Is Snape Really Evil?

[Asphodel]

Maybe, but what I mean is, I can't see Malfoy killing anyone. To me, he's still that little tyke that ran around the hall screaming, "Potty and the Weasel, Potty and the Weasel!!!"

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Very true. Obviously Dumbledore saw something in him. I'm still very sure Dumbledore could have gotten out of that situation if he'd wanted to.

[isasniffelus]

DD had a plan which involved Snape (when they had their argument and were overheard); furthermore, the last time DD was to be killed by VM Fawks came and swallowed the curse. This time it seemed as if DD made sure nobody would help him. By the way, he said "Please": I'm not a Native speaker but wouldn't it have made more sense to say "Please don't" if DD didn't want to be killed? Who knows, maybe Draco and Harry will fight together against VM in the end...

[Barny The Barn]

Nah - I don't think Draco will ever stand alongside Harry. He's a muggle lover in Draco's eyes and he is beneath him supposedly.

[isasniffelus]

the theory is true that Snape is his real father? This would mean that Draco himself is a Halfblood...

[Barny The Barn]

Curious - where's that theory come from?

Lucius and Narcissa were on the tapestry in the Black's house as being Draco's parents. Only those purest in blood were listed on the tapestry therefore discounting the theory that Snape is Draco's father.

I don't believe that Snape is his father as I am sure that tapestry has other ways of knowing...

[Asphodel]

If Snape was Draco's father, by now J.K.R would have dropped hints.

[SunsetG|rl]

And plus do you really imagine the final battle... Draco with a hand cut... And Snape calling him on the good side... "I am your father...Join me"

For God's sake! It's not Star Wars reloaded....

And draco looks to much like his father..His real father...Lucius.

[Barny The Barn]

And before anyone says "but he looks like that in the film because they dyed his hair etc and because of the casting etc" Draco's description in the books describes him exactly as if he really were Lucius and Narcissa's son

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Draco has been a spoilt little child his entire life. I wouldn't expect him to be anything other than a wimp. He's grown up with mother and father protecting him. He thinks he's invulnerable.
Draco is Draco. Doesn't matter who his parents are.

[Asphodel]

...but he still has some boyish innocence, which means he wouldn't kill Dumbledore.

[darkcloak]

Draco has been a spoilt little child his entire life. I wouldn't expect him to be anything other than a wimp. He's grown up with mother and father protecting him. He thinks he's invulnerable.
Draco is Draco. Doesn't matter who his parents are.

...but he still has some boyish innocence, which means he wouldn't kill Dumbledore.

Exactly.

Even with all this pressure to be evil (Voldemort, Slytherin, Lucius etc), he still cannot kill in cold blood. He cannot help the way in which he has been brought up: to ridicule muggles and curse 'mud-bloods', but he does make his own choice at the end not to kill Dumbledore. He also demonstrates that he does have the ability to love: in this case his parents.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Draco has been a spoilt little child his entire life. I wouldn't expect him to be anything other than a wimp. He's grown up with mother and father protecting him. He thinks he's invulnerable.
Draco is Draco. Doesn't matter who his parents are.

...but he still has some boyish innocence, which means he wouldn't kill Dumbledore.

Exactly.

Even with all this pressure to be evil (Voldemort, Slytherin, Lucius etc), he still cannot kill in cold blood. He cannot help the way in which he has been brought up: to ridicule muggles and curse 'mud-bloods', but he does make his own choice at the end not to kill Dumbledore. He also demonstrates that he does have the ability to love: in this case his parents.

I cannot believe that you think one cannot help the way they have been brought up. As soon as Draco or anyone starts to think and learn what's right or wrong they have a choice, and if they are threatened with death then at least they tried.
And before you say that if they are brought up one way that they thikn right is wrong and wrong is right, then that's tosh.
Draco has been at Hogwarts 6 years. He has had plenty of opportunity to learn right and wrong, and won't be shifted.

But you're right. I don't think Draco could kill in cold blood.

[Barny The Barn]

This is an interesting read I have to say and it's got me thinking about something of Draco's upbringing and family background.

First of all why is it that Narcissa is not a Death Eater?
Does Draco in fact take after her?

Although he wants to be more associated with his father and follow in his father's footsteps, I think he is actually more like his mother but is embarrassed to be like her.

I think he has spent his whole life vying for the affection and approval of his father and this could explain his action to become a DE. I think he feels he has to prove himself to be a man in his father's eyes. But in fact because he is more like his mother he is just not cut out for it and that is why he backed out of killing Dumbledore.

Narcissa has the ability to love - maybe this is the reason LV didn't want her as a DE? Maybe LV knew that Draco would fail because he takes after his mother. I think LV sees Love as a weakness. He has never been loved purely so he doesn't understand it though.

[Asphodel]

Draco has been a spoilt little child his entire life. I wouldn't expect him to be anything other than a wimp. He's grown up with mother and father protecting him. He thinks he's invulnerable.
Draco is Draco. Doesn't matter who his parents are.

...but he still has some boyish innocence, which means he wouldn't kill Dumbledore.

Exactly.

Even with all this pressure to be evil (Voldemort, Slytherin, Lucius etc), he still cannot kill in cold blood. He cannot help the way in which he has been brought up: to ridicule muggles and curse 'mud-bloods', but he does make his own choice at the end not to kill Dumbledore. He also demonstrates that he does have the ability to love: in this case his parents.

I cannot believe that you think one cannot help the way they have been brought up. As soon as Draco or anyone starts to think and learn what's right or wrong they have a choice, and if they are threatened with death then at least they tried.
And before you say that if they are brought up one way that they thikn right is wrong and wrong is right, then that's tosh.
Draco has been at Hogwarts 6 years. He has had plenty of opportunity to learn right and wrong, and won't be shifted.

But you're right. I don't think Draco could kill in cold blood.

How can you think that? The way they are brought up affects them because when they are toddlers, their brains are most flexible.