Why did Snape take the UV? / Role of the Malfoys

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 157406

 
> Magpie:
> It sounds like a 16-year-old boy knowingly getting involved in 
something 
> Mother doesn't want him involved in.  We've seen Narcissa showing 
how upset 
> she is about Draco being involved in this.

Neri:
Mother doesn't want him involved, but he *is* involved and they both 
know it, so I don't see the point of hiding it from her.

> Magpie:
> We hear that Draco himself is 
> eager to prove himself as a DE. "Not a word to anyone including my 
mother" 
> follows logically from that alone.  The protecting of Narcissa 
becomes 
> important when Voldemort threatens her.  "He'll kill my whole 
family."
> 

Neri:
Exactly. The threat to Narcissa is Voldemort killing her if the 
mission fails. She isn't threatened by the mission itself since she's 
not situated at Hogwarts and can only participate in planning. So 
Draco excluding Narcissa from the plan doesn't protect her from any 
threat. On the contrary, it increases the chances of failure and with 
it the main threat to Narcissa. I don't see the logic in the argument 
of protecting Narcissa by excluding her. And indeed, AFAIK we have no 
canon that Draco's reason for excluding his mother is protecting 
her.  

> Magpie:
> A 16-year-old lying to his mother is not out of the ordinary.

Neri:
He's not exactly lying to her about the Penthouse magazines under his 
bed, you know. It's also her life on the line as well as his father's.

> Magpie:
> The reasons 
> for his lying in this case are especially understandable given that 
he's 
> taken a job as a secret assassin.  He is trying to do the job 
alone. 
> Narcissa wants him to go to Snape. Draco does not want to go to 
Snape.
> 

Neri:
So Draco insists on doing this alone even if it kills his all family 
and Snape too? Sounds weirder and weirder. Lets look at this 
situation in more general terms:

Person D who is a teenager has to take a job as a secret assassin. He 
hides this from another person N in his family, and lies to her about 
it – completely understandable.

However, N already knows about the assassination job. She knows D had 
to take it or pay with his life. Moreover, if D fails in carrying out 
the assassination, N dies too, so in fact N and D are in this 
together. Furthermore, N is a grownup with some experience in 
scheming. Excluding N becomes less and less understandable.

Now person N, being older and wiser than D, has a great idea: she 
enlists the help of a third person S. S is a professional in this 
business and an old acquaintance of both N and D. Moreover, N makes S 
take a vow to guard D with his life. It's now pretty obvious that D, 
N and S are all in this together. D failing the assassination job 
would have dire consequences for all three of them. Yet D not only 
excludes S (whom he used to like a lot during the past five years) 
and N (who is his own family) but he also lies to them, although the 
situation of the mission is desperate.

I'd say it's pretty obvious that D has something against both N and 
S. Something that must have occurred lately. 


Neri