Kay, I think I finally know where I'm having doubts.
He wants to hate her, but he keeps having to face this disconnect between what she's supposed to be and what she is.
But he does hate her. He hates her for who she is alone. He's not being raised to believe that, as a mudblood she's a horrible person, but in reality he sees that she isn't. He still hates her. She's a knowitall, she rubs it in when she beats him (or to him it seems like she does), and she does beat him constantly at academics. He hated HER. There isn't much of a disconnect. The only real disconnect there is that as a mudblood she's supposed to be dirt, but instead she's somehow beating him (and now in HBP Draco finds out that he totally wiped the floor with her, and he would've gotten a damn good kick out of Borgin telling him of Hermione's visit). He's not seeing her from bad to good. He's seeing her as bad ON HER OWN, without the tag of mudblood on her. She's not bad because she's a mudblood, she's bad because she's Hermione Granger.
And I think that's going to be the serious overhaul for him. Learning to seperate pureblood ideology with Voldemort. We hear from Black that there were quite a few heavy pureblood supporters who opposed Voldemort and his way of going about things, but Draco, ever since the getgo, he sees them as one in the same. You can't have pureblood ideology without following Voldemort. Voldemort was the representative of everything purebloods stood for. Anybody who opposed Voldemort could not possibly follow the pureblood ideology. But I think that now, after witnessing first hand the lengths that Voldemort is willing to go for the "pureblood idealogy" (because we all know that for him it has nothing to do with the pureblood ideology, just an excuse he uses to gain the purebloods on his side) and he't starting to seperate the two of them. He's starting to see that you can still have the pureblood ideology and still completely oppose Voldemort and the lengths he's willing to go, which is to murder and maim. Regulus was a pureblood supporter, yet he still opposed Voldemort, after all.
I think that Draco's going to learn to seperate the pureblood ideology with how Voldemort's handled it so far. I think he'll always be prejudiced. It's hard for him not to, when every mudblood he's met turned out to be a total bitch that actually made him like shit about himself, what with Hermione always besting him and Creevey saying infront of like half the school that he was jealous of Harry, and we don't see him having any connections with mudbloods at all, or looking like he ever will. Yeah, Voldemort's willing to murder the lot of them, but Draco also knows firsthand that Voldemort's ready to kill a few purebloods, too. So even there, he's not being skeptic of Voldemort's views because of MUDBLOODS (he's not asked to kill a mudblood, he's asked to kill Dumbledore; and his two victims, Ron and Katie, were purebloods). So it's not like he's seeing that mudbloods die but don't deserve it. He just has too little connection at all with mudbloods for him to really change his views, I think. He'll probably just be prejudiced on a quiter, more personal way, not a Voldemort let'skillalltheMudbloods-way, the way he was in 1st year when he said that they didn't know wizard ways, which is a perfectly good reason if you ask me, and very true.
To me it's not so much a matter of shedding the pureblood ideology, but shedding the Voldemort ideology and learning it to seperate it with the pureblood one. (In the first book, he gives a perfectly good reason for being prejudiced when he says that they don't know the wizard ways, which is completely true, and doesn't have anything at all to do with Voldemort, although that seems to change once the Chamber's opened). I don't know where he's going to go with that, or where his prejudism will take him from there, when the war's all done (or heck, even in the 7th book.) I just think he'll always be prejudiced on a quieter level, and not on a Voldemort let's-kill-all-the-mudbloods-level (besides, the biggest reason Harry hates him is because of his prejudism, if Draco lost that, then there wouldn't be much keeping them from being friends, and JK said that would NEVER happen ;) )
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Date: 2005-12-04 09:41 pm (UTC)He wants to hate her, but he keeps having to face this disconnect between what she's supposed to be and what she is.
But he does hate her. He hates her for who she is alone. He's not being raised to believe that, as a mudblood she's a horrible person, but in reality he sees that she isn't. He still hates her. She's a knowitall, she rubs it in when she beats him (or to him it seems like she does), and she does beat him constantly at academics. He hated HER. There isn't much of a disconnect. The only real disconnect there is that as a mudblood she's supposed to be dirt, but instead she's somehow beating him (and now in HBP Draco finds out that he totally wiped the floor with her, and he would've gotten a damn good kick out of Borgin telling him of Hermione's visit). He's not seeing her from bad to good. He's seeing her as bad ON HER OWN, without the tag of mudblood on her. She's not bad because she's a mudblood, she's bad because she's Hermione Granger.
And I think that's going to be the serious overhaul for him. Learning to seperate pureblood ideology with Voldemort. We hear from Black that there were quite a few heavy pureblood supporters who opposed Voldemort and his way of going about things, but Draco, ever since the getgo, he sees them as one in the same. You can't have pureblood ideology without following Voldemort. Voldemort was the representative of everything purebloods stood for. Anybody who opposed Voldemort could not possibly follow the pureblood ideology. But I think that now, after witnessing first hand the lengths that Voldemort is willing to go for the "pureblood idealogy" (because we all know that for him it has nothing to do with the pureblood ideology, just an excuse he uses to gain the purebloods on his side) and he't starting to seperate the two of them. He's starting to see that you can still have the pureblood ideology and still completely oppose Voldemort and the lengths he's willing to go, which is to murder and maim. Regulus was a pureblood supporter, yet he still opposed Voldemort, after all.
I think that Draco's going to learn to seperate the pureblood ideology with how Voldemort's handled it so far. I think he'll always be prejudiced. It's hard for him not to, when every mudblood he's met turned out to be a total bitch that actually made him like shit about himself, what with Hermione always besting him and Creevey saying infront of like half the school that he was jealous of Harry, and we don't see him having any connections with mudbloods at all, or looking like he ever will. Yeah, Voldemort's willing to murder the lot of them, but Draco also knows firsthand that Voldemort's ready to kill a few purebloods, too. So even there, he's not being skeptic of Voldemort's views because of MUDBLOODS (he's not asked to kill a mudblood, he's asked to kill Dumbledore; and his two victims, Ron and Katie, were purebloods). So it's not like he's seeing that mudbloods die but don't deserve it. He just has too little connection at all with mudbloods for him to really change his views, I think. He'll probably just be prejudiced on a quiter, more personal way, not a Voldemort let'skillalltheMudbloods-way, the way he was in 1st year when he said that they didn't know wizard ways, which is a perfectly good reason if you ask me, and very true.
To me it's not so much a matter of shedding the pureblood ideology, but shedding the Voldemort ideology and learning it to seperate it with the pureblood one. (In the first book, he gives a perfectly good reason for being prejudiced when he says that they don't know the wizard ways, which is completely true, and doesn't have anything at all to do with Voldemort, although that seems to change once the Chamber's opened). I don't know where he's going to go with that, or where his prejudism will take him from there, when the war's all done (or heck, even in the 7th book.) I just think he'll always be prejudiced on a quieter level, and not on a Voldemort let's-kill-all-the-mudbloods-level (besides, the biggest reason Harry hates him is because of his prejudism, if Draco lost that, then there wouldn't be much keeping them from being friends, and JK said that would NEVER happen ;) )