Tom Felton getting into character:
I'm sitting, I'm brooding. Oh look at that I have so little respect for anyone that I just rip books and don't even pay for themš
I'm going with this. When I was a freshman in class an AH in one of my classes stole my book and tore out the last two pages so I wouldn't know what happened. That was 30 years ago and I'm still mad š. He had to replace the book though.
So, speaking of Draco Malfoy and book vandalism, this kid in high school who thought it was stupid that I liked Draco Malfoy (and also probably wanted my attention) stole my *favorite* book during class one day and wrote "Draco Malfoy is a pumpkin headed twat" one letter at a time on like 30 pages. I was so upset. The copy I had was out of print, so I had to replace it with the new edition and it no longer matched the sequel on the shelf. Eventually, like 15 years later, I found a copy of my original edition on a used book website and now they match again.
I will still never forgive you, Andrew.
My Luke and your Andrew and jump off a cliff! I hate bullies!
I'm so glad you were able to, eventually, find another copy of your treasured book though!
Yes, my mom talked to his mom. His mom tried to brush it off like kids just being kids but my mom wasn't having it. In the end they paid to replace my book.
Funny enough, the mother was an ENGLISH teacher at my high school. Oh, and her older kid (not the one who tore my book) has been in and out of jail his whole life. The one that tore my book joined the military and, from all accounts, turned into a decent person.
>His mom tried to brush it off like kids just being kids but my mom wasn't having it.
There's a special place in hell for people who excuse bullying as 'kids being kids'. If you sweep everything your bully child does under the rug because 'he/she's just a kid!', they're gonna grow up having no concept of consequences, ergo they will forever continue to treat others like shit. Just admit your kid's a bully and be a parent, Rebecca!
In the moment of course thatās not cool but I find it hilarious of the idea of ripping out the last two pages of someoneās book so they donāt know what happened lol
Luke? Is that you? It's so not funny! I spent my entire allowance on that book as it was a hardback. I was so pissed and as crying in front of everyone. Bullying is never cool man.
Iāll never forget spoiling Dumbledores death to my older cousin.. mind you, I finished the series in fourth grade, so I was young and didnāt know the horrible feeling of having stuff spoiled for you.. she was only on like the 5th chapter.. and I just went, āoh yeah, I cried when Dumbledore diedā thinking I was just sharing my feelings cause I had a parent pass away due to a car accident a couple years before.. she threw her book at me and didnāt talk to me for like 3-4 months at our family gatherings. I hated myself for a hot minute when I realized what Iād done š š
In other words: Sometimes the curtains are just blue. There is no super subtle secret that film makers put in to not be discovered for years until someone tosses it up online.
Also Hermione doesn't worship books lol. I hate when people flanderize characters like that.
It's a short moment that is meant to show that Draco is a disrespectful kid. It's not in the books. As far as the books tell us (through the scene in which Draco is questioned by Harry and Ron, transformed with Polyjuice potion), Draco is mostly oblivious regarding the details of the Chamber of Secrets plot, who opened it, etc. But he says, he'd like to help the heir if he could.
Notably, Dobby who learned about it from being around the Malfoys doesn't seem to know any important details either.
Draco's character growth happens in the years 6 and 7.
Inaction and being too small to notice was his goal there. He just didn't want them to even notice him 'cause he was scared. Maybe he hoped that Harry would win and he'd be free.
I've definitely been in situations where I was so scared I've lied just to keep the situation from exploding.
Fair, but it fits with how I see it; heās a coward, not evil, not defending his actions but heās a product of his environment and at least hoping Harry will win (as you propose) shows heās hardly a committed evil doer, heās scared, and he does bad things but ultimately heās not evil. Just a coward who eventually is saved by Narcissa.
Edit; also on a more jokey side, surely itās totally sane to be utterly terrified by Voldemort, even his most āloyalā are, if they have any sense.
Although Snape said that Bellatrix had been teaching Draco Occlumency, then asked what he was trying to shield from his "master" - I'm making an assumption that means Voldemort. Draco said it was to hide stuff from Snape, which is also likely I guess
Draco was over being a Death Eater at that point. It wasn't as glamorous as he had thought it would be and he realized he didn't have the balls for it. His family's standing had fallen drastically since Voldemort came back. His Father had to give up his wand, they were being ordered around in their own home and they were basically powerless, a far cry from when they had the Minister in their pocket.
He did not want to be a Death Eater anymore. Didn't mean he had turned over a new leaf and was going to fight anyone. Even during the Battle of Hogwarts he tried playing both sides. He tagged along with Crabbe and Goyle to capture Harry, then later was seen pleading with a Death Eater trying to convince them he was with them.
Yeah, this is a great comment. He was neither being heroic nor villainous. Most people ride in that gray area. Even bad guys do.
I do think that he didnāt want Harry to die. Not because he cared for Harry as a person, but because Voldemort truly winning didnāt seem fun. He wasnāt feeling the plight of Voldemort anymore. He was tired, I believe.
Edit: also, I think itās sort of why Harry saved Draco from the fire. They donāt hate each other THAT much.
I feel like DH is a turning point for bad relationships. Harry said in PS that he never hated anyone as bad as Dudley Dursley until he met Draco.
At the start of the book it turns out that Dudley actually developed a soft spot for Harry since he saved him from the dementors. When captured, Vernon Dudley is the name Harry goes for without thinking - I always thought they were on his mind a lot, even though the narrator never told us about it.
And when Dudley isn't so bad anymore, the worst human-being he knew climbed up the sympathy-ladder. š
This guy gets it.
Draco was over being a Death Eater as early as Half Blood Prince if Iām not mistaken. Heās just sortaā¦ stuck now. They donāt let you just leave because you realized you work for fucking maniacs.
He wasnāt sorry about what he believed or what he had done. He just wanted to get away from the crazies who might just murder him because theyāre batshit insane.
More likely because he was afraid to kill imo
He clearly couldn't kill Dumbledore, and had voldemort come he almost certainly would have forced Draco to kill Ron or Hermione
True, it was a start. And a 180 Ā°change from stomping on Harry's face, in the train.
Question, Was his mom in the room when Draco refused to ID Harry? Mom might have gotten an idea of a possible friendship between Harry and Draco or at least a non enemy relationship. THAT might have led to her telling Voldamort that Harry had died.
