COS Chapter Seven: "Mudbloods and Murmurs"

[for-diddled.livejournal.com]

 

* Collin’s really acting like an obsessive stalker here. I wonder if that’s how Harry appeared to Draco in HBP?

* Ron’s malfunctioning wand actually sounds quite dangerous, but nobody thinks it might be a good idea to replace it. Although OTOH having a lax attitude towards safety seems to be one of the few things about the WW that seems consistent throughout the books (they’ll show it again when Percy tries to stop people using dangerous cauldrons), so maybe I should be thankful that it isn’t just one of these things that changes whenever the plot demands.

* I assume that JKR’s just forgotten to mention the try-outs that every Quidditch team apparently does each year.

* I’m just going to tune out while Harry recaps the rules of Quidditch for Collin.

* Everyone’s not bothering to pay attention to Wood’s new tactics. Remember kids, teamwork’s for suckers! You just do what you want to do!

* Wood is still upset over Gryffindor losing last year. Serves him right for being too thick to have a reserve Seeker, IMHO.

* Note how Wood’s first reaction upon seeing Collin is to jump to the conclusion that he’s a Slytherin spy. Not that he’s in any way biased against Slytherin, or anything like that.

* Remember chaps, looking like a troll = evil. Part-giant, OTOH, = misunderstood woobie. Even though trolls don’t really seem much worse than giants.

* There are no girls on the Slytherin team, just to remind everyone that they’re sexist, and therefore evil. JKR hates sexism, which is why she took care to include so many liberated, independent-minded women in the novels.

* Wood’s “spitting with rage” now. Christ, Oliver, calm down, it’s not the end of the world. Maybe the Gryffindor and Slytherin teams could just play a friendly, or something.

* “Aren’t you Lucius Malfoy’s son?” says Fred, looking at Draco with dislike. Remember kids, it’s wrong to judge people based on their family.

* Is it possible to smirk so broadly that your eyes are “reduced to slits”, or is Draco actually grinning with happiness here?

* I don’t think that Malfoy did buy his way onto the team. For a start, Seeker is the most (i.e., only) important position in the game, and I don’t think that flying on better brooms would compensate for having an inferior Seeker. Secondly, he’s on the team for at least three years, when the Slytherins could easily have ditched him as soon as they’d got the brooms. They’d even have had a good excuse after losing that Quidditch match in “The Rogue Bludger”.

* Lucius seemed like quite a harsh, demanding father when we saw him in Borgin and Burke’s, IMHO, so the thought that he’s pleased daddy enough to make him buy new brooms for the team is probably making Draco grin even more.

* I bet he looks adorable in this scene.

* Now I can’t stop thinking of Lauren Lopez in A Very Potter Sequel. “Don’t worry, daddy, you’ll love me after this! I’ll catch that Snitch, mark my words!”

* Just thought it interesting to note that Malfoy wasn’t involved in the conversation until Ron brought him in. It’s not like he was strutting up and down, boasting about his new broom, or anything like that.

* Hermione’s the one who starts with the personal insults. Really, I think that the good [sic] guys are acting worse than the baddies here.

* If the theory that Draco’s really just happy because he’s finally made his daddy proud is right, then implying that he’d just bought his way onto the team is probably one of the most offensive things Hermione could say. Unsurprisingly, he responds with one of the most offensive things that he could say.

* Draco calls Hermione a “Mudblood”, despite the fact that she’s a Muggleborn, and therefore cannot be expected to know what it means, suggesting that either she’s upset him so much he’s not thinking straight, or that he wants to keep face in front of his teammates by responding to her insults, but at the same time doesn’t want to upset her. If the latter, it could be evidence for some kind of D/Hr ship.

* JKR seems to be expecting us to go “ZOMG Draco’s an evil racist!” suggesting that she’s forgotten why exactly it is that racism’s considered so wrong. I don’t think it’s just that you’re looking down on people for the way they were born – if it were, then jokes about stupid blondes would be considered as bad as jokes about stupid black people. Rather, it’s wrong because minorities often suffer from discrimination (and in many cases have suffered from it even more in the relatively recent past), and racist language helps to reinforce and normalise the prejudiced attitudes which lead to such discrimination. Because we haven’t really see people suffering from anti-Muggleborn prejudice, it’s hard to think of “Mudblood” as a particularly serious insult.

