But even if I agreed with you and thought that Draco was an unrepentant, unredeemed bad guy, I don't see why that should preclude me from liking him and wanting to read about him and write about him.
It shouldn't and in no way was I trying to imply it should. I was expressing my own opinion and not trying to cast implications about people who didn't share it. Apologies if that didn't come through.

Though to my thinking, there's a difference between liking a bad guy because he's a cool bad guy and thinking 'this guy's not as bad as he's painted'. But in any case, people are free to think or write whatever they like.