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.
My bad. He does hate her, definitely. I didn't mean to imply that he really didn't. But he also sees her not being what she's supposed to be, if Muggleborns are supposed to be inferior, and that is the only disconnect I was referring to--which seems like a big one. He hates the Weasleys too, but they're Purebloods.
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
Does he? But in his diary he says he wants to continue Slytherin's noble work. Obviously he does really want immortality from himself, but is the goal here really to get Pureblood bigots to realize they can have their bigotry without Voldemort, or is the idea that Voldemort is the natural result of that kind of bigotry? Regulus was a Pureblood supporter and he ultimately rejected Voldemort. We don't know if he also questioned what he'd be taught--perhaps he wound up thinking Sirius was right. But then he died, so whatever his views ultimately were he didn't get to live with them.
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.
But the attitude Draco's espoused since Book II is Voldemort's, where Muggleborns are "filth" and inferior--not that they just don't know Wizarding ways, which is something that Hermione again proves wrong.
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
I can see plenty of reasons Harry wouldn't be friends with Draco even if he wasn't that prejudiced, actually. Harry doesn't hate him on principle, he hates him personally. He's hated Snape for years too, without it having anything to do with bigotry. He doesn't even comment on Snape using the term Mudblood until a book later, iirc.
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My bad. He does hate her, definitely. I didn't mean to imply that he really didn't. But he also sees her not being what she's supposed to be, if Muggleborns are supposed to be inferior, and that is the only disconnect I was referring to--which seems like a big one. He hates the Weasleys too, but they're Purebloods.
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
Does he? But in his diary he says he wants to continue Slytherin's noble work. Obviously he does really want immortality from himself, but is the goal here really to get Pureblood bigots to realize they can have their bigotry without Voldemort, or is the idea that Voldemort is the natural result of that kind of bigotry? Regulus was a Pureblood supporter and he ultimately rejected Voldemort. We don't know if he also questioned what he'd be taught--perhaps he wound up thinking Sirius was right. But then he died, so whatever his views ultimately were he didn't get to live with them.
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.
But the attitude Draco's espoused since Book II is Voldemort's, where Muggleborns are "filth" and inferior--not that they just don't know Wizarding ways, which is something that Hermione again proves wrong.
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
I can see plenty of reasons Harry wouldn't be friends with Draco even if he wasn't that prejudiced, actually. Harry doesn't hate him on principle, he hates him personally. He's hated Snape for years too, without it having anything to do with bigotry. He doesn't even comment on Snape using the term Mudblood until a book later, iirc.