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[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 157811

Sydney:
> Narcissa certainly fears that Draco will be killed *in the course* 
of his mission.   Her mindset is the same (I suppose) as Voldemort's, 
that faced with a kamikaze kid coming at him Dumbledore would kill 
him.

Ceridwen:
I really didn't want to drag out my book.  It has been mentioned 
several times, but only answered once that I noticed, that *we* know 
Dumbledore won't kill Draco, even if the kid is coming at him with 
wand blazing (blatant over-the-top paraphrase).  But what we know 
doesn't seem to be what the DEs and LV know, per Dumbledore:

"Nobody would be surprised that you had died in your attempt to kill 
me -- forgive me, but Lord Voldemort probably expects it.  Nor would 
the Death Eaters be surprised that we had captured and killed your 
mother -- it is what they would do themselves, after all."
~HBP, The Lightning-Struck Tower, page 592, that portion of 
Dumbledore's speech that is left out of most editions

So, Narcissa fears that Draco will be killed by Dumbledore himself, 
or by his supporters.  The DEs expect such a thing to happen.  They 
also wouldn't be surprised if Narcissa is killed as part of the 
Order's or Dumbledore's retaliation against Draco, because that is 
what they would do themselves in a similar situation.

We're not talking about moral people who live within society's 
rules.  We're talking about amoral people who make their own rules, 
out of necessity since they're outside of normal laws.  Who would 
they go to for justice?  The DMLE?  They make their own rules and 
laws.  Killing the family of an assassin is apparently part of their 
code.  So it is fully within the text that the DEs, and even LV, 
expect Draco to die by Dumbledore's hand, or the hand of one of his 
supporters.

If that doesn't happen, then it seems likely that Draco will die 
anyway per his own conversation with Dumbledore, possibly by the DEs 
sent to back him up, or possibly later on when he faces Voldemort 
with his failure.  He also indicates that his parents are in danger 
as well if he doesn't do it, lending credence to Dumbledore's speech 
noted above.

Ceridwen.