Raging Snape / Draco's Redemption / JKR's Plots (was:Re: seeds of betrayal)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 149718

> Magpie:
> 
> With Draco I think she was equally careful.  He *has* done things 
> that are very bad--in fact, he himself responds to Dumbledore 
saying 
> he's not a killer by saying DD "doesn't know what [he's] done."  I 
> think that's a good sign, actually, because Draco is not denying 
his 
> own part in what happened to Katie and Ron.  

a_svirn:
No, he's not denying it. He's boasting about it. When Voldemort is 
boasting about his heroic deeds is it also a good sign? 

> Magpie:
>
>On the contrary, I 
> think it's significant that both times Harry notices Malfoy 
looking 
> physically unwell it's after one of these murder attempts 
(attempts 
> that were subconciously meant to not kill their victim, as 
> Dumbledore surmises--it's like pointing a gun but aiming badly) 
has 
> harmed someone.  

a_svirn:
What does it mean "subconsciously meant"? Either it is meant or it 
is not. If you aiming your gun badly because you are a bad shot or 
so sick with fear, that you your aim is unsteady, then it is nothing 
to you credit. If, on the contrary, you are deliberately aiming your 
gun off the mark, then you are damn well *consciously* deloping. 


> Magpie:
>So I disagree that Draco would have felt no remorse 
> if these two had been killed.  

a_svirn:
So what if he did feel remorse? Would it make him any less of a 
murderer? I am sure Pettigrew feels remorse. Maybe even Lucius now 
and then who's to say? 

> Magpie:
>His physical disintegration is no, 
> imo, due to just frustration at things going awry.  Iow, I agree 
> with Dumbledore that these attempts are signs that he's not a 
> killer, not that he's just a bad planner.  

a_svirn:
He's not such a bad planner after all. Dumbledore is dead, isn't he?