I'm glad Angie agrees with me X3 How's Riddle doing :B I can actually sort of understand Riddle being a bastard, what with his background and everything...my understanding doesn't extend to all the Bad Juju he did though...

It seems, in fanfics, that a lot of people explain Draco's bastard-ity by saying he was abused (mentally, physically, and sometimes sexually xx;) by his grand old dad. :B; I don't really know, but I really think it just runs in the family. Apple don't fall too far from the tree, yanno what I mean XD Or rather, since children learn by example, he's just taking after his father because that existence is all he's ever known. It doesn't excuse his behavior, but it offers some kind of reasoning.. I generally refuse to accept that people are automatically born one way or another. I think that, yes, people do have inherited traits, including personality traits, but as for a whole way of being--no. Outside factors compounded with genetics are what make a person, in my opinion. And Draco has both inherited snobbery and evilness and lived with it for all his life. So in a lot of ways it's not his fault.. I guess that may be why I kind of like him, evil ferret that he is. :B; I hope that he doesn't turn out to be JUST LIKE his dad though..that would just be disappointing.

DRACO: I'm not a ferret.

LYN: You were at one point in your life.

DRACO: Shut up.