ps/ss chapter 5

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 192525



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eric Oppen <technomad at ...> wrote:
>
> Quoting Dorothy Dankanyin <ddankanyin at ...>:
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> >         It's my understanding that Dumbledore wasn't helpless on the
> > Astronomy tower, he was trying to get Malfoy to understand that he
> > wasn't a killer.  Dumbledore had asked Snape to kill him, just to make
> > sure Malfoy didn't end up being one.
> >      Dorothy
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> 
> Only by pure luck was Draco not a killer.  The poison mead, the  
> necklace...either of those could have ended very badly for the  
> victims, even if they werenn't the ones Draco wanted to kill.

Pippin:
It would have taken even more luck for Draco to have succeeded. In both cases the means he chose were both detectable and reversible and the effects wre indeed detected and reversed before they could kill. The implication is that Draco applied less knowledge and skill to the task than he might have because unconsciously he did not want to succeed.

Pippin


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