Comparing Secret Keeper plan and UV plan (Re: Why DD did not ask Snape)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 166197


> zgirnius: 
> > My opinion on what the plan was hinges on the Tower scene. From what we see there, 
the plan appears to have been for Snape to try and keep Draco from hurting anyone 
> > else, but leave Draco free so he would be forced to face Dumbledore alone. No Death 
> > Eaters, because *surely* Draco could not insert them into the situationn no 
> > Crabbengoyle because Snape would interfere with them. Then Dumbledore would 
> > convince Draco that he is 'not a killer' and hide him and his family from Voldemort.
> 
> Jen:  But they didn't need the UV for that plan!  That's a fine plan, a good plan.  The UV 
was  an error on Snape's part, not because of the poor outcome, but because there was no 
need  for it in the first place (given the information we have).  Everything is dependent on 
why  Snape took the UV in my opinion.  I hope JKR has a very good, morally consistent 
motivation for an unnecessary dark vow besides just needing a way to kill Dumbledore and  
make Snape appear to be a bad guy.  

Pippin:
It's right there in the text. Narcissa is at the end of her rope, ready to attack her
own sister, openly defying her master's commands, literally tearing her hair
in desperation.  If Snape won't intercede for her and won't give her the only
assurance she'll accept that he'll help her, what will she do? Passively 
accept her fate? If she was going to do that, she wouldn't have gone to 
Snape in the first place.

None of the fine, good plan can come to pass unless Draco shows up at Hogwarts
and if Snape refuses Narcissa, who's to say that he will? In the end, 
running away or appealing to Voldemort directly wouldn't save
Narcissa or her son, but if she panics she won't be thinking about that, 
and she's on the verge of panic already.

What's interesting to me about the SecretKeeper/UV comparison is 
whether we are headed for an echo of the Shrieking Shack scene, with
Harry now taking the part played by Snape, so adamant in his refusal
to think he might have made a mistake that he refuses to even 
consider the evidence.

Pippin