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

[amiabledorsai]

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> Magpie:
>  Even if you're defending 
> yourself, if your defense seriously injures the other person you 
> might be called on it. Or you might feel you went too far.

Amiable Dorsai:
Oh, I'm not surprised Harry feels bad about it--Harry's a decent guy,
and what happened to Draco was horrific.  Doesn't change things,
though--Draco forced a split-second decision on Harry, if Harry chose
poorly, that's Draco's fault, not Harry's.
 

> > Amiable Dorsai: 
> > Then Harry would, like as not, be dead or insane and Draco would
> be hoping Azkaban would keep him safe from Voldemort.  
> 
> Magpie:
> Being hit by a Crucio doesn't make you either.  The Longbottoms are 
> a special case, having been put under longterm Crucio by two experts 
> at the spell.  If Harry's spell hadn't worked and Draco's had (which 
> in itself isn't a given) the more likely result would be that Harry 
> would have been hit with a lot of pain that would then stop.  

Amiable Dorsai:
Why would it stop?  If Draco manages to get off a Cruciatus on Harry,
Draco's life essentially ends at that point.  He will have committed
an Unforgivable in front of a witness he can neither bribe nor silence
(Myrtle), and has thus failed at the task Voldemort has set him. 
Either Voldemort or the Ministry will get him, and the best he can
hope for is life in Azkaban.

And there before him him lies the author of his misery: The Boy Who 
Spurned His Friendship, The Boy Who Humilated Him at Quidditch, The
Boy Who Put His Father In Jail, The Boy Who Should have Died, Dammit!

I think it quite likely that Draco would either have held Harry under
Cruciatus until Snape stopped him, or, as the Ministry can't punish
him any more for two Unforgivables than one, fired off an AK. 

Amiable Dorsai