* This, BTW, is why I disagree with people who say things like “Rowling uses the Harry Potter books to teach children not to be racist.” If she were really doing that, she’d show how racism affects people’s lives (cf. To Kill a Mockingbird). What she’s actually doing is taking real racism and using it in lieu of actual worldbuilding and characterisation. We already know that racism is wrong, and we think Draco’s a bad person because his use of the term “Mudblood” is superficially similar to real-life examples of racism; we don’t learn about how racism is bad from its effects on HP characters, because it doesn’t really have any.

* Anyway, back to the actual story…

* Once again, the good guys are the first to use force. Why am I not surprised?

* I think it’s sweet the way Flint dives in front of Malfoy to stop him being attacked. The Slytherins often seem to look out for each other the most (see also Lucius patting Snape on the back when he’s first Sorted). Contrast this with the Gryffindors in PS, who refuse to speak to Harry, Hermione, Ron or Neville after they lose some House Points.

* What’s this, one of the good guys has suffered some negative consequences as a result of attacking someone else? Hold on while I go make a note of this in my diary.

* Again with the clothes! Lockhart’s wearing robes of “palest mauve” today. Harry’s really starting to look rather gay now; given JKR’s fondness for stereotypes (viz. the Finnegans) and inability to write a decent romance (chest monster!), I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find her way of showing homosexuality would be having someone spend all their time looking at their crush’s clothes.

* Note how Hagrid doesn’t remonstrate with Ron for trying to curse Malfoy. Clearly he’s a responsible adult and an excellent candidate for a prestigious teaching position.

* I know Hagrid doesn’t like Lockhart, but he really should know better than to undermine him like that in front of his pupils.

* So the jinx on DADA has been in place for what, forty or so years now? And people are only just starting to twig? I know wizards are slow learners, but really…

* Also, couldn’t Dumbledore find ways to either discover how Riddle jinxed the position and undo it somehow, or to get around it, such as hiring two teachers who each teach on alternate years or getting rid of DADA and replacing it with a class which is functionally indistinguishable but has a different name (“battle magic”, perhaps?).

* I think that this scene was one which the film actually did better than the books. Yes, having Hermione getting all upset may not have been fully logical, but it at least made Draco look like a hurtful bully rather than an eccentric crank. It also suggested that someone might have called Hermione that before, hinting at actual day-to-day anti-Muggleborn prejudice, which is more than the books ever managed to do.

* “Maybe it was a good thing yer wand backfired.” Wait, is Hagrid glad that Ron got to be on the receiving end in the hope that he’ll be less likely to curse people in future? No, of course not, he’s worrying that Ron might otherwise have got in trouble.

* Hagrid comes across as so judgemental when he says “’Spect Lucius Malfoy would’ve come marchin’ up ter school if yeh’d cursed his son.” Clearly, caring about your children being attacked is a sign of great evil. Good guys know that being randomly hexed is what makes a man out of you.

* Although Lucius doesn’t seem to have done much when Draco was hexed into unconsciousness on the train (twice!), which probably foreshadows the Redeemed!Malfoys situation at the end of DH.

* Hagrid’s been breaking the law to make his pumpkins grow faster. Which couldn’t possibly be dangerous in any way, oh no.

* Suddenly, Draco’s gossip about him getting drunk and setting his bed on fire looks awfully plausible.

* Everybody hates Filch, which is entirely understandable, given all the times he complains about having to clean up the mess children make and, erm, gives them detention for breaking the rules. Yep, entirely understandable.

* So how does Parseltongue work, then? ’Cause surely Lockhart ought to have heard it, even if he didn’t understand what it was saying? Or is it a sort of telepathy? But then Ron managed to speak it in DH…

* Awfully convenient the way the basilisk goes around describing its evil plan to itself, isn’t it? Do basilisks just have really bad memories, and need to keep repeating their plans to themselves in case they forget?

* Part of me can’t help but feel pleased that Ron vomited slugs over that trophy. Maybe next time he’ll think twice before hexing someone. Or not.
 

