Draco and Dumbledore/ Fawkes - New pet

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 21 17:43:31 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 160117

Carol earlier:
> <SNIP of the whole post basically>
> > What more could they
> > > have done, short of arresting Draco, which they couldn't do 
> without
> > > triggering the UV even if they didn't care about such matters as
> > > choices and civil rights.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Maybe confronting Draco, regardless of whether this would trigger UV 
> or not.  Hogwarts students should not be held responsible for Snape 
> making a choice of taking UV (since I think that Snape and only Snape 
> is responsible for taking UV in the first place) .
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla

Carol:
But confronting Draco would force Draco to try to kill Dumbledore on
his own without DE backup. If Snape was absent, the UV would kill him.
If he was present, the UV would force him to kill Dumbledore or die
himself, just as it did on the tower, and DD would die without showing
Harry the Horcrux. IMO, DD and Snape are using delaying tactics,
putting off the confrontation as long as possible, until the moment
when Draco succeeds in getting DEs into Hogwarts and it can no longer
be avoided. Maybe they hope against hope that it won't happen, but
given the UV, Dumbledore's already weakened state, what they know of
Draco's activities (which is probably more than Harry knows), and the
DADA curse, the confrontation will certainly occur before the end of
the year.

Rightly or wrongly, and I know we disagree here, Dumbledore trusts
Snape and believes that he can't afford to lose him. He *must* go
under deep cover as a DE at the end of the term, but DD needs him to
teach DADA, watch the Slytherins and Draco (and Harry?), and treat
injuries, such as Katie's and his own ring Horcrux injury, not to
mention the Sectumsempra curse, that might occur during the year. It
seems to me that they're trying to hold off the confrontation as long
as possible, but DD deliberately brings it on at the end of the year
by flying to the tower rather than waiting at the Three Broomsticks
for Snape to come to heal him (or at least slow the poison--it's not
clear what "timely action" from Snape could have accomplished this
time around).

As for Draco himself, confronting him would have resulted in failure
to kill Dumbledore, which would have meant death for Draco himself
once he left Hogwarts, and for his family. Voldemort doesn't make
empty threats. And I doubt that Draco would have accepted the offer of
protection from the Order unless he was facing a weakened Dumbledore,
seemingly at his mercy and yet, ironically, saying that it was his own
mercy that mattered. Draco had to learn that he wasn't a killer, but
facing an armed and powerful Dumbledore, forced to disarm and possibly
stun him to control him, would not have taught him that lesson, IMO.

Carol, believing that DD not only believed that he was acting for the
best but that he was correct in believing so






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