Ignoring your cheap shot at his character/motivations, what you consider your "evidence" is not at all conclusive.

Incidentally, and I know professors don't like to see students use it as a source, according to Wikipedia:

"The real danger of balefire, however, is that it can undo (or erase) the past actions of anyone it hits... Balefire has different effects based on what it hits. For living beings, a mere touch seems to be enough to wipe the entire being from existence. For normal structures and objects, it seems to destroy only what it touches."