Yes, I agree - and the reason for not being able to know the Slytherins or Snape in a way we know Ron, Sirius or even Molly is because Harry just sees them aloof and doesn't communicate with them.
I wouldn't say that Molly is a main character in the books, but it is a lot easier to talk about her good side and her faults than about Draco's. Draco is described so negatively in canon due to Harry's prejudice toward him that, as you said, we have to look for hints to see his real nature, because the fact that Draco is horrible to Harry and Co. certainly doesn't mean he's horrible to everyone else, too, like JKR herself said (the scene with Draco and Theodore Nott she'd had to cut from the books).
We don't know about how Draco behaves at home, unlike Molly. We don't know about how someone like Lucius has managed to make his son care so much about him - the flashes we see from Lucius are negative as well, and yet he cannot be that horrible to his son, otherwise he wouldn't worship him so much. We don't know what Draco's biggest wish is, unlike Molly's - her immense wish for her children to succeed. We are told Draco has to be ambitious, because he's in Slytherin, but we're shown that Molly is the ambitious one, because it's her who awards prizes to her children whenever they become Prefects.
So well, the good thing about this is that as Harry's perspective of Draco is very limited due to the fact that they don't interact much and due to Harry's immense dislike for Draco, we can catch some of these flashes and make out of them whatever we want. :)
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Date: 2004-09-14 06:46 am (UTC)I wouldn't say that Molly is a main character in the books, but it is a lot easier to talk about her good side and her faults than about Draco's. Draco is described so negatively in canon due to Harry's prejudice toward him that, as you said, we have to look for hints to see his real nature, because the fact that Draco is horrible to Harry and Co. certainly doesn't mean he's horrible to everyone else, too, like JKR herself said (the scene with Draco and Theodore Nott she'd had to cut from the books).
We don't know about how Draco behaves at home, unlike Molly. We don't know about how someone like Lucius has managed to make his son care so much about him - the flashes we see from Lucius are negative as well, and yet he cannot be that horrible to his son, otherwise he wouldn't worship him so much. We don't know what Draco's biggest wish is, unlike Molly's - her immense wish for her children to succeed. We are told Draco has to be ambitious, because he's in Slytherin, but we're shown that Molly is the ambitious one, because it's her who awards prizes to her children whenever they become Prefects.
So well, the good thing about this is that as Harry's perspective of Draco is very limited due to the fact that they don't interact much and due to Harry's immense dislike for Draco, we can catch some of these flashes and make out of them whatever we want. :)