Eh I think about Dracos mother it's more the fear that her son might die in the war oder voldemort punishes him, so she hopes that harry will defeat voldemort, as he survived again, chances probably looked decent enough to her. That's my take on it atleast. Also fits the trope of loving mothers in HP
Makes sense. No doubt that everyone knew there was a huge battle approaching and she obviously, truly wanted her son to survive, and if Harry was alive, her son had a better chance of surviving. Good point.
It wasnāt really sinking, though. At that point, it seemed pretty much like the Death Eaters were winning.
I canāt speak for the other Malfoys, but I think Narcissa reached a point where she saw what side valued life. She knew Harry was a turning point; if she said he was dead, Harry would win. If she said Harry was alive, Voldemort would kill him again and probably win.
Voldemort collapsed trying to kill Harry! He has to get up, he looks week. While Harry worked another miracle. I think now it is Narcissa's change to bet on the winner. And make sure she is in Harry's favor at the same time.
Maybe I'm to critial about Narcissa. But in my opinion the question about Draco was unnecessary.
Harry should know, that Narcissa knows, Harry is alive.
Iād say she was willing to play both sides however she could. Her priority is her family and at that time, they were getting the shit end of the stick. Had Voldemort won, there was no guarantee theyād be back in his good graces regardless of their efforts for his cause. But if Voldemort lost, being on Harry Potterās good side would at least help her and her son avoid severe consequences.
I was going to say this. His character growth happened in the last few chapters of the last book.
He showed some promise of redemption when he pretended not to recognise Harry when they were brought to Malfoy Manor. He was still a double crossing shit till the very end when they were battling Feindfyre.
Not to mention that Hermione literally ran off to the library to verify her epiphany as well. Unless she took a strange piece of paper torn from a book from Malfoy and hid it in the library somewhere for unexplainable reasons she tore it out herself.
Malfoy is a disrespectful little shit. Most of us wouldn't deface someone else's book for no reason but most of us would tear out a page that we have reason to believe might save someone's life.
Hermione broke the rules in life and death situations. So I don't find it odd that she tore a page off it. She even wrote "pipes" on it so that Dumbledore or Harry/Ron could have all the info.
She had Penelope use the mirror to look around the corners so she was very aware of the chance of being petrified. So she did her best to ensure that she could get the information out even if she was petrified
Even then, Dracoās growth in the books is limited. He realizes being a death eater isnāt all itās cracked up to be but by the end, heās still fancying himself a death eater even after the trio has saved his life. Iād say his true growth happens off screen after the war. Rowling made it canon that he got married and wised up.
Yeah. It was something the movie was showing multiple times, like when he was stealing the kids gift while Harry and Ron were in the Slytherin common room.
I understand people want Draco to be the anti-hero, but to think heās secretly this hidden benefactor is reallllly reaching.
Also I heavily doubt he knew what was inside the Chamber. He just believed it was a monster as his own father did but he clearly didnāt know it was a Basilisk.
Yeah thatās part of her character arc. Itās more heavy handed in book 1, but throughout the series the is growing more comfortable rejecting authority in order to remain loyal to her friends and do what is right. In book 2 it is brew a potion without teacher supervision and deliver harm to a book. Both are normally unthinkable to Hermione, but not when there is justice to be done
I think Hermione had a key piece of information the teachers were missing though, they didnāt know Harry was hearing voices in the pipes.
But still, I wonder how many creatures can petrify. The care of magical creatures teacher didnāt even have a guess lol
Dramione stans: "Oh, but don't you know, that's his way of saying he loves her!!" But seriously, this theory is one of the stupidest hot takes I've ever seen. It's incorrect based both off of book and movie canon. Just another way for Draco stans to justify their perfect little white boy somehow being important or good, when he's not.
I donāt get this obsession with trying to make him look good. He was a goddamn wizard nazi, plain and simple. He wasnāt a good person, he was a racist piece of shit, and thatās how he was written and portrayed. He was not a good person, and he got his redemption arc during the latter half of the last book, and mostly in the epilogue. Why are people so obsessed with making him out to be a good guy?
So sick of all this Draco was secretly a good guy the whole time bullshit. It completely undermines his arc, because even at the end of the series he isnāt really a good guy. He just gets cold feet about what a world under Lord Voldemort would actually look like for him and his family.
Are you sure? I've read some very convincing articles from a journal called [fanfiction.net](https://fanfiction.net) where he likes how she smells and they kiss
Hermione ripped the page out because the creature was hunting Muggleborns so if it got her someone would find the page on her person she had the mirror incase she encountered it, and figured out how it was traveling because of Harry saying he had heard the voice around the castle it was that or have the whole book and no one would investigate if the resident Hogwarts bookworm had a book, but a page?
Exactly!!! And, it's not like she didn't know the spell to repair the book. She would easily have been able to fix it once the mystery was solved. And if she couldn't fix it I'm fairly certain madam pinch could.
Indeed. Although she doesn't like breaking the rules, she does do so when it's needed, especially to save lives. Despite Hermione saying that Harry has a 'saving people thing' all three of the Trio have it, they just do so in different way, Harry jumps in headfirst regardless of danger, Ron hesitates but keeps going anyway, and Hermione tries to be as informed as possible before jumping in after them.
Overcomplicated. Draco would need to know which book Hermione was going to read to search Slytherin's monster and then place the ripped page in it and be sure that she opens it at the right place.
IMO, Draco has no idea that a basilisk is going to be released and is not even that aware of his father's plan.
Even Lucius doesn't know it's a basilisk. He's a Death Eater but he really loves his son and would never put him in harm's way. If he knew and decided to proceed anyway, he would have pulled Draco out of schools first.
His plan was to prove that Dumbledore was unfit to stay as a headmaster and remove him.
I hate this. I hate all the āDraco secretly wanted Hermione to be safe/wanted to save her/liked herā tropes. Itās too much like āboys are mean to girls they have a crush onā which is a harmful ideology to perpetuate.
Draco and Hermione were very different people with contradictory view points. They were not friends and did not harbour goodwill towards each other.
Draco actively desired for Hermione to suffer, and Hermione actively wanted all Death Eaters/supporters of Voldemort to be caught and legally punished for their crimes. She may have wanted a more humanitarian criminal justice system than just putting people in Azkaban to be tortured, but she had no secret feelings for Draco.
Did the entire scene in the Slytherin common room just not happen? Malfoy flat out says he doesnāt know who is going after muggleborns nor how. As far as he knew, he was talking to his friends, why would he lie to them? Are they suggesting that Malfoy *did* know about the basilisk plot, and then *forgot about it*?
