Character SWOT analysis

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[sistermagpie]

Welcome back

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If they had both grown up in "good" families Sirius' rebellious nature may have made him a bad guy while Draco's desire to live up to his father's example would make him a good one. Neither person seems essentially free of cruelty or free of love.

Exactly. Strengths in one situation can often be weaknesses in another, hence why when I argue Draco and Ron are like twins born to different parents even the Draco-haters kind of agree with me, look at Ron sprouting all those horrible muggle-loving rhetorics that his daddy taught him ;-P!

And anyway you actually can blame a person less when it seems to be their nature to have little compassion and other positive human feelings, right?

Which reminds me, actually, of a recent post there where someone pointed to Harry feeling badly about his sectumsempra curse as proof that he didn't belong in Slytherin, at heart.Hahaha! That one was great- in fact it was part of the reason that drove me to write this post. Didn't someone also say that Harry is so much a better person than Draco because he

[sistermagpie]

Hahaha! That one was great- in fact it was part of the reason that drove me to write this post. Didn't someone also say that Harry is so much a better person than Draco because he felt bad about cutting Draco open, while Draco was only too happy to break Harry's nose while he was down? And later also showed no remorse for having nearly killed two schoolmates?
Ugh--yes, that was the one. He showed no remorse...except that the whole story kind of hinted that the point was that Draco did indeed feel horror at what he had done. I mean, Harry was grateful for Ginny stepping in and saying that the curse was a good thing, so it's not like he was overcome with guilt in ways Draco could never be

[romeoambiences]

Harry is a better person than Draco

I could argue that Cedric was a better person than Harry, (I came up as Mrs. Cedric Diggory in a quiz which I wish I had saved.*grins*) but I'm still more interested in Draco.

[romeoambiences]

I could say I'm a better person than Harry, because I would have shown more remorse, or longer-lasting, for cutting Draco open than Harry did.

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I could actually argue that I am a better person than most of the Potterverse inhabitants, but I really prefer not to think about these characters in a too RL light. I think as a Draco fan we've all had enough experience of people grabbing hold of our shoulders and shout, "So you endorse racism don't you!!! So you were also a bully in school weren't you!!!" *am traumatized*

[romeoambiences]

You also have to take into account their essential natures and impulses, neither of which is any better than the other.

But the problem is, society does value certain natures and impulses over others. Witness the worship given to athletes. Better to be aggressive than timid.

I'm no Gryffindor...(or I might be a Neville Gryffindor) and my children don't appear to be either. Part of the problem I have with the books is that, so far, being anything other than Gryffindor seems to relegate you to the status of a lesser person.

what is this universal scale everyone is comparing the characters too anyway?

See above.

[sistermagpie]

Yeah, I have to agree. It's one of the funny things about Draco in particular, actually. As a Slytherin he seems like he should value other things, but he seems to just be a wanna-be Gryffindor like anyone else. Cho's instinct to see both sides of the story seems to make her a really bad person. I thought reading OotP that I'd never had worked well with the DA. I'd go in wanting a class where I was learning and have huge problems with the whole "be loyal to our leader and join our army!" If Sirius is the idea of the rebel in this universe, that's kind of odd.