Draco's role in DH (WAS Re: Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower: A Defense of...)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 165283


> April:
> Everything Snape and DD did in HBP was to save the lives Harry AND 
> Draco. Part of me thinks this is just because Draco is a kid and DD 
> wanted him to CHOOSE the white hats, but another part of me wonders 
if 
> there isn't some other reason that Draco needs to live.

zgirnius:
If you are asking for reasons that Snape and Dumbledore considered in 
formulating whatever plans they made in HBP, I'm drawing a blank. I 
tend to think it was the simple matter of his being a kid and 
Dumbledore wanting him to have the freedom to choose a better path.

If you mean, is there something *Rowling* needs Draco to do, so she's 
keeping him alive, I do have a suggestion. Assuming DDM!Snape (I know 
I do <g>) Rowling had a problem. She has gotten a good guy into the 
heart of the enemy camp, where she can have him discover all sorts of 
vital stuff, but in the process she has made it so that noone on the 
good side will believe him. (More likely, they'll hex him on sight.)

I think Draco could play the role of go-between. Harry is aware of 
the offer Dumbledore made to Draco, aware of Draco's predicament (the 
threat by Voldemort to his family), and pities him. If Draco were to 
approach Harry, offering him information in exchange for the same 
deal Dumbledore wanted to give him, I think Harry might believe him, 
and the information.