Draco and Dumbledore WAS: Re: Dumbledore Does Lie - Sort Of

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No: HPFGUIDX 159707

Pippin:

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> There was nothing more to be done, short of confronting Draco
> himself. But Dumbledore believed that it was Voldemort's plan that
> he, Dumbledore, should be the instrument of Draco's death, and
> that if this plan failed, Voldemort would kill Draco himself. DD 
had
> all the more reason to believe this if Snape had revealed the third
> portion of the vow, because the only thing it protects Draco from
> is Dumbledore -- it doesn't do anything to stop Voldemort from
> trying to kill Draco, it just removes one possible means of doing
> the job.
> 
> Thus, to confront  Draco without the means to protect him would 
> be to do to Draco what Snape did to Harry when he revealed the 
> prophecy to Voldemort: mark an innocent child for death on the 
> basis that he is to be feared.


Alla:

I am going to offer very simple suggestion of what Dumbledore should 
have done knowing as he claims of what Draco was doing all along.

How about indeed confronting Draco, grabbing him by the colar and 
dragging him to protective custody. NO, not throwing him into 
prison, although personally I think Draco would have really 
benefited from stay in Azkaban - may have been huge eye opening, I 
understand that throwing to prison would bring unwelcome 
assosiations of Dumbledore with Barty Crouch, etc, but dragging him 
into protective custody, even if he does not want to?

Eh, who cares? He is about to kill one person and almost kills two 
and he is not going to jail, and after all of that said and done 
Dumbledore can offer him same excuse he offered Harry of why he made 
Sirius to stay in the house he hated - I was trying to keep you 
alive, you stupid child. Be grateful that I did it for you while you 
were trying to kill me. Granted, Sirius **chose** to do it on 
Dumbledore suggestion, but Sirius was not planning Dumbledore 
association, he had a very doubtful luxury to choose it, if Draco is 
not allowed to choose whether he wants protection or not, I am not 
going to be too upset.

And what is the most infuriating to me is that Dumbledore does 
exactly that - offers him protection on the Tower. Gee, how about 
doing it a bit earlier? I mean, yes, Draco may not have wanted it 
then, but IMO dragging him to protection is not denying him due 
process or something, it is indeed saving him. 

So, yeah that is what Dumbledore should have done IMO.

The fact that he did not, well tells me that he was convinced all 
along that he knew better how to deal with Draco and whether Harry 
would have told him about Trelawney or not would not have made a 
slightest difference.

IMO of course,

Alla