[HPforGrownups] Was Snape asleep? (was Re: What Came First: Task or Cabinet?...

[Marion Ros]

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Carol:
>>>However, IMO, this business about the job being to kill Dumbledore by
any means possible is inaccurate. It's definitely about killing
Dumbldore with the DEs as backup, which is only possible if he fixes
the cabinets. The meas and the necklace are not part of the plan; they
are desperation measures, and once Snape warns him off using such
clumsy and amateurish measures and lets him know that he's already
suspected in the necklac incident, he stops. He can't do anything
about the mead, which doesn't appear until March 1, but he doesn't try
anything else of the sort. He concentrates on the cabinet. Why?
Because that's the plan. that's what Voldemort expects him to do.<<<


Marion:
My 2 cents on the thing: I think killing Dumbledore *is* the job. An impossible job: how is a sixteen year old boy, who doesn't even have his Apparation license yet, to kill the greatest wizard alive? In a duel? Not a chance. So he tries poison and the necklace. Amateurish? I should hope so! He's a *boy*. He's never been exposed to *death* before (he couldn't see the Thestrals). 
So he tries poison and that necklace. What are the great advantages off poison and a device like that necklace? You don't have to be up close and personal for it to work. It's anonymous. 
It's difficult to kill.
It is very Voldemort to come up with such a win-win scenario. If Draco fails to kill Dumbledore, he kills the boy thus getting revenge against Lucius. If Draco succeeds, then he has blood on his hands, a situation that Lucius seems to have tried to protect his only son from.

Marion, who wonders if Lucius really knew what he was doing slipping that diary into Ginny's bag. For all we know he just wanted to get rid off the evidence before Arthur Weasley and his Ministry buddies raided his house, looking for Dark objects. What better way to get rid of a thing that once belonged to a Dark Lord you joined when you were young and foolish (which you might regret now that you're happily married and a pillar of society and a *father*) then to plant in on your nemesis' youngest child.
Oh, yes, Voldemort is mightely pissed off at Lucius and not just because of a botched job at the MoM....

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