spider-xan
replied to your post “The big reason I can sort of forgive Draco is because so the…”
Yeah, I always got the impression he turned away from the DEs in HBP/DH because it wasn’t as easy or glamorous as he thought it would be, versus actual empathy for Muggles and Muggle-borns. And while I’m not convinced that Regulus was necessarily pro-Muggle in his defection, he did ultimately sacrifice himself and his family line to take down Voldemort, whereas while Draco was non-commital about Harry’s identity, I think he still ratted out Ron at Malfoy Manor?
Yeah, definitely agree. One thing I notice every time I idly leaf though a Potter book, though – no-one seems to have much empathy for Muggles at all. Doesn’t McGonagall even say in the very first book something like “Well, they’re not completely stupid”? And she’s a sympathetic character! I know the Wizarding World’s terrible attitudes to Muggles etc were sort of poked at in the books, but…man, Hogwarts and its surrounding magical places just seem like a complete dystopia to me these days.
I honestly think that, based on what we know about the Wizarding World, there would have been another Voldemort along in a few decades. Because the dark lord may have been defeated, but the belief systems that led to him certainly weren’t.