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

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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).

Snow:

If Draco and the Slytherin guys that heard Montague's tale of the 
cabinets, thinking it fascinating, were quiet about this news, I'll 
eat my hat. 

Slytherin's are braggarts and the biggest of all being Draco who 
announced to Dumbledore on the Tower that `he' was the `only' one who 
connected the dots as to what this could mean. (Then again, Draco is 
only surveying the situation as to his fellow classmates inept 
understanding I'm sure) 

These guys are in Snape's House and yet Snape did not get wind of the 
story that was being told or maybe Snape did not connect the dots as 
well as young Draco? It doesn't seem reasonable that Snape, being an 
exceptional Slytherin, would not have realized the potential hazard 
that could occur with those cabinets especially since Snape was the 
one who saved Montague and would have heard the Whole story long 
before it fell on Draco's ears (legilimence is a wonderful tool). 

Dumbledore was confronted by Harry of Draco's newfound likeness to 
the ROR and Draco's woops of joy from inside the room and yet 
Dumbledore's response was anything but stunned. Dumbledore instead 
was more like Willy Wonka
lets push forward, so much time and so 
little to do
reverse that. 

Dumbledore knew and Snape knew what the various possibilities were

strategies were formed for each case scenario, concerning the 
cabinets, to be enacted as previously agreed upon. That could be why 
Snape argued with Dumbledore that he was taking too much for granted. 
I don't think Snape had the assurance that Dumbledore felt over 
Draco's final decision.

I don't see any flaws with this possibility but then again I am 
viewing this from Dumbledore-has-a-plan, which he does admit to in 
OOP. Dumbledore has more pieces of the puzzle than we have to work 
with and he only allows certain persons knowledge; Dumbledore and 
Voldemort have something in common after all, no `one' person knows 
everything about them. 

I see Dumbledore's evaluation of this circumstance much like the 
chess game in SS, sometimes you have to lose a very important piece 
to get the checkmate! Then again was Ron a sacrifice in the end or 
just a willing pawn (knight) that didn't really die for his heartfelt 
deed? 

Snow