DD and Draco's murder attempts(was Draco and Harry)

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 153318

--- "quigonginger" <quigonginger...> wrote: 
> Ginger:(editted)
>
> It's only in mid-December that Hermione warns him (Harry) that 
> Romilda is planning to spring a love potion on him.  Harry wants 
> to know how she plans to get it into the school, noting that the 
> owls are being searched.  ... F&G were still smuggling things in 
> disguised as cough syrups or perfumes.
>
> Ron is poisoned by mead that was intended as a Christmas present 
> for DD.
> Sluggy would have made no secret of the fact that he had bought 
> mead for DD for Christmas.

aussie: 

Sorry Ginger, I don't think Sluggy bought the mead. Draco got 
Rosemertta (acting under Draco's Curse) to send the bottle as a 
gift. 

Draco overhears Hermoine in mid-December and plots the poison 
because of her big mouth.

Sluggy would be allowed out of the school whenever he wished, being 
a teacher. On one of those visits, Rosemertta asked Sluggy to 
deliver the bottle to DD as a present. Sluggy "forgot" and still had 
the mead in his room in March. 

(Under impedamerta curse, would Rosmertta remembered who she passed 
the mead to if Draco asked why DD hadn't drunk his mead yet at 
Christmas? Did Sluggy still have it because Draco couldn't track 
down where that present went to?)

> Ginger:
> So it's not that DD did nothing, let Katie get poisoned in 
> October, still did nothing, and let Ron get poisoned in March; 
> it's that Draco had the presence of mind to have a plan A and a 
> plan B.  One was intended to happen in October, and the mead was 
> intended to strike at Christmas.  
> 
aussie:

Draco was getting frustrated with the cabinets, and made attempts 
when the chance offered itself. They may not have been planned too 
far in advance. (Draco cried to Moaning Myrtle because the cabinets 
were harder than he anticipated)

DD was limited in who he could get to talk to Draco and how much to 
tell. LV is a powerful Occlemacy wizard. Besides himself, Snape is 
the only one he trusted to withstand LV's mind reading and Snape 
does take Draco to the classroom to tell him off for clumsy attempts.

This was the reason DD gave to Draco when he finally spoke on the 
Tower.