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

[whirledgirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 153411

> Pippin wrote :

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> Further, DD has offered Hogwarts as a sanctuary: ' "Every guest
> in this hall," said Dumbledore, and his eyes lingered on the 
> Durmstrang students, "will be welcomed back here at any time, 
> should they wish to come."' Dumbledore was looking at the 
> Slytherin Table when he said that. Was he endangering the
> students? No, because, as he explained, unity against Voldemort 
> is the only way to defeat him.
 
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> More than that is speculation, but here's what I think DD knew.
> I think DD knew from Snape that there was a plan  to smuggle a
> force of Death Eaters into Hogwarts and assassinate him. 
> Dumbledore and Snape believed that the plan had *no* chance of 
> success, because if  Voldemort had thought the plan would work 
> he wouldn't have given it to Draco. Its only purpose was to 
> punish the Malfoys.  

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> They would still be in danger from bungled DE attacks, since
> Voldemort has many other stupid servants, but they would be 
> deprived of the teacher who had already saved Dumbledore's life
> at least once and was their best expert on healing Dark curses.


WG* :

I agree with most of what Pippin wrote, save for a few points.
Firstly, even though DD said that Hogwarts would remain a sanctuary 
for all the students, I'm not sure that that will happen. 
I think that Harry was right when he says that "you never get it 
right, you people (the MoM), do you? Either we've got Fudge...or 
we're got you! (Scrimgeour)" (HBP ch.16, pg325 eng. edition). I 
wonder whether DD's extreme views (which they were, from the MoM's 
point of view) about forgiveness will be remembered by the teachers 
and MoM. It seems to me that Hogwarts will not reopen, but hopefully 
will remain a place where Harry feels at home and safe. 

I don't think that DD knew DEs were going to be introduced into the 
school. From what I can tell, DD suspected an attempt was made to 
murder him, but I believe that he did not expect Draco to allow DEs 
to enter the school. I think that as a result of how things went and 
were handled, both Draco and Snape will be punished by LV 
(voldernaughty, as a friend of mine referred to him today...!), 
Snape because he interfered and made a UV that Voldernaughty 
obviously hadn't agreed to/allowed, and Draco, because he failed in 
his task.

It is only recently I have started to believe that Snape is actually 
still on the 'right' side. His name, Severus Snape, is an anagram 
of 'save pureness'. Quibbler worthy??

Also...thought I'd mention...it's Draco's birthday today...Happy 
Birthday you *coward*.

(As a sidenote, I doubt that Snape calling Remus 'Lupin' is of huge 
importance to the series because...well...throughout those posts, 
practically everybody was referring to Remus as 'Lupin'!)

smiles and hope you're having a gd day!
WG*