Being Good and Evil ( Draco and a bit of Ron)/Harry as DD man

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 154696

phoenixgod2000:
>that is my big problem with Dumbledore. His version of giving
> people second chances involves them not paying the debt for
> their screwed up first chance...

<Snip a bunch of comments about Draco that I mostly agree with>

AD:
You're not the first person I've seen make this charge, and I have to
ask, why do you believe it?  What makes you believe that Dumbledore's
little redemption projects pay no price for their sins?

Let's take his most notorious rehab, Severus Snape.  Assume, for the
moment, that he is indeed DDM.  If so, his redemption has come at a
very great price.  He's been playing an extremely dangerous game,
betting his life and his soul daily for years.  He may, eventually, be
one of the keys to Voldemort's final destruction, and it likely will
cost him his life.  Certainly, if one interpretation of his actions at
Spinner's End is correct, he took a vow that was quite likely to kill
him, in an attempt to garner vital information about a Death Eater
mole in Hogwarts itself.

Take another of the men who got a "second chance" from Dumbledore:
Hagrid.  Now Hagrid never actually used up his first chance, it was
taken from him.  Nevertheless, he's repaid  Dumbledore's benevolence
in spades, if only by his envoy to the giants.  We can guess that he
undertook similarly dangerous work during the first war.

So why do you believe that Draco would have paid no price, made no
restitution?

For that matter, why does anyone believe that Dumbledore's only
objective on that roof was simply to reform Draco in some bleeding
heart sense of the word?

Consider the advantages to the war effort of turning Draco.  With
Lucius in prison, Draco is the key to the Malfoy fortune.  Get him to
turn his coat, and Narcissa will follow, depriving Voldemort of a vast
source of cash, and potentially yielding a cornucopia of war
intelligence for the Order. 

So, to my way of thinking, even if Draco never actually changed his
thinking or served a penance, Dumbledore's efforts were worth the risk.

And, who knows? Given time, maybe Dumbledore could have managed to
polish the little turd.

Amiable Dorsai