[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape didn't kill Dumbledore

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 157235


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>Kenneth:
>What I don't understand is what the DeathEaters were hoping to
>achieve in Hogwarts while Dumbledore was away.  They were obviously
>informed by Rosmerta that he had gone with Harry so why were they
>there - to take Voldemort's hidden horcrux?  What?

wynnleaf
How about kidnap Trelawney?   After all, Voldemort really wanted that 
prophecy.  But after HBP, the only way to get it was either from DD 
(impossible) or Trelawney.  Remember that DD said several times that 
Trelawney needed to stay in Hogwarts, presumably for her own protection.

Harry wonders after the attack if someone didn't go back and make sure the 
vanishing cabinet had been shut down, but we don't hear any more about it.  
Suppose some DE's that we don't know of grabbed Trelawney and took her back 
through the cabinet?

Interesting that Harry told her to stay put when he left her in the hallway 
to find Dumbledore.  What if she *did* stay put?  Would it make it easy for 
DE's to find her?

Of course, Draco chased her off from the Room of Requirement, but that could 
have just been an accident, him chasing off whatever intruder happened to 
come into the RoR while he was engaged in his project.

Anyway, she certainly wasn't mentioned at the funeral.  'Course, she could 
just have been drinking somewhere.

But if Voldemort sent the DE's not just as back-up for Draco, but for some 
*other* project, then we have one other current goal of LV's that we *know*  
of and that would relate to Hogwarts, and that's getting the prophecy.  LV 
knows that Trelawney gave the prophecy, since Snape would have told him 
years before.  Why not kidnap Trelawney?  Sounds like a good plan to me.

As a matter of fact, if LV sent DE's into Hogwarts, complete with a 
convenient escape route, he *should* have had them kidnap Trelawney -- from 
a strategic point of view of course.

wynnleaf

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