I don't!

*SPAM*Why? You need to post more than just one-liners, these threads are here for thoughtful and meaningful posts.

Going back to the discussion...

To be honest ever since his father was introduced to the series I have felt a slight pang of pity for him. He's obviously been the source of contempt of his bullying father for many years.

At the end of the day he's in a similar position to Sirius at his age, both come from ancient pureblood households with connections to Voldemort’s fanaticism and both had to decide whether or not to uphold the family name. The only difference is that Sirius left, Draco chose to stay…or was made to stay.

You have to admit Draco has been put upon, especially in HBP. Due to his fathers mistakes he is now trying to pull the Malfoy name out of the mud, he’s dealing with a wizard so powerful no one will speak his name who has given him the mother of all tasks, his extremist aunt is drawing him further into the Death Eater culture, he’s having to break his mothers heart and he’s being aided by his potions master, who seems to be the only one who knows what side he’s on.

And all the time there’s a boy at school; considered an icon and saviour by many, who is the reason all this trouble has happened, keeps stalking him!!

As you can see things are never as simple as they seem.

I really felt sorry for him when we heard about him crying in the bathroom, you have to wonder just how much control Draco has in his life, he seems to be dragged along against his own will.

Yes,I feel sorry for him.I didn't like him at first but he is very interesting character.After The Prince i love him,he is so sweet...!

Yes! I also feel sorry for Draco! Yeah he's into that crazy I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-a-pure-blood-and-you're-not business but you can see thats there's another side to him. I think somtimes he says that because his family is like that- he's grown up hearing all this -Prides themselves on being better than half bloods and muggleborns, so what can you expect? Alright, maybe he's not a complete angel (I like him for that) but like Ziggy said we saw him crying because he's worried he can't do what he's assigned to do by the most poweful dark wizard of all time and his punishment if he doesnt succeed is the death of his parents!!! Wouldnt you be worried as well? Draco is being pushed in on all sides- the task that had been assigned to him, his father bullied him, he has to practically succeed in everything he's given.
Even when he corners Dumbledore without his wand, he still can't kill. He tries to hold his character, but you can see Draco doesn't have the heart to kill somone on purpose. And like Ziggy said, Draco isn't really living/ controlling his own life, he's being dragged into everything from every angle... poor boy!

I hope to see some sort of redemption for Draco in HP7, but asking Draco (or most children) to choose between Dumbledore's philosophy and his own father is a tough proposition. Even though Draco now can probably see what LV is about, asking him to turn against his father, Aunt Bella, and mom is asking a lot.

As Mark Twain said (more or less): Deprivation is a terrible thing, but our troubles start when we get what we want.

Yes, i do feel sorry for him, but still don't like him.
I wouldn't also let my family die no metter how much they get on my
nerve or they are not nice sometimes because family will always be
with you. When it comes to the things that should go first in life,
family always is # one.
Even Harry don't care that much about Draco after what happened at the
end HBP.


*I love Mark Twain derek and grate job for telling us that lovely saying of his.*

*I agree with you also miss_tang, the fact that "Draco doesn'thave the heart to kill someone on purpose." I think he never really would have killed someone if he wented to. He just doesn't seem like the kind of person.

I do feel bad for Draco. I'm not going to say everything is entirely his family/father's fault, but that is a big part of it. Since his father is a death eater, I think that he was probably influenced heavily, if not forced to join them. Also, I dont' think he was really bad, deep down...He did lower his wand when he had Dumbledore cornered, right before the other death eaters came. In that split second I think he gave up, and he would have helped Dumbledore and let Dumbledore help him, if the death eaters hadn't arrived right then.

I feel very sorry for Draco. I know that it is hard to escape your parents' influence. Especially when they are Death Eaters.
His entire family is on Voldemorts side. I understand that he could not have confronted them when he was young boy. That is the reason why I espect some good to come out of him now that he is older and more mature.

