Resolutions (was: Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)/Slytherins are Bad

[datalaur]

No: HPFGUIDX 184030

Very very late on this, but perhaps Dumbledore was thinking it's a
whole lot better to have IntactSoul!Draco holding the Elder Wand than
MurderousTornSoul!Draco in control of the 'unbeatable' wand.  

Dumbledore's lack of concern for Draco's soul earlier (not to mention
the people that Draco would have killed, except for chance) makes it
rather hard for me to see that Dumbledore's focus was anything other
than his Plans.

laur



Pippin:
> Yes, Dumbledore had a material as well as a moral reason for planning
> to let Snape to kill him instead of Draco. But that plan was spoiled
> when he lost the wand. At the moment  on the tower when
> Dumbledore decides to talk Draco out of killing him, the plan looks
> completely trashed.
> 
> DD hasn't been able to send for Snape. If he talks  Draco down but the
> Death Eaters  reach the Tower, both he and Draco will probably be
> killed. There's no chance of disabling the Elder Wand, no chance of
> giving Harry vital information about the sword.  If by some miracle
> Snape arrives, there'll be no concealing from the WW or Harry that
> Snape is a "murderer", no way to follow through on the offer to give
> Narcissa and Draco protection from Voldemort.  And it looks like DD's
> about to die anyway. No wonder that  Snape  hesitates. They are way,
> way  off plan.
> 
> But with all this going on, Dumbledore chooses to save Draco's soul,
> the action with the most moral importance but the least obvious
> benefit to the war. If it had turned out that saving Draco had some
> major material benefit, we would think that Dumbledore could have
> foreseen it, as he did with Pettigrew, and that would diminish the
> moral impact of his choice.