Oooh, yes you are! And I definitely think there's got to be something in the "I was right, dammit!" idea--even in the forest Draco really does just want people to acknowledge that he's somebody with some information. I wonder what would happen if one day when Draco was dropping his little hints about something Harry just turned around and said, "Really? What's going on?"

Or even better, if Draco came up and just gave him the information flat out. "I thought you'd want to know this information because it's about your friends. See ya!"

Hence the universal popularity of the 'Draco Malfoy is ever so lame' post- I mean of course Draco lovers would wish for more for the little ferret, but her points about his patheticness and sympathy-worthiness are just.. undeniable.

Yes, and also it points to the things that I actually see which never have anything to do with Draco being cute or played by Tom Felton. It's just that he really doesn't cut it as the peer rival and is pretty useless that way. And frankly, if he's there to show us what happens when you let yourself be consumed by envy and bitterness we've got a far better character for that in Snape. If that's Draco's point his character arc was pretty much done in Book I and has just been repeated four more times. He always comes to a bad end because of his envy and bitterness and spite. We get it.