Cabinet FIRST!

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 157876

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
> <snipped Sydney's lament>
>
> 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.
> <snipped the summary>

Mike:
I must have read close to 100 posts on this subject. Did you realize 
that it spread over six threads? Other than some Montague timeline 
research that I added for clarification (and I admit, to egg on the 
argument <eg>) I essentially stayed out until the end. My analysis 
of the whole debate, in simple terms: The "suicide mission only" 
crowd were arguing that you can't put the cart before the horse. 
The "cabinet firsters" argued that they were putting the horse in 
front but they just wanted to know how many horses were pulling this 
cart. So, sorry Sydney, but the Cabinet firsters never had a problem 
with the direction your cart took, they (and that includes me) said 
they were going in that direction too, just getting there with more 
horsepower.

Mike