It has to be Dumbledore, by Conservation of Narrative Detail: There’s no way that the conditions of Harry’s promise to Draco would have been spelled out in such detail if learning the truth would be all it took to expiate it.
It’s going to turn out that Dumbledore did intentionally burn an innocent Narcissa Malfoy to death, but for a justifiable reason (though it’s going to be interesting to see what that could be), and thus Harry is going to have the impossible task of convincing Draco to let him out of the promise.
Other than my desire for Snape to kill Dumbledore, I don’t see any reason why HJPEV should talk Draco into letting him out of the promise.
It is more important to the themes of the work for HJPEV to follow through on a promise so dramatically given, than to shirk it. Likewise, it would be important for Dumbledore to face the consequences as administered by HJPEV.
You have an interesting point about the promise. It is awfully detailed for something that would just be set aside. Still, it could have been so detailed just to allow a semi-light character like HJPEV to bond with a semi-dark character like Draco. Or maybe to allow the author to demonstrate the practice of thinking things through, through HJPEV. Or, as the Pedant One points out, something else entirely.
It has to be Dumbledore, by Conservation of Narrative Detail: There’s no way that the conditions of Harry’s promise to Draco would have been spelled out in such detail if learning the truth would be all it took to expiate it.
It has to be Dumbledore, by Conservation of Narrative Detail: There’s no way that the conditions of Harry’s promise to Draco would have been spelled out in such detail if learning the truth would be all it took to expiate it.
It’s going to turn out that Dumbledore did intentionally burn an innocent Narcissa Malfoy to death, but for a justifiable reason (though it’s going to be interesting to see what that could be), and thus Harry is going to have the impossible task of convincing Draco to let him out of the promise.
Other than my desire for Snape to kill Dumbledore, I don’t see any reason why HJPEV should talk Draco into letting him out of the promise.
It is more important to the themes of the work for HJPEV to follow through on a promise so dramatically given, than to shirk it. Likewise, it would be important for Dumbledore to face the consequences as administered by HJPEV.
You have an interesting point about the promise. It is awfully detailed for something that would just be set aside. Still, it could have been so detailed just to allow a semi-light character like HJPEV to bond with a semi-dark character like Draco. Or maybe to allow the author to demonstrate the practice of thinking things through, through HJPEV. Or, as the Pedant One points out, something else entirely.
Always be aware that there may be a possibility you haven’t thought of.