Draco's Plot

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No: HPFGUIDX 152489



> 
> Betsy Hp:
> ...  The moment Voldemort  starts going all out, he cooks up a 
> plan to kill Dumbledore, and Snape  is the assassin.  Draco is a 
> distraction and a nicely cruel way to  punish a naughty Death Eater.
> 


> Betsy Hp:
> I agree  with Magpie, there doesn't seem to be any point to getting 
> the Death  Eaters into Hogwarts except as backup for Draco.  ...
> 
>  

>bboyminn:

<snip>
>I think you are likely right,  Draco was merely a distraction, but
>Draco getting DE's into the castle is  important and critical. Further
>once in the Castle, Draco become  irrelavant, Snape or other DE's can
>attempt to kill Dumbledore.  

>As to why Snape hasn't killed Dumbledore in the past, that was not  his
job. <snip>
>It seems unreasonable for Voldemort to truly  expect Draco to be able
>to kill Dumbledore when far better wizards than  he have failed. So,
>maybe now is the time to force Snape to act. Snape  says as much,
>saying that he suspects Voldemort expects Snape to do 'it'  in the end.
>With Dumbledore out of the way, Snape is more valuable as a  DE than as
>a Spy. In other words, Voldemort is confident enough of his  position
>that he can afford to lose Snape-the Spy, and gain Snape-the  General.

<snip>
Nikkalmati:
I have not yet decided either way regarding which came first the chicken or  
the egg (the order to kill DD or the Cabinets).  Both theories appear  
possible.  However, I am somewhat confused about SS' role here.  SS,  you both 
assume, knows that Draco was ordered to kill DD.  I guess we all  agree that Draco 
is unlikely to succeed and DD's death is the result of his own  severe weakness 
at the exact moment his life is threatened on the Tower. (  In fact, one 
reason SS was not ordered to kill DD previously IMO is that even SS  was unlikely 
to succeed.)
 
 SS tells NM and BB that he thinks LV intends him to do "it" in the  end.   
The reader knows "it" is DD's demise.  Yet LV  apparently has not told SS 
directly to do it himself, if needed.  SS is  pretty much left in the dark by LV 
and DM.  He doesn't know when this is  supposed to happen and his attempts to 
pump DM (i.e. Slughorn's  party)   tell us SS doesn't know DM's plan.  I don't 
think  LV expects his minions to guess at what he wants or to take much  
initiative.  How then is SS supposed to step up and take DM's place if  needed?  
What if he had not even been in the castle that night? We can  speculate that LV 
has lost faith in SS, but even he can't exactly expect SS  to carry out a plan 
he knows nothing about.  How can it be a test, if SS  has not been told what 
to do?  If LV figures DD's death is worth losing SS  as a spy, he would have 
to tell SS that.  Also, no one knew DD would be in  such bad shape that night, 
so did LV expect SS to be able to take on DD or did  he think SS and 5 DE's 
would be enough?  Wasn't it in OTP that DD knocked  out all the Aurors in his 
office without breaking a sweat?  
Did LV even know what DM was planning?  Maybe BB and DM cooked up the  
Cabinet plan themselves.  In that case LV was sitting back not aware of the  plan, 
just waiting for DM to fail- in which case LV would kill him or (even  better) 
DD would be forced to kill DM, causing even more havoc.  Any orders  for SS to 
kill DD would be given later after DM was dead.  Any  thoughts?
Nikkalmati


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