LV's bigger plan / Trelawney at the funeral or not?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 166449

Dana:
> The question that remains (one of many questions of course) after
> reading this book is why would LV chose Draco for a plan that had
> every likelihood of failing. 
<snip>
> But Draco's task might have been a different one from LV's
> perspective 

Pippin:
It's hard to see why Voldemort would pursue  punishing
Draco when it  brings him no closer to his larger goals -- *except*
that from Voldemort's perspective, there may not *be* a larger goal.
Punishing people by harming what they love is one of his oldest
obsessions. 
--
"Billy Stubbs's rabbit..well, Tom *said* he didn't do it and I don't
see how he could have done, but even so, it didn't hang itself 
from the rafters, did it?"

"I shouldn't think so, no," said Dumbledore quietly.

"But I'm jiggered if I know how he got up there to do it. All I
know is he and Billy had argued the day before."

-- HB ch13

>From Voldemort's supremely selfish and egotistical  point of view,
taking over the wizarding world may only matter  because 
organized wizardry would deny him the pleasure of punishing
people as he pleases. Such an inversion of goals would be
laughable if Voldemort were not so deadly, but that is the
case with many RL dictators. 

Borgin says he will need to see the vanishing cabinet
to know whether it can be fixed. Assuming that Voldemort knows
as much, he can't have  cared much whether that part of the
plan was workable, or he would have been seeking some
alternate means of getting DE's into the castle in case 
the cabinet couldn't be repaired. I think Voldemort expected that 
Draco would give up and suicidally (from LV's point of view) attack 
Dumbledore alone. But Draco had to be kept thinking that
Voldemort did believe his plan could succeed, so there had to
be some provision for Draco to summon DE's should the
cabinet actually get fixed.

I don't think Voldemort expected them to survive, in the
remote possibility that they were used. He is recruiting
new allies now, from the werewolves, the Giants and the goblins.
His older followers deserted him when he needed them most, and
he won't forget that. I think he's conducting a purge, or rather,
he conceived the brilliant idea of letting Dumbledore conduct
it for him. The purebloods would look askance at Voldemort's
new army, so why not dispose of them? Along with Fenrir,
who does not seem to show much reverence for Voldemort's
commands.  There's a historical precedent in Hitler's purge of the 
SA.


Pippin
still wondering very much if Fenrir was captured, and if not,
how he managed to get away.