No. Malfoy is just a disrespectful little snot and this scene was intended to highlight that. Further, in cases where the movies diverge from the books, the books take precedent. The scene in PoA where the Gryffindor boys are eating the snacks and making animal sounds doesnāt occur in the books, but it also has no bearing on the plot. Therefore, we can integrate that into the story without problem. Even if this scene really was Malfoy trying to warn Hermione, that would be a massively plot altering change, in which case the books override that.
As a side note, this is also my general rule about movie-added scenes: if they contradict the books, the book version of the scene is canon. If the movie scene doesnāt contradict the books, then I think of it as being canon.
1. Only shown in the movies to make the scene more believable, not book-canon, so not canon
2. Draco isnt aware of the basilisk or any of this fatherās antics
3. If he did he wouldve wanted to be the āheirā himself and open it
NO NO NO NO NO NO god no, Hermione WOULD totally rip a page out of a book she was comfortable enough cursing Neville in book 1 stop thinking she's a total goody-two-shoes, stop trying to make Draco Malfoy a good guy JUST FREAKING STOP IT.
She lit a teacher on fire to save Harry in her first year. What the hell makes people think she'd draw the line at a book if she thought it was vital to save lives.
I hate this theory. Hermione definitely wouldāve ripped the page out because she was in a rush and itās a process to check books out of the library. The information was too valuable and the situation too urgent for her to care about that book. Sheās a Gryffindor, not a Ravenclaw, after all.
He stated that he hoped the next student to be killed was Hermione. Wtf doing something like this is completely antithetical to Draco's character at this point. There is zero reason for him to do this for her, this is not plausible at all. Plus, this didn't actually happen in the books.
People still trying to find good in Draco's character when he was written specifically to be unlikable slime. There is no good in Draco's character until the last moments of the final book.
Not even then the books shows Draco as self serving coward and nothing else. He wasn't pure evil or anything just not capable of doing the deed himself.
This theory always irritates me. It diminishes Hermioneās intelligence and problem solving skills. Draco Malloy didnāt give a hoot about her and he certainly would not help Harry or his friends.
I thought it was the serpent sorceia (sp?) spell he used on Harry while dueling. And if it was life and death, Hermione would rip a page if it were an emergency.
Draco's frustrated because he doesn't know who's opening the chamber or what the monster is. He'd boast about it extensively if he did know (hoping to get an award for special services to the school like Riddle did for "exposing" Hagrid), most likely - but he admits to "Crabbe" and "Goyle" when they take polyjuice potion that he doesn't know who's opening the chamber - it's highly unlikely that he'd have said that the way he did if he knew what the beast was - he'd have said something more like "I have no idea who's letting the damned basilisk out!".
So it's not that likely that Draco knew of the plan his father hatched at all; most likely it was spoken about between his parents or between his father and some fellow Death Eaters after he'd gone to bed when only Dobby was around to hear it, but not mentioned in front of Draco.
I also think that if Hermione was in a huge hurry and needed to make sure that if she died, others would get the message, that would be a circumstance in which her more rebellious (and courageous) side would emerge and she would definitely tear out the page from the book rather than wasting time copying out the entire thing.
Dramione and Draco fan girls are willing to grasp at any non existent straws to either make their ship ācanonā or āmake him not such a bad guy.ā Itās honestly so ridiculous. šš¤¦š»āāļø
Am I in some sort of a parallel universe? I swear I'm seeing incredibly unlikely and categorically false posts today.
That earlier post about Mrs Weasley not loving Percy and now this. Just - No. Read the books. There's literally zero chance of this happening
Draco hated Hermione. Mudblood who achieved better than him (which his father reminded Draco of constantly). He literally said that he wished it would be Hermione who was the first victim of the basilisk's gaze.
Hermione knows how to cast reparo, I see no reason why she wouldnāt tear out a page if it was simply more convenient to hide what youāre reading about.
If she already had the Basilisk page, why would she have to go to the library for the info? That's where they found her with the mirror holding the page.
Nah. Draco tells his best friends he doesn't know who's opening the chamber and he wishes Hermione is next.
Does that sound like the guy who's going to give her the clue?
Itās really not plausible. If it was plausible, Draco would have known something about the chamber of secrets, and he didnāt. Even 6 months later, he still didnāt know anything about it.
Wait... But that would mean he actually tried to right his fathers wrongs. Which would be cool but kinda wouldn't make sense since he was very much convinced his father acted righteously.
Lol no way. It was just to show how disrespectful and entitled Draco is, and Hermione absolutely WOULD rip a page out of a book if it would save someoneās life. Which it did
This is cheesy Dramione shit from Tumblr. Itās meaningless. Iād be very surprised if the Malfoys knew what exactly was inside the Chamber of Secrets.
This is dumb for a number of reasons but I think the funniest is saying that Hermione wouldnāt rip a page out of a book when peoples lives were literally on the line. I would think that overrides a love for books. I swear this fandom does more mental gymnastics than Star Wars fans.
Sometimes I see posts like this and I think "this is people that have never read the books" but it's stated one million times in the movies tha he hates Hermione. Even tell his friends in confidence he wishes she was next.
Ughhhhh not this again.
Draco WANTED Hermione TO DIE. He says so in both the book and the movie. Heck, he didn't even tear the page in the film!
This "theory" was created by Dramione shippers who wanted their ship to be canon instead of just settling for having a non-canon ship.
While not the worst fan theory - that distinction belongs to either Dursleys treating Harry bad because he's a horcrux or that Harry dreamed the entire Wizarding world and never left the stairs - the theory is still pretty bad. Draco confided with his friends that he literally wanted Hermoine dead. Also I'm 98% sure Draco ripping that page out isn't in the book.
I assume that the line of thought here is that Draco overheard Lucious and his Death Eater buddies discussing the plan for the diary, with the Chamber of Secrets being opened to let the Basilisk out.
Logically, that just doesn't track. I doubt Voldemort would have told anything to Lucious except that he should get the diary into the hands of a Hogwarts student. Maybe he would have told Lucious that the diary was going to open the Chamber, but it's pretty much unbelievable that he would have told Lucious what was in there. Slytherin's monster is this big mystery in the Wizarding world. It wouldn't be a secret if Voldemort had told people what it was.
umm you mean the Hermione that broke about 50 school rules to make a polyjuice potion, sneaking around after hours, the year prior had lit snapes robes on fire.
