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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 162766

> 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. 

a_svirn:
Wouldn't he, though? I wonder why not? He jolly well should have 
thought of that. Just like he should have thought about the 
possibility of poisoning someone else besides Dumbledore with that 
mead. He might not have *stopped* to think about such things, but I 
think he realised perfectly well the possible consequences of his 
actions. He'd be an idiot not to, and we know very well he's 
anything but. 

That's the thing that bothers me about the bathroom scene, for 
instance. We are told quite unequivocally that Harry was oblivious 
to the danger of using an unknown jinx labelled "for enemies", 
which, of course, makes his case so very different from Draco's. But 
I just can't swallow it. After all he'd been through he *should* 
have known better than that. Quite suddenly from being "on the brink 
of manhood" he reverted to a silly little boy mode, and he hadn't 
been all that silly, even when he'd been little. 

> Magpie:
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.

a_svirn:
Oh, that's clearly a lie. Grayback was part of the group from the 
start. 

> Magpie:
> 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. <snip>

a_svirn:
I agree, but I don't see how his internal conflict made him blind to 
the blatantly obvious. On the contrary, I think that if Draco had 
been so confident about his fellow death eaters' good behaviour or 
if he hadn't realised in how many ways his own attempts could 
miscarry his internal conflict could have been less intense.