ACID POPS and Teenager Draco - Motivation?/Re: CHAPDISC:HBP19,Elf Tails

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 157587

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>         bboyminn:> 
> > Certainly NOW Draco's task is ultimately to kill 
> > Dumbledore, but what is his means for doing this? It's 
> > getting the Vanishing Cabinet working. >snip<

                       

Laurawkids:

IMO, which is kooky at best, at first Draco knows about the cabinets 
and has no real reason to fix the one.  Then LV approaches him, to 
get back at Lucius and maybe actually get DD out of the way - strange 
and dangerous things can happen when magical teenagers are pushed to 
the edge (just like in RL). 

If Draco initially buys that he is capable of doing the dirty deed, 
he still has one problem - getting OUT of the castle to a place of 
safety once he has done it.  So he remembers the cabinets.

So I think that the cabinet affords two things:  1. getting some 
backup in there to hold DD in check while Draco does the deed (this 
is the limit of what Draco expects from them, not for them to ravage 
the school), and 2. giving them a passage back OUT to B&B's.  "Why 
Draco couldn't have done it, he was (for some bizarre reason) in 
Knockturn Alley"  Draco does not really want to be caught, does he?  

The second, and best, use of the cabinet obviously goes wrong.  
Snape, who did not enter via the cabinet, or even know about it, is 
leading Draco out in the best way that Snape can think of.  Draco may 
be in too much shock to insist on going to the RoR.  Or am I 
forgetting that the RoR is being guarded?  The DE's would not really 
know how to get back in the door anyway, but the best plan would have 
been for Draco to lead them back to the room and wish the door open 
again.  Their plan did not include the Order guard being there, I 
think.  They thought it would be a stealth operation.  

Did Draco think anyone would buy DD dying from a fall from a tower?  
Because that is what it would have looked like if they had just snuck 
back out.  Because Draco did not know Fenrir was coming, he seems to 
think it means harm only to DD and not any other kids.

Laurawkids, who is just rambling at this point.