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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 183423

> Montavilla47:
> Oh, wouldn't that have been great?  I liked that idea when Maya
> tossed it off in her review of DH, but the way you're describing it
> now.... with Draco deliberately handing his wand to Harry.
> 
> That would be a powerful moment.
> 
> It's not like I don't get that idea Pippin's expounding--that
> Draco shouldn't *have* to contribute anything to the good
> side to be saved from murdering and saved from death.
> 
> I get that.  Morally, it makes a lot of sense.
> 
> But, dramatically, it's frustrating as hell.

Magpie:
Yes, for me, it's not that he has to contribute in order to be worth 
saving--not at all. It's important that he's not being saved *because* 
he's expected to contribute. But dramatically there's a difference 
between Dumbledore and Harry saying that and just showing they're good 
guys and having this shown as not only something that shows you're good 
but something that is true and has some positive effect. Not by Draco 
being the big hero, but just in having a logical outcome of a good 
action taken. Especially since by the end of DH that would have seemed 
far more logical than some other things that Draco did for me. This, I 
thought, would be the germ of hope that things could change in the 
future. It added to my general feeling of hitting my head on a 
surprisingly low ceiling in DH. The lesson is the same (good people 
save people who don't deserve it) but it's more tell don't show.

Pippin:
But that was only necessary because of the UV, which wouldn't have
been activated if Dumbledore had simply let Draco kill him.

Magpie:
Why wouldn't he still want Snape to kill him like he always had? The 
pleading makes less sense if he's just reminding Snape not to drop 
dead. 

Pippin:
For me it does the opposite. It would say that a flawed
existence is only worthwhile if the person eventually proves himself
in some practical fashion. Just bringing a little more love into the
world wouldn't be enough.

Magpie:
I don't think it undercuts that to let the love brought into the world 
actually has some effect and is not just about the good character of 
the good guys compared to the bad. 

-m