Draco and DD on the Tower/POA climaz WAS: Re: DDM!Harry and Snape/Grey!Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 162881

Magpie:
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> So it still reads to me like a slightly different scene than the 
one you are 
> describing. It's not even that unusual a set up in that sense (the 
> non-threatening would-be not!killer). Same situation in some ways, 
with a 
> person who has been put in a situation where he feel he must kill 
or be 
> killed. Only it's a different character facing the situation. 
Which is why 
> when I read it I got plenty of suspense, but not a trace of it 
came from 
> "will Draco kill Dumbledore?"
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Alla:

Now, that's interesting. Because as the scene progresses the 
suspence I got also did not come from whether Draco kills Dumbledore 
or not, but **only** as the scene progresses. When JKR gives me the 
first glimplse at the scene, with Draco holding Dumbledore at the 
wand point, I was definitely thinking that Draco may do just that. ( 
what we were talking upthread, etc)

You mention the scene in PoA when Harry decides during the scene 
that he does not want to kill Sirius. I mean, sure we see Harry 
reactions as different from what Draco does, but Harry is not Draco 
and vice versa. We see it more clearly because Harry IMO is a POV 
character and since we cannot read Draco's mind, for me it is enough 
to read him as being ready to kill DD when he arrives at the Tower 
and in process realising that he really cannot do it.

JMO,

Alla