The Cabinet Plan...again (was:Re: The UV (was ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 162751

Carol:
> > <snip>
> > However, I don't think any of the three knows about the *specific*
mission: to fix the Vanishing Cabinet and let the DEs into Hogwarts.
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Right, so I'm focusing in on this one little nit, but it's a nit I
just can't help picking.  There is nothing in canon to suggest that
Draco has been given a mission to get DE's into Hogwarts.  In fact,
canon is there to support that the Vanishing Cabinet scheme is thought
up by Draco, on his own, as a means to accomplish his one and only
task: killing Dumbledore.
> 
> I know we've been round and round on this particular issue, but I 
> cannot let any comment that reads like Voldemort assigning Draco the 
> task of fixing the cabinet and getting Death Eaters into Hogwarts is 
> established canon slide by.  I just can't. <g>

Carol:
Yes, I know. We disagree and will continue to disagree on this one
point. All I meant to say was that Snape may know, and probably does
know, that Voldemort has assigned Draco to kill Dumbledore. Whether LV
has specifically identified the task as a suicide mission to punish
Lucius or not (I think not), snape agrees with Narcissa that it might
be one. Like Narcissa, he clearly expects Draco to fail. But my point
is that, regardless of which came first, the Vanishing Cabinet or the
task of killing Dumbledore, Snape doesn't know about the Vanishing
Cabinet, which is the only way Draco can get DEs into Hogwarts for
backup. If Snape did know about the Vanishing Cabinet, he probably
would never have taken the Unbreakable Vow. He would simply have found
a way to thwart that plan. And there would be no point in Bellatrix's
teaching Draco Occlumency if Draco weren't trying to hide the
Vanishing Cabinet plan from Snape, regardless of whether Voldemort
knows about it or not (and I think he does).

Carol, hoping that you at least agree that Snape didn't know about the
Vanishing Cabinet when he took the UV