Apr. 9th, 2005

Draco Sucks

Apr. 9th, 2005 09:49 pm
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I've been trying to puzzle out why so much of HP fandom is obsessed with Draco, and why he leaves me utterly cold. It's not because I don't love Teh Evil, or characters of ambiguous morals. I have a long history of glomming onto anti-heros (Severus Snape, Harry Maybourne, Elim Garak, Cigarette Smoking Man). Upon reading this essay, entitled "Why Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame," I realized that I dislike him because he's a terrible Slytherin:
The Malfoy political savvy might have helped Draco, but in fact it doesn't, because Draco seems determined to ignore every single piece of political advice that his father ever gives him. He has been advised to mask his dislike for Harry Potter -- and so, naturally, he blabs his hatred of Harry to the entire school. He is advised to "keep his head down" while Slytherin's basilisk is on the loose -- and so, naturally, he makes an utter spectacle of himself in front of the entire school by gloating over the monster's predations, thus leaving himself open to suspicions of being Salazar's heir himself. And does anyone really think that Lucius Malfoy would be pleased, if he ever heard about Draco refusing to stand for Harry at the end of _GoF,_ or worse, insulting Cedric Diggory's memory on the train? Somehow I rather suspect that these actions, too, were probably undertaken in blatant disregard of parental admonition. For all of his "my fathering," Draco really isn't even a very loyal son. Strategically and politically speaking, he is a moron.


Slytherins have cunning. Draco seems utterly unable to be clever about anything. Apart from tricking Harry into a "wizards' duel" that's really a trap (PS/SS?), I can't think of any episode in which Draco really gets one over on Harry. To be a credible antagonist, let alone a decent Slytherin, Draco ought to win a few rounds, yet he rarely seems to land a punch. He's a wuss and a whiner and a disgrace to Salazar's name.

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