 

Comments

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Aside from anything else, it would seem a bit odd for the House which is allegedly a byword for aristocratic privilege to have someone from such a lowly background as its head;

If it weren't for the bizarre confusion of ambition and hereditary nobility, this would make perfect sense in a properly-functioning Slytherin. "Behold, students of Hogwarts! Even a no-name halfblood can rise to glory with our help!"

it would also make his friendship with the Malfoys more explicable (can you imagine snooty aristocrats hanging around with a jumped-up pauper like Snape?)

I read their friendship as beginning as a matter of patronage and them discovering they both genuinely like each other. But then Lucius welcomes him almost immediately - maybe he's just a really nice person to people he doesn't have a feud with?

Also, a lot of his vocabulary and general way of speaking makes him sound more upper-class (FE, try reading the speech he delivers during his first lesson in PS in an aristocratic drawl, and then try reading it in a working-class Yorkshire accent).

Oh yes, but I think he's deliberately been cultivating that image ever since he met Lucius. A Snape who deliberately clung to his working-class roots despite the advantages of not doing so wouldn't be Slytherin.

Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, but I think he's deliberately been cultivating that image ever since he met Lucius. A Snape who deliberately clung to his working-class roots despite the advantages of not doing so wouldn't be Slytherin.

Lucius would have been either a 6th or 7th year when Severus was a first year. It almost sounds like Severus might have looked up to Lucius. It may have been a situation where there was a mentor/older brother like roll Malfoy played. Perhaps it was just to cultivate the fields of Slytherin for future death eaters but we see a pat on the back from the start, an automatic acceptance from Malfoy is a stark contrast to how James/Sirius behaved.

All of this also brings me back to the Dumbledore comment of 'I think we sort to soon'

Did it ever occur to Dumbledore that having Severus as Head of Slytherin house actually CHANGED the house? Did it ever enter Mr. Wonderful-Wizard's brain that having a Half-Blood be in charge was transforming the house?

Oh no, surely we can't think that. Surely JKR would never imagine we would consider this. Snape was just a baddie to did bad things and treated poor little innocent teenagers shabby. We're not supposed to care about Slytherin or think it changed in the slightest bit.

All those years Severus was head of house, did it ever occur to anyone that Slytherin was no longer the same. That Slytherin became Severus' house? Not just the same old pureblood elitist house but was transformed into something different?

But I digress it is only through Harry that the characters of the HP universe can achieve such amazing things. It is not through Severus' own actions that make him great, it is only through Harry that a great change like that could ever occur and apparently Harry decided trying to fix the 'Slytherin' issue wasn't his problem.

It was so NOT his problem that his second son at 11 years old is still scared of Slytherin. It doesn't sound to me like anything much changed in the way of viewing Slytherins with more respect. Still sounds like even in the 'chosen one's' house Slytherin is still never given any respect.

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Well, Dumbledore was actively working against any reforming influences Snape may have wanted to bring, what with ordering him to play the role of unhappy Death Eater.

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

The thing with Snape also makes the business of Slytherins being pureblood elitists completely unfounded. If Slytherin was so pureblood-elitist then how did Severus, who had a Muggle father, get into the house in the first place, let alone become its head? But no, only Gryffindors can be progressive and egalitarian and accepting of all people (JKR's as good as admitted it herself-Slytherin's become diluted, huh?).

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Yes, once again it is a case of JKR and the narrator telling us one thing (repeatedly and very loudly) while showing us something rather different - without the intention to be ironic or make us think the narrator is unreliable. So it falls apart. Slytherin is the house of pureblood elitism, but admits no-name halfbloods (and Tom could have been Muggleborn for all the hat knew) without a fuss, some of whom can go on to wow the Head of the house and set themselves up for great careers (viz: Slughorn on Tommy Riddle) and make friends/followers within the house (Tommy's original DEs) though they would have known he was not from one of their illustrious lines.

