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

[horridporrid03]

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> >>Magpie:
> > But the Cabinet Plan perfectly illustrates what you described    
> > above as the teen mentality and Draco's conflict. The Cabinet    
> > plot makes perfect sense as Draco's idea in that mindset, because 
> > it puts something between him and the murder. He can work so     
> > doggedly at fixing the Cabinet precisely because it is supposed  
> > to be a way to do murder but it clearly isn't. It's just getting 
> > DEs into the castle. It's only after they're there that he has to 
> > face the actual murder part.

> >>Pippin:
> I agree that Draco is able to work diligently on the cabinet
> because he doesn't associate it with the murder. What I'm 
> questioning is whether he would be have been able to
> avoid the association if  it was his idea to use the cabinets
> as an instrument of murder. 

Betsy Hp:
I think he would have.  Because it's a two part plan, isn't it? (1) 
Get backup into Hogwarts; (2) Kill Dumbledore. And what Draco is 
focused very heavily on is part (1).  Which enables him to diligently 
*not* think about part (2).

It's like when you have not-wanted guests coming over for the 
holidays.  You concentrate on getting the house into shape and the 
big meal planned while carefully not thinking about having to deal 
with your alcoholic brother-in-law.

Because Draco cannot duck out of planning Dumbledore's murder 
completely.  For one, it's his assigned task.  For another, he 
doesn't want to deal with the fact that he's not really comfortable 
planning a murder (which ducking out of would force him to 
contemplate).  So he has to do *something*.  And getting backup into 
Hogwarts is a challenging enough problem that he can focus all of his 
energy into it and not think about anything else.

> >>Pippin:
> There's also the idea that Draco thinks he doesn't need to
> be a qualified wizard to do his task, and that he doesn't
> want to share any of his glory with Snape. If that's his 
> mindset, why would he think of using the cabinets for
> adult backup at all?

Betsy Hp:
Because whoever came through the cabinet, *Draco* would be in charge 
of them.  Or at least, that's what he can tell himself.  However, 
there's no way Draco can fool himself into thinking he's in charge of 
Snape.  Their relationship is too established.

Betsy Hp