Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

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No: HPFGUIDX 192014



> Alla:
> > Actually, no wait, I may have couple of things which I may not consider very consistent. I guess House Unity message she never wanted to convey. While I did not care for good Slytherins to appear (I mean I did not care either way whether they would  appear or not), the epilogue was kind of dissapointing in that regard. Albus still does not care to be in Slytherin - nothing seems to change.
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> Alla: 
> > And I cant believe I am saying  it, but as much as I hate Draco Malfoy, looking at it from the distance and not picking up books for about a year, I really do think that Tower was all for nothing and his character development which supposedly occurred in book 6 pretty much dissappeared in book seven.
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> Pippin:
> It depends on what you think Draco was supposed to learn on the Tower. If you think he was supposed to learn that if he did the right thing he could become a hero for the good guys and save the day -- then no, he didn't learn that.

Alla:

Well, no, I did not dream nor did I care about Draco learning to become a hero. I would have laughed my head off if I would have seen him saving the day. I did however thought that the message about him learning that he is not a killer was as subtle as hitting the reader over the head with the baseball bat and accordingly that he is not cut out for Voldemort. I expected that to go somewhere. To me, this went nowhere.


Pippin:
> But Dumbledore didn't promise him that, did he? What he told Draco was that if he was willing to do a good thing now, then others would help him and his family, despite knowing  what he'd done in the past, and might do in the future.  
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> And that came to fruition in the Room of Requirement. Draco refused to be rescued until Goyle could be saved, too.  Would he have had the strength to make that choice if Dumbledore had not worked so hard to convince Draco that his choices mattered?

Alla:

Actually yes, I think he would have made this choice even if the Tower never happened, to me dramatically the two accidents were not connected. I never doubted that he considered Crabb and Goyle his friends, or maybe I did over the years, but not now.

I thought that he learned *something* on the Tower as to how to treat his enemies. And when push came to shove, he was being a typical Slytherin, he did not even have a strength to say that he did not recognize the Trio. One decisive action he did not manage.


Pippin:
> And would Harry have worked so hard to save Draco and Goyle if Dumbledore had not convinced him, by example, that Draco was worth saving? And if Draco had not been saved, Narcissa would not have helped Harry. Then what?

Alla:

Thats exactly my point - if Draco was not saved, Narcissa would not have helped Harry. Instead of character arc driving the plot, Draco was just another plot point used in order to get from point A to point B (or C or D), what happened to him was IMO pretty much forgotten.