Cabinet FIRST!

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 157869

I'm really out of things to say without starting to repeat myself (I
can't even remember how I wound up writing so much on a subject I
confess I don't find that interesting!)-- but there's just one thing I
want to be clear on in terms of how people are thinking of this
Cabinet First plot:

IF, when book VII comes out, we don't hear anything further about what
Draco was doing in HBP-- I mean, nothing material one way or another
to this debate-- will it then be agreed that actually the basic story
is as expressed by Narcissa and obliquely by Snape?  By this I mean that:

-- Voldemort was enraged at Lucius and so approached Draco and sent
him on a suicide mission;  that is, to kill Dumbledore by whatever
means he could think of, which in Voldemort's head was a thousand
times likelier to result in a dead Draco than a dead Dumbledore.  The End.

Because my position, essentially, is that unless we get something to
contradict what is set up in Spinner's End, that JKR was using the
dialogue and everyone's actions in that scene as exposition and not as
misdirection, at least regarding Voldemort's actions and mindset.

-- Sydney, who just can't seem to help herself posting