Voldemort's Plan for Draco ... (wasRe: Ginny Haters/ a bit of Draco)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 152272

bboyminn wrote:
> 
> <snip> I think way too much is being made of the 'Revenge against
the Malfoys' angle. First and foremost, if Voldemort truly wants
vengence or revenge, why doesn't he just take it? Why this wacky
scheme involving Draco? 
> 
> If we look at this chronologically, the first event that occurs is
Draco realizing that the Vanishing Cabinet represents a way into the
school. THAT is why I use that as my starting point, because it is the
first usable piece of information available. The next logical step is
for smarmy Draco to present this information to Voldemort. The next
logical step is that Voldemort hands Draco far more than Draco
bargained for. I suspect Draco has delusions that he can be a DE and
still keep his hands clean. Surprise, surprise.
> 
> Voldemort could have accepted just the access to the Castle part of
the plan, and still accomplished his goal, but his vengence is to give
Draco the addition impossible task of killing Dumbledore. I seriously
 doubt that he expexted Draco to be capable of doing this, but it had
the added benefit of tormenting all of he Malfoys. 

><snip> But never before has Voldemort been able to get his DE's so
close to Dumbledore and pull off a suprirse attack. That is the value
of the Vanishing Cabinets, and that is the core of the plan.
Tormenting the Malfoys is merely an added benefit. <snip>

Carol responds:

Exactly. To have Voldemort assign Draco the impossible task of killing
Dumbledore *before* he knows about the passage into Hogwarts that can
be created if Draco repairs the cabinet is (IMO) an absurd
coincidence. As you say, there are other, much more efficient, ways of
punishing Lucius Malfoy, starting with AKing his wife and child. There
must be more to it, and that more, IMO, is the useful information that
Draco has presented and the multiple evil uses to which it can be put.

To have Draco present his discovery to LV *first*, having been
motivated to join the DEs by vengeance against Harry and Dumbledore
for his father's arrest, followed by Voldemort's *taking advantage* of
that discovery to get DEs into the castle to kill Dumbledore if and
when Draco fails in the attempt, is simple cause and effect, a logical
sequence of events and an illustration of the way Voldemort's mind
usually works. (Look at the way he handled the information he forcibly
extracted from Bertha Jorkins.) The likelihood of Draco's failure,
which can be used to punish the Malfoys, is simply icing on the cake.

Carol, glad she's not the only one who holds this view