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Draco had also insulted Hagrid and spoken of blood purity the first time they met at Madame Malkin’s so yeah I’m with Harry on rejecting that lil shit.

C’mon. There were times when Ron was a racist. And I think that’s the whole point, JKR wanted to show us that Draco did choose the right path eventually. 

It’s 1:30 in the morning and I don’t have the willpower to flesh out every issue I take with this comparison, but I wouldn’t be able to sleep without first pointing out that Ron’s unconscious internalized prejudice is not even a little bit comparable to Draco’s outright and unapologetic hatred of anyone who isn’t a wealthy, pureblood witch or wizard. This is a boy who happily throws around slurs and wishes death on muggleborns just a year after the incident discussed in the original post here. No one is arguing that he didn’t have the potential to grow out of and even atone for his harmful behaviors, but the fact that he did any of that in the first place still matters. His prejudice is quite frankly one of his most prominent character traits throughout the series, and writing that off by invoking Ron Weasley for what could be called well-intentioned ignorance at worst is nonsensical in this context.