When Lucius was freed from Azkaban shortly afterwards, the family was allowed to return to Malfoy Manor with their lives. However, they were now completely discredited. Although Draco had still not rid himself of the hope of returning the family to their former high position, his inconveniently awakened conscience led him to try - half-heartedly, perhaps, but arguably as best he could in the circumstances - to save Harry from Voldemort when the former was captured and dragged to Malfoy Manor.
He had had the beliefs with which he had grown up challenged in the most frightening way: he had experienced terror and despair, seen his parents suffer for their allegiance, and had witnessed the crumbling of all that his family had believed in.
People whom Draco had been raised, or else had learned, to hate, such as Dumbledore, had offered him help and kindness, and Harry Potter had given him his life. After the events of the second wizarding war, Lucius found his son as affectionate as ever, but refusing to follow the same old pure-blood line.
Draco married the younger sister of a fellow Slytherin. Astoria Greengrass, who had gone through a similar though less violent and frightening conversion from pure-blood ideals to a more tolerant life view, was felt by Narcissa and Lucius to be something of a disappointment as a daughter-in-law. When the series begins, Draco is, in almost every way, the archetypal bully.
With the unquestioning belief in his own superior status he has imbibed from his pure-blood parents, he initially offers Harry friendship on the assumption that the offer needs only to be made to be accepted.
Everybody recognises Draco because everybody has known somebody like him. Draco succeeds in provoking all of these feelings in Harry, Ron and Hermione at one time or another. My British editor questioned the fact that Draco was so accomplished at Occlumency, which Harry for all his ability in producing a Patronus so young never mastered.
Dumbledore tells Harry, at the end of Order of the Phoenix, that it is an essential part of his humanity that he can feel such pain; with Draco, I was attempting to show that the denial of pain and the suppression of inner conflict can only lead to a damaged person who is much more likely to inflict damage on other people.
Draco never realises that he becomes, for the best part of a year, the true owner of the Elder Wand. It is as well that he does not, partly because the Dark Lord is skilled in Legilimency, and would have killed Draco in a heartbeat if he had had an inkling of the truth, but also because, his latent conscience notwithstanding, Draco remains prey to all the temptations that he has been taught to admire - violence and power among them. I pity Draco, just as I feel sorry for Dudley. However, the Malfoys do have a saving grace: they love each other.
Draco is motivated quite as much by fear of something happening to his parents as to himself, while Narcissa risks everything when she lies to Voldemort at the end of Deathly Hallows and tells him that Harry is dead, merely so that she can get to her son.
For all this, Draco remains a person of dubious morality in the seven published books, and I have often had cause to remark on how unnerved I have been by the number of girls who fell for this particular fictional character although I do not discount the appeal of Tom Felton, who plays Draco brilliantly in the films and, ironically, is about the nicest person you could meet.
Draco has all the dark glamour of the anti-hero; girls are very apt to romanticise such people. I see in his hobbies further confirmation of his dual nature. The collection of Dark artefacts harks back to family history, even though he keeps them in glass cases and does not use them. This is why we can conclude that despite this act Draco does not have any feelings towards Hermione.
It is more likely that Draco did this to scare them. He felt protected in this situation since in every possible outcome he could leave unharmed because his family was loyal to the Dark Lord for a long time. The most likely explanation is that Draco took advantage of the situation to demonstrate his power over the three. This is backed up by the way Draco was described in the scene, calmly waiting for the three to exit their tent despite the mayhem going on around them. Although there have been a few mentions of J.
Rowling confirming this pairing over the years they were all ultimately proven to be fake. After all, this is one of the fan-favorite pairings and if it was confirmed by the author everyone would already know about it. The confusion regarding this topic comes from the fact that J. Rowling mentioned in many interviews that she considered pairing the two up but ultimately decided against it.
She believed that the two endings up together could be an interesting plot twist. Both were similar in some of their general traits but complete opposites in the other aspects of their lives. Hermione and Draco were both extremely smart and ambitious making sure to do everything in their power to achieve their goals.
This would also make a lot of sense. If you think about it Hermione is the only character in the series that directly stands up to Draco without much regard to who he is.
This could intrigue him and cause him to develop feelings for her over time. This would also explain why Draco picked on Hermione so much whilst attending Hogwarts with her. After all youngest boy shows their affection through playful teasing. She ultimately decided against the two ever ending up together. Rowling explained that the way two characters developed would remove any kind of possibility of the two endings up together.
Despite what many fans may think of Draco, whether he ultimately turned his life around and redeemed himself or his actions hold so much weight nothing could excuse them, the things he did to Hermione were horrible. Hermione definitely needed someone who could match her intellectually. Though Hermione and Ron do end up together at the end of the HP Saga, the acclaimed author has said in several interviews that she considered having Hermione and Draco end up together in the end.
Rowling even suggested that Draco bullying Hermione was like adolescent hair pulling on the playground. She has also said that his secret feelings for her did in fact influence his actions at the Malfoy Manor and the final battle of Hogwarts. Click here - to use the wp menu builder Click here - to use the wp menu builder.
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