Draco and Harry WAS: Re: Nice vs. Good, honesty, and Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 153327

 
> Alla:
> 
> I snipped the part I completely agree with about Harry instincts 
> being more and more on the mark with every book. 
> 
> Well, I do understand that DD may not have stopped Draco because he 
> wanted to save him, or because he wanted to let Snape spy, etc, BUT 
> the problem I see with it is that Dumbledore while wanting to save 
> Draco puts other students in horrible danger from Draco hair brained 
> assasination attempts.

> 
> I mean, I am still not sure that DD knew all of Draco's activities, 
> but if he did, oh my... That is beyond reckless IMO.
> 
> I wonder how he would have felt if Katie and Ron WOULD have died. 
> Could he have looked Katy's parents and Arthur and Molly in the eyes 
> with clear conscience and told him. You know, I really wanted to 
> save Draco that is why in the process I let your children die.

Pippin:
He'd have said Katie and Ron were tragic casualties of war. It
was clear to Dumbledore that Draco was behind the attempts, but
that can only have been from Snape's information. Snape was hardly
in a position to accuse -- or are you suggesting that Draco should
have been accused without any evidence other than Harry's suspicions,
which he couldn't even get Ron and Hermione to take seriously?

And you think Sirius was unfairly accused, with a whole street
full of eyewitnesses! 

Dumbledore did the best he could to prevent any attacks, but the
trouble with hare-brained attacks is that they are, well, hare-brained.
The necklace would never have gotten past the Dark detectors and
secrecy sensors -- Katie was only harmed because the package 
tore before she got to Hogwarts. Having Rosmerta poison a bottle of
oak matured mead  in case someone was planning to give it to 
Dumbledore was even dumber. 

I don't see how Dumbledore could have anticipated that, anymore 
than he could have anticipated that three of his students would 
turn themselves into animagi and run through Hogsmeade with 
a werewolf in tow -- or that one of them would tell another student 
how to enter the werewolf's enclosure. 

Do you think he'd have had to look Mr. and Mrs. Snape in the eye
and tell them their son was dead because Dumbledore thought
werewolves should be mainstreamed?

Draco does seem to have taken Snape's warning to heart, because 
there are no more hb attempts after the first two, both of which 
were planned before Christmas.


Alla:
> As to Aslan, Aslan sacrificed himself and himself only IMO. That was 
> his choice to make. Dumbledore's choices on the other hand often 
> puzzle me a great deal :)
> 

Pippin:
Dumbledore had as much right to sacrifice himself for Draco and
Snape as Lily did to give her life for Harry. She was a powerful
witch and her loss would have been a great blow to the Order if
the war had continued. She couldn't know that Voldemort would be 
vanquished or that Harry would grow up to be a hero even greater
than she. Yet she was willing to die for the sake of an unproven child.

Pippin