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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159779

> Magpie:
> I guess that's the thing I don't quite see--why would Draco's 
throwing
> Trelawney out be so important?
> 
> Pippin:
> Draco denied to Snape that he had anything to do with the attacks.
> As long as he was denying it, it would have been useless to offer
> him protection. I do not believe Dumbledore was willing to
> take anyone into custody lacking evidence that they'd committed 
> a crime. (Of course Dumbledore being sure it was him is not 
> evidence.) 
> 
> But the attack on Trelawney was evidence, a crime in itself (yes,
> it is assault. Draco has no business to lay hands on her, nor
> to forcibly remove her from a room where she has as much right 
> to be as he does.) Even if Draco was not willing to answer any
> questions about what he'd been doing, he could still have been
> arrested, with due process. In Azkaban he'd be safe from
> Voldemort. 

Magpie:
I have a hard time believing this is true. By your own logic 
Dumbledore can't do anything about the attack on Trelawney anyway.  
Trelawney doesn't know who threw her out of the room, neither does 
Harry and Draco can deny it.  It's not evidence of any other crime 
at all--Draco could have been doing something merely embarassing in 
the room and thrown out whoever entered.  I can't imagine he'd be 
arrested for ejecting Trelawney from a room any more than the Trio 
would have been arrested for knocking Snape out in PoA.  I'm not 
convinced this rule about laying hands on the teacher=serious crime 
with sentence in Azkaban actually exists in canon. (Dumbledore also 
does not seem to know Draco has any accomplice under Imperio until 
the Tower when he realizes Rosemerta was involved.)

It just seems really silly to think that Dumbledore, who knows 
perfectly well Draco is behind the near-deaths of Katie and Ron, 
can't make a move--but would have leapt to take Draco into custody 
once had he only known that somebody neither Trelawney nor Harry 
actually saw ejected her from the RoR.

Steve:
So, I think Dumbledore did the right thing. He let Draco
fall until he could fall no more. He let Draco go until
Draco stood at the crossroads of destiny, and then he
tried to give him a shove in the right direction. But
again, it had to be Draco's choice for it to work.

Magpie:
Yes, I think this is more the way DD is thinking with Draco and I 
think ultimately it will be a gamble that pays off, that this is 
what JKR is going for.  But it is a gamble, imo, one that Dumbledore 
is taking knowingly.  I don't think it's something he feels forced 
to do.  I think it's his plan.

-m