[HPforGrownups] Re: ps/ss chapter 5

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 192527

Quoting pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com>:

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>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eric Oppen <technomad at ...> wrote:

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>> Only by pure luck was Draco not a killer.  The poison mead, the
>> necklace...either of those could have ended very badly for the
>> victims, even if they werenn't the ones Draco wanted to kill.
>
> Pippin:
> It would have taken even more luck for Draco to have succeeded. In   
> both cases the means he chose were both detectable and reversible   
> and the effects wre indeed detected and reversed before they could   
> kill. The implication is that Draco applied less knowledge and skill  
>  to the task than he might have because unconsciously he did not  
> want  to succeed.
>
Oh, I don't know.  I thought those plots were up to the finest "Draco  
Malfoy" standard.  Of course, I think the blond pest is a prat  
exceeded only by Joffrey in _Game of Thrones,_ but that's just me.

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