[the_old_crowd] Re: Snapo and Draco: Where the heck did they run off to....

[Magda Grantwich]

> Pip!Squeak
> Personally, I reckon that will put Snape's LV stock up
> considerably. 
> Thus allowing him to persuade he-who-looks-like-a-snake that Draco 
> did succeed in getting DE's into Hogwarts, did succeed in cornering
> DD, did succeed in holding him there until DE help arrived. Not 
> Snape's fault if the other DE's who arrived first were so thick
> they 
> couldn't spot Draco had been worked over by Dumbledore so he 
> couldn't cast the AK.
> 
> So Draco will probably survive.


I don't think Voldemort ever seriously expected Draco to kill
Dumbledore.  It was pure sadistic, drawn-out, mental torture before
killing Lucius, Narcissa and Draco who would be "punished" for
Draco's failure (classic blame-the-victim-for-his-own-fate stuff).

That Dumbledore is actually dead and by the hand of a man who
VOldemort might have still had doubts about can only make him happy. 
Hopefully he will then trust Snape more and more and give him
increased responsibility so that when the time comes Snape can
undermine from within at the climax of Book 7.  Especially since
Voldemort feels he can dispense with Lucius - a real plot surprise
for me in HBP.

Magda


		
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