Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 192036

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Smith <zucht413 at ...> wrote:

Crescent:
> Actually, I was always under the impression that Draco's entering the room
> of requirement was NOT necessarily his choice. He had Crabbe and Goyle who
> were as much his guards by that time as his lackeys. If he hadn't gone to
> the room of requirement willingly, I assumed they would have turned him
> over to the Carrows, Snape, Voldemort someone who would (presumably) make
> Draco very sorry. 

zucht:
> Where in Sam Hill do you get that the butt boys are Draco's guards?  Draco wanted to be exactly like his Daddy, until Harry saved him from frying in the RoR. Wind" by Louis L'Amore

Geoff:
Draco had effectively been brainwashed to want to be 
like his father: only child, no "real" friends, Death 
Eaters as role models.

I believe that the change began when he became frightened 
that he could not complete the task Voldemort gave him in 
HBP and the threat to him and his family became a real 
issue.

Finally, when he was faced with the task of actually killing
Dumbeldore on the Tower which he had been planning all year, 
the reality created a deep epiphany shown in many ways in 
DH: his horror of the killing of Charity Burbage and his 
failure to identify Harry as examples, all these events
pre-dating the fire rescue.