Cabinet FIRST! One last time.

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>Random832
>And the _only_ basis for it being a suicide mission is
>that Narcissa thinks it is, and we KNOW she doesn't know about the
>cabinet.

Orna:
The strongest basis for it being a suicide mission is a common sense 
saying – that if you give a teenager a mission to kill the most 
powerful wizard in the world – his chances of succeeding and getting 
away alive are zero. And Voldemort doesn't be much of a mentor to 
Draco throughout the year - it seems quite plain that Draco is put 
under threats and pressure – but not helped too much. His grown-up 
Des got much more help and detailed plans for retrieving the 
prophecy, than teenager Draco got on his "mission". That's what I 
would call suicide mission. Narcissa just says it. Hadn't she done 
it, we would either think Voldemort lost his marbles, or figure the 
revenge issue out ourselves. As a matter of fact, Bellatrix doesn't 
challenge this view – she just thinks it's honorable. (Actually it's 
a bit like Voldemort dealt with Wormtail – since he was a bit 
disloyal to him, because he came to him only when he hadn't got 
another choice, but also nursed him loyally to get his body back – 
Wormtail was "honored" to sacrifice his arm for Voldemort).

You might argue that since he has a one-in-million chance to 
survive – it's not a "real" suicide" mission. But IMO, if your 
chances to succeed are near-zero, and you can't back-out when you 
think you will be failing – it's a suicide or more accurately a 
getting-murdered-mission.
I think that since we know the end of the story – Dumbledore getting 
killed, we can think of it being a mission-to-complete. But 
basically - if Dumbledore hadn't been on his deathbed, wandless – 
what would be the big deal for him to manage 4 DE's and a teenager? 

Orna