What Came First: Task or Cabinet?(was Re: ACID POPS and Teenager Draco...)

[horridporrid03]

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> >>bboyminn: 
> > > While I am not discrediting all the things that have 
> > > been said so far, but let us not forget that Draco 
> > > went to Voldemort with the Vanishing Cabinet Plan. 

> >>Magpie:
> > No, he DID NOT.  I'm sorry to be so vehement but I can't 
> > stand having this presented as canon.  Voldemort 
> > discovered Lucius had destroyed the Horcrux.  His anger 
> > was terrible to behold. ...

> bboyminn:
> Sorry but your wrong, or at least as wrong as I am. What 
> is the very first thing that occurs chronologically in 
> the book? Not the first thing the books reveals to us, but 
> the first thing that occurs chronologically. Anwer: Draco 
> figures out that there are two connected Vanishing Cabinets; 
> one inside Hogwarts, one outside. This occurs late in the 
> previous school year or over the summer. I think it is a 
> fair interpretation of canon, that the entire Draco plot 
> grows from that piece of information. 

Betsy Hp:
I think your time-line is wrong, Steve.  Draco tells Dumbledore that 
he got the idea about the cabinet after hearing Montague's story.  
That can't have occured at the end of the school year because 
Montague was too sick (I'm not sure he *could* talk at that time).  
So the visit must have occured over the summer.

Since Spinner's End happens within the first few weeks of summer 
break than the very first thing that happens chronologically to 
Draco is that he receives his task.  

And that makes logical sense too.  Why would pre-task!Draco bother 
*thinking* about getting Death Eaters into Hogwarts?  Why would he 
randomly decide this is a problem Voldemort needs to solve? (It's 
not like Death Eaters haven't made themselves at home in Hogwarts 
before.) Post-task!Draco, however, will be doing a great deal of 
brainstorming, and be quite ready for an "aha!" moment when he 
visits Montague over the summer.

I also wonder what possible reason Voldemort would have at *not* 
involving Snape if his main goal is an invasion of Hogwarts.  And I 
wonder why he'd send such a second rate crew through the cabinets if 
the invasion was his ultimate goal.

Betsy Hp