Draco and Dumbledore on the Tower WAS: Re: DDM!Harry and Snape/Grey!Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 162860

> Magpie:
> I don't think so, no. The scene's not written that way. To show 
that Draco 
> needs to try to kill Dumbledore so that we see he's going to do 
it, and then 
> show a change when he's looking him in the eye. a beat of 
confusion, for a 
> start. Draco's already avoiding the murder when he gets into the 
Tower. If 
> Draco had that kind of revelatory moment in the Tower not only 
would we as 
> readers see it, but so would Dumbledore. And Dumbledore would talk 
about it. 
> Instead Dumbledore is confident Draco can't kill from the moment 
he sees 
> him.


Alla:

Draco did turn the wand towards the Dumbledore though, before he 
lowered it, so to me this is exactly it - the moment where Draco 
starts to be ready to kill and finds himself incapable of it.

I think that what Dumbledore is doing may be not even characterised 
as lying, but expressing his hopes of the sort - NOT what Draco is 
but what Draco *can* be, namely not a killer.

So, yes, I am not buying that Draco comes to Tower not ready to kill 
Dumbledore, I think that he has every intention to do just that and 
his want pointed at Dumbledore indicates just that, but Dumbledore's 
words push him into not killing.

IMO of course.