Draco's task (For Magpie and those who agree with her)

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No: HPFGUIDX 157766

Carol:>
Draco
> would fix the cabinet, allowing the DEs into Hogwarts. The DEs
would
> set off the Dark Mark over the Astronomy Tower, fight off or kill
> anyone who got in the way, and force Draco to do the task.
(Unknown to
> him, at first, they'd kill him if he failed.)


Orna:
Actually, Draco did fail – and we don't see any hint of them trying 
to kill him. They insist upon Draco doing it – holding Greyback 
back, but nothing there about killing Draco. They want Snape to act –
 perhaps as Draco's teacher convince him, or help him to do it. But –
 as soon as Dumbledore is killed – nothing more there. You might say 
that Draco's failing didn't look to them as clear-cut- since he had 
admitted them into the castle, and got Dumbledore wandless. But that 
seems to underline it, in fact – Draco doesn't succeed, not because 
he is afraid of Dumbledore, not because he thinks he won't get away 
with it – he has support, he has nothing to fear from Dumbledore – 
and he isn't able to do it- plain and visible in front of the Des.

>Magpie:
>Right. The job was always to kill Dumbledore, and the means that
>Draco was getting DEs into the castle. <snip>And if he means Snape 
>to kill Dumbledore in the end <snip>he's already in the castle and 
>could kill him without use of
>any Cabinet.

Orna:
I think it's Voldemort's "fun" to have Draco either killing or 
getting killed by Dumbledore: that would make headmaster Dumbledore 
kill his student – he would never be able to convince anyone, that 
Draco was DE, and even if he did – who would care about it - it's a 
skilled adult wizard killing a kid. (The bonus- revenge on Lucius, 
but that's still open – Draco didn't wholly succeed, so he can 
assign him with another devilish task).The other "fun" -option – 
having an (innocent-seeming) kid killing the headmaster. Again – it 
would be a complete turmoil in sense of the wizarding world – 
Hogwart's etc. And there is the other "Voldemort-fun" scenario   - 
having Snape killing Dumbledore, or dying trying to do it – again – 
a most destabilizing act in terms of the wizarding world, and also a 
loyalty-test for Snape –like terrorists do. Since Voldemort never 
succeeded killing Dumbledore himself – he wouldn't really believe 
that this time, through a teenager, it would work. But even if not – 
the advantages, from his point of view are tremendous-  a student 
trying to kill headmaster, DE in the school, perhaps a teacher 
trying to kill headmaster, or getting killed in the battle (it might 
have gone astray – since Snape had been sleeping
). Really from 
Voldemort's point of view – he had only to gain from whatever would 
happen. And the big bonus, if they succeeded in killing Dumbledore. 
Evil cunning at it's best.

Orna