I didn't read through the comments, so I don't know if this has been said already or not, but I've never believed that Draco running away in the Forbidden Forest was cowardly. If anything, it was common sense, which (in countless other situations) Malfoy is usually in short supply of.
Plus, I seem to remember that the reason Harry didn't run away was that he was "frozen with fear". Standing his ground doesn't make him brave, because he didn't do it on purpose. There was no point to him standing his ground. You know, besides plot contrivance.
I agree with you about courage not being a great thing to base one's moral-system on . . . But I think in many ways the Potterverse is not a moral world, for all its high-falutin' ideals.
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:20 am (UTC)Plus, I seem to remember that the reason Harry didn't run away was that he was "frozen with fear". Standing his ground doesn't make him brave, because he didn't do it on purpose. There was no point to him standing his ground. You know, besides plot contrivance.
I agree with you about courage not being a great thing to base one's moral-system on . . . But I think in many ways the Potterverse is not a moral world, for all its high-falutin' ideals.