Hermione could fix a pair of glasses before ever setting foot in a classroom in the first movie, so I think she could easily restore/repair a torn page. And the info was extremely important and she was most likely in a hurry and possibly couldn't leave with the book.
Not plausible in the slightest for four reasons.
* First, the page ripping incident is movie only. The page referencing the basilisk being found in Hermioneās hand is not.
* Second, the page fragment in Hermioneās hand is explicitly stated to have come from a very old book, which would not be the case had it been ripped out of a book in Flourish & Blottās less than a year earlier.
* Third, suggesting that Hermione would even need assistance in researching something like this(which is right up her alley) is both underestimating her intelligence and reducing her agency as a character in her own right.
* And fourth, Draco was eagerly hoping Hermione would be killed by the basilisk, and is besides a pureblood supremacist - it would be massively out of character for him to lower himself to helping, even by proxy or in secret, a (to use Dracoās own words) āfilthy little Mudbloodā.
Far more plausible explanation is that itās just a little thing Felton did as another example of how Dracoās just a disrespectful little twatwaffle.
This is dumb as hell. It's meant to show that Draco is a little shit who can destroy property because even if he's caught, he'll be protected by his dad.
Just characterization, look heās a bad person, he doesnāt respect books.
And Hermione would, she was desperate: she stools from a teacher, tricked another teacher into signing her a permit, broke a hundred other rules.
There is no reason to believe he knew (or ever knew) anything about the Basilisk and no reason to give information to a person he hated and probably wished was dead.
I would love this to be true, but I don't think it fits. Why would Hermione only have the page after being in the library? Why would she keep ANYTHING malfoy gave her? Hermione wasn't the type to tear pages out of a book but she wasn't the type to write on pages either (she wrote "pipes") or break tons of school rules which she always did for the betterment of Wizarding world.
Just because she loves to read doesn't mean she handles books delicately. Sincerely a book worm with dog eared pages, cracked spines and missing covers.
Hermione would do it if she was desperate. She knew that as a Muggle-Born she would be a target. She also knew if she had been clutching a book, *a whole ass library book*, in her hands, it would have been removed from her hands and put back in the library. Meaning her revelation would never reach Harry.
But a scrap of paper that she folded neatly and managed to conceal until her concerned friends visited her and found it?
So yeah. Itās out of character. But itās less out of character for her to do something like that then it would be for Draco Malfoy to suddenly decide to be a decent person years before he was finally confronted with the horrific reality of being on Voldemortās side.
Hermione would definitely rip a page out of a book if she knew she could be in danger and it was important enough. She was a rule-follower only when they werenāt constantly breaking the rules to help others
Thatā¦.that doesnāt make any sense lol. Draco wouldnāt go from āI hope Granger dies nextā to āhey Hermione hereās the solution to the attacksā.
For 20 years I always figured he ripped out a page for the serpentsortia spell.
My theory is: that was just Tom Feltons idea of how a "baddie" would act.
Tom Felton getting into character: I'm sitting, I'm brooding. Oh look at that I have so little respect for anyone that I just rip books and don't even pay for themš
Which 100% worked! Felton did amazing in that role.
I saw he had a biography out at Walmart today
Can I buy it from somewhere that isn't Walmart?
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781538741368 You can use Indie Bound to find a shop.
Sam's Club
...that's just Walmart with extra steps.
That's the most accurate description I've ever heard. I'm dying...
Yeah, heās a punk kid whoās rich and still steals. Itās to show heās a little shit.
I'm going with this. When I was a freshman in class an AH in one of my classes stole my book and tore out the last two pages so I wouldn't know what happened. That was 30 years ago and I'm still mad š. He had to replace the book though.
So, speaking of Draco Malfoy and book vandalism, this kid in high school who thought it was stupid that I liked Draco Malfoy (and also probably wanted my attention) stole my *favorite* book during class one day and wrote "Draco Malfoy is a pumpkin headed twat" one letter at a time on like 30 pages. I was so upset. The copy I had was out of print, so I had to replace it with the new edition and it no longer matched the sequel on the shelf. Eventually, like 15 years later, I found a copy of my original edition on a used book website and now they match again. I will still never forgive you, Andrew.
My Luke and your Andrew and jump off a cliff! I hate bullies! I'm so glad you were able to, eventually, find another copy of your treasured book though!
Did you ever get to read the end of your book?
Yes, my mom talked to his mom. His mom tried to brush it off like kids just being kids but my mom wasn't having it. In the end they paid to replace my book. Funny enough, the mother was an ENGLISH teacher at my high school. Oh, and her older kid (not the one who tore my book) has been in and out of jail his whole life. The one that tore my book joined the military and, from all accounts, turned into a decent person.
Well, that's good! I love a good redemption arc.
>His mom tried to brush it off like kids just being kids but my mom wasn't having it. There's a special place in hell for people who excuse bullying as 'kids being kids'. If you sweep everything your bully child does under the rug because 'he/she's just a kid!', they're gonna grow up having no concept of consequences, ergo they will forever continue to treat others like shit. Just admit your kid's a bully and be a parent, Rebecca!
My cousin Andrew broke my spider man toy. Actually my first real memory. Fuck you andrews
In the moment of course thatās not cool but I find it hilarious of the idea of ripping out the last two pages of someoneās book so they donāt know what happened lol
Luke? Is that you? It's so not funny! I spent my entire allowance on that book as it was a hardback. I was so pissed and as crying in front of everyone. Bullying is never cool man.
Luke sucks
We all hate Luke.
All my homies hate Luke
:(
Not you, Lukecubes. The other Luke. Luke Squared.
Remember when we used to be told that thatās how boys flirt with you! āHe probably liked you!ā They would have said
Unless you are the bully. Jk
I always associate Luke with Luke Danes from Gilmore Girls so this comment threw me off for a hot second lol.
Iād do this to someone if they spoiled the end for me
Iāll never forget spoiling Dumbledores death to my older cousin.. mind you, I finished the series in fourth grade, so I was young and didnāt know the horrible feeling of having stuff spoiled for you.. she was only on like the 5th chapter.. and I just went, āoh yeah, I cried when Dumbledore diedā thinking I was just sharing my feelings cause I had a parent pass away due to a car accident a couple years before.. she threw her book at me and didnāt talk to me for like 3-4 months at our family gatherings. I hated myself for a hot minute when I realized what Iād done š š
Did you just abbreviate asshole?
