Will Voldemort Kill The Malfoys?/Depressed

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Tonks <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> There are many ways that this could play out. 
>  
> 1. LV could be so happy about DD's death the he just forgets 
> about Draco and starts planning for the big move on Harry.  
> 
> 2. Draco is still in big trouble and Snape took him to his mother 
> and Narcissa and Draco go into hiding somewhere that only Snape 
> knows about.  The problem with this is that there are 4 other DE 
> that know that Draco was last seen with Snape, so this probably 
> would not work.
> 
> 3. LV is not happy with Draco, but Snape somehow talks him out of 
> any retaliation, by dismissing Draco as a inexperienced child.  
> Then LV may not punish Draco, but will expect him to kill someone 
> next year when he is officially a man.
> 
> 4. This is far out, but LV sent Narcissa to Snape to test Snape. 
> Bella did not know about it, she thought Narcissa was acting on 
> her own. Draco was never in any harm from LV, LV wanted to see if 
> Snape would actually kill DD and thus prove his loyality to LV. 
> 
> I tend to think that number 1 or 3 are the most likely.


See, thats why I like this forum. Here I am accusing other people 
of logical fallacies when really my own theories are full of holes. 
I have been thinking that Snape would somehow continue to be a spy for the Phoenicians with even more trust than before since he 
killed Dumbledore. I had completely missed the fact that if he 
shows up back at Voldemort's shop without Draco, there will be a 
lot of difficult questions he will have to answer. And if he shows 
up with Draco, Draco is pretty much screwed. When I say Draco is screwed, by the way, I don't mean that Voldemort will kill him. 
There was never a penalty mentioned for Draco if he failed in his task. It was just sort of assumed that if he failed he would wind 
up dead anyway. I think Voldemort would offer him status and 
honors for getting as close as he did and Draco would eat that up. 
He would become an enthusiastic DE. Would Snape allow Draco to be 
put in that situation? I don't know. I think Snape is basically a nihilist. He doesn't care what happens to anyone else. I do think 
he wants Voldemort destroyed though, more than anything.


It occurs to me that Snape is sort of the opposite of the Wizard of 
Oz. Dorothy says to the great and powerful Oz "We came here because 
we heard you were a good man. but you aren't. You're a bad man."

Oz replies "No, I'm not a bad man. Really, I'm a good man. I'm 
just. . . a very bad wizard."

In Snape's case it goes like this:

"Snape, you're an evil wizard!"

"No, I'm not an evil wizard. Really, I'm a good wizard. I'm just. . . 
a very evil man."


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