Re: Dumbledore’s flawed plan

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 136257

"eggplant107" wrote:

> Suicide attack? Draco? Snape knows him better than that.

zgirnius:
Granted! He also knows Draco well enough to know his attempts to get 
at DD would be more likely to get in Snape's way than to have any 
positive (from an ESE!Snape POV) outcome...

He was going to help Draco anyway, I can see that. But to promise to 
protect him? That is different. Definite potential for trouble and 
complications he does not need.

I won't go into the "gymnastics" again, you've clearly read them and 
formed your own opinion, I just don't feel I've seen any answer that 
avoids the problems inherent in the UV.

Because I see the UV as a bad idea from a strictly utilitarian 
standpoint, considered logically from Snape's POV, it tends to 
prejudice me in favor of believing there is an emotional and/or 
ethical component of some sort to Snape's decision. This does not 
have to be that Snape is good, he planned it all out with DD in 
advance, etc etc. But something.