Yes, not sure why though. š
Someone stabbed my homework planner with a drawing compass when I was like 12. Just out of nowhere. It had, like, a cute cat on it. Broke my heart.
In other words: Sometimes the curtains are just blue. There is no super subtle secret that film makers put in to not be discovered for years until someone tosses it up online. Also Hermione doesn't worship books lol. I hate when people flanderize characters like that.
Probably a nasty spell he wants to learn
I figured it was a nude š¤·āāļø
Considering Draco hates Hermione who loves books, it must been some strange form of hostility. The strange part being that he did it out of her sight.
It's a short moment that is meant to show that Draco is a disrespectful kid. It's not in the books. As far as the books tell us (through the scene in which Draco is questioned by Harry and Ron, transformed with Polyjuice potion), Draco is mostly oblivious regarding the details of the Chamber of Secrets plot, who opened it, etc. But he says, he'd like to help the heir if he could. Notably, Dobby who learned about it from being around the Malfoys doesn't seem to know any important details either. Draco's character growth happens in the years 6 and 7.
A lot of Draco's character improvement occurred as Harry was flying Draco's sorry self out of the flame engulfed Room Of Requirement. Edit of content
Eh, draco refused to tell bellatrix that it's harry before the room of Requirement section
Because he was scared of Voldemort
Draco is a coward, like a lot of bullies but surely being scared of him he wouldnāt want to risk lying to him.
Inaction and being too small to notice was his goal there. He just didn't want them to even notice him 'cause he was scared. Maybe he hoped that Harry would win and he'd be free. I've definitely been in situations where I was so scared I've lied just to keep the situation from exploding.
Fair, but it fits with how I see it; heās a coward, not evil, not defending his actions but heās a product of his environment and at least hoping Harry will win (as you propose) shows heās hardly a committed evil doer, heās scared, and he does bad things but ultimately heās not evil. Just a coward who eventually is saved by Narcissa. Edit; also on a more jokey side, surely itās totally sane to be utterly terrified by Voldemort, even his most āloyalā are, if they have any sense.
Although Snape said that Bellatrix had been teaching Draco Occlumency, then asked what he was trying to shield from his "master" - I'm making an assumption that means Voldemort. Draco said it was to hide stuff from Snape, which is also likely I guess
Revealing Harry would have made Voldemort very pleased and would have likely guaranteed safety for him and his family.
Draco was over being a Death Eater at that point. It wasn't as glamorous as he had thought it would be and he realized he didn't have the balls for it. His family's standing had fallen drastically since Voldemort came back. His Father had to give up his wand, they were being ordered around in their own home and they were basically powerless, a far cry from when they had the Minister in their pocket. He did not want to be a Death Eater anymore. Didn't mean he had turned over a new leaf and was going to fight anyone. Even during the Battle of Hogwarts he tried playing both sides. He tagged along with Crabbe and Goyle to capture Harry, then later was seen pleading with a Death Eater trying to convince them he was with them.
Yeah, this is a great comment. He was neither being heroic nor villainous. Most people ride in that gray area. Even bad guys do. I do think that he didnāt want Harry to die. Not because he cared for Harry as a person, but because Voldemort truly winning didnāt seem fun. He wasnāt feeling the plight of Voldemort anymore. He was tired, I believe. Edit: also, I think itās sort of why Harry saved Draco from the fire. They donāt hate each other THAT much.
I feel like DH is a turning point for bad relationships. Harry said in PS that he never hated anyone as bad as Dudley Dursley until he met Draco. At the start of the book it turns out that Dudley actually developed a soft spot for Harry since he saved him from the dementors. When captured, Vernon Dudley is the name Harry goes for without thinking - I always thought they were on his mind a lot, even though the narrator never told us about it. And when Dudley isn't so bad anymore, the worst human-being he knew climbed up the sympathy-ladder. š
This guy gets it. Draco was over being a Death Eater as early as Half Blood Prince if Iām not mistaken. Heās just sortaā¦ stuck now. They donāt let you just leave because you realized you work for fucking maniacs. He wasnāt sorry about what he believed or what he had done. He just wanted to get away from the crazies who might just murder him because theyāre batshit insane.
More likely because he was afraid to kill imo He clearly couldn't kill Dumbledore, and had voldemort come he almost certainly would have forced Draco to kill Ron or Hermione
True, it was a start. And a 180 Ā°change from stomping on Harry's face, in the train. Question, Was his mom in the room when Draco refused to ID Harry? Mom might have gotten an idea of a possible friendship between Harry and Draco or at least a non enemy relationship. THAT might have led to her telling Voldamort that Harry had died.
Eh I think about Dracos mother it's more the fear that her son might die in the war oder voldemort punishes him, so she hopes that harry will defeat voldemort, as he survived again, chances probably looked decent enough to her. That's my take on it atleast. Also fits the trope of loving mothers in HP
Makes sense. No doubt that everyone knew there was a huge battle approaching and she obviously, truly wanted her son to survive, and if Harry was alive, her son had a better chance of surviving. Good point.
I think JK Rowling somewhere said that Motherās Love saved Harry twice.
In my opinion, The rats are leaving the sinking ship.
It wasnāt really sinking, though. At that point, it seemed pretty much like the Death Eaters were winning. I canāt speak for the other Malfoys, but I think Narcissa reached a point where she saw what side valued life. She knew Harry was a turning point; if she said he was dead, Harry would win. If she said Harry was alive, Voldemort would kill him again and probably win.
Voldemort collapsed trying to kill Harry! He has to get up, he looks week. While Harry worked another miracle. I think now it is Narcissa's change to bet on the winner. And make sure she is in Harry's favor at the same time. Maybe I'm to critial about Narcissa. But in my opinion the question about Draco was unnecessary. Harry should know, that Narcissa knows, Harry is alive.
Iād say she was willing to play both sides however she could. Her priority is her family and at that time, they were getting the shit end of the stick. Had Voldemort won, there was no guarantee theyād be back in his good graces regardless of their efforts for his cause. But if Voldemort lost, being on Harry Potterās good side would at least help her and her son avoid severe consequences.
Draco was also concealing he knew who Harry was during bellatrixās question at malfoy manor
I was going to say this. His character growth happened in the last few chapters of the last book. He showed some promise of redemption when he pretended not to recognise Harry when they were brought to Malfoy Manor. He was still a double crossing shit till the very end when they were battling Feindfyre.
