Ginny Haters/ a bit of Draco

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 152196

 Carol earlier:
> <SNIP of the whole post basically>
> ... but Draco keeps him in the dark about the vanishing cabinet,
which he volunteered to fix before he knew the use to which Voldemort
would want him to put it (not just using the cabinet to get DEs into
Hogwarts, but using them as back up when he murders Dumbledore). 
> <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I snipped your post,because I am only confused about this part of it.
> 
> Draco DID volunteer to fix the cabinet, but where do you get that he 
> volunteered to do so before he knew that he is assigned to kill 
> Dumbledore?
> 
> I am confused about chronology, I guess. I mean, I may agree with 
> you that it was independent from assignment of killing DD, but if 
> Draco already knew that he had this assignment, wouldn't it make 
> more sense that it was not independent?
> 
> Mgpie's reading makes more sense to me in this part, I suppose.

Carol responds:
As I read it, he figured out that the Vanishing Cabinets were linked
while he was still at school in OoP. After the incident at the MoM,
when his father was arrested, he determined to get revenge by joining
the DEs. During the summer, he went to Voldemort to give him this
information and volunteered to fix the Vanishing cabinet, at which
time Voldemort took advantage of the opportunity to punish Lucius
Malfoy's mistake and simultaneously take advantage of Draco's
Vanishing Cabinet idea by assigning Draco to murder Dumbledore, with
or without the aid of the Death Eaters.

Or that's how I see it. I doubt that Voldemort came after Draco to
recruit him. It makes more sense to me that Draco went to him,
especially given Draco's mood at the end of OoP and the precious
discovery that he wanted to share with the Dark Lord to impress him.
So the whole fix the cabinet, get the DEs into Hogwarts, and kill
Dumbledore became merged together as a kind of initiation for the new DE. 

Meanwhile Snape was informed of the general plan (Draco was assigned
to kill Dumbledore) but not the details (fixing the Vanishing Cabinet,
which was Draco's secret plan in HBP).

Do you see a different sequence of events, with Voldemort actively
recruiting Draco? Certainly LV assigned him the job of killing
Dumbledore ("It''s my job; he gave it to me"), but I'm not aware of
any canon evidence that the original contact between Voldemort and
Draco was Voldemort's idea. Draco was proud of his discovery and eager
to share it with LV, both for his own "glory" and revenge against
dumbledore and Harry. 

I can't see Voldemort coming to Draco, saying, "I have an assignment
for you: Murder Dumbledore," and Draco saying, "Oh, I have the perfect
way to do that. I'll fix the Vanishing Cabinet and create a passageway
between Hogwarts and Borgin and Burkes." At which point Voldemort
would either need to use Legilimency or require an explanation to know
what he was talking about.

It must have been the other way around; Draco told LV about the
passageway and volunteered to fix the cabinet, after which Voldemort
gave him the additional assignment, or ultimatum, of killing
Dumbledore, with the DEs as back up.

At least that's how the evidence reads to me.

Carol