[HPforGrownups] Resolutions

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 183411

Wow, what a great series of comments from pippin, magpie and montavilla. 
I just wanted to thread three of their comments together, and add my own 
thought (small as it may be):

Pippin:
I'm not sure why you felt the symbolism was less. It's moving to me to 
know that Dumbledore was improvising, his precious plans in a muddle, 
and yet he was still capable of rallying himself to save Draco from 
becoming a murderer.

Montavilla47:
I was disappointed that Draco Malfoy never seemed to get beyond that 
moment on the Tower when his wand drooped a tiny bit. He spent all of DH 
with his wand metaphorically drooping just a tiny bit (until he didn't 
have a wand at all).

Magpie:
Snape (not Draco) killing him was the most important part of the
precious plans. Whether Draco himself became a murderer didn't have
a quarter of the importance I thought it would have, myself. ... I
thought Dumbledore was acting more like Buttermaker putting Timmy Lupus
in at the end of the championship game. He turned out to be more like
Jack Black ... letting that one kid be the costume designer--a nice
gesture that didn't risk the entire enterprise or play into the final 
outcome.

CJ (Now):
I was one of the many who through most of the series held out hope for a 
Draco redemption arc, and I think I found DD's efforts to save Draco on 
the tower the most emotionally moving moment in the whole vignette, 
which further served to raise my hopes to the level of near certainty. I 
felt let down when, as Montavilla put it, throughout DH Draco's wand 
never undrooped (hmm, there's some imagery there I we should probably 
just leave dangling :-) ). But far worse than simply being left 
unfulfilled, the humanity of the moment which so touched me turned out, 
as Magpie notes, to have been a charade. DD -- the monster -- wasn't 
protecting Draco at all, he was protecting his plan. But worst of all, 
it robs me of the joy of a second reading.

--CJ