Cabinet FIRST! - Hogwarts Attacked!

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 157953

Sydney:

> I find it hard to square with
> Voldemort also intending Draco to die in the attempt, as Draco has
> actually a pretty good chance of getting all the honour everyone was
> talking about, which isn't exactly a great revenge on Lucius. Does
> the cabinet-first theory work that in somehow? Wouldn't Voldemort
> have wanted to kill Dumbledore himself and do a little gloating or
> something, if he really knew he was going to be so weak? It seems out
> of character to leave something so juicy to lackeys, especially
> lackeys he was supposed to be punishing!
> 
> And if Voldemort knows Dumbledore is after his horcruxes, has he moved
> them all by now?


> James:

> Have you considered that the suggestion relating to Voldemort taking
revenge
> refers simply to him brining Draco into the fold. We can see that
Narcisia
> is unhappy about the idea, and I imagine Lucius would be too. If
Draco truly
> has become a death eater then the mark on his arm could be the revenge.


Sydney:

Why?  Voldemort is an evil megalomaniac.  He'd hardly see giving
someone a position in the inner circle of his evil empire as a
disaster for them.  It's like saying Hilter would punish someone by
awarding them a medal and leadership of a Hitler Youth Brigade, and
he'd really relish their descent into moral turpitude.  

Narcissa is unhappy about Draco dying, not about him joining the
DE's-- "He doesn't mean him to succeed, he wants him to be killed
trying!" She has Snape swear to protect and help Draco and "to carry
out the deed that the Dark Lord has ordered him to perform", not to
keep him out of the Death Eaters and make sure he's a good moral boy.
 She and Lucius might worry about Draco's saftey, and about the
viability of the DE's in general, but I really don't think they'd see
Draco being at the heart of a pureblood supremacist organization as in
itself a bad thing.


James:

> Voldemort is many things, but stupid he is not. Without knowing
about DD's
> hunter for the horcri or his resulting sickness,  he could very well
have
> had reason to think that Draco hight succeed where a team of DE's
wouldn't,
> for the very reason that the order wouldn't suspect it.


Sydney:

Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard alive, he's defeated Voldemort
in battle, he's well aware of who all the kids in his school are and
who their parents are.  He has an office crammed with magical devices
to detect people with bad intent.  Yeah, to me that sounds like a dumb
plan-- or, as Narcissa concludes, a plan that isn't actually meant to
work.


-- Sydney