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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 162758

> > 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.

phoenixgod:
> 
> If the cabinet was competely of Draco's own volition, I think that 
> makes Draco worse actually.  What did he think was going to 
happen, 
> the death eaters were going to use sunshine and rose petals on the 
> students?  He moves from a reluctant assassin, to one that has 
gone 
> out of his way to go above and beyond his basic mission. 

 For me that 
> takes a lot of the sting out of the poor, blackmailed Draco that 
you 
> believe in.  If he were so bothered by his actions he would be 
trying 
> so darn hard. he'd just be going through the motions instead.

Magpie:
Whether it makes Draco seem worse I think it's canon. But he isn't 
going beyond his basic mission at all by bringing in the DEs 
intentionally. The DEs are there to give him his shot at Dumbledore. 
You're right that this could possibly lead to even more damage if 
the DEs decided to attack students, but Draco himself wouldn't 
necessarily think that. I doubt he envisions them having anything to 
do with the students. Interestingly, the Death Eater who 
specifically does express a desire to attack students is the one 
Draco admits to DD he didn't expect.

So it certainly makes Draco potentially responsible for worse 
things, but he's not intentionally moving beyond his mission to get 
students attacked. He's written as conflicted--trying hard but also 
hampered by internal conflict. Also when Draco gets to the point 
where he's motivated more by threats it's not blackmail, it's death 
threats. Which wouldn't make him likely to want to try even more 
evil plots on the side. The DEs are the plan to kill Dumbledore. 

-m