Draco and Dumbledore LONG, beware

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 160232

> Pippin:
 
> And how would Dumbledore be sure, at the time of the necklace, 
> that Draco had intent  to kill?  Snape's memory of Bella's hearsay?
> Foreknowledge of the mead or the tower? Some evidence that we
> don't know about but that Dumbledore could have found if he'd
> looked harder? But  if Dumbledore had openly searched for 
evidence, 
> Draco would have been killed or condemned to a miserable life 
> in hiding whether the evidence existed or not. Did the safety
> of the other students justify that? 

a_svirn:
In a word, yes. 

> Pippin:
> Further, if Dumbledore was satisfied of Snape's intentions
> in taking the vow, then he could not condemn Snape for it.

a_svirn:
He didn't have to. Snape had already condemned himself by making 
the "do or die" kind of bargain.