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

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No: HPFGUIDX 160024

> > > Pippin:
> > <SNIP>
> > > Anyway, does anyone really doubt that they day will come when 
Harry 
> > will be very glad that Dumbledore helped Draco discover that he 
was not 
> > a killer on the Tower?
> > > 
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > No, I do not doubt that, but does that mean that Dumbledore gets 
of 
> > the hook within the story, because this is what JKR most likely 
> > planned?
> > 
> > Not in my book, sorry.
> 
> 
> Pippin:
> Er, it's not your book, is it? 

Alla:

Really and truly? I never thought that it was unclear that when I 
write not in my book it means not in my opinion. I guess it was 
unclear, sorry about that.  So, let me rephrase it - **in my 
opinion** Dumbledore is not off the hook for what I consider to be 
careless disregard of lifes of other students, while being concerned 
with saving one, in my opinion that is.


Pippin:
You are free to disagree with JKR's position, but
> JKR supports Amnesty International  and they support the 
Convention on the 
> Rights of the Child which says that children are to be imprisoned 
only as a 
> last resort if rehabilitation and re-integration into society are 
not possible. 
> As JKR seems to be bent on showing us that in Draco's place it was 
possible,
> he should not have been imprisoned.

Alla:

I am not disagreeing with the Convention of the rights of the child.

I am just not seeing sufficient analogy to this in the book ( since 
as I said many times I am not suggesting that Draco should have been 
imprisoned). 

I am **not** buying the argument that child who is taken in 
protective home, together with his father and mother, if I may add, 
and who may agree, if I may add on behalf of the child,  no scratch 
that, not even protective custody, who says that in that place 
Malfoys will be somehow restricted in their movements, constitutes 
prison.

You are free to disagree that this is indeed the same as prison, but 
I never advocated that Draco should have gone to prison.

I mean, I said that he could have benefited from stay in Azkaban, 
but this is just the emotional look on the character I used to hate, 
something that I would not suggest I would like to happen in the 
story.

Just my opinion,

Alla