Redemption - who needed it? (was: DidHarry notice?)

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182886

 Kemper now:
> I agree.  At the end of HBP, Draco was at the cusp of acting his Truth
> rather than in 'bad faith'.  Even in DH, I excused him at Malfoy
> Manner believing he was wrestling with his Truth. Even when he
> continued his immature wtf bs in the Room of Requirement, I thought
> 'Please JKR... please have Draco turn on Crabbe and/or Goyle'.  But
> no.  Draco living the lie, clung on to his 'bad faith'.
> But really, it wasn't Draco who acted this way. 
> 
> Draco's redemption would have transcended the story to something more
> than just a fun ride. 
> 
> ::sigh::

Magpie:
Probably comes as no surprise that that's totally how it came across to 
me too. Actually, I just recently elsewhere referred to HP as, for 
me, "The Land that Redemption Forgot." I remember pre-DH people were 
cautioning others not to expect *every* character set up for redemption 
to have it, and in the end, imo, none of them did. They earned enough 
to be forgiven, but there was no true redemption stories. I think it's 
probably telling that not only did the ones I was expecting not pan out 
the way I thought they were going, but James's arc, which many of us 
had assumed, didn't happen either. Not so much because he didn't have 
his wand in DH, because I didn't need to know he was a good fighter, 
but the way the whole Prank turned out. It just wasn't something she 
was interested in.

-m