Draco's Hand of Glory / Secondary characters' story

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 183917

> Montavilla47:
> Here's a few more things we know about Draco's family:
> 
>> <HUGE SNIP, go UPTHREAD to read what we know>
> All in all, quite a bit.
>


Alla:

In general I would agree that we know about Draco's family more than 
we know about Hermione's. Even though just as Linda I do not recall 
the names of Draco's grandparents being in the book either, or how 
old Lucius is I do not recall that being in the book too.

I mean, they are wizards, makes sense to me that they would be 
featuring in story more than muggles' family.

But that to me does not make Draco a major character by all means, 
neither to me does it mean **him** having coming of age story.

I see Draco as being an interesting piece, no more in Harry's coming 
of age story. That has nothing to do with me disliking this character 
by the way. I feel that way about stories of the characters I like 
too. 


But suggestion that Betsy made that Draco's story had been taken away 
or substantial chunk of it being taken away by Draco ending up with 
Hand's of glory, well amuses me. My opinion of course. But as far as 
I am concerned, there is **no** Draco's story in itself, just as 
there is no Sirius' story in itself, or Ron's story in itself ( whom 
I adore too by the way) or Hermione's story. IMO they all have 
stories only as much as it affects Harry. When it does not affect 
Harry, author feels free to drop the stories as she pleases or change 
them, or whatever.

We may like or dislike what she does with secondary characters, 
goodness knows I would love for Sirius to be something more than 
character that was being created only for Harry to experience another 
loss of parental figure IMO. But I believe that JKR was primarily 
concerned with telling Harry and Voldemort's story and every other 
character's story was moving around that.

I mean, it is as if I would say that substantial chunk of Sirius's 
story was taken away by killing him, I liked to imagine before I read 
OOP that Sirius will survive the war and he would be living with 
Harry's family or near it. But this story existed only in my 
imagination or in fanfiction. Author never wanted to tell that story, 
so how could it be taken away?

And yes, I believe that JKR wanted to tell the story of spoiled 
little boy, who is growing up by being touched by events of something 
bigger, by events of Harry's story pretty much.

IMO of course.

Alla