When did Draco Imperius Rosmerta? (was: Re: CHAPDISC: hbp12, Silver and Opals)

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No: HPFGUIDX 149716

> >>lyraofjordan:
> > > 10) If Malfoy was in detention, how did the necklace end up at 
> > > the Three Broomsticks?
 
> >>Carol:
> Good question! Draco couldn't have taken it on the train and      
> dropped it off at Hogsmeade instead of taking the carriages to    
> Hogwarts. I think that he bought it by owl order once he started  
> to worry about not being able to fix the Vanishing Cabinet but had 
> Borgin send it, wrapped in plain brown paper, to Madam Rosmerta,   
> to be picked up by its owner later. He may have had the idea for   
> the Imperius curse working through a coin and the bottle of       
> poisoned mead at about the same time. All he'd need to do would be 
> to use the cursed coin to buy some butterbeer on the first         
> Hogsmeade weekend, and once she was under his control, he could   
> carry out the rest of his plan.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
But, this chapter occurs *during* the first Hogsmeade weekend.  I 
can see delivery being made to the Three Broomsticks (students must 
get their contrabrand sent *somewhere* and I can see Madam Rosmerta 
turning a fond blind-eye) but when does Draco Imperius her?   
According to McGonagall he's had no opportunity to get down to 
Hogsmead that day because of his detention.

> >>Carol:
> BTW, someone made the suggestion that "Zabini" in this chapter was 
> polyjuiced Draco, but that would have to mean that Blaise was     
> cooperating with Draco and taking his detention for him. I didn't 
> get the idea that they were close, or that Blaise is a budding DE 
> despite his snooty personality.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
That was me!  And it's only because I'm trying to figure out *when* 
Draco got down to Hogsmeade to Imperius Madam Rosmerta.  It couldn't 
have been before time, unless Prefects have some sort of special 
pass we've never heard of.  The stepped up security would make it 
very hard for Draco to sneak off campus, I'd think.

I'm not positive Blaise was a polyjuiced Draco.  It's just strange 
that his presence was even brought to our attention, so I'm making a 
leap.  Though if it *was* polyjuice there's no reason to assume that 
Blaise is in on the plan.  In fact, given Crabbe and Goyle, I 
seriously doubt Draco told *anyone* about his activities.  But it'd 
have been easy enough for him to either pay Blaise (as he does with 
his Quidditch substitute), or to recognize that he seriously owes 
Blaise one.  He and Blaise seem to get on, and I can see Draco 
wheedling that sort of favor out of him.  (Crabbe or Goyle would be 
a bad choice since McGonagall has Draco doing academic work.)

However, if Blaise is Blaise, it still leaves the question of 
exactly *when* Draco put Madam Rosmerta under the Imperius.

Betsy Hp