Sympathy for the bad guys (Was: Harry and Charlie)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 183202

> Carol responds:
> Draco himself, however, doesn't become sympathetic until HBP, when 
we
> see him struggling with a dark and dangerous mission that's too big
> for him and in danger of being killed along with his family if he
> doesn't complete it. 

zgirnius:
This is in the eye of the beholder. He was an annoying little snob 
and totally clueless about he came across the very moment we met him 
in PS/SS. I already sympathized with him at that point as a 
consequence. Meeting his father in CoS reinforced that for me - I 
could even see where this was coming from - he admired his father and 
wanted to be just like him, quite natural in a boy that age. And he 
was the Wile E. Coyote of the series, regularly foiled by the Trio 
and their friends, so much so that, just as I do in watching the 
Roadrunner cartoons, I wished for Draco to win for a change. 

> Carol:
> So, yes. Kudos to JKR for granting her bad guys (and the seeming bad
> guy, Snape) some humanity in HBP. 

Zara:
Surely Snape, anyway, already had that in OotP?