Cabinet FIRST!

[houyhnhnm102]

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Orna wrote:

> > I can easily imagine Draco boasting to Voldemort – 
> > eager to rent his services for him to show loyalty after 
> > Lucius was disgraced. [snip I must confess I can't see 
> > Voldemort just reaching openly out for Draco – he would 
> > somehow make it seem to Draco –that it's his volunteering. 
> > That's because I think that`s how Voldemort acts
 
Carol responds:

> Exactly. If Draco volunteered his services, his story 
> parallels those of Regulus and Young!Snape and brings the 
> theme of "Slytherin kid joins the DEs and finds it's not 
> what he thought it was" into the new generation. If 
> Voldemort went after him (and when have we seen that 
> happen?), there's no parallel.

houyhnhnm:

I was congratulating myself on having the sense to stay out 
of this thread, but it was really just frustration because of 
the super slow download times from Yahoo.  But I got rid of 
some obnoxious adware; now things are going lickety split 
and my good sense has flown out the window.

I'm not heavily invested in this argument from a Draco 
standpoint.  What's been bothering me as I've followed 
this thread is the idea of *anyone* approaching Voldemort.  
I just can't see him as being approachable, especially by 
a sixteen-year-old kid.  

What about the possibility that it was Aunt Bellatrix 
whom Draco approached? She who is so anxious to sacrifice 
the sons she doesn't have (and so anxious to redeem herself 
in Voldemort's eyes after the botched job at the MoM).  
She is one of the few who strike me as having a high enough 
status to broach an idea to LV.

I just can't see Voldemort's door being open to any DE's 
wand ape who cares to wander in. Avuncular, he's not.