[HPforGrownups] Spinner's End - Unbreakable Vow

[Regina Freitag]

No: HPFGUIDX 136625

Glenna wrote:
Bear with me here I'm very very new at this.  I have read and reread 
this chapter and the one thing that sticks in my mind is...

Was Draco supposed to kill DD, or was he just being used to fix the 
broken cabinet at Hogwarts so that the DE's could get in.  He may
have bragged that he could fix anything and Voldmort decided to test 
him and have him fix it, if he couldn't he told him he would kill him. 

If this were the case then Snape didn't have to kill DD.  The other 
thing that come to mind is the phrase " they can't kill you if your 
already dead " and the thought that maybe the White Tomb isn't a tomb 
but a hiding place. 
Just me ever the optimist.


Glenna


That's an interesting theory, and I do hope you're right about Dumbledore. :-) 

But as for Draco's task, it is in my opinion more likely that Voldemort's order was to kill Dumbledore. At Spinner's End, Narcissa points out that not even Voldemort had succeeded in what he ordered Draco to do. Voldemort would certainly like to get rid of Dumbledore and he did fail to do so in the Ministry. Of course he could have although tried to find a possibility to get access to the castle from outside, despite the protection spells, but, I guess, even though I'm not sure, that if he had planned that earlier, maybe even as a student, he could have accomplished it. Creating horcruxes seems to be much more complicated than that.  

Moreover, repairing the cabinet so that the DE could get entrance would not necessarily have put him into danger, like an attempt of murder would. And Narcissa considers it highly dangerous for Draco. 

But your theory is very appealing, maybe Rowling has tricked us all. I merely pointed out a few things that seem to speak against it, but there have been much more surprising revelations in the Potter books. Dumbledore would be able to fake his own death, no doubt. 

 
Regina.