella,
Goyle or Crabbe at his orders? Or did he himself get it at some time unknown
to any but the author? It adds, rather than subtracts from his story for me.
How did he get it? Now, since he's not one of the major characters for whom
we are given a storyline in the series, that how he got it was left out is
fine left to the realm of speculation for me. . . but I have a lot of fun in
the speculating although never coming to a firm conclusion.

Lynda


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