Interesting points as always. I think JKR really didn't like her bad boys and was determined to the bitter end that we shouldn't either. I read somewhere that when asked what happened to the Malfoys after DH she said they squirmed their way out of things yet again (my words not her's).
For some reason when I got to the end of the book I was left with the idea that Draco was supposed to be one of those she was going to kill off originally and she somehow decided to let him live in the end leaving us with the Malfoy family sitting with the victors in the Great Hall. But they weren't WITH the victors but on their own and almost as the only living Slytherins. How I wanted Harry to acknowledge them.
And when she decided to let him live, she gave him a receding hair line and let Ron even 19 years later still make sarcastic comments about it. I'm really surprised she didn't have Ron say "Look, isn't that the Ferret overthere?"
The worst thing that the author!god could show her readers was that people don't/can't change or realise that there are other options. It was something I had hoped would come out of Draco after what happened on top of the Astronomy Tower.
In the end it seemed the only reason for Draco's presence in the story was the wand issue.
And don't get me started on the whole Slytherin thing.
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For some reason when I got to the end of the book I was left with the idea that Draco was supposed to be one of those she was going to kill off originally and she somehow decided to let him live in the end leaving us with the Malfoy family sitting with the victors in the Great Hall. But they weren't WITH the victors but on their own and almost as the only living Slytherins. How I wanted Harry to acknowledge them.
And when she decided to let him live, she gave him a receding hair line and let Ron even 19 years later still make sarcastic comments about it. I'm really surprised she didn't have Ron say "Look, isn't that the Ferret overthere?"
The worst thing that the author!god could show her readers was that people don't/can't change or realise that there are other options. It was something I had hoped would come out of Draco after what happened on top of the Astronomy Tower.
In the end it seemed the only reason for Draco's presence in the story was the wand issue.
And don't get me started on the whole Slytherin thing.