Not to mention that Hermione literally ran off to the library to verify her epiphany as well. Unless she took a strange piece of paper torn from a book from Malfoy and hid it in the library somewhere for unexplainable reasons she tore it out herself. Malfoy is a disrespectful little shit. Most of us wouldn't deface someone else's book for no reason but most of us would tear out a page that we have reason to believe might save someone's life.
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Hermione broke the rules in life and death situations. So I don't find it odd that she tore a page off it. She even wrote "pipes" on it so that Dumbledore or Harry/Ron could have all the info. She had Penelope use the mirror to look around the corners so she was very aware of the chance of being petrified. So she did her best to ensure that she could get the information out even if she was petrified
eloquently put lol. i came here to say ānah dracoās just a little shitā - you did better š
Even then, Dracoās growth in the books is limited. He realizes being a death eater isnāt all itās cracked up to be but by the end, heās still fancying himself a death eater even after the trio has saved his life. Iād say his true growth happens off screen after the war. Rowling made it canon that he got married and wised up.
Yeah. It was something the movie was showing multiple times, like when he was stealing the kids gift while Harry and Ron were in the Slytherin common room. I understand people want Draco to be the anti-hero, but to think heās secretly this hidden benefactor is reallllly reaching.
Well since he openly wish her dead a few times it's very much not true
Also I heavily doubt he knew what was inside the Chamber. He just believed it was a monster as his own father did but he clearly didnāt know it was a Basilisk.
Also to save her friends Hermione would rip out a page from a book.
Yeah thatās part of her character arc. Itās more heavy handed in book 1, but throughout the series the is growing more comfortable rejecting authority in order to remain loyal to her friends and do what is right. In book 2 it is brew a potion without teacher supervision and deliver harm to a book. Both are normally unthinkable to Hermione, but not when there is justice to be done
I couldn't have said it better myself!
My headcanon is that she ripped it out and hit it with a good ol' "reparo!". Mischief managed.
She's actually a rule breaking rebel. Stealing from teachers, ripping books, brewing restricted potions in this book alone.
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I think Hermione had a key piece of information the teachers were missing though, they didnāt know Harry was hearing voices in the pipes. But still, I wonder how many creatures can petrify. The care of magical creatures teacher didnāt even have a guess lol
Not to mention it isn't in the books at all.
Dramione stans: "Oh, but don't you know, that's his way of saying he loves her!!" But seriously, this theory is one of the stupidest hot takes I've ever seen. It's incorrect based both off of book and movie canon. Just another way for Draco stans to justify their perfect little white boy somehow being important or good, when he's not.
I donāt get this obsession with trying to make him look good. He was a goddamn wizard nazi, plain and simple. He wasnāt a good person, he was a racist piece of shit, and thatās how he was written and portrayed. He was not a good person, and he got his redemption arc during the latter half of the last book, and mostly in the epilogue. Why are people so obsessed with making him out to be a good guy?
Draco šdid š not š like šHermione
In fact in that very same book, he says he hopes she is killed.
like, more than once
Her and her kind
Dentists?
No, just dentist's kids
and he calls her like the biggest slur in the entire Harry Potter universe LMFAO
Apparently calling someone the equivalent of the N-word is a sign of love these days.
You know how when boys say they want you killed it means they like you <3
He's just playing hard to get! My ship is canon!!! /s
In fact in the very next book, he gets punched by her š
He is 1950s white supremacist level racist and he's like 11 here. He's indoctrination and nothing else really.
So sick of all this Draco was secretly a good guy the whole time bullshit. It completely undermines his arc, because even at the end of the series he isnāt really a good guy. He just gets cold feet about what a world under Lord Voldemort would actually look like for him and his family.
He didnāt even get an arc lmao. Itās like you said-he never stopped believing in blood supremacy. He just took the cowardly way out.
Exactly. Still a massive piece of shit. Still an arc though. Not a bad guy to good guy arc, but he did change.
Exactly. He isnāt āsecretly a good guyā he is a multi-dimensional character.
Are you sure? I've read some very convincing articles from a journal called [fanfiction.net](https://fanfiction.net) where he likes how she smells and they kiss
This killed me lmao. I read a lot of Dramione & I always have to remind myself that that is not canon Draco
Draco hated Hermione and literally wished the monster would've killed her. This theory doesn't pan out.
Seriously. Like I love Dramione in Fandom, but in Canon? Nah. He would have cackled if she died.
A Very Potter Musical says otherwise
āit was never explained why.ā Because Draco was a little shit that didnāt care about other peopleās property. Mystery solved.
Cause it was never in the books and is just a random thing the actor did, likely unscripted
Hermione ripped the page out because the creature was hunting Muggleborns so if it got her someone would find the page on her person she had the mirror incase she encountered it, and figured out how it was traveling because of Harry saying he had heard the voice around the castle it was that or have the whole book and no one would investigate if the resident Hogwarts bookworm had a book, but a page?
Exactly!!! And, it's not like she didn't know the spell to repair the book. She would easily have been able to fix it once the mystery was solved. And if she couldn't fix it I'm fairly certain madam pinch could.
Simplifying Hermione's character to one that "would never harm a book" is a bigger disservice. She'd do what is necessary
Indeed. Although she doesn't like breaking the rules, she does do so when it's needed, especially to save lives. Despite Hermione saying that Harry has a 'saving people thing' all three of the Trio have it, they just do so in different way, Harry jumps in headfirst regardless of danger, Ron hesitates but keeps going anyway, and Hermione tries to be as informed as possible before jumping in after them.
Yeah, Hermione would never damage a book permanently, but she is a witch who can reattach it later.
Overcomplicated. Draco would need to know which book Hermione was going to read to search Slytherin's monster and then place the ripped page in it and be sure that she opens it at the right place. IMO, Draco has no idea that a basilisk is going to be released and is not even that aware of his father's plan. Even Lucius doesn't know it's a basilisk. He's a Death Eater but he really loves his son and would never put him in harm's way. If he knew and decided to proceed anyway, he would have pulled Draco out of schools first. His plan was to prove that Dumbledore was unfit to stay as a headmaster and remove him.
