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

quick_silver71 quick_silver71 at yahoo.ca
Sun Mar 25 05:12:17 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 166451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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. 
<snip>
> 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.
<snip>

Quick_Silver:
This actually strikes me as being a plausible idea...the concept of 
using Dumbledore to purge the Death Eaters for him. Especially when 
it's considered that Voldemort does have a new group of allies that 
he didn't have last time...the Dementors...and that they're 
increasing in numbers. 

As for Voldemort's larger goals I'm starting to wonder if that is 
actually the major mystery of HBP. From a logical standout (which the 
books often don't follow) if Voldemort didn't expect Draco to succeed 
at his task and die as punishment for the crimes of Lucius it raises 
a troubling question...how does he plan to kill Harry? I mean Harry 
turning 17 removes the protection from the Dursleys so that seems 
like the perfect moment to attack Harry, yet if he assumed that Draco 
would fail, then Voldemort was willing to strike regardless of 
Dumbledore's health at the time. Or was he planning something so 
large/deadly that he thought that he could kill both Harry and 
Dumbledore in one fell swoop. 

Another reason perhaps that there's no mention of Voldemort's master 
plan/goals is that they don't matter to Harry anymore except as 
something that has to be ignored. Harry can't hunt for the Horcruxs 
and battle Voldemort's scheme with the Order and the Ministry and 
attend Hogwarts at the same time. He needs to prioritize what he 
needs to do and stopping Voldemort has to take precedence over 
stopping one of Voldemort's plans. 

Quick_Silver 






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