LV's bigger plan (was:Fawkes possible absence)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166401

Dana earlier:
> 
> > > Now the only thing needed was to help Draco move along and who
says Draco did not get help at the last minute. Maybe LV sent Wormtail
in to help Draco get a move on and to make sure Draco would move the
moment LV wanted him to move. LV would not need all his DEs to know he
wanted to get to Trelawney at the same time, they just helped Draco
cause the necessary distraction and keep anyone on DD's side too busy
with that. <snip>
> 
Dana again:
> 
> Just a quick note I do not want to imply Draco knew he was getting
help. *If* Wormtail was already at Hogwarts to keep an eye on Draco
(and everyone else's movement), then it would also have been easy to
figure out what Draco was planning to do or what he was working on.


Carol responds:
Wormtail could not have been at Hogwarts keeping an eye on Draco (or
pressuring him to get a move on), or Harry would have seen him on the
Marauder's Map when he was looking for Draco. Also, Wormtail would
surely know that Harry has the map, having seen it or heard it
referred to when he was posing as Scabbers (both Lupin and Snape refer
to it in Scabbers's hearing in the Shrieking Shack), and he would
surely tell LV about it if LV wanted to send him in as a spy. And, of
course, there's no canon to suggest any such thing. (I do wonder,
however, how LV was communicating with Draco. Was he summoning him via
the Dark Mark, and was Draco actually absent from Hogwarts rather than
in the RoR on some of the occasions when Harry couldn't find him on
the map? Weren't the owls were being searched as part of the increased
protections on the castle, or am I confusing HBP with OoP?)

However, you've answered my question regarding how LV might arrange to
kill Draco if he failed in the task (setting aside a summons via Dark
Mark). Send in the man who killed Cedric Diggory to kill another
teenager. Sure, Pettigrew would risk being seen on Harry's map, but if
he sneaked in through the blocked tunnel after all the lights were
out, he might just get away with murder.

But the very fact that LV *could* have had Draco killed so easily and
chose not to do so suggests to me that he wanted very much for Draco,
or the DEs he sent as backup, to succeed in killing Dumbledore.

Carol, sure that the plan was always about killing Dumbledore, with
revenge against Lucius as a secondary motive and Trelawney nowhere in
the picture