It's also the house of ambition, but seems to admit more wealthy, entitled aristocrats than social climbers (Severus being the exception here that we see, although logically he ought to be the rule). It's supposed to be the house of the evil and the totally depraved, but its most prominent representatives (oooh, scary music for the Evil Malfoys) seem to be loving, committed parents who aren't actually that bad at parenting aside from passing on their own less than enlightened views of Muggleborns. Similarly, the DEs are supposed to be ruthless murdering maniacs, but when they are facing a bunch of teenagers on a very important mission from their Lord the only ones to whip out the actual nasty spells (AK, whatever Dolohov used) are the ones who had spent time in crazy-making Azkaban.

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[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

its most prominent representatives (oooh, scary music for the Evil Malfoys) seem to be loving, committed parents who aren't actually that bad at parenting aside from passing on their own less than enlightened views of Muggleborns

See, that's what I believe, I think the Malfoys are good parents- it's little things like the care packages they send him regularly, which I think is sweet, and yet not going OTT and granting him everything his little heart desires and making him work to achieve things before rewarding him. But the popular view is that they are pretty shoddy parents, so IDK. Any thoughts on this?

Except they raised their son to be bigoted, elitist, and racist and to uphold all the worst ideals and values, and then dragged him into Voldemort's inner circle where he witnessed horrific and senseless acts. They also put his life at risk constantly by involving him with a monstrous and insane killer, and then by inadvertently making him a scapegoat and target throughout HBP. Plus their pampering of Draco is no better than the Dursleys pampering Dudley, imo.

I mean...yeah, they were kind of responsible for getting him mixed up with Voldy...though to be fair to the Malfoys, they weren't out there resurrecting him, they were perfectly happy with life as it was! Getting involved with the DEs certainly did their family no favors.

when they are facing a bunch of teenagers on a very important mission from their Lord the only ones to whip out the actual nasty spells (AK, whatever Dolohov used) are the ones who had spent time in crazy-making Azkaban

I'm of two minds here- on one hand, the kids are the ones who instigate any physical altercations. Lucius goes through several 'give me the thingamajig' lines, without using his wand to either 'accio' it or attack Harry. Otoh, there are adult DEs who are clearly all menacing and threatening and even if they weren't hurting them yet, the threat of harm was still implicit.

But I do think it's interesting that these DEs were so reluctant to engage the kids- and as you said, the only ones to hurt them were the Azkaban escapees. (gee, MoM, maybe it's not a good idea to mentally torture prisoners, 'coz it just makes them even more of a menace to society when they inevitably escape?)

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[oryx_leucoryx]

'coz it just makes them even more of a menace to society when they inevitably escape?

But see, nobody escapes from Azkaban, ever!! Except for Sirius. And Barty. And a whole bunch of DEs. Twice.

And anyway, some people get limited sentences - they are scheduled to return to society at some point. How does their stay with dementors influence their behavior once freed?

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[for-diddled.livejournal.com]

"Except they raised their son to be bigoted, elitist, and racist and to uphold all the worst ideals and values,"

I've already mentioned the supposed racism in the OP; I think that the charge of elitism is pretty hard to sustain, too. At Madam Malkin's, Draco makes an effort to befriend Harry, even though he's still dressed in Dudley's hand-me-downs and probably looks rather ridiculous; certainly, he wouldn't look like somebody from a rich, or even well-off, family. If Draco were so elitist, he probably wouldn't even bother talking to him. Also, Snape is apparently his favourite teacher; Snobbish!Draco would probably feel resentful that Slytherin House was being run by a poor half-blood with no connexions, rather than actually, y'know, liking him.

"and then dragged him into Voldemort's inner circle"

My memory of HBP is a bit hazy, but I was under the impression that Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy weren't too happy about their son being given this dangerous task? At any rate, Narcissa seemed quite upset about it. Hardly sounds like they were "draggin him into Voldemort's inner circle" to me.

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

/(gee, MoM, maybe it's not a good idea to mentally torture prisoners, 'coz it just makes them even more of a menace to society when they inevitably escape?)/

Who on earth thought that this was a good idea? The wizarding world's solution to dealing with murderers and other wrongdoers is lock them up with soul-draining monsters that will render them insane and thus, even *more* likely to commit murder and whatnot? Was this just the twisted result of a deal made with the dementors in order to confine them and keep them in line? We Muggles have had some horrible prisons ourselves, but I can't think of a real-life example that came close to what the Ministry has as punishment.

