Draco's Plot (Vanishing Cabinets)

[whtwitch91]

No: HPFGUIDX 152277

A discussion has been going on for some time about Draco's repair of 
the Vanishing cabinets and if he had told Voldemort about his plan 
to break the DEs into Hogwarts in detail. I know we're supposed to 
snip, but I just couldn't figure out how to do it and not single 
someone out.  I apologize for not snipping.

In my opinion Voldemort was never told about the vanishing cabinet 
plan because he would have stopped it at once.  First I asked 
myself, how did this pair of devices get set up? The vanishing 
cabinets are not like a pair of shoes, they don't even look alike, 
one is black, the other black and gold and in conventional muggle 
magic they work alone, usually.  Someone, I think, set them up to 
work together as a passageway between Borgin and Burkes and 
Hogwarts.  Who would do such a thing, and why?  Unless there is an 
ESE! person at Hogwarts that would want to go to Knockturn Alley, a 
disreputable place, there is no reason for a member of the staff to 
do it.  They would have set them up to go into Diagon Alley 
instead.  But there is a reason why someone would want to go from 
Borgin and Burkes to Hogwarts and that is Voldemort himself.  He 
used to work there.  The propriators are off color.  Ten years after 
Voldemort killed Hepzibiah Smith and stole her artifacts he came 
back to Hogwarts to ask for a teaching position that he didn't 
really want.  On that visit he could  have taken a nostalic tour and 
casully touched the cabinet.  A quick spell and it is linked to the 
Knockturn Alley cabinet.  DD thought that Voldemort wanted to look 
for more Horcruxes in Hogwarts, but perhaps he was looking for a 
safe place to hide one (or more) as well.

Perhaps the damage done by Peeves wasn't the only reason the cabinet 
was malfunctioning.  Perhaps Voldemort turned off the cabinets when 
he didn't want to use them.  Then, in Harry's second year, they were 
truly broken and Voldemort couldn't get in.  Before that he was in 
no physical condition to do it.  

I don't believe that Draco would have to go to Voldemort to get the 
DEs to enter Hogwarts.  Bella and Narcissa could have set that up.  
His famiy is connected.  And I think they wanted to present 
Voldemort with a "fait accompli" so he wouldn't have been told 
beforehand. Because if he set up the cabinets as a passageway there 
is no way he would want anyone to know about it.

Poor Draco.

Now I know this is all conjecture, but it does sort of hang together 
unlike most of my little theories of the month. 

Back to lurking.
Sue