Draco receiving the scores of his NEWTs and having no Father to show them to. No matter how evil the man is, Draco has still lost the most defining figure in his life, who seems to be his sounding board for just about everything.
Yes! This seems to be something Draco was literally raised to need. For most readers who don't consider any other aspect of Malfoy other than what Harry does, I don't think this is a question. But it's interesting that some of us are focusing on it--who will he show his grades to, what will he say to his mother, and all that. It's mundane, but then that's something Malfoy doesn't often get to be. I mean, it's weird because he is mundane as a villain, worried about Quidditch and house points instead of the end of the world, but his homelife has always been blown up into something more OTT.
I think what struck me the most with the ending of OotP regarding these two, is just how very parallel they seem to be, even more so than before.
Yes, I was just saying something like that somewhere else. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it's just too perfect that this happened in the book. And not only did they both lose father figures (Harry not only lost his idealized version of James but Sirius as well), they both lost them in some way to the other. Lucius was indirectly involved in taking away Sirius; the Pensieve scene did connect to Draco in many ways--he was an absent presence who came up. Harry, obviously, was connected to Lucius' imprisonment. Arthur was another father threatened in OotP, but not only did he live, but his family got to be there with him. It just seemed like surely this whole father-fixation thing has always been meant to tie these two characters together.
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Yes! This seems to be something Draco was literally raised to need. For most readers who don't consider any other aspect of Malfoy other than what Harry does, I don't think this is a question. But it's interesting that some of us are focusing on it--who will he show his grades to, what will he say to his mother, and all that. It's mundane, but then that's something Malfoy doesn't often get to be. I mean, it's weird because he is mundane as a villain, worried about Quidditch and house points instead of the end of the world, but his homelife has always been blown up into something more OTT.
I think what struck me the most with the ending of OotP regarding these two, is just how very parallel they seem to be, even more so than before.
Yes, I was just saying something like that somewhere else. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it's just too perfect that this happened in the book. And not only did they both lose father figures (Harry not only lost his idealized version of James but Sirius as well), they both lost them in some way to the other. Lucius was indirectly involved in taking away Sirius; the Pensieve scene did connect to Draco in many ways--he was an absent presence who came up. Harry, obviously, was connected to Lucius' imprisonment. Arthur was another father threatened in OotP, but not only did he live, but his family got to be there with him. It just seemed like surely this whole father-fixation thing has always been meant to tie these two characters together.