Apologia pro Draco (was Re: Wizarding Top Ten)

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188501

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, sistermagpie at ... wrote:

Magpie:

> So based on the "rules" I sort of get from the books, I'd say Draco's more in the "he's not evil, and has the potential for goodness" category rather than the "he's one of the great and good" category. I feel--and this is just a feeling so don't take it as a canonically based fact--that the author wants him in exactly that place.

Geoff:
Which, curiously, makes me lean more towards him. Mark you, it 
depends who the "great and the good" are. I'm not even sure I'd 
place Harry in that category; at least he appears to know and 
accept that. In the case of some folk, like Dumbledore, the 
revelation of feet of clay makes me want to look askance at 
almost everyone.
:-(