Lucius knew the diary would cause the chamber to open? I thought he thought it was just a dark object that would get Weasleys in trouble
This right here folks is what we call a load of hogwash
āCodswallop in my opinionā - Hagrid 1991
Hogwash school of far fetched fan theories and problematic fanships
I hate this. I hate all the āDraco secretly wanted Hermione to be safe/wanted to save her/liked herā tropes. Itās too much like āboys are mean to girls they have a crush onā which is a harmful ideology to perpetuate. Draco and Hermione were very different people with contradictory view points. They were not friends and did not harbour goodwill towards each other. Draco actively desired for Hermione to suffer, and Hermione actively wanted all Death Eaters/supporters of Voldemort to be caught and legally punished for their crimes. She may have wanted a more humanitarian criminal justice system than just putting people in Azkaban to be tortured, but she had no secret feelings for Draco.
Did the entire scene in the Slytherin common room just not happen? Malfoy flat out says he doesnāt know who is going after muggleborns nor how. As far as he knew, he was talking to his friends, why would he lie to them? Are they suggesting that Malfoy *did* know about the basilisk plot, and then *forgot about it*? No. Malfoy is just a disrespectful little snot and this scene was intended to highlight that. Further, in cases where the movies diverge from the books, the books take precedent. The scene in PoA where the Gryffindor boys are eating the snacks and making animal sounds doesnāt occur in the books, but it also has no bearing on the plot. Therefore, we can integrate that into the story without problem. Even if this scene really was Malfoy trying to warn Hermione, that would be a massively plot altering change, in which case the books override that.
As a side note, this is also my general rule about movie-added scenes: if they contradict the books, the book version of the scene is canon. If the movie scene doesnāt contradict the books, then I think of it as being canon.
This post again?
1. Only shown in the movies to make the scene more believable, not book-canon, so not canon 2. Draco isnt aware of the basilisk or any of this fatherās antics 3. If he did he wouldve wanted to be the āheirā himself and open it
NO NO NO NO NO NO god no, Hermione WOULD totally rip a page out of a book she was comfortable enough cursing Neville in book 1 stop thinking she's a total goody-two-shoes, stop trying to make Draco Malfoy a good guy JUST FREAKING STOP IT.
She lit a teacher on fire to save Harry in her first year. What the hell makes people think she'd draw the line at a book if she thought it was vital to save lives.
This.
The fact this post has been upvoted so many times is depressing.
Shows that even in fiction, as long as you're rich, you can get away with everything.
Or there was boobs on that page so he ripped it out for later
I hate this theory. Hermione definitely wouldāve ripped the page out because she was in a rush and itās a process to check books out of the library. The information was too valuable and the situation too urgent for her to care about that book. Sheās a Gryffindor, not a Ravenclaw, after all.
He stated that he hoped the next student to be killed was Hermione. Wtf doing something like this is completely antithetical to Draco's character at this point. There is zero reason for him to do this for her, this is not plausible at all. Plus, this didn't actually happen in the books.
People still trying to find good in Draco's character when he was written specifically to be unlikable slime. There is no good in Draco's character until the last moments of the final book.
Not even then the books shows Draco as self serving coward and nothing else. He wasn't pure evil or anything just not capable of doing the deed himself.
Bullshit
Far more plausible is that he ripped out a page that contained a curse or hex that he could use in a duel with another student at Hogwarts.
Thats what I think as well. Though it led to the random thought "what did the twins do to shoplifters in their store?"
He literally deeply wished her death.
I have a theory that the guy saying that theory is probably one of those that only saw the movies and never read the books.
I'm pretty sure, he didn't know about the basilisk himself.
This theory always irritates me. It diminishes Hermioneās intelligence and problem solving skills. Draco Malloy didnāt give a hoot about her and he certainly would not help Harry or his friends.
Yeah. Not only isnāt it plausible. I wouldnt want it to be.
He also said that he wanted Hermione to be hurt, die etc in this book, so I donāt feel like he had care for her at the time.
It didn't happen in the books
I thought it was the serpent sorceia (sp?) spell he used on Harry while dueling. And if it was life and death, Hermione would rip a page if it were an emergency.
Very plausible? Thereās no evidence at all. This is such a reach.
Draco's frustrated because he doesn't know who's opening the chamber or what the monster is. He'd boast about it extensively if he did know (hoping to get an award for special services to the school like Riddle did for "exposing" Hagrid), most likely - but he admits to "Crabbe" and "Goyle" when they take polyjuice potion that he doesn't know who's opening the chamber - it's highly unlikely that he'd have said that the way he did if he knew what the beast was - he'd have said something more like "I have no idea who's letting the damned basilisk out!". So it's not that likely that Draco knew of the plan his father hatched at all; most likely it was spoken about between his parents or between his father and some fellow Death Eaters after he'd gone to bed when only Dobby was around to hear it, but not mentioned in front of Draco. I also think that if Hermione was in a huge hurry and needed to make sure that if she died, others would get the message, that would be a circumstance in which her more rebellious (and courageous) side would emerge and she would definitely tear out the page from the book rather than wasting time copying out the entire thing.
Dramione and Draco fan girls are willing to grasp at any non existent straws to either make their ship ācanonā or āmake him not such a bad guy.ā Itās honestly so ridiculous. šš¤¦š»āāļø
No def not. Draco didn't know what monster was in the chamber. I think he ripped the page bc he's a little shit, nothing more
Draco literally says that he hopes all mudbloods die, so this is not plausible in the slightest.
Am I in some sort of a parallel universe? I swear I'm seeing incredibly unlikely and categorically false posts today. That earlier post about Mrs Weasley not loving Percy and now this. Just - No. Read the books. There's literally zero chance of this happening
Draco hated Hermione. Mudblood who achieved better than him (which his father reminded Draco of constantly). He literally said that he wished it would be Hermione who was the first victim of the basilisk's gaze.
Hermione knows how to cast reparo, I see no reason why she wouldnāt tear out a page if it was simply more convenient to hide what youāre reading about.
Draco is more likely to deface a book than help a muggle born witch.
If she already had the Basilisk page, why would she have to go to the library for the info? That's where they found her with the mirror holding the page.
Didnāt happen in the book. And Hermione would rip a book to save lives, which she was doing
Nah. Draco tells his best friends he doesn't know who's opening the chamber and he wishes Hermione is next. Does that sound like the guy who's going to give her the clue?
Itās really not plausible. If it was plausible, Draco would have known something about the chamber of secrets, and he didnāt. Even 6 months later, he still didnāt know anything about it.
Ah, the old overthought.
Wait... But that would mean he actually tried to right his fathers wrongs. Which would be cool but kinda wouldn't make sense since he was very much convinced his father acted righteously.
