[HPforGrownups] Draco and Dumbledore WAS: Re: Dumbledore Does Lie - Sort Of

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159716


> Alla:
> 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.

Magpie:
I'd also note (and I could be wrong here and not remembering something) that 
in response to Harry's information about the RoR Dumbledore wouldn't 
necessarily have had to take Draco into custody.  He could have just set 
guards outside the RoR so that Draco couldn't make a move that night--or 
told Snape to be there waiting outside the RoR.  Does Snape even know 
Draco's spending a lot of time there?  He quite possibly doesn't because he 
doesn't have the map and Draco actually is taking special precautions to 
make sure no one knows he's there by polyjuicing Crabbe and Goyle outside.

Since what Draco was really doing was bringing DEs, a guard outside the room 
would have just seen them that much earlier.  Hindsight's always 20/20 and I 
can't say just how different everything would have been this way--DD *did* 
have guards in the castle anyway who fought the DEs who came through. But I 
do think that that final discussion between Harry and Dumbledore is about 
driving home the fact that Dumbledore is making the mistake of thinking he 
knows more than Harry so that there's no chance of forgetting on the Tower 
that the very thing Harry had been focused on was the very thing that made a 
difference and that Dumbledore did not want to hear or consider.

-m