I remember seeing canon purists in the HP fandom scold some fanfic writers for making it seem as if Azkaban was the only prison in the wizarding world in their fanfics. But I haven't seen mention of any other wizarding jails in the series. The only other prison that I can think of is Nurmengard and that's not in Britain. And considering that Morfin Gaunt was sent to Azkaban for giving Tom Riddle Sr. *hives,* no less...it really does seem that Azkaban is the only prison, the only method of punishment that the Ministry has. Which is really terrible.

I mean, I know that you're going to have more hurdles dealing with wizards because they have magic, but is Azkaban really the only way to deal with wizarding criminals? The Ministry couldn't have found a way to strip them of their magic and simply toss them in regular jails? Considering how much Squibs and Muggles are reviled in the wizarding world, I'd think that being stripped of magic alone would be considered harsh punishment.

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

By the way, your icon is awesome!

Re: Is Slytherin still Slytherin after Snape?

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Did Snape change Slytherin House?

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

Thanks, by the way, for raising this question. The fanfic I'm working on, I decided to think about the questions of how Severus is trying to influence his house, what strategies he could be using. And then I started thinking that no house wins the house cup seven years in a row without working their butts off for it.... So thanks for starting my creative juices going.....

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

>I read their friendship as beginning as a matter of patronage and them discovering they both genuinely like each other. But then Lucius welcomes him almost immediately - maybe he's just a really nice person to people he doesn't have a feud with?<

Or is scoring off of someone else (Bellatrix?) by welcoming the most unpreposessing candidate in this year's intake.

*sigh* Lucius Malfoy is such an amusing character to invent motivations for. The series read much better when he was standing in as the villan.

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

It would have been better if Voldemort had died at Godric's Hollow. Then Lucius could have been a manipulating villain in the manner of Moriarty, Iago, or Post-Crisis (or should that be In-Between-Crises?) Lex Luthor, and taking him down would have needed an actually clever plan (plus Snape would have had something to do as a spy).

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

What gets me is that Rowling used to claim that she didn't want a baddie all decked out in black, but a villan whose motivations could be *understood*.

But then, look what she ended up giving us. Fail, just totally epic fail. Even by her own standards-- not that she'll ever admit it.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure anymore that, as written, Voldemort even *has* coherent motivations.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

She actually had the nerve to claim that? When her villain was just born evil? I didn't think Voldy had any real motivations, let alone anything readers were supposed to understand!

But then, this is the woman who said she blamed Snape more than Voldy because at least he had experienced love. *head!splodes*

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Well, mind you this is from a very *old* interview. Maybe around the time PoA came out or maybe even earlier. Back then it actually sounded plausible, since Tom hadn't been on stage long enough to make it obvious that she is a liar. And Diary!Tom does seem to have a legitimate axe to grind--to hear him tell it, anyway.

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

/She actually had the nerve to claim that? When her villain was just born evil?/

Yes, when JKR had him be the amoral child of an inbred mother in HBP, I think that that's where she officially made it clear that we weren't supposed to feel any pity for him. I mean, she stated that Tom Riddle was hurting children and animals from the time that he was little. She even had Mrs. Cole call him a "funny baby," implying that even at the moment of birth, he was marked for evil. He was essentially Damien Thorn's English cousin. How on earth does that make him an understandable or sympathetic villain?

/I didn't think Voldy had any real motivations, let alone anything readers were supposed to understand!/

What were his motivations? Immortality was supposed to be his main goal. He claims to be against Muggle-borns and Muggles, but how much he believes his own rhetoric is debatable. And he wants to kill Harry Potter. Let's look at those motivations.

1) He wants to wipe Muggle-borns and Muggles off the face of the earth. Because...his Muggle daddy left him. And/or because he absorbed his prejudices from the wizarding world. Or because he's just Evil. Well, considering that most of us aren't genocidal maniacs, no, I don't think that we could understand that particular incentive.