Ziggy wrote:

To be honest ever since his father was introduced to the series I have felt a slight pang of pity for him. He's obviously been the source of contempt of his bullying father for many years.

I agree completely, every since I read about his father I’ve felt pity for him. I really can't say that I like him as a person but I do think there's more to him than just an evil brat. I think it would be really hard to live in his situation. You’d have grown up learning about dark arts and learning that you are better than everyone as you are a pure-blood and a Malfoy. Then being bullied by your father and having a mother who seems a bit pre-occupied. So when he gets to school he feels he needs to do good or his father will think him unworthy and he is already a little conceited because his father thinks he's so good (because he's pure-blood). He gets to school thinking he'll be loved and all that only to find an enemy in the more popular boy (Harry) who turned him down without a second look. He can be arrogant and mean but I do pity him and I think with a different upbringing he could have been a very different child.

The only time I have ever felt sorry the little grease ball was when he was crying in the bathroom. Other than that i have no sympathy for him. I mean in all of the books he is playing jokes and spreading nasty rumors abour Harry and others. This is something that he did on his own and his father had no influence , if any very very little, on. His home life does affect him. But unlike Sirius he goes along with his father and believes what his father does is right. If Draco wanted to he could stand up to his father ( yes, i know easier said than done). Just because his family believes in what Voldemort does, doesn't mean he has to. In the end he has made his own choices.

Well I guess I have to say I do feel sorry for him...I never thought I would say that. But I guess, when you think about it, the things he does probably are not completely what he wants to do or what he thinks is the right course of action. He is under so much pressure to be like his father that he is not able to be himself.

The only reason I sometimes don't feel sorry for him is when you look back and see all the chances he had to be a better person.

At this point though I do feel sorry for him because he has bitten off way more than he can chew and he has been dragged into a world that is way too grown up for him. He is way out of his league, and at this point there really is no way out of it, and for that I feel sorry for him.

I honestly do not feel sorry for Draco in the least bit. He's been obsessed with the Dark Arts since we were first introduced to him, and takes pride in the fact that his family is apart of that magic. He enjoys seeing pain in others, but more importantly, he enjoys giving the others pain.

In all senses of the word, Draco is a bully.

Sometimes I catch myself feeling sorry for Draco. Then I remind myself that he would have been happy if the locket had killed and if the wine had killed Dumbledore. The only reason he hesitated in killing DD on the tower is that Draco is a coward. It is much harder to kill someone in person rather than poisoning them. He bullies and then he runs, that is how he operates. Just because he couldn't look DD in the eye and kill him, doesn't mean Draco is less of a murderer at heart.

I have a theory, and have always thought this ever since book 2, that Draco must be somehow in love with Hermione. We often fixate the passionate hatred of our parents values on the ones we secretly covet, and to call Hermione "That Mudblood Granger" sounds like somebody trying to distance the appearance of being interested in her.

I'm not saying that he isn't xenophobic and cruel to Muggle-borns, or that he doesn't believe the principles his family has instilled in him, but I'm saying that his constant zeroing in on Hermione in question is evident of something else beneath the surface that is at odds with his exterior. There is a duality within Draco, in that he has a disgust for "Mudbloods" and therefore a disgust with his own feelings for one in particular. This consequently makes him even more vicious towards her.

I believe it explains a lot about his character, someone who is battling inwardly, against his family, against what Voldermort has sent him to do. He states that he didn't know Greyback was going to start attacking students to Dumbledore in a sort of pleading excuse, showing that while he dislikes his fellow students, he probably has never thought of any of them actually dying. He is a mixed bag, that one.

I still think that's a reasonable theory, I feel that his ferocity for Harry is also compounded by the fact that he and Ron are friends with Hermione. I feel it is an echo of the same hatred Snape had for James and Sirius. It would not surprise me if Snape had felt for Lily Potter in a similar way. Rowling consciously puts these parrallels into the backstories, so its a fair possibility.

That's just what I think. I feel Draco is redeemable, at least not condemnable.

Graceland.