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

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 157682

Hi All,

Pippin asked:
>>> If Voldemort had any serious idea of repairing that cabinet, 
would he have assigned the task to an untried youth? If Voldemort 
thought that the cabinet could be fixed, would he have had Draco 
instructed in occlumency, yet left him on his own to discover how 
the cabinet could be repaired? <<<

I think Pippin's probably right there, but I had a worrying doubt 
that I'd seen an unlikely hero given a quest that rumbles on until 
an unlikely success. Bingo – Lord of the Rings. Tom Riddle may well 
have read Lord of the Rings. The Lexicon suggests that Voldemort was 
born in December 1926 which would make him 27 when it was published. 
Granted that's long after he was immersed in the muggle world, but 
who knows? Perhaps he saw Lucius as Bilbo, and Draco as Frodo. Draco 
is such an unlikely choice, and that helped Draco "fly under the 
radar" of the more weighty characters.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.

PS If Narcissa suddenly moves house I'll peg her as Lobelia 
Sackville-Baggins