What Came First: Task or Cabinet? - The Plan v1 & v

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 157782

> >>Random832:
> I was saying that _without_ the vanishing cabinet, Voldemort      
> viewing this seriously as an attempt to kill DD doesn't make      
> sense - and we therefore don't even _consider_ that angle at      
> first, since we don't know about the vanishing cabinet - and then 
> some of us may be too emotionally invested in "Voldemort planned  
> the whole thing to get Draco killed for revenge on Lucius" to     
> consider the alternative when the facts changed.

Betsy Hp:
What facts changed?  On the Tower we know about the assignment 
Voldemort gave Draco, we know the various ways he tried to fulfill 
it (the cabinet, the mead and the necklace), and we know that Draco 
wasn't really meant to survive.  Dumbledore sums that all up for 
us.  As he usually does at the end of a book when the mystery of 
that book is solved.

Now, of course JKR could take time out of the next book (stop all 
foward progession) to rewrite what she wrote in HBP.  But I don't 
see that as being very likely.  Especially since we have no 
forshadowing at all that the "Draco's task" part of the story has 
more yet to be told.  (I'm betting that we'll move on to "Where does 
Draco go from here?" as a part of book 7.)

Honestly, if there was *any* canon supporting the alternative 
(someone in Spinner's End hinting that the popular reading of 
Voldemort's motivations are wrong, Draco hinting that he put himself 
in front of Voldemort, anything showing that Voldemort actually gave 
a flip about the cabinets, etc.) than I'd look at it.  But they 
haven't because (I assume) there isn't any.

Betsy Hp