Draco and Dumbledore LONGish

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 160177

> Dungrollin:
> > > Personally, I think Snape is a seriously useful chap to have
> > around.
> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > More useful than a bunch of children that's for sure. Thank Merlin 
Dumbledore got his priorities straight.
> >
> Sherry:
> grin.  Oh yes, I'd always want a cowardly, cold blooded murderer 
around when times are tough.  The first thing I'd think of in a 
pinch.  Sorry, but I count the lives of the school full of children 
far, far more important than the murderer's life.
> 

Dungrollin:
I know this is a waste of time, but you have all spectacularly missed 
the point I was making, which was that *having Snape around* saves 
lives. Three, in fact, over the course of HBP. DD, Katie and Malfoy.

And if Harry had tried out Sectumsempra on McLaggen, Snape would have 
saved his life too. Because even if Snape *is* ESE, while he thinks 
that DD trusts him, he is *compelled* to be helpful and to save lives 
in order to keep his cover. 

It is better for that "bunch of schoolchildren" that Snape is around 
to save them from each other when things go wrong.