Bwahahaha! Sorry, now I'm just remembering that dramatic kitten-rescue of Sirius.' If only we all knew boys like that!
I wonder if one of the reasons I latch onto Draco is that what Lucius does to him in that scene literally is one of my hot buttons. Once I was in an acting class and the teacher did several excercises trying to get me to be, like, passionate instead of logical and calm. It was torturous for me, but I guess it's just in my nature to not want to be emotional on important issues. So I had to do this speech on something and I was saying something about kids and she kept poking around, asking me questions about me being treated this way. And I did remember probably every time in my life when I was treated this way and hated it, but it still wasn't getting me emotional because I was over it for myself.
Then she started asking me about seeing other kids treated this way and I was like BASTARDSSSS!!!!! DIE DIE DIE!!! Like when I worked in the store and parents would do like Lucius does--one father came in with his son and was looking for a book for a very good reader--that was a birthday present. Then he needed one for a Below Average Reader and he looks down at his 8-year-old son, who hung his head in shame. Grrrrrr. And btw, he was totally reading at grade level--no surprise. But hey, why pass up a chance to label your son as Below Average. Not like he'll internalize that label forever.
So to me it's like, if that's how Lucius talks to and about his son then I can't imagine Draco not feeling like dirt all the time. There's no reason for Lucius to talk to him like that, especially not just for kicks, as he's doing in the scene. Add to that the fact that Draco worships this man and thinks everything he says is good and true--of course he's the kid he is. I think it's incredibly important that Harry never sees the Dursleys as family, and that Neville, too, has real, loving parents he can imagine somewhere.
So yeah, I think everybody is basically the product of their personality+their environment. I don't see anything in Draco's personality that's corrupt in itself-he might have grown up quite happily in the Weasley household while Percy might have made a less obnoxious Malfoy than Draco does. In the end each kid is stuck with the personality he formed to get through his homelife and some kids have more stress in that life than others and it shows--Snape, Sirius and Harry, for sure, and others very possibly.
It's also possibly kind of funny that the school has a DE for a teacher all year and the one student who probably told everybody the man seemed like a psycho was Draco. If Harry didn't dislike Malfoy himself, would he have been more wary of Moody?
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Date: 2004-06-13 02:10 pm (UTC)I wonder if one of the reasons I latch onto Draco is that what Lucius does to him in that scene literally is one of my hot buttons. Once I was in an acting class and the teacher did several excercises trying to get me to be, like, passionate instead of logical and calm. It was torturous for me, but I guess it's just in my nature to not want to be emotional on important issues. So I had to do this speech on something and I was saying something about kids and she kept poking around, asking me questions about me being treated this way. And I did remember probably every time in my life when I was treated this way and hated it, but it still wasn't getting me emotional because I was over it for myself.
Then she started asking me about seeing other kids treated this way and I was like BASTARDSSSS!!!!! DIE DIE DIE!!! Like when I worked in the store and parents would do like Lucius does--one father came in with his son and was looking for a book for a very good reader--that was a birthday present. Then he needed one for a Below Average Reader and he looks down at his 8-year-old son, who hung his head in shame. Grrrrrr. And btw, he was totally reading at grade level--no surprise. But hey, why pass up a chance to label your son as Below Average. Not like he'll internalize that label forever.
So to me it's like, if that's how Lucius talks to and about his son then I can't imagine Draco not feeling like dirt all the time. There's no reason for Lucius to talk to him like that, especially not just for kicks, as he's doing in the scene. Add to that the fact that Draco worships this man and thinks everything he says is good and true--of course he's the kid he is. I think it's incredibly important that Harry never sees the Dursleys as family, and that Neville, too, has real, loving parents he can imagine somewhere.
So yeah, I think everybody is basically the product of their personality+their environment. I don't see anything in Draco's personality that's corrupt in itself-he might have grown up quite happily in the Weasley household while Percy might have made a less obnoxious Malfoy than Draco does. In the end each kid is stuck with the personality he formed to get through his homelife and some kids have more stress in that life than others and it shows--Snape, Sirius and Harry, for sure, and others very possibly.
It's also possibly kind of funny that the school has a DE for a teacher all year and the one student who probably told everybody the man seemed like a psycho was Draco. If Harry didn't dislike Malfoy himself, would he have been more wary of Moody?