[HPforGrownups] Re: What Came First: Task or Cabinet? - The Plan v1 & v

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157704

> > Betsy Hp:
> > The canon version has a good reason for Voldemort to seek out Draco,
> > and his plan is incredibly coherent with a high amusement value.
> > (Which is all the plan is supposed to have as per canon.)
>
> Random832:
> Stop calling it "the canon version" - that's incredibly arrogant of
> you. All we have from canon is that Narcissa believes it to be the
> case. Snape doesn't even confirm it. And knowing JKR, we know that
> doesn't mean it's true.

I was annoyed and tired, so I didn't word this response as well as I
might have - but the point remains that there are a lot of things that
aren't actually canon, that one or more characters _in_ canon may
believe to be the case, and accepting these at face value is tempting.
But the fact is, we're _not_ told who went to who, we're not told why
Voldemort is doing this, and, most of all (I'm not sure if anyone has
picked up on this)

We're not told what task Voldemort ordered Draco to complete. As far
as I know, it's never actually stated "Voldemort ordered Draco to kill
Dumbledore" or "Voldemort ordered Draco to fix the vanishing cabinet
to infiltrate the school" or "Voldemort ordered Draco to wear pink
underwear every day for the whole term". Even those of us who were
aware of all the misdirection that JKR engages in regularly didn't
pick up on this - I didn't pick up on it myself until my mind wandered
to the subject in the course of reading this thread in a
sleep-deprived state. All the little bits of misdirection, even though
some of us saw through them (and not necessarily saying what's implied
to be true is false, just that it's not known to be true), were
themselves a distraction from the big one - our belief that we know
that Draco was ordered to kill Dumbledore.

-- 
Random832