Draco and Dumbledore/ Draco and Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 160044

> a_svirn:
> How could he know that he'd stopped Draco from anything? He didn't 
> have a clue of what Draco was up to. 

<snip>

> Sorry. I should have said that following your own logic Snape 
> couldn't do much of anything because of the UV (which means that his 
> surveillance was useless), and when he did interfere he only made 
> matters worse, since thanks to his interference Draco graduated from 
> amateurish stunts to professional terrorism.

Magpie:
Slight tangent, but I always find it interesting to think about DE!
Snape and just how the story works from that angle.  From Draco's pov, 
of course, that talk with Snape is in no way about talking him out of 
murdering Dumbledore but the opposite.  DE!Snape is what Draco is 
supposed to be.  Snape's criticisms of the necklace attempt, coming 
from a DE, would not primarily be about Draco's risking getting caught 
since DEs aren't supposed to worry about their own necks so much.  
He'd be more shamed for failing.  Had he killed Dumbledore but gotten 
caught someone like Bellatrix or Barty would say he'd have done a 
glorious thing.  

Snape's talk with him, I'd imagine, would certainly make him 
determined to not be such a bungler--but of course he would still have 
to kill Dumbledore.  It wouldn't be a deterrant against murder 
attempts at all--in fact coming from DE!Snape it's applying more 
pressure to Draco to do it right.  So basically it's just more of the 
standard pressure he's getting from the DE side anyway. It is giving 
him more reason to be more careful in his attacks--not because there's 
anything wrong with killing innocent bystandards according to DE!Snape 
but because these attacks fail and every failure that's noticed risks 
the plan being discovered and so stopped.  Draco's got a heckler at 
Hogwarts, a better DE who's watching him for mistakes and wants to 
take over himself. In letting Draco know he's being watched he does 
restrict his actions somewhat, making him less free about certain 
kinds of murder attempts.  But those restrictions, as you point out, 
basically order him to be more effective and more secretive, 
especially from Snape. (Of course I think the attempts also began to 
clue Draco in that he fundamentally wasn't like DE!Snape and that gave 
him another reason to hide from him, etc., but that's another issue.)

-m