Draco - his task, redeemable? (Re: The GoF Train Scene (was:Re: Humanity, Kant, Caricatures, and Draco))

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No: HPFGUIDX 146813

> Quick_Silver:
> > <snip> Everyone, including Draco's own mother, didn't think
> > that he'd be able to complete his task yet Draco basically 
> > did complete it. He got a group of Death Eaters into Hogwarts
> > and managed to get Dumbledore at the mercy of his wand. These
> > are hardly insufficient tasks that Draco completed in the
> > service of the Dark side. <snip>

> Geoff:
> <snip> Snape - for whatever motive - completed Draco's task as
> he had promised Narcissa at Spinner's End.
>
> I have on more than one occasion said that I do not believe 
> that Draco is irredeemable. That, by the way, does not mean 
> that I necessarily think he /will/ be redeemed because if a 
> person refuses to hear or see what is to be done for redemption, 
> then ultimately they reach a point of being unable to see or 
> hear anything. <snip>
> 
> Anyone, however wicked, has an opportunity to be redeemed. 


I do not think that what Draco did was done by choice and 
therefore showed that he, like others influenced by evil, or in 
this case forced by evil under threat of life or death, can do 
the impossible.  Snape knew the chance that Draco would fail was 
high and that is why he said that Voldemort intended him to do it 
in the end.  This chapter also gave us an insight that Snape was 
playing both sides of the fence.  

When Malfoy had Dumbledore at his mercy on the astronomy tower 
the death eaters that were there cheered for Malfoy to end it. 
 Before their arrival on the tower roof Dumbledore tried to 
persuade Malfoy to turn to the right side and no one would have 
to die he offered the OOP help in protecting him and his parents 
which Malfoy declined.  Malfoy had made up his mind to continue 
with the evil plan and let Snape kill Dumbledore; he chose the 
evil over the good and is not redeemable.

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