Oh yeah, I think he totally wants to be important, and naturally want him to be too becuase he's my gooboy and dats a gooboy who's so important!
Ahem. And remember in this series everybody really is important. See, the thing is is it's always the people who supposedly aren't that are, because the smallest thing is important. Like, who would have thought Peter would be the guy who killed everybody? Or that the James/Snape rivalry could destroy so many lives and all that? So with Malfoy it's not that I think he couldn't be important, it's just that he probably wouldn't be, like, another version of Harry, you know what I mean? Like, when Harry imagines him he naturally imagines Draco underneath being just like Harry only evil. But where he could surprise is yeah, I'm important and yeah, I want to be interested in things--and to give the boy his due, it's not like he's so lazy he can't focus on anything because looking at canon he's put stuff together that I never could because I'd lose interest, you know? I'd never be able to care enough to put together one of his stupid schemes--chase after the Trio to see where they're going at night? Nah, why go outside when I'm comfortable in here?
So I think he has shown he's got initiative and motivation, only he just never really gets a chance to be part of the main story, you know? Like in CoS Harry is involved in the Heir story and Draco wants to be, but he's not. Or in PoA Draco drops hints about Sirius Black but he's not involved in it at all, he's stuck with Buckbeak and Hagrid. In GoF he honestly might not even really know Voldemort's back yet--he might be saying all that stuff at the end without really believing it. After all, I doubt Lucius wrote to him with a summary of what happened in the graveyard.In OotP I see no reason to think he's got anything to do with the MoM stuff--he's all Umbridge. There's that scene where he's in the library looking at the Quibbler article, but maybe that's just like a bunch of kids having a pretend-serious meeting cause...do they do anything with that article? I don't remember.
So, it's like, given the situation with Lucius in jail and Draco now under his mother's influence there could be any number of possibilities for him. He could be working on some family business that again isn't strictly related to Voldemort or whatever. So that's sort of more what I mean. It's not that Draco has to always be nothing--because actually that's part of what I hate about the way people think about him now, that because he's not one of the elite with special powers and prophesies and a dark lord after him or tragic parents he's nobody. Part of his appeal in fanfic, I think, is that maybe he's got his own story that's just as compelling but totally totally different.
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Ahem. And remember in this series everybody really is important. See, the thing is is it's always the people who supposedly aren't that are, because the smallest thing is important. Like, who would have thought Peter would be the guy who killed everybody? Or that the James/Snape rivalry could destroy so many lives and all that? So with Malfoy it's not that I think he couldn't be important, it's just that he probably wouldn't be, like, another version of Harry, you know what I mean? Like, when Harry imagines him he naturally imagines Draco underneath being just like Harry only evil. But where he could surprise is yeah, I'm important and yeah, I want to be interested in things--and to give the boy his due, it's not like he's so lazy he can't focus on anything because looking at canon he's put stuff together that I never could because I'd lose interest, you know? I'd never be able to care enough to put together one of his stupid schemes--chase after the Trio to see where they're going at night? Nah, why go outside when I'm comfortable in here?
So I think he has shown he's got initiative and motivation, only he just never really gets a chance to be part of the main story, you know? Like in CoS Harry is involved in the Heir story and Draco wants to be, but he's not. Or in PoA Draco drops hints about Sirius Black but he's not involved in it at all, he's stuck with Buckbeak and Hagrid. In GoF he honestly might not even really know Voldemort's back yet--he might be saying all that stuff at the end without really believing it. After all, I doubt Lucius wrote to him with a summary of what happened in the graveyard.In OotP I see no reason to think he's got anything to do with the MoM stuff--he's all Umbridge. There's that scene where he's in the library looking at the Quibbler article, but maybe that's just like a bunch of kids having a pretend-serious meeting cause...do they do anything with that article? I don't remember.
So, it's like, given the situation with Lucius in jail and Draco now under his mother's influence there could be any number of possibilities for him. He could be working on some family business that again isn't strictly related to Voldemort or whatever. So that's sort of more what I mean. It's not that Draco has to always be nothing--because actually that's part of what I hate about the way people think about him now, that because he's not one of the elite with special powers and prophesies and a dark lord after him or tragic parents he's nobody. Part of his appeal in fanfic, I think, is that maybe he's got his own story that's just as compelling but totally totally different.