Slytherin as villains / Ender vs. Harry SPOILERS for Ender's Game

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 179045

> lizzyben:
> Sorry if this was already brought up, but if LV was lying, how 
would 
> he know that Draco was still in the castle? 

zgirnius:
LV does not know Draco is in the castle. He says, and I quote, "He 
did not come and join me, like the rest of the Slytherins. Perhaps he 
has decided to befriend Harry Potter?" All this means about Draco's 
location, is the rather obvious fact that he is not there with 
Voldemort. Voldemort knows this by the evidence of his own five 
senses.

> lizzyben:
> If 
> the evacuated Slytherin students didn't go over to his camp, how 
> would LV know that Draco wasn't among them? 

zgirnius:
Where does it say Voldemort knows Draco us not among evacuated 
SLytherins?

*If* he does, the students could have been seen by a DE patrolling 
Hogsmeade. Or, it could be that, even though we saw neither hide nor 
hair of such a person, *a* Slytherin joined Voldemort and reported it 
(this could also happen by the alternative of *a* Slytherin student 
being captured during the evacuation attempt, and exