That's exactly it. Harry made a choice early on. And so did Snape. Apparently, Snape chose to befriend Lucius Malfoy while Harry chose to reject Draco Malfoy's offer of friendship.
I have to ask if Snape made a conscious decision to be friend Lucius Malfoy (who, at five years older, seems to hold the power in that dynamics)? After all, by the way Sirius Black speaks, Snape was an outcast long before the Hogwarts Express rolled into the Hogsmeade station. Or was a friendship with Lucius Malfoy more of aligning himself with someone who had power who could protect him? In which case, the James Potter and Sirius Black have some role to play in that decision?
Harry, on the other hand, aligned himself with a poor loner. And they in turn spoke badly of Hermione until Halloween, when she lied to protect them.
There were choices made, but everyone's choice affected somebody else's. If a fifth-year student had taken Hermione under their wing, which she has forgiven Harry and Ron for the way they deliberately added to her misery? After all, they were only reacting to her poor social skills -- bossy, know-it-all and, even worse for her, being right about it.
But to take this conjecture further, what would happen if Harry were trapped at Hogwarts, miserably, for whatever reason, and Draco Malfoy's son appeared as a student? He looks like Draco, he sounds like Draco and he acts like Draco, except perhaps he has Ginny's eyes, his mother's eyes
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I have to ask if Snape made a conscious decision to be friend Lucius Malfoy (who, at five years older, seems to hold the power in that dynamics)? After all, by the way Sirius Black speaks, Snape was an outcast long before the Hogwarts Express rolled into the Hogsmeade station. Or was a friendship with Lucius Malfoy more of aligning himself with someone who had power who could protect him? In which case, the James Potter and Sirius Black have some role to play in that decision?
Harry, on the other hand, aligned himself with a poor loner. And they in turn spoke badly of Hermione until Halloween, when she lied to protect them.
There were choices made, but everyone's choice affected somebody else's. If a fifth-year student had taken Hermione under their wing, which she has forgiven Harry and Ron for the way they deliberately added to her misery? After all, they were only reacting to her poor social skills -- bossy, know-it-all and, even worse for her, being right about it.
But to take this conjecture further, what would happen if Harry were trapped at Hogwarts, miserably, for whatever reason, and Draco Malfoy's son appeared as a student? He looks like Draco, he sounds like Draco and he acts like Draco, except perhaps he has Ginny's eyes, his mother's eyes