Draco Malfoy ... bad, or just misunderstood?, What do you think of Draco in the series? |
 Dec 31 2006, 04:20 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 65 Joined: 12:56am May 6, 2006  |
He's almost certainly a coward, but a coward with a strong sense of honor and loyalty to his family and family name.
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Dec 31 2006, 09:21 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 75 Joined: 10:20pm November 10, 2006 Location: Hanging out with Aberforth drinking firewhiskey and trying to eavesdrop on conversations |
I have been rereading the books, and I have noticed that if you read between the lines, not only do I think he might be attracted to Hermione, although he would never admit it, he also seems to yearn to be friends with Harry. I will find key passages to support these assertions, but it is a holiday so I need to celebrate! Happy New Year's Eve!
-------------------- What is important is to keep learning and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. -Albert Einstein |
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Jan 2 2007, 09:15 PM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 92 Joined: 9:48am December 21, 2006 Location: Rereading everything...very slowly. |
I think he's confused...a confused teen aged boy. I also think he's a coward and is going to go where he feels the power is, but that won't last for long. He has good in him, you saw it on the tower, he was considering DD's offer to go into hiding I believe. DH is going to be where he finds his 15 minutes I think. He, I believe is going to be one of Harry's biggest assests. I also have a feeling he's going to make a huge sacrafice for Harry at some point. Nothing to back me up, just a feeling.
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Jan 3 2007, 06:35 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 285 Joined: 11:05pm February 15, 2006 |
I think consciously, he is among the most loathesome slime that ever grew on a dungeon wall. Birds of a feather, flock etc......and Crabbe and Goyle are merely the outward extensions of his every day personality.
My wider theory (related to sorting) is that you are in a specific house at Hogwarts not based on your conscious personality, but on your character - something that is part of your shadow side - the part of you that is not so much who you are, but what you value. The character of Slytherin house is strong deep inside Malfoy. It is not pretty, but it is well represented inside of him - finally - in book 6. In this respect, Draco is as much Neville's counterpart in the story as he is Harry's. Both of them having a rather cowardly personality, but growing into their rather larger than life "character" as colored by the houses they are in. Neville to be a Griffindor idealist, where Draco is growing into his cunning and ambitious slytherin type of Guardian character. But Draco's choices at the end of HBP were his only chance, I think. He chose poorly. His cowardice prevented his character from really getting solid footing. It was like he was teetering on the great character he had been developing but instead of truly stepping into this powerful character, he crumbled - he went backwards. To my thinking, it is this "character" we all have whose job it is to modify our personality - to change us. On the basis of Draco's "character," then, he could have chosen to kill DD himself and gone one direction, or he could have chosen to abandon the dark side and gone another direction -- both viable possibilities for this new part of himself we were seeing developed in bk 6. Instead, he crumbled back into Draco the sniveling spite-spewing coward. And that will have consequences in Book 7. He may have one more shot at greatness - for evil or for good - it depends on what happens to his parents now. But barring that, the cowardly ego is in place for the next book. My prediction, along the cowardly lines, is that even if he shines for some reason in bk 7, he will still end poorly. I suspect that Draco's character will see him take some act that results in his death, but his fear will see him end up as a ghost in the Hogwarts bathrooms crying on Myrtle's shoulder, bragging about his purebloodedness, and being forced to tell everyone who asks about the great Harry Potter... -------------------- ETNutter-Quibbler Cub Reporter
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Jan 3 2007, 05:22 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 65 Joined: 12:56am May 6, 2006 |
I don't think he really had a choice. He wasn't going to kill Dumbledore, but then the Death Eaters and Snape came in and took control out of his hands, and now he's back in his Death Eater environment. That chance of escape from death to him and his family (which is what he really wanted in taking the mission, and why he was deciding not to kill Dumbledore) just vanished.
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Jan 4 2007, 11:16 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 285 Joined: 11:05pm February 15, 2006 |
Guardsman - Draco had a LONG time to decide before the DE's arrived up there....How long would you have given him?
The "goldfinger" discussion went on for page after page.....the "character" that I refer to in my post that now exists inside him was ready to completely take the helm just as it needed to in that moment.....but he hesitated.....for like....Forever. He sunk away from this powerful character he had developed and stayed stuck as draco the sneery priviliged spiteful cowardly prig.... To make matters worse....he ran for it. I reject the idea that he had no choice.....he picked up the guantlet thrown down by LV and saw his task through right to the point where it was time to choose. He had nothing to prove to anyone anymore with the crosshairs of his wand on DD's chest. It was the moment of decision....of choice..... If, as Dumbledore says, it is our choices - Draco, for all his abilities and aspirations being actualized during the book - chose poorly. and that choice has , for now, defined him. I loath him SO! This post has been edited by etnutter: Jan 4 2007, 11:19 PM -------------------- ETNutter-Quibbler Cub Reporter
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Jan 5 2007, 03:28 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 295 Joined: 1:08am December 30, 2006 Location: Lounging in Leaky to discuss DH...  |
Draco is someone who is very interested in Dark arts and that peculier pure-blood mania....But still he is a teenage boy..
Therefore he didn't have much knowledge about the demands of the dark world..Following his Father's foot steps he went to serve LV..But only by the end of HBP he gets to know that it is not very easy to be with VL...He is not prepared to be a DE...I But I don't think he is a coward.. I always loathed Draco..But after reading HBP, I felt really sorry for him...I dont know what will become of him in the 7th book. --------------------    |
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Jan 5 2007, 11:29 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 99 Joined: 6:06pm December 24, 2006 Location: Crying because it's over, waaahhh!! |
Who knows? I mean JK has done some pretty amazing things in thesse books.
I don't think he will ever be 'good'. He will always be loyal to his father. Or maybe not? I hate it when I second guess myself! 
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Jan 5 2007, 10:20 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 50 Joined: 5:41pm September 30, 2005 |
First of all, I didn't read Part I of this topic so maybe this has already been said.
I think Draco is a very interesting character. He is definitively not a very nice guy. He tries to impress everyone at the expense of others. Reminds me a bit of Sirius Black who, together with James Potter, did more or less the same when he was young. Both (Draco and Sirius) are heirs to an old an very much respected family in the magical world. Both were raised in an atmosphere of exaggerated pride (pure-blood) and hate towards muggles and muggle-born. But here comes the difference. Sirius decided not to follow the wrong path of his familiy. He decided to do the right thing, even against his own blood. The choices we make are important - remember? I think it's not too late for Draco to change. Think of Regulus Black. Hmmm...guess it's never too late to realize how wrong you've been in the past. All you need is someone or something that opens your eyes. Maybe the death of Dumbledore was exactly that for Draco - a small glimpse into the real world of the DE. |
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Jan 6 2007, 05:02 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 1 Joined: 4:35pm January 6, 2007 |
So… has anyone ever thought the prophecy might be about Draco?...
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