DD and Draco's murder attempts WAS: Draco and Harry

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> Ginger:
<HUGE SNIP of the quote>
> So Hagrid is right.  Rosemerta did send the mead.  Sorry about 
that.  
> My bad.  Sluggy just ordered it.

Alla:

Thanks.
 
> Ginger:
> DD was quite surprised about the vanishing cabinets.  On the 
tower, 
> (US ch. 27, p. 586-7), DD expresses surprise about it:
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Alla:

Yes, I also think he did not know about vanishing cabinets, but that 
brings the question again of whether DD was bluffing about 
everything else or not.

Does it make sense? I am just trying to figure out how much people 
think DD knew about Draco. Yes, it seems quite clear that he did not 
know about vanishing cabinets, absolutely, but what else did he know 
or not known?

Ginger:
<SNIP>
 At the beginning of the year, Draco had done nothing.  He 
> was merely planning.  You can't find out what someone is planning 
> without getting close to them.  DD couldn't get close to Draco, so 
he 
> sent Head of House and Family Friend Snape to do it.  Snape had no 
> luck as Draco thought Snape was trying to steal his glory.
> 
> I don't see that DD could have acted before Draco tried anything.  
> That would have made him no better than Rufus imprisioning Stan.  
He 
> did know that Draco was up to something and had him tailed.  He 
also 
> had things coming in and going out of the school checked.  

Alla:

I guess I am saying that after Kathie's injury DD did not have a 
luxury to wait anymore and had to act immediately.

Yes, to seize Draco right away before he did anything is wrong, but 
after Katie is hurt, I don't think it would be wrong anymore.



Ginger:
> Just to throw in a RL example: long ago before such things as 
caller 
> ID, I received several death threats on my answering machine.  I 
> didn't know who left them or why.  I found out later it was a case 
of 
> mistaken identity and I was in no danger, but it was alarming.  

<SNIP>

Alla:

Oh, my goodness. I am SO sorry that you had to go through all this. 
Of course it is alarming,


Ginger:
<SNIP>
> But would you check something given to you by a trusted friend?  
> Would you have all your groceries checked?  Take out food?  If the 
> person who wanted to kill you gave something to someone who knew 
you, 
> and it killed that person, would it be because you were lax in 
your 
> security?  If they sent something via UPS, and it killed the 
driver, 
> should you have notified UPS not to accept any packages for you?  
And 
> that's even without the Imperious, which Draco used.

Alla:

I suppose and of course it is hard to say how I would have acted in 
the similar RL situation I would have done all of that and more if I 
knew that because of attacks upon me somebody else would have been 
in danger.

Does that make sense? Of course I may not be able to maintain such a 
high scrutiny if only that would have been concerned me, but if I 
had been responsible for other lives, like Dumbledore would, then I 
want to say yes, I would have tried to do all that.

Alla.