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

[pippin_999]

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Betsy:
> However, as soon as the Katie Bell incident occurred (a student 
> nearly killed and rushed to the hospital for a lengthy stay), I 
> cannot imagine the headmaster who'd allow the known would-be 
> assassin to stay.  Proof or no proof, evidence or no evidence, the 
> headmaster would worry less about the ramifications for the legal 
> case and much more for the safety of his students.  If only because 
> his job depends on it.

Pippin:
Um, well, I've had the dubious advantage of living through something
like this in real life. It's not so simple.

I went to a public high school in Chicago. It was full of members of a
still notorious gang who probably deserved to be  in jail and
were certainly being spied on by the FBI.  Here's what the principal could  
do about it...zilch. Yes, he was worried about the safety of the students, 
but  he wasn't allowed to expel or suspend  without due process. 
He'd have lost his job if he had. And rightly, IMO.

Dumbledore may have been morally certain that Draco was behind the
attacks, but the moment the authorities start substituting moral certainty
for evidence is the moment the Crouch Srs take over. 
 
Pippin