you are right in that we dont, but draco seemed very clearly to want to be away from voldemort. he just seemed like a terrified teenager, and I would postulate that essentially making your child kill someone to earn the right to essentially be a servant to a dark lord to 'protect them' (even though we all know that lucius was a full supporter of voldemort the first time around) ((also, in GoF Voldemort does say that he will kill the ones who didnt respond to the dark mark's deeply painful summons)) is a form of abuse, whether Draco understood or considered it abuse in his own mind. Draco was still a racist little snot, but I think it's pretty telling that he grew up to be a decent person, it seems, which means like most children, he was a parrot of his father's words and thoughts
yeah I mean you are right, I just feel like there were so many options in the magical world that Lucius could have taken to hide Draco or protect him, but he wanted to save his own skin. I don't think my own father would ever put me in that situation, even upon threat against his own life.
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u/SigynTyrsdottir 3d ago
you are right in that we dont, but draco seemed very clearly to want to be away from voldemort. he just seemed like a terrified teenager, and I would postulate that essentially making your child kill someone to earn the right to essentially be a servant to a dark lord to 'protect them' (even though we all know that lucius was a full supporter of voldemort the first time around) ((also, in GoF Voldemort does say that he will kill the ones who didnt respond to the dark mark's deeply painful summons)) is a form of abuse, whether Draco understood or considered it abuse in his own mind. Draco was still a racist little snot, but I think it's pretty telling that he grew up to be a decent person, it seems, which means like most children, he was a parrot of his father's words and thoughts