It's very possible that Draco could be Harry's demon-child, everything that Harry hates and desperately tries to knock down in an effort to prove that he isn't like that, that he is good...yet Draco is making Harry face his dark side bit by bit, and it's odd that in these moments where Harry tries his hardest to prove that he isn't like Malfoy, and that he is moral, he is actually acting most like one would expect Draco to act, the way he accuses Draco of acting many times. I wonder if JKR is even aware of this pattern, or if it's a very unconscious thing. But I couldn't help noticing that it is only with DRACO that the darker side of Harry which is so similar to him, comes out. I mean, in the first three face-offs he's had with Voldemort he was perfectly "righteous and noble", for all the times Voldemort has tried to goad him, even to tell him that Harry is like himself in many ways. He never actually shown this piece of himself to Voldemort (that I can remember). It was always all "fight the bad guy, Dumbledore's three thousand times the wizard you'll ever be, I'll never join you, etc." The one similar time I can remember a truly awful side of Harry being brought out around Voldemort has been because of Bellatrix (and it wasn't directed toward Voldemort, it was toward Bellatrix -- the Cruciatus curse). For all his blind hate and prejudice toward Snape, even while KNOWING he was on the good side, I can't remember a truly immoral side of Harry's being brought out around him. The one time I can remember which comes close would be when he helped Sirius escape while Snape had been waiting for his revenge for years, but this can debatably be countered by the fact that Harry was also trying to save a life (which is a "noble" act, never mind he had to stomp all over about a million school rules and the wizarding law to commit it), and Harry was never shown expressing any sort of pleasure over Snape's disappointment. Which, considering his actions in OotP, I think he would have had something similar happened to Draco. It always comes back to Draco.
And I may be totally off base with this theory (please stop me if I AM wrong!), but I couldn't help but notice how Draco has been tied to Harry this way, has always been the one to make Harry face what he has never wanted to face before (that he could actually be immoral, too). He brings out the moments in which Harry is at his worst, yet actually more REAL during these moments, less...hero-like? It also brings me to another reason that I would relate more to Draco, because Draco may be immoral and act simply awful sometimes, but at least he is upfront about it; he doesn't hide it, he shows it, unlike Harry who is just as immoral but tries so hard to hide it by saying "he's doing the right thing". In a way, Draco is actually the more honest one. Maybe it's a Slytherin thing (they are not afraid to be outright wicked because it's what everyone expects from them), but it's this honesty which I would feel more comfortable with, and even admire (because no one truly wants to admit that they are being immoral, and I would admire the utter lack of fear to do so). And in this open hostility and display of wickedness, it makes us question the Slytherins more, to see their motives behind it, and therefore in a way, it makes Draco the reverse of Harry: while Draco is the boy who is insecure but openly horrible and not afraid to show it...Harry is the typically-expected "insecure-noble-Boy-Who-Lived" who is...well not horrible deep underneath, but definitely has a darker core that the wizarding world could probably be shocked by if they knew. It's as if, despite being canonically the Slytherin, son of Lucius Malfoy, supposedly alleged Junior Death Eater in training, Draco actually has less to hide than Harry seems to; which makes it so ridiculous when people accuse him of his titles above. I guess this is how I see the Mirror. ^^
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Date: 2004-03-12 01:56 pm (UTC)And I may be totally off base with this theory (please stop me if I AM wrong!), but I couldn't help but notice how Draco has been tied to Harry this way, has always been the one to make Harry face what he has never wanted to face before (that he could actually be immoral, too). He brings out the moments in which Harry is at his worst, yet actually more REAL during these moments, less...hero-like? It also brings me to another reason that I would relate more to Draco, because Draco may be immoral and act simply awful sometimes, but at least he is upfront about it; he doesn't hide it, he shows it, unlike Harry who is just as immoral but tries so hard to hide it by saying "he's doing the right thing". In a way, Draco is actually the more honest one. Maybe it's a Slytherin thing (they are not afraid to be outright wicked because it's what everyone expects from them), but it's this honesty which I would feel more comfortable with, and even admire (because no one truly wants to admit that they are being immoral, and I would admire the utter lack of fear to do so). And in this open hostility and display of wickedness, it makes us question the Slytherins more, to see their motives behind it, and therefore in a way, it makes Draco the reverse of Harry: while Draco is the boy who is insecure but openly horrible and not afraid to show it...Harry is the typically-expected "insecure-noble-Boy-Who-Lived" who is...well not horrible deep underneath, but definitely has a darker core that the wizarding world could probably be shocked by if they knew. It's as if, despite being canonically the Slytherin, son of Lucius Malfoy, supposedly alleged Junior Death Eater in training, Draco actually has less to hide than Harry seems to; which makes it so ridiculous when people accuse him of his titles above. I guess this is how I see the Mirror. ^^