What Came First: Task or Cabinet? - The Plan v1 & v2

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157648

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> Eddie:
> I snipped lots of interesting points, but this one point I'm not
> persuaded of.  There isn't any indication that Draco has any
contacts and/or help given him _BEFORE_ he got the cabinet working. 
> _AFTERWARD_ (and note, he would no longer be trapped at school)
> Voldemort may have been so pleased that he _THEN_ gave Draco the
help to further complete the plan.
> 
> Eddie
>
Carol responds:
Draco is certainly in contact with Borgin ("Draco's Detour")--not that
borgin is a DE--and is threatening to send Fenrir Greyback to Borgin's
shop if borgin doesn't cooperate in giving Draco the information he
needs to fix the Vanishing Cabinet. (It's not clear whether Borgin is
also working on the other one at the same time.) And Draco tells Snape
in "The Unbreakable Vow" that he has "back up" other than Crabbe and
Goyle, presumably Death Eaters. Unless Snape is wrong in his
inference, Aunt Bellatrix taught Draco Occlumency to thwart Snape's
"interference, so it's quite possible that she's in on the plan, and
someone Imperio'd Rosmerta and gave her the coin that Draco uses to
communicate with her. Clearly, Draco does have contacts, and at least
some DEs, including presumably Fenrir Greyback, know about the
Vanishing Cabinet plan. The only people left out of the loop are Snape
and Narcissa, the very people who talk about Draco's task at Spinner's
End.

Carol