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

[justcarol67]

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> Betsy Hp:
> I see Draco's statement as very fuzzy as far as truthfulness goes 
> because he refers to Fenrir as a "family friend", which is an 
> impossibility.  There's no way a family as stuck on blood purity as 
> the Malfoys are is going to befriend a creature with a blood 
> disease.  Draco is exaggerating, as Draco is wont to do.  

Carol responds:
The "family friend" has nothing to do with Greyback's part in the
plan, which at this point includes threatening Borgin and making sure
that he does whatever is necessary on his end (fixing the other
cabinet, giving draco instructions, making sure that cabinet isn't
sold, and allowing the DEs to use his cabinet when the time comes?).
But if Greyback is in on the plan from the beginning, he would
certainly *want* to come to Hogwarts. All those juicy children to eat.
He'd come whether he was ordered to or not, as Draco surely knows.

Betsy Hp:
> Both Alla and a_svirn are making the mistake (IMO <g>) of thinking 
> that Draco should realize he's in a novel.  We, the reader, can 
> expect a heavily foreshadowed character like Fenrir to show up again 
> (especially at a school given the limited background we've learned).  
> But Draco is supposed to assume that out of several nameless Death 
> Eaters he knows (that we've never met since we've not sat on Draco's 
> shoulder during the entirety of his life as he's met and/or heard of 
> several possible Death Eaters) that the mad werewolf is going to be 
> the one sent?
> 
> Sorry, but that's stretching it, IMO.  To show that Draco's surprise 
> is fake, you'll need to show a tell that hints as such at the time
he expresses his surprise.  <snip>

Carol responds:
But Draco doesn't express surprise. We don't see his reaction when the
Death Eaters enter, and in any case, he's still trying to get up the
nerve to kill Dumbledore, standing there with his wand still pointing
at DD, lowered only fractionally, shaking with fear and the
realization that killing isn't as easy as he thought. When *Dumbldore*
expresses surprise that Draco invited him, Draco denies that he did so
(the one thing he *can* deny) and says that he didn't know he'd be
there. Draco clearly feels revulsion, belatedly realizing that
Greyback would just as soon eat Slytherins as members of any other
House, but there's no indication of surprise. After all, Draco has
just met the DEs, including Greyback, in the RoR and led them through
the Peruvian Darkness Powder using his Hand of Glory to the foot of
the Astronomy Tower where they encountered the Order members. He's
gone on alone to wait for them, but he knows perfectly well that
Greyback is coming. "I didn't invite him" is no doubt true. But "I
didn't know he was coming" is naive at best and ceased to be true, if
it ever was, when the DEs came out of the cabinet in the RoR.

Carol, who does pity Draco but does not consider him an innocent in
this matter