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[nikkalmati]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Nikkalmati wrote:
> > Bad guys
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> > 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.
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> Carol responds:
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> 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).
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> > Nikkalmati (does this thing have a spell check?)
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> 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.)
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> Carol, who finds spell checks rather annoying (or amusing, depending on her mood)
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Nikkalmati

Maybe it is just that I had some hope for Draco's showing some character development aftere the scene on the Tower.    But he and
Goyle and Crabbe were waiting disillusioned outside the ROR with the idea of capturing HP and taking him to the Dark Lord. He only tried to keep Crabbe from killing HP because the DL had ordered it.  He only tried to save the diadem because (very like a Slytherin) he figured it must be important if HP wanted it.  He clearly could not fight without a wand.  If he had had one, I don't know what side he would fight on. He may have been afraid to cross to the Forest to join LV without a wand (and if he had what would have happened to HP?  Narcissa would not have had a motive to lie to LV about HP being dead). He turned down his chance at redemption, so I still consider him a bad guy even if he was neutralized.  

Nikkalmati (I knew I had some misspellings in there)