Draco Malfoy
Draco
Malfoy has been Harry’s arch enemy in school from the beginning of the series.
He has always been horrible to Harry and everyone else. However, at the
beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows I began to feel pity for Draco when he has to watch a former
teacher from his school be murdered and eaten by a snake. When Voldemort kills
Charity she falls on the table. On page 12 it says, “Draco fell out of his
chair onto the floor. ‘Dinner, Nagini’, said Voldemort”. His family is not in
good standing with Voldemort. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are captured by
snatchers Draco will not positively identify Harry, even though he surely
recognizes him. In the book Rowling says that Draco’s expression is full of reluctance
and fear when his father asks him to identify Harry and simply replies, “I don’t
know”. Draco also refuses to identify Hermione and Ron even though they look
the exact same and he has spent years making fun of them.
When Draco follows Harry into the
room of requirements to try to capture him I believe that it is only because he
is making one final attempt to put his family back in Voldemort’s good graces
when it seems as if he will inevitable. Even Crabbe, as slow as he is, notices
that the Malfoy family is not in good standing. He tells Draco, “I don’t take
orders from you no more, Draco. You
an’ your dad are finished”.
Draco
is definitely not a nice kid but that is quite possibly the result of his
pureblood upbringing by his prejudice and rich family. He evolves into someone
decent. He seems to act out of fearfulness for his family. He does not give up
Harry’s identity, which gives them the time they need to escape Voldemort and
steal another Horcrux.
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