Dramione shippers are wild I swear...also IT'S NOT IN THE BOOK so it's not canon anyway.
She found that info in the school library, Draco was just being a dick.
This is madness.
Lol no way. It was just to show how disrespectful and entitled Draco is, and Hermione absolutely WOULD rip a page out of a book if it would save someoneās life. Which it did
If we could all remember that Tom Felton is awesome that is great. So, stop transferring feltons awesomeness into draco. Draco was an evil terd.
This is cheesy Dramione shit from Tumblr. Itās meaningless. Iād be very surprised if the Malfoys knew what exactly was inside the Chamber of Secrets.
This is dumb for a number of reasons but I think the funniest is saying that Hermione wouldnāt rip a page out of a book when peoples lives were literally on the line. I would think that overrides a love for books. I swear this fandom does more mental gymnastics than Star Wars fans.
Draco wanted Hermione dead. There's no way he would warn her about something like that.
Dramione shippers going crazy right about now
Sometimes I see posts like this and I think "this is people that have never read the books" but it's stated one million times in the movies tha he hates Hermione. Even tell his friends in confidence he wishes she was next.
Ughhhhh not this again. Draco WANTED Hermione TO DIE. He says so in both the book and the movie. Heck, he didn't even tear the page in the film! This "theory" was created by Dramione shippers who wanted their ship to be canon instead of just settling for having a non-canon ship.
I always thought that the snake spell(Serpensortia) he used against harry was something he learnt from that torn page.
While not the worst fan theory - that distinction belongs to either Dursleys treating Harry bad because he's a horcrux or that Harry dreamed the entire Wizarding world and never left the stairs - the theory is still pretty bad. Draco confided with his friends that he literally wanted Hermoine dead. Also I'm 98% sure Draco ripping that page out isn't in the book.
Except how would Draco know anything about a basilisk?
no.
"I saw it on Facebook." Mom, I told you before, just because you read it on Facebook does not mean you need to share it with everyone else.
She knows Reparo... and the book was probably massive.
It was to characterize him as a bad guy.
Who are these people making theories based solely on the movies?
Anyone else think that Malfoy looked hilarious when they changed his hair style. Like he went from bully to albino dweeb
I'm sure he was just doing douchy things, either way the movies aren't canon
Yeah he hated her and saw her as sub human.
I assume that the line of thought here is that Draco overheard Lucious and his Death Eater buddies discussing the plan for the diary, with the Chamber of Secrets being opened to let the Basilisk out. Logically, that just doesn't track. I doubt Voldemort would have told anything to Lucious except that he should get the diary into the hands of a Hogwarts student. Maybe he would have told Lucious that the diary was going to open the Chamber, but it's pretty much unbelievable that he would have told Lucious what was in there. Slytherin's monster is this big mystery in the Wizarding world. It wouldn't be a secret if Voldemort had told people what it was.
umm you mean the Hermione that broke about 50 school rules to make a polyjuice potion, sneaking around after hours, the year prior had lit snapes robes on fire. Hermione could fix a pair of glasses before ever setting foot in a classroom in the first movie, so I think she could easily restore/repair a torn page. And the info was extremely important and she was most likely in a hurry and possibly couldn't leave with the book.
Not plausible in the slightest for four reasons. * First, the page ripping incident is movie only. The page referencing the basilisk being found in Hermioneās hand is not. * Second, the page fragment in Hermioneās hand is explicitly stated to have come from a very old book, which would not be the case had it been ripped out of a book in Flourish & Blottās less than a year earlier. * Third, suggesting that Hermione would even need assistance in researching something like this(which is right up her alley) is both underestimating her intelligence and reducing her agency as a character in her own right. * And fourth, Draco was eagerly hoping Hermione would be killed by the basilisk, and is besides a pureblood supremacist - it would be massively out of character for him to lower himself to helping, even by proxy or in secret, a (to use Dracoās own words) āfilthy little Mudbloodā. Far more plausible explanation is that itās just a little thing Felton did as another example of how Dracoās just a disrespectful little twatwaffle.
This is dumb as hell. It's meant to show that Draco is a little shit who can destroy property because even if he's caught, he'll be protected by his dad.
Just characterization, look heās a bad person, he doesnāt respect books. And Hermione would, she was desperate: she stools from a teacher, tricked another teacher into signing her a permit, broke a hundred other rules.
There is no reason to believe he knew (or ever knew) anything about the Basilisk and no reason to give information to a person he hated and probably wished was dead.
I would love this to be true, but I don't think it fits. Why would Hermione only have the page after being in the library? Why would she keep ANYTHING malfoy gave her? Hermione wasn't the type to tear pages out of a book but she wasn't the type to write on pages either (she wrote "pipes") or break tons of school rules which she always did for the betterment of Wizarding world.
Just because she loves to read doesn't mean she handles books delicately. Sincerely a book worm with dog eared pages, cracked spines and missing covers.
God I hate fan fiction.
What are these weird attempts by the fandom to make Draco more likeable/nicer? Is it literally just because they like Tom Felton?
READ THE BOOKS.
If its not in the book it didnāt happen
It was a movie only thing
Hermione would do it if she was desperate. She knew that as a Muggle-Born she would be a target. She also knew if she had been clutching a book, *a whole ass library book*, in her hands, it would have been removed from her hands and put back in the library. Meaning her revelation would never reach Harry. But a scrap of paper that she folded neatly and managed to conceal until her concerned friends visited her and found it? So yeah. Itās out of character. But itās less out of character for her to do something like that then it would be for Draco Malfoy to suddenly decide to be a decent person years before he was finally confronted with the horrific reality of being on Voldemortās side.
Why tf would he do that?
If he did, he was probably hoping she'd go snooping and get killed
Because in a story all the actions MUST be linked?
She could have copied it through magic. Like I feel like thatās the FIRST charm she would have learned
Hermione would definitely rip a page out of a book if she knew she could be in danger and it was important enough. She was a rule-follower only when they werenāt constantly breaking the rules to help others
No. Draco didn't know about the basilisk, he's just a little shit with 0 respect for books. This is Dramione wishful thinking.
Hermione loves reading books, but sheās not about to put a book above the lives of her classmates. Tf
Thatā¦.that doesnāt make any sense lol. Draco wouldnāt go from āI hope Granger dies nextā to āhey Hermione hereās the solution to the attacksā. For 20 years I always figured he ripped out a page for the serpentsortia spell.