Harry, Draco and bathroom/ A couple of theories - Snape

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 162388

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
Alla (Quoting me):
> > "Near-murder"? No, it wasn't anywhere near murder.

> a_svirn:
> But who says anything about murder?

Marion Ros did, in the post I was originally replying to.

> a_svirn:
> Magpie said Harry "almost killed someone violently" and that it
> "went beyond defending himself". That's perfectly true.

Amiable Dorsai:
After Draco made his unprovoked attack, Harry tried to defend himself
with relatively benign magic right up until Draco started to utter an
Unforgivable Curse. At that point, Harry had no assurance that he'd
leave that bathroom either sane or alive, if he let Draco finish that
incantation.  In justice, if not in law, Harry was justified in doing
pretty much anything he could to avoid Draco's Cruciatus.

That he backed Harry into such a desperate corner is Draco's own doing.

Amiable Dorsai