>Is there any explanation for Draco staying at school? He always goes home during the other years, AFAIK, so why break the pattern now, if not for authorial convenience?<
It's entirely for authorial convenience. My own therory is that his grandfather had come down with dragon pox and he was kept away to avoid catching it. It helped later that when the silly Black family tapestry sketch came out the Black family showed no fewer than four deaths in the '91-'92 time slot which *could* have been interpreted as fallout from an epidemic.
That's the *original* sketch, btw, not the altered one from the film. One of the deaths (Cygnus Black, the 3 sisters' father) waas changed from '92 to '89. Otherwise one might have expected the house to go to him when old Arcturus Black died in '91.
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Date: 2010-11-24 02:26 am (UTC)It's entirely for authorial convenience. My own therory is that his grandfather had come down with dragon pox and he was kept away to avoid catching it. It helped later that when the silly Black family tapestry sketch came out the Black family showed no fewer than four deaths in the '91-'92 time slot which *could* have been interpreted as fallout from an epidemic.
That's the *original* sketch, btw, not the altered one from the film. One of the deaths (Cygnus Black, the 3 sisters' father) waas changed from '92 to '89. Otherwise one might have expected the house to go to him when old Arcturus Black died in '91.