2) He wants to kill Harry Potter because of the prophecy/because he failed the first time/because he can't look weak by failing to kill one of his enemies, etc. Well, again, considering that most of us aren't serial killers, I don't think that that reason's relatable either. And we don't ever get an outright reason in the text as to why Voldemort insists on killing Harry himself and won't let anybody else kill him.

3) Immortality. This is supposed to be Voldemort's main objective. Well, it's not that Muggles haven't already tried to find ways of gaining it (Fountain of Youth, alchemy, etc.), but the problem is that we never get an actual reason as to *why* he wants to be immortal. Sure, you can chalk it up to his ego, thirst for eternal power, desire to exploit magic's full potential, view of death as weakness, but again, all of those are speculations, they're never directly *stated* in the text. Voldemort never actually explains *why* he wants to "conquer death." And we never get a reason *why* he fears death so much. In DH, we hear Dumbledore say, "He fears the dead. He does not love."

Uh, Albus? A *lot* of people are afraid of death, myself included. Are we all horrible people, too? And a lot of living people are afraid of dead people. Why do you think that horror movies about zombies are so popular (assuming that you know what those are)? Why do you think there even exists the concept of a zombie as a creature of horror and fright? And did you just forget that Voldemort created an entire army of Inferi, otherwise known as *zombies?* You know, who are *dead?* Doesn't seem like he's that afraid of them if he's willing to create a whole army of them.

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Or, she could have Voldie come back like he did in book 1/2 and then Lucius at some point around Book 5 overthrows Voldie, Takes Voldies power by way of some sort of magical ritual and becomes the new Dark Lord.

And then have a more clever ending or f

The constant Voldie Voldie is so evil got lame. He's the most evil really? Dumbledore is a close second if you ask me....at the end of the series it just seemed sort of lame how it all ended.

Repeat offender spells.

I just kept thinking, this is the best JKR can come up with, the same exact spells again!?

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

I just kept thinking, this is the best JKR can come up with, the same exact spells again!?

One of my favourite killing spells is from a fanfic where Harry casts "Accio heart!" That would have kept Harry dead in the Forest.

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite killing spells is from a fanfic where Harry casts "Accio heart!" That would have kept Harry dead in the Forest.

How come I'm invisioning this outcome for that spell.

If I shout 'accio heart' this would mean, I'd end up being pelted by a million of those candy hearts that people like to buy on valentines day. You know the ones nobody ever wants to eat that have those stupid messages on them, me mine, etc.

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

/I just kept thinking, this is the best JKR can come up with, the same exact spells again!?/

I remember reading one fan's review of DH where she said that she liked that Harry cast Expelliarmus during the final duel with Voldemort because it was familiar and because it was a spell that he'd been using all along. *shrugs*

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Lol! Yeah, he uses lumos a lot as well, that would've been just as effective in their life-and-death confrontation. *eyeroll*

Sorry to keep quoting at you, but the mindset people have towards this series flabbergasts me so much, I just...

Casting Expelliarmus was completely in character for Harry, though; the nature of Expelliarmus is to disarm, not to harm, and Harry has proven time and time again that despite his moments of letting his emotions take control of his actions, that he is truly and deeply altruistic, and sympathizes with his enemies (e.g. "Try for a little remorse, Tom" from The Flaw in the Plan, or saving Pettigrew's life, for instance).

If Harry had used Avada Kedavra, it would have been a betrayal of his character and to everyone he had ever loved or who had ever died for him. The poetic justice of Voldemort's own spell bringing upon his own death due to his own arrogance and pride would have been lost if Harry had killed him point blank.

Yeah....Harry who likes crucio a little too much when he finally unleashes it, Harry who had no issue hurling Dark spells at Snape in HBP...and yet it's betraying his character to use something a little more aggressive than a disarming spell? This is the boy who hexed a Squib in the corridors for fun! But to defeat the evil villain who's killed so many people- his own parents, FFS!- who's injured and victimized countless others, all he can muster is an Expelliarmus? O.o

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Lucius Malfoy is such an amusing character to invent motivations for. The series read much better when he was standing in as the villan.

That character was totally out of character in DH. Major OOC there if you ask me.

Apparently one of the 'few' people to ever truly be reformed by going into prison.