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This thread on HPForGrownUps is starting to get on my nerve. It's entitled "Draco's redemption".

Now, I'm not fond of Just%isunderstood!Draco either. I agree that he's a jerk. But for fuck's sake, 'redemption'? As of now, Draco hasn't really done anything he should 'redeem' himself for. He's a bully, yeah, but speaking as an ex-bully-ee, That doesn't make him evil. Am I overreacting or something? I dunno, it just seriously pisses me off that they'rre judging someone by what he's like at 14. I'm weird. Ignore me.

But while I'm venting, I'd like to send a hearthy "Yeah, fuck you, too!" to the fraction on HP4GU that is of the opinion that the whole SexGod!Draco idea is to blame on fanfic and that no one writing fanfic can have a decent discussion about canon and it. pisses. me. off.

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Bullying-- no, not so great a sin. If Harry held a grudge against everyone who snubbed him at one point or another (Gryffindors in book one when he loses them all those points, Hufflepuffs in two and four, even *Ron* in book four) he'd just be a giant seething ball of hate.

Exactly. Plus, I don't think Harry really suffered that much from Draco's bullying. It seems more annoying than really hurtful, most of the time. I think he was much more hurt by Ron in book four.

But the racism, the classism, the taunting Ron because he's poor-- those are the things that make me want to take a sledgehammer to Draco's mindset, shake him up a bit and drag him down about a thousand miles of bad road before I set him up with Harry. Not because I think Draco's secretly crying on the inside, but...

I do think a lot of the racism and classism have to do with his education. When you've been told all your life that you're better than others becuase you're pureblood and rich, it's not easy to accept that maybe you're just like anyone else. Especially when you're 14.

That doesn't make it okay, but it is a sort of explanation.

Also, Harry's not exactly unprejudiced himself. He just accepts other people's generalisations about the Slytherin at face value.

(Also, at this point, I really don't see glee in Draco after Cedric's death. Stunning disrespect, and a weird, chilling disinterest, in the sense that he really only brings it up to threaten Ron and Hermione and thus Harry-- yeah. But not actual, active glee.

I see glee because he (Draco) is turning out to be 'right'. Harry's chosen the losing side, and he'll be sorry for resufing Draco's friendship. I see more wounded pride ("How dare that Muggle-lover refuse an offer of freindsship of a Malfoy?") than glee about a person's death.

Dudley/Harry, anyone?

That's where I was trying not to go. :p