guys im sorry. i know i’ve talked about this. but im still so salty about how jkr treated draco’s character. i will never understand her logic. I just. I genuinely do not get it. How does she see Snape and Regulus as redeemable but not Draco. Both of them did worse things and became Death Eaters entirely by choice. And both of them idolized Voldemort when he was active and not in the abstract whereas Draco idolized Voldemort when he was a concept but as soon as he was confronted with the reality he was horrified.
And yet Rowling somehow sees him as belonging in a separate category. To the point where she says that fans who want to see his redemption arc acknowledged are harboring “unhealthy fantasies.”
Even tho Draco, like Snape and Regulus ultimately rejected the ideologies he was raised to believe in and turned against them at great risk to himself. I just ??? Was she that threatened by the concept of drarry? Is that why she couldn’t bear to admit that Draco might actually have grown and changed???
I’m so confused.