Yeah, this definitely aligns with the character who expressed a wish that the monster in the chamber would kill Hermione and who displayed blatant disregard for others’ safety over the course of the series. (Or have we forgotten the time in the first book when he attempted to get Harry caught out of bed after hours out of spite, showed zero concern for Neville after Neville fell off a broom and broke his wrist, and deliberately tried to frighten Neville for a prank in the middle of the Forbidden Forest when they were supposed to be finding a creature that would kill a unicorn (and, for all they knew, a human as well)?)
And of course, we all know that Draco Malfoy would never, ever, ever do something petty like tear a page out of a book for the sake of it; after all, he definitely didn’t put a Leg-Locker Curse on Neville and make fun of him just because, he didn’t even think to help spread lies to Rita Skeeter to make Harry’s life miserable, he positively balked at the idea of bewitching badges as another means to put down Harry, and there is no way that he took away points from Hermione just for being “a Mudblood” as part of the Inquisitorial Squad. For all we know, that was a copy of Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century, and Malfoy was tearing out a page detailing Voldemort’s downfall at Harry’s (unwitting) hands (a far more likely scenario, given Draco’s jealousy of Harry’s fame and his bizarre obsession with paying Harry back for, gasp, seeing through Draco’s posturing into the bully that he really was).
And for heaven’s sake, what is with the idea that Hermione Granger - Hermione Granger, who set a teacher’s robes on fire to keep him from jinxing her friend, who slapped a kid in the face for making fun of another friend, who kept a human being in a jar for at least a week and then blackmailed her in retaliation for being a malicious gossip monger, who jinxed a parchment such that a person’s face would be permanently scarred in the event that they told on the secret defense group, who led a teacher who was a well-known and vocal racist into a forest full of the very creatures that she knew would be outraged at this teacher’s views and would retaliate, and who attacked her crush with a flock of birds for the horrible crime of kissing another girl - would suddenly have qualms with ripping a page out of a book?
Hermione is neurotic, yes, and there’s no questioning that she adores books, but she says it herself - “books and cleverness” are entirely secondary to things like “friendship and bravery”. What Hermione thinks is right and the people she cares about come before the rules, and if ripping a page out of a book and writing on it was something that she saw as necessary to reveal what the monster in the Chamber was and how it was getting around the school in the event that she was Petrified, then she would do it without a second thought.
I am so sick of people trying to make Draco seem like he really wasn’t that bad and was ‘secretly helping the Trio!!1!1!!”. Yes, that’s why he tried to turn Harry in to Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts, why he was watching Umbridge prepare to use an illegal torture curse on Harry with “a hungry expression on his face”, and why he led murderous terrorists into a school full of children as young as eleven or twelve. And I’m also sick of people who try to justify this bizarre need to elevate Draco with blatant mischaracterizations of the Trio. He may not have been completely evil, but Draco Malfoy was not a remotely decent person, and no amount of reaching is going to change that.
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