I really like the whole connection between Draco & Snape... and really wish that there'd be more grey, but on the other hand... none of the Marauders really either reconciled with or changed their minds about Snape, it seems like. Like, I think Draco could be a more... intimidating (or more pathetic, depending) person post-Hogwarts, but I don't know if that'd matter to Harry-- or to Draco, which is fun, of course.

Like, people say that post-Hogwarts they'd have changed, and it's true the probably would, but I really like the idea that it wouldn't matter-- they'd be unable to stand one another anyway. Ahhh, Draco's future makes me both hopeful and morose, man.

I think, though, that plenty of readers do see Draco in this way that he's not really written, y'know-- as disgusting, awful, mean and horrible and pathetic and such. People -do- have different reactions to the same descriptions/behaviors, as this whole post was about ;>