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

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 166457

Magpie:
> I think Trelawney's absence from the castle after DEs invaded it
> would have alarmed a lot of people. Good reason for a head check,
> given all the mayhem. If we learn later that nobody noticed I'll
> think that's not playing very fair--and also wonder why on earth
> JKR missed the opportunity to give us that cliffhanger.

Dana:
You're absolutely right. That kills the theory. Didn't think of that
obviously.

Dana before:
> There is no evidence that LV's plan was for Draco to kill DD
> either -on the contrary it speaks highly against it. And Draco did not
>surprise anyone by showing he was indeed a murderer after all.
>
> Magpie:
> I'm confused. Draco was *not* a murderer after all. Did you mean to
> say that? He surprised people by being able to get through the castle's
> defenses.

<snip the rest of the post because arguing an invalid hypothesis has
been a waste of anyone's time and already responded to the horcruxs
 canon bit in another post>

Dana:
>From the conversations we witnessed it was not meant for us to think
he would be able to succeed and there was no surprise he wasn't
indeed capable of murdering people. Yes, he did (bringing DEs into
the castle) but now you have killed my theory so LV's bigger plan
theory to gain access to the castle besides Draco's task has become
invalid at least from this perspective. So although fun while it
lasted it is back to the drawing board and stuffing old theories into
the cupboard.

Just one side note I do not think bring DEs into the castle is an
achievement Draco should be proud of as this action makes him
responsible for DD's death regardless of him pulling the trigger
himself or not. The character growth Draco will experience from this
and something he should learn from is finding out he isn't
capable of murdering another human being, not from being able to
outsmart people to plot an assassination attempt. JMHO

Dana