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Draco Malfoy ... bad, or just misunderstood?, What do you think of Draco in the series?

Narya View Member Profile	Dec 23 2006, 10:18 PM Post #1
Chief Mischief-Maker Posts: 8,572 Joined: 5:07pm January 28, 2005 Location: The Marauder's Map never lies ...	Time to open Part II of this topic ... You can find Part I of this topic here So ... what do you think of Draco Malfoy in each of the five books from Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone through to Order of the Phoenix? Is he bad? Or is he just misunderstood? -------------------- Proud Gryffindor and OPAST member "Hallows," murmured Dumbledore, "not Horcruxes. Precisely."

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BBeak View Member Profile	Jan 6 2007, 05:16 PM Post #21
Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 606 Joined: 9:22pm February 4, 2005 Location: Sipping iced pumpkin juice while soaking my feet in the black lake...	I think that Draco is thought of as evil, horrible, and on the dark side. But eventhough he has been a jerk towards the trio, I still think that he won't be able to become a DE. As we saw in HBP, he just didn't have the heart/guts for killing someone. I think that in the end, he will try to turn on LV, but still not join Harry, because Harry put his father in jail. I think that we will see a side of Draco Malfoy that will surprise all of us. This post has been edited by Buckbeak: Jan 6 2007, 05:18 PM -------------------- Former user name-Buckbeak July.... Why does it have to be sooo far away...... ACCIO JULY.... No?...... SIGH..... Well, it was worth a try.....

Snapes_Angel View Member Profile	Jan 16 2007, 01:44 PM Post #22
Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 149 Joined: 2:08pm August 26, 2006 Location: Mourning the deaths of my favorite & most beloved characters, Severus Snape & Fred Weasley	I'm a huge Draco Malfoy fan, and I have been from the moment we meet him in Madam Malkin's Robes Shop in Sorcerors Stone. He's really the fictional version of myself, except I'm a girl and I'm not a wizard, but other than that we are basically the same. I've always been misunderstood because of how I acted. People think I'm just plan mean because of my attitude, when in reality I use the attitude as a way to protect myself. I believe that is why Draco has such a bad attitude himself. He uses it to protect himself, because if you have an attitude it makes you this tough sort of person. His attitude is the only thing that keeps him going. If you strip it away he's a weak, cowardly kid who mouths off about things that he hasn't comprehended yet. To Draco, his attitude is the only thing that makes him different from alot of other people, except for his pureblood leagacy and his money. Its really the only thing that is really his. His blood isn't something that really has any stance in school, and his money doesn't have the same kind of influence at school that his attitude does. Draco is misunderstood. He doesn't really want to be like his father, and the problem with him in the first five books is that he hasn't really realized what it is he really wants. He's always had his decisions made for him, he's never been able to decide what he wants for himself. But in HBP, we see that he's starting to come into his own. He's really starting to figure out who he is, and he's realized that he isn't cut out to be like his father. He's becoming his own person, he's no longer the carbon copy of his father that we've seen throughtout the first five books. -------------------- ~Fred Weasley: You may be gone, but you'll forever live on in our hearts~

candyf66 View Member Profile	Jan 16 2007, 07:35 PM Post #23
Monster Book Stacker Posts: 366 Joined: 10:09pm July 23, 2005 Location: Michigan	Draco is the way he is because he's looking for his fathers love and acceptance which he can't seem to get in the books that put him with his father his father is mean and nasty to him. So unlike Harry who had people mean and nasty to him and over came it Draco is looking and can't get the ONE person he wants to love him -------------------- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Valley View Member Profile	Jan 16 2007, 08:04 PM Post #24
Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 104 Joined: 7:02pm January 4, 2007	I think he's both bad and misunderstood - but not so bad that he's beyond redemption. Dumbledore says that it is a person's choices, not how they're born, that makes them who they are. Draco was born into an evil family, yet he can still choose to be good. I'm fairly sure that either he will save Harry's life or Harry will save his at some point, and that will be the defining moment. -------------------- A person's a person, no matter how small. -Dr. Seuss You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? (Prisoner of Azkaban) I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick. (Half-Blood Prince) Thanks, Harry. Thanks, Jo.

kaelgirl View Member Profile	Jan 16 2007, 08:09 PM Post #25
Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 236 Joined: 4:21pm December 28, 2006 Location: Stuck in a Fireplace with no Floo Powder left. sigh	At first, I had the impression that Draco was bad, but he's not bad in a LV sort of way. He's just there to give all muggleborns a hard time and to give Harry a hard time. But I think that because he couldn't kill Dumbledore proved that even though he wants to be bad, he can't. He could be misunderstood, but I think he has more of a bad-boy attitude and everyone knows it. But he's not bad in a "I'm going to kill all non-pure blood people" like LV. He's just a bit stuck up. I hope he doesn't turn REALLY bad in DH.

