Draco Malfoy question

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 85680

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shannon" <momy424 at a...> wrote:
> I unfortunately have not been reading the posts for too long so 
>maybe this was already discussed but my query is there are upcoming 
>plot points being discussed in regards to Malfoy and I just want to 
>know why Dumbledore would allow him to continue at the school, 
>especially when his father is a comfirmed and arrested Death Eater.  
>Wouldn't keeping someone like that at a school where there are other 
>children pose such a risk their safety that you would have to assume 
>Dumbledore would expell the children of known Death Eaters now the 
>Voldemort is back?

Lisa wrote:

>A couple of points: 1)to expel Draco would mean expelling children of
>all known DEs, which would likely be a significant portion of
>Slytherin House. 2)DD has emphatically stressed the importance of
>CHOICE over circumstances of birth, and so to expel students simple
>b/c of blood relationships would, I think, not be palatable to him.

HunterGreen:

I agree with Lisa that that would be very much out of DD's character 
to expel a student because of something their father did. Also, that 
seems like a guarenteed way to turn a *potential* DE into a definite 
DE. If he expelled all children of DE's then even the ones who were 
leaning toward NOT falling in their father's footsteps, probably 
would because without school they wouldn't have many other 
options/would be spending MORE time with their evil families, not to 
mention wanting revenge on DD for kicking them out of school for 
something they have no control over. 

Also, there was a similar thread about this in July (if anyone is 
interested), it starts with msg #67852.


-HunterGreen