The Cabinet Plan...again (was:Re: The UV (was ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey?)

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Magpie:
> Actually, he may be feeling guilt. We don't get a clear analysis 
> of that aspect of Draco's feelings but by the time he gets to the 
> Tower Dumbledore is confident that he doesn't want to kill. It 
> seems like that logically is coming out of his previous attempts--
> when he was clueless about death and murder he was able to make 
> the attempts, even if they were feeble. But after two near-deaths 
> he can't even attempt it. So whether or not guilt is the main idea 
> here, I think those attempts were negative for him in some way 
> enough to contribute to his inability to make any more. 


SSSusan:
Snipping out most of your post to ask yet another question. 

Is it possible that what Draco was feeling on the tower was NOT a 
new sense of the reality of death and murder to the degree that he 
could no longer even attempt to murder DD, but instead the reality 
of facing his intended murder victim face to face, looking DD right 
in the eye, was what made him feel he couldn't do it?  

This is not to say that what you're presenting couldn't be the case, 
but being a bit more of a cynic where Draco is concerned, I can't 
help but compare the first two attempts, which were very much from 
afar and detached, with what presented itself on the tower.  There 
could be a world of difference between poisoning a bottle of mead 
and hoping it makes it to the target and pointing a wand at the 
great man and speaking "Avada Kedavra" in terms of just the "guts" 
required to pull it off, not necessarily in terms of real growth & 
understanding of the reality of murder.  (IOW, is it that he doesn't 
WANT to or that he doesn't think he has the COURAGE to?)

Just thinkin' out loud.

Siriusly Snapey Susan