Resolutions/ Draco

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 183456

 Pippin:
<SNIP>
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. <SNIP>

Alla:

Right on this one I agree completely and it seems to me that 
expecting **anything** to come out of it is still not as powerful as 
saving Draco's soul simply because it exists.
I also want to reference Magpie's response here, without adding 
quote, could you please correct me if I am wrong but it seemed to me 
that for you in order for the message that Draco's soul is valuable 
simply because it exists to be powerful, you still needed 
**something** to come out of it, no?

I mean, you said that you did not expect Draco to be major hero or 
anything like that, but you still wanted to see that some benefit to 
good guys would happen in a form of Draco acting on it, having some 
sort of realization, giving Harry the wand, etc?

And I just do not get how this is showing that Draco's soul is 
valuable because it exists, it sounds more like tit for tat to me. Oh 
Dumbledore saved him and Draco in turn did something because he 
understood how Dumbledore was trying to do something for him.

I am honestly not sure how else JKR could show it better that Draco 
was saved **just because**. Nothing came out of it for the light, 
zero, but that IMO is the whole point.

Now nothing came out of it for **Draco's character**, sure  that I 
would agree with, although I personally would not be hundred percent 
sure of it either, with his hesitation of identifying the trio, etc. 
But the message that Pippin is talking about IMO was delivered the 
best way it could have been.

Oh, and as you know I cannot stand Draco, but I am saying all this 
in  extremely disinterested way, in a sense that after book 6 I was 
not invested anymore in wanting to see Draco's suffer. I mean I still 
could not stand him, but I got him being exactly where I wanted him 
to be in book 6, I got my carmic justice for all that arrogant crap 
that he dished in other books.

Therefore if JKR would have went full blown redemption with him, I am 
sure I could have been quite okay with it, but IMO she went exactly 
where Pippin is arguing.

JMO,

Alla