Ginny Haters/ a bit of Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 152225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> 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.

With the first I agree, but Draco already had Rosmerta under Imperius.
He did it the Hogsmeath weekend when he let her give the cursed
necklace to Katy. He kept her under Imperius and by enchanted coin
made her tell him when DD was away. Draco admitted that at the towe scene.

> 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.

Interesting thought. But why would he want to dot that? From what the
DE's say at the tower scene they all expect Draco to do the deed. They
clearly have been instructed to do so. When he does not, they have a
problem. But why would LV want to make Snape burn his bridges? He is
still useful as a spy in a dissaranged OoP. I fully agree that he
never expected Draco to come this far, but I don't think LV is
somebody who expects people need to learn how to kill. After all it
was something he never had any trouble with. 

Gerry