[HPforGrownups] Faking Ollivander's Death by Death Eater Attack?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 148341

--- Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Can't find the exact spot to make this point so I just make it as
> an independant thought. Many people seem to think that Dumbledore
> would have faked Ollivander's death to look like a Death Eater 
> attack, but doesn't that seem extremely unlikely? 
> 
> .....If anyone would know what the Death Eaters are doing it
> would be Voldemort and the Death Eaters. So, if they knew that 
> they had not attacked Ollivander, then wouldn't the fake attack 
> seem pretty...well, you know...FAKE? 

I don't own a copy of HBP yet (I refuse to pay hardcover prices; I
buy paperback) so I can't check the text for the description of
Ollivander's disappearance, whether it was DE or not.

But I can think of one reason why Dumbledore would have faked the
attack to look like a DE one: if whacking Ollivander was something
that Snape was assigned to do to prove that he was indeed still a DE.
 (Nothing like shared guilt for homicide to bind a group together.) 
In that situation, I can readily believe Dumbledore going to great
lengths to ensure that Snape is accepted back into Voldemort's
confidence and would sell Ollivander himself on the need to vanish
for a couple of years.

Otherwise, I agree with Steve.

Magda

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