Wizarding Top Ten

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188461

Nikkalmati wrote:
> Bad guys

> Draco - he was given an opportunity and seemed to be inclined to turn back, but despite the efforts of Snape and Dumbledore, he is right back fighting for LV at the end.

Carol responds:

But is he? His behavior in the RoR is ambiguous, and he certainly tries (for whatever reason) to prevent Crabbe from casting AKs and Crucios and even from harming "that diadem thing." He *doesn't* go to join Voldemort in the forest. (Not even Crabbe, the most obviously pro-Voldemort Slytherin, does that.) And he loses the wand he borrowed from his mother in the RoR, so after Harry rescues him from the fire, he doesn't fight for anybody. (Nor do his parents.) He does tell a Death Eater who's about to kill him that he's on the DE's side, but he doesn't have much choice. He's not the brave sort who would say, I've rejected the Dark Lord--go ahead and kill me! I'd say that at the end of the books (epilogue and all) Draco and the other Malfoys have been thoroughly neutralized. They'll never be heroes, but they've ceased to be villains (and Lucius finds himself in the role of victim, if only on a small scale and for a little while).

> Nikkalmati (does this thing have a spell check?)
>
Carol: SeaMonkey does, and those red dotted lines are all over the place in both your post and my response. (It doesn't like "DE's," "Crucios, "Malfoys," or "RoR," not to mention "Nikkalmati"! But,er, "catelist" and "consumate" are actual errors.)

Carol, who finds spell checks rather annoying (or amusing, depending on her mood)