Moral Relativism/Parents love to their kids in the books

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 160971

Alla:
> Like, as you mentioned Bella, who is ready to sacrifice her sons to 
> the cause - so Bella dear is a monster as I knew before and now she 
> is even more monster, but while Narcissa is trying to protect her 
> son as every parent should IMO she is doing it and trying to get 
> Dumbledore killed too, not worthy of my respect, no.
>  

Pippin:
But, but, Narcissa must think that Dumbledore himself will kill Draco 
or set him up to be killed if Draco should fail. Narcissa would hardly
expect Dumbledore to grant mercy -- even you think he was taking
the bleeding-heart business a bit too far. Not only that, but knowing 
this, that  she must have Dumbledore killed to protect her son, what 
choice would Dumbledore have but to kill her first?  Dumbledore 
understands this perfectly. That is why he expects that the DE's will 
believe that Narcissa is dead. 

And that, of course, is why Dumbledore couldn't allow himself
to  take that view, and had to try to save them both, even if neither
of them ever understand why. 

Pippin