Ginny Haters/ a bit of Draco

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152208

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, elfundeb <elfundeb at ...> wrote:

> It doesn't appear that Draco needed to tell Voldemort his plan in order to
> secure DEs as backup.  The text suggests that he may have recruited his
> assistants on his own, because if he had asked Voldemort, wouldn't Snape
> have been aware of it?  (At least if you take at face value, as I do,
> Snape's statement that he was told about Draco's task before the UV.)  He
> tells Snape the evening of Slughorn's Christmas party that he had assistants
> for his task, and better ones than Crabbe and Goyle.  It's unclear who gave
> the DEs their orders to let Draco take care of Dumbledore himself.  Maybe,
> since it was Draco's operation, those orders came from him.
> 
Pippin:
Draco wasn't in charge of his assistants  or he would have known Fenrir
was coming.  Since Draco didn't go to Hogsmeade, someone else had to 
have put Rosmera under the Imperius curse. All this suggests that someone 
other than Draco was in charge of the operation.

I'd guess the cabinets were part of the plan from the beginning. The first 
thing Draco does is ask Borgin for advice on how
to fix the cabinet, and threaten him to make sure he doesn't sell the other
one. The necklace and the mead are obtained later. It could be that Voldemort 
first ordered Draco to find a way to get DE's into Hogwarts, and when, to his 
astonishment, Draco produced one, he then involved Draco in the plot.  
Voldemort did not have Draco trained in killing, which shows that he
never seriously expected Draco to kill. But getting the DE's into Hogwarts
was obviously very important to him, and seems to me to have been
aimed at getting Snape to burn his bridges.

Pippin