HOW DELINQUENT WERE YOU?
This is a non-profit tribute to the works of JK Rowling who, together with her publishers and licensees, owns the characters and situations elaborated herein.
A/N: Spoilers. Thanks to all my reviewers and special acknowledgement to Cecelle for her suggestions.
Draco Malfoy, how delinquent were you
Ever since you got that Dark Mark tattoo
And promised to do just what Voldemort asked?
With killing Dumbledore you were then tasked,
A job that was too scary even for him!
Your prospects of saving your parents looked grim
Of course, motivation, you never had more
So you showed more talent than ever before.
If you the Vanishing Cabinet could mend
In Hogwarts, its double at the other end
In Borgin and Burke's, would let Death Eaters through
And you could kill Albus and get away too.
You knew that this plan was really a beauty
So why waste your time to do Prefect's duty?
Instead you preferred to just sit there and boast
To the Slytherin chums that you trusted the most.
Then you caught Harry spying and his nose you broke,
And you left him Petrified under that Cloak.
It served him right for being so nosy.
Except for Slughorn the outlook was rosy
But into his Club he wouldn't invite you -
Just Potter, Blaise, Mudblood and redhead to spite you –
When Luck was the prize it got even stranger;
For somehow Potter brewed better than Granger!
Your Polyjuice stealing was quite inspirational.
Crabbe and Goyle turned into rather sensational
Look-out girls, which made them share inyour gloom
As you laboured in vain in your hiding-Room.
In hopes of stealing Snape's favoured position
You'd knocked back his offers to help in your mission,
And ever your chances looked bleaker and bleaker.
You didn't have time left to be Quidditch Seeker –
Not that it mattered who won any more
When it was your life you were now fighting for;
Patience with others is never a trait
Of Dark Lords, they're madder the longer they wait.
So you needed to stage a diversion or two
You Imperioed Rosmerta to make her help you,
And your wrapped and cursed necklace soon got Katie Bell
Then your poisoned oak-mead got Ron Weasley as well.
(Two Gryffindor players too sick for the team,
That would have been any Slytherin's dream.
I bet your House thought it was quite a shame
That you hadn't done it before their game.)
Alas! Time and skill were just not on your side,
With Moaning Myrtle, despairing, you cried,
And you hexed too slowly to beat the intruder,
His cutting curse was both quicker and ruder.
Success came at last after all of that waiting
But Albus forgave you – he's not one for hating –
Too late you learned that you didn't like killing
You had time and chance but you just were not willing.
Your wand hand was raised but the words wouldn't come,
Was it conscience or cowardice making you dumb?
You just couldn't kill him so Snape had to do it.
How will the Dark Lord take news that you blew it?
Draco Malfoy, how delinquent were you,
Your service defaulting, your House-duties too,
You made a bad enemy but a worse friend,
Disloyal to even yourself in the end.
Delinquent: 1) guilty of a minor misdeed, 2) failing in what duty requires, 3) persistently bad, 4) a young offender
A/N This is the last poem about a main character but I'll do some collections of minor characters before I stop.
