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

[steven1965aaa]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
> Right. Let's look at this quote. Draco does *not* lower his wand.
> Harry *thinks* he sees it "drop by a *fraction*. Nor does Draco
> *choose* not to kill Dumbledore. He can't make himself do it, even
> when the DEs arrive, but his wand, though it's shaking "so badly that
> he could barely aim," is still pointing his wand at DD when Snape
> enters and pushes him roughly aside (595). Far from having chosen to
> do anything, Draco stands irresolute, avoiding a choice until the
> choice is made for him.
>\
Steven1965aaa:

I agree with just about everything you said Carol, especially about 
Draco's lack of remorse.  But I disagree with you on this last point.  
Harry has a special knack for spotting things others do not, we are 
told this at the end of SS in the room with the flying keys (I think 
it says something like not for nothing was Harry the youngest seeker 
in 100 years, he had a special knack for spotting things others did 
not --- or something to that effect) and we see it repeatedly, such as 
when Harry notices Voldemort reaching for his wand in Dumbledore's 
office.  I trust Harry's judgment on this one.  I don't however think 
it's evidence that Draco has now all of a sudden become a good person. 
I think Draco was engaging in a lot of false bravado in the face of 
great fear which he felt, fear which paralyzed him from acting.  When 
Dumbledore offers him mercy (a great play on words which showed the 
difference between Dumbledore/Harry's type of mercy and Voldemort's 
(you're at my mercy) that enabled him to make a choice, and he made 
that choice by lowering his wand a fraction.  IMO, if they hadn't been 
interrupted by the death eaters bursting onto the roof he would have 
continued to lower it and would've taken Dumbledore up on his offer - 
although I guess we'll never know for sure.  When the death eaters got 
there, that took the choice out of Draco's hands.