Cabinet FIRST! - Hogwarts Attacked!

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 157946

---  Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
>
> > bboyminn:
> >  ...
> >
> > So, /if/ they planned to take over Hogwarts, here is 
> > how and why the plan would have gone.
> >
> > First, the enter the castle and set the trap for
> > Dumbledore, meanwhile a few other DE's sneak off and
> > catch the teachers unaware in their sleep. The 
> > teachers are disarmed and taken to a holding area. 
> > The trap is sprung on Dumbledore and Dumbledore is 
> > killed.
> >
> >  ...
> >
> 
> Kemper now:
> 
> Bella seems a more competent DE than those on the tower,
> and she fled from DD when she saw that he was in the 
> Dept of Mysteries. How is it that a trap be sprung on 
> DD, killing him?  

bboyminn:

Sorry, I'm not quite sure I follow you. The /sprung trap/
I am speaking of is the very trap that lured Dumbledore 
in and lead to his death in the existing book.

So /IF/ that plan had not been discovered as soon as they
stepped out of the door, and /if/ they had been able to
move quietly about the castle, then my suggestion for 
taking the plan beyond Dumbledore's death might be valid.

>Kemper continues:
> 
> I imagine that the students would be used.  But even 
> then, would DD lay down his wand or would he fight? ...
> ...edited...
>

bboyminn:

Well, the Dumbledore aspect would have played out pretty
much as it originally did in my hypothetical scenario, 
so nothing changes there. Dumbledore is lured to the top
of the tower, he arrives weak and getting weaker, Harry 
is out of it. Draco and/or the DE's kill Dumbledore. 
Snape is not involved. The teacher are captured. The 
students wake to find the castle in control of the DE's. 

My point is that the original plan was sufficiently 
thwarted that we can't actually say that capturing 
Hogwarts was not part of it. But since they met immediate
and continued resistance, they had to cut the plan short
as settle for the first objective of killing Dumbledore
and let it go at that.

It is a hypothetical alternative plan from the DE's 
perspective. It is how they expected the raid to go, 
but the DA members and the Order messed it up. 

Again, in proposing the hypothetical situation I am 
seeking to point out that we don't know the full extent
of the orignal plan. They may well have intended to 
take Hogwarts if everything else went well.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn