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Draco could have been in Hufflepuff I mean, lets face it as tough as he seems, he's not, he's a wimp...

I never thought of that. But maybe it's because he had so many brothers (and Ginny) that he hardly got an attention to begin with...

Even before the goblet of fire, ron shows himself to be distinctly self centered from the first year on. He bashes hermione several times worse than he is to Harry. He felt uneasy about Hermione over-hearing him saying that nobody likes her, but instead of showing real remorse, he says "So what? She should have realized she has no friends". In the third book, he is particularly nasty to her. While Hermione is only worried about their well-being, that interrupts ron's good times
He can't watch Harry at the quidditch pitch and he can't hang out with harry in Hogsmeade anymore. The worst conflict happens when Her cat eats his rat that he's allways so emo and depressed about having. He's not too worried when he thinks scabbers is dead when Draco and friends try to take candy and wack him against a wall, but he can't forgive hermione because "her cat acted like all cats do". Less than 15 minutes after Hagrid explained to him how Hermione has been "taking on more than she can chew" and helping him with buckbeak's case and crying nearly every visit, His reply to her anxious plea to them not to sneak to hogsmead is "Havn't you done enough damage allready?

After this blows over, He is the one who can't stand camping. Even before he gets the horcrux, he is the most spoiled of the three and leaves. Now he does come back, but it's only because he realizes that he's nothing without his friends.

Now about draco malfoy, I agree, he is not a wimp for not killing dumbledore. what he does is not for personal ambition, but for the benefit of his family name. He never refers to himself as the superior being but rather his father. that's what really irritated me about the third movie. Draco meets up with Hermione and ron outside the shrieking shack and says "surely you know how to adress a superior". He would never say that in 'real life'/book life. Instead of saying that, he's more likely to say "my father will hear about this... well, father says..."

Even when it would have been easier to break rules to achieve his end, he would go by the rules and stay "true and unafraid of toil". the next truely major time he didn't do as he was told was when he didn't kill dumbledore. This shows a change in loyalties not that he is a wimp. He realizes that he is human and that he can't follow his father. He tried to do it, but he couldn't. it would have been easier to simply run away, or to con someone else into doing it. Yes, Snape did wind up killing dumbledore, but draco didn't mean for Snape to do it, Draco tried to force himself to do it. it was a hard transition from one side to the other, showing that he was truely loyal to others and not simply to himself.

When he names his child scorpius, that reinforces that he hasn't truely switched sides. Draco is latin for dragon or snake, and a scorpion is another vile poinionous animal like a snake, indicating that he still has slight ties to his old life. However, when he catch's Harry's eye on the platform, he gives a slight nod in aknowledgement.