~Ginevra Potter~ View Member Profile	Jan 17 2007, 10:17 PM Post #26
Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 73 Joined: 2:58pm September 30, 2006	I completely agree with your analysis of Draco's character, Snapes_Angel. I think Draco is misunderstood in the sense that he uses his 'bad boy' attitude to guard himself. He's definitely not the 'heart on the sleeve' type of guy, which can be a very good thing because like JKR said, it's Draco's ability to suppress certain sympathic, compassionate emotions that enables him to be so successful in Occulemency. Something Harry fails at. Hopefully, Draco won't disappoint us in DH. His experiences in Half Blood Prince should have taught him that 'walking the talk' is a lot harder than he anticipated initially. I have a feeling that Dumbledore planted a seed in his head about joining the light side, and if maybe presented with the choice to help them in DH, I pray he takes it. I have a question though. What does everyone think the motive was for Draco offering Harry a hand in friendship first year? Do you guys think it was a personal choice or maybe a nudge from his father? It seemed to me that Draco's pride was very much hurt by Harry's rejection of him, which does lead me to believe that it was a personal decision to want to be friends with Harry. This post has been edited by ~Ginevra Potter~: Jan 17 2007, 10:19 PM -------------------- "All's fair in love and war," said Ron. "And this is a bit of both...." art in icons by reallycorking

candyf66 View Member Profile	Jan 17 2007, 10:41 PM Post #27
Monster Book Stacker Posts: 366 Joined: 10:09pm July 23, 2005 Location: Michigan	[/color][color=#FF6600]to offer Harry a hand in friendship hmmmm Draco didn't know who Harry was in the drss robe shop that boy (Draco) was someone looking for friendship a buddy on the train to HW that boy (Draco) was looking to impress his father something he's never been able to do no matter how hard he tries. -------------------- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

qtpatutie432 View Member Profile	Jan 17 2007, 10:50 PM Post #28
Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 39 Joined: 10:30pm December 21, 2006 Location: Miami, FL	Throughout all of the books I've thought of Draco as just another bully....tough on the outside, soft on the inside. I think he still is. I definitely don't think he's bad. I think he wants to be bad, but really can't be. He wants to be his father, out of his need for Lucius's acceptance and love (as candyf66 stated), but I don't think his real personality matches up with the evil and hatred necessary to be a death eater and kill wizards like Dumbledore. Come to think of it, I think he wants to be misunderstood - he knows he's really not a bad, mean-spirited person, but doesn't want anyone else to know. If that makes sense. QUOTE(~Ginevra Potter~ @ Jan 17 2007, 10:17 PM) [snapback]1068163[/snapback] I have a question though. What does everyone think the motive was for Draco offering Harry a hand in friendship first year? Do you guys think it was a personal choice or maybe a nudge from his father? It seemed to me that Draco's pride was very much hurt by Harry's rejection of him, which does lead me to believe that it was a personal decision to want to be friends with Harry. I think it was both a personal choice and a HUGE nudge from his father. To reiterate, I think he definitely wanted acceptance from his father, especially being as young as he was in the first book (not that he's THAT much more mature in HBP), and would do anything to do so. He seemed brainwashed by his father, and has seemed so for the entire series. Maybe he disappeared at the end of HBP because he came out of the "brainwash" trance and realized that's not who he really wanted to be. Or maybe the thought of LV coming after him for not killing Dumbledore scared the crap out of him. Either way, I think a transformation is definitely in order for this "bad boy" in DH. Perhaps he will have to be the one to do in his own father....out of love. -------------------- "In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants." -Lewis Black

candyf66 View Member Profile	Jan 17 2007, 11:06 PM Post #29
Monster Book Stacker Posts: 366 Joined: 10:09pm July 23, 2005 Location: Michigan	I think in some way he had a crush on hermionee untill he found out she was muggle born he too thought ginny was pretty but she's a muggle lover With his father around he can't be friends with or date anyone that's not pure so he had to be mean and spiteful. Now in the last book he's going to confront his father and say look the man I was to kill showed me more love and concern in a few min. then you've showed me in 17 years your wrong about LV and in the end Draco will be the one person who makes the houses unite complete. -------------------- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Shard View Member Profile	Jan 18 2007, 01:15 AM Post #30
Stargazing on the Astronomy Tower Posts: 3,900 Joined: 8:04pm September 28, 2005 Location: Astronomy Tower	You know before HBP I would have said yes Draco will be a Death eater like his father before him. That sounded farmiliar... Anyways we see him bawling his eyes out to a muggleborn ghost no less and NOT to his precious Pureblood cronies or Pansy. What gives? Does this mean Draco has a chance at redemption? Was his hesitation over killing DD a true sign of his heart not in being a Death Eater or was this merely a stumble on his way to becoming the Death Eater that would make his father proud?? -------------------- "We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition."-Stephen Donaldson "One of the greatest talents in the world is to never say two words when one will do."

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