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

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Snow (me previously):
At this point all we can be certain 
of is that Malfoy is looking into fixing the cabinets and has the 
Dark Mark 
on his arm, unless someone is under the assumption that it would not 
take 
any qualified skill to kill the Headmaster; Even Draco
wouldn't be that cocky to assume he could do the nasty to Dumbledore 
without 
skill.

Magpie:
We know Draco is looking into fixing the Cabinets. We don't know that 
he 
has the Dark Mark on his arm. He is indeed under the assumption that 
it 
would not take full qualifications to kill the headmaster, and is 
cocky 
about it. Draco isn't saying he can kill Dumbledore without *skill.* 
He's 
saying it's something he doesn't need to be "fully qualified" for, 
and he's 
right.

Snow:

You are not forgetting that Harry has stated in canon of his 
suspicions that Draco indeed has shown his arm to be a sensitive and 
yet a pants-wetting threat to Borgins have you? Let me remind you 
where you can find these quotes: HBP pgs. 114 and 125.

Snow (me previously):

Sounds like a fairly accurate assumption to me especially since we 
see that 
Draco's cocky attitude gives way to crying to Myrtle over halfway 
through 
the book, what changed?

Magpie:
He discovered he wasn't cut out for killing, for one.

Snow:

Yes that's one!

Snow (previously):

Even Dumbledore himself notices upon reflection to Draco that his 
feeble 
attempts at killing him seemed almost like his heart wasn't in it. 
That 
would be because at the point that he attempted to kill Dumbledore 
via the 
necklace and mead, Draco was more interested in the cabinets.why 
would that 
be unless he was yet to be informed of his actual mission?

Magpie:
Good lord, the entire plot is unraveling before my eyes! Draco is 
confronting his not being a killer and the reality behind his fantasy 
of 
being a DE. His attempts to kill are not half-hearted because he's 
more 
interested in fixing furniture, but because he doesn't have the heart 
of a 
murderer. This is a transformative story, Draco's not just passively 
reacting to off-page plot complications.

Snow:

Wow! Are you really attempting to find out what happened or are you 
more concerned with your own ending? I'm not even sure where you are. 

Snow (previously):
The problem is Draco's secrecy about his cabinet venture, even from 
his 
mother, caused him greater problems. Draco was not expecting such a 
mediocre 
backup group of deatheaters as he well aknowledged to Dumbledore when 
the 
fact that Fenrir was inside the school of Draco's friends.

Magpie:
Mediocre? No, the issue isn't that they're mediocre. They burst in at 
the 
moment when Draco was lowering his wand, accepting that he did not 
want to 
kill. And once they show up and he can't do that, they're there 
waiting for 
him to kill and he knows now he isn't going to for sure. The back up 
is now 
preventing the back out. The arrival of Fenrir just piles on more 
horror--he's not mediocre, he's terrifying. When DD says he's 
surprised 
Draco would bring him to the place where his friends are, Draco, for 
the 
first time in all of canon, actually wants DD to think him a better 
person 
than someone who would do that. It's not the story of a school-age 
Death 
Eater reacting to practical difficulties between and his goal to kill 
DD and 
attack the school.

Snow:

OK! If that's what you wish to believe but I guess we are reading 
things way differently here. 

Best of luck in the upcoming book!

Snow