[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco and Dumbledore/ Molly and Harry-Treated like Fa...

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 160127

> Nikkalmati:
>  
> Either way, whether DD was trying to save Snape or Draco or both,
it is not  
> SS and DM versus the students.  If SS and/or DM are a vital part
of the  plan 
> to destroy LV, it is the lives of SS and DM (which includes the
fate  of the 
> entire WW, the students, their families, and the lives of future
generations) 
> versus the possibility one or more students might die.  This  is
war after 
> all.  DD took whatever measures he could to protect the  students
after Katie was 
> attacked (and BTW they seem to have worked), but  he was not
willing to 
> chance the destruction of the WW at the hands of  LV. Generals
have to make these 
> decisions.


Alla:

Not that I think that Dumbledore has a right to put less weight in
protecting the lifes of innocent students than somebody's who did such
idiotic thing as taking UV  IMO or somebody who is running around trying to
kill him, but we do not even know for sure that Dumbledore knows that Snape
and Malfoy are vital for destroying Voldemort.



Sherry now:

The *only* person we know is vital for destroying Voldemort is Harry potter.
Of course, if Hogwarts was a real school, in the real world, and parents
discovered that two murder attempts had happened, committed by a student,
and nothing had been done except for a low key behind the scenes
investigation, there would be howls of rage and law suits from all sides.
It's hard to separate real world reactions from story reactions.  Of course,
it had to go this way in the book, because that's how JKR wrote it.
However, letting Draco run around plotting murder, of *anyone*, including
Dumbledore was an act of criminal recklessness, to me anyway.  As someone
said in an earlier post on this thread--forgive me for forgetting who and
not giving you credit--once a student had been nearly killed, protecting
both Draco and Snape should not have been the primary objective.  Protecting
the entire school full of students should have been the highest priority of
all.  Draco, Snape, even Dumbledore, are not the most important ones in this
war.  *all* the students deserve protection.  The idea that Snape or Draco
are somehow more deserving of protection than everyone else because they
might be vital to the war effort makes me deeply uncomfortable, especially
because it's a school full of children we are talking about.  If Dumbledore
can indeed put their lives ahead of Snape's or Draco's, he begins to look
very much like Voldemort.  Just my opinion.

Oh dear, all this analyzing makes me sad because I sure look at DD a lot
differently than I did when I simply and innocently read the books for
enjoyment!


sherry