[HPforGrownups]Harry and Draco WAS: Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190967


> Birgitta:
> Let's see. At that first meeting at Madame Malkin, Harry hasn't
> even heard the name Slytherin so he can't be coloured against
Slytherin. After Draco has said a couple of sentences "Harry was
> strongly reminded of Dudley." And I don't think Harry meant any
physical resemblance so it must be Draco's behavior/attitude that
> he found was similar to Dudleys.  Then Draco goes on to insult
Hagrid, and when he founds out that Harry's parents are dead he
> seems more interested in making sure that "they were our kind"
than feeling sorry for Harry. And then Draco says all that about
> how they shouldn't let the other sort in to the school and that
> they should just keep it in the old wizarding families. <snip>

Harry and Draco not being friends has little or nothing to do with
> any biased views Harry may have had against Slytherin and more to
> do with Draco himself and his behaviour/attitude. <snip>


June:
I totally agree with Birgitta but there is also something else that
hasn't crossed anyone's mind. Malfoy's father was a death eater (of
course we do not know this for sure at this point but it is canon
fact). If Malfoy had gone home after his first year of Hogwarts and
said to his father "Hey dad, I am now best friends with Harry Potter"
his father would have said "That's great Draco, have him come over to
visit" and because Voldemort wanted Harry dead, the minute Lucius
Malfoy got the chance he would have killd him (and of course made it
look like an accident). Now wouldn't that have been a short story.