Snape and Draco

[Clifford Vander Yacht]

No: HPFGUIDX 160656

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, puduhepa98 at ... wrote:

> Nikkalmati:
>  
> Yes, this is one of the interesting relationships that developed
quite a  bit 
> in HBP.  My question is "what next?"   JKR has spent a  lot of page
time in 
> HBP on Draco showing him developing and suffering.  At  the end DD
uses his 
> last moments to try to save Draco.  I don't  believe this trouble
will be in 
> vain.  Draco is on the road to redemption  and IMHO probably will
not die in the 
> end.  He had become too valuable as  an example of the possibility
of change 
> for the good.  Some of us even  feel for Narcissa.
<snip>

Cliff here:

There is the opposite lesson to be learned if Draco does die at the
hands of LV, and that is that some will take your promises to be
unbreakable and you will suffer the consequences. Often, it is not
someone, but something, such as steering a car over the cliff. The
lesson then is be careful that the promises you make for yourself can
be carried out. You can't wheedle out of everything you don't like. 

I called it the "Kent State Effect" where college kids rioted thinking
it was just fun and games until someone got killed. That suddenly
changed the attitude on college campuses -- this is an adult world,
not childhood games.