Draco and Dumbledore

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 160162

> Dungrollin:
> 
> Presumably after the Katie Bell incident, they should have 
detained 
> Draco (by force if necessary), interrogated him, destroyed the 
> vanishing cabinet in the RoR, and secreted him away somewhere 
along 
> with Narcissa (again, forcibly if necessary), thus activating the 
> vow. Snape, of course, should have magnanimously died, and it 
would 
> have been his own stupid fault. They give out the story that DD 
> killed both Draco and Snape in self-defence, after they revealed 
> themselves to be undercover agents of Voldemort and attempted to 
> assassinate him. 

Alla:

Yeah, something like that :) I must say though that there is a 
possibility that UV is not activated right away, so even in this 
scenario that "seriously useful chap" still may have lived, but yes 
you got it mostly right. :)


Dungrollin:
> The consequences of this are quite interesting. 
> 
> Ron would have still been affected by a love potion and then 
> poisoned on his birthday. On the other hand, Harry wouldn't have 
had 
> the chance to test Sectumsempra out on Malfoy. However, I think we 
> could confidently say that he would *still* have tried it out. On 
> who, though? And Snape would have been too dead to save the 
victim. 

Alla:

I do **not** share your confidence that Harry would have necessarily 
tried Sectusemptra. Yeah, he wanted to try out unknown curse, which 
was really stupid of him, but he does **not** trying it out even on 
Malfoy till he is forced to defend himself from Crucio, so for all I 
know if nobody wanted to try Crucio on Harry, he may have resisted 
his urge to try Sectusemptra and no Severus Snape had been needed.


Dungrollin: 
> Harry and Dumbledore would have left Hogwarts as they did in HBP, 
to 
> go to the cave and find the locket Horcrux. All would have 
proceeded 
> as it indeed did, only when they got back to school there would 
have 
> been no DE assassination attempt. Nor, however would there be a 
> Severus Snape to cure DD from the cursed potion.
<SNIP of the quote, go UPTHREAD to read it>

Alla:

Dumbledore may have thought that Snape will cure him from poison, 
but as we all know he did something quite contrary for whatever 
reasons, so as far as I am concerned they may have as well tried the 
usefullness of St. Mungo doctors as you are saying.


Dungrollin:
 Additionally, the Order's most 
> useful spy, in Voldemort's inner circle is unable to continue his 
> duties because he's dead. The Order has by now had no 
foreknowledge 
> of Voldemort's intentions for over six months,<SNIP>

Alla:

And now of course Snape ( if he is indeed not a traitor) has plenty 
of people who trust him to pass the information to?


Dung:
<SNIP>
> Personally, I think Snape is a seriously useful chap to have 
around.

Alla:

Okay :)