Draco and Dumbledore WAS: Re: Is Snape good or evil? (longer)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 148879

Alla:
> So, to answer your question, if that was a real child who was eager 
> to assasinate me ( and where do you get "his family trapped him?"), 
> I would not feel much warm fuzzy feelings towards him, but I do 
> respect and admire people who would. 

Pippin:
I didn't say his family trapped him, I said they involved him. I
base this on the fact that Narcissa and Bella were involved and
that Voldemort is supposed to be hard to find -- Draco couldn't 
just show up on his doorstep with his brainstorm about using 
the vanishing cabinets.

> Pippin:
> > I think it's a mistake to assume Dumbledore wouldn't risk both
> > himself and Snape for Draco's sake.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I actually don't think that DD won't risk himself for his students 
> sake, I just don't think that he was ready to DIE for Draco that 
> night. I think he intended to help Draco by staying alive. IMO of 
> course.

Pippin:
*Anyone* who defies the Dark Lord must be ready to die. Dumbledore
made that clear back in OOP when he explained to Harry that there
was no one else who had escaped Voldemort as often as Harry had.
Dumbledore would have to be in total denial not to put his affairs in order. 

Hiding people from Voldemort seems to be one of the Order's standing 
operations -- do you really think Dumbledore wouldn't arrange for it to
be carried on without him? He expected to be off hunting horcruxes too 
-- he could hardly have done it with Draco under his wing. 

I agree that Dumbledore hadn't  planned all along to die that night,
but  there were few options left once Snape arrived on the
tower. IF the poison could be cured, IF Snape could do it in time, IF the
other Death Eaters didn't interfere, IF the vow could be hoodwinked,
... if we set all the odds at 50/50,  there would still be only
one chance in sixteen that Dumbledore would survive. With those
odds it would make sense that Dumbledore would plead with Snape
*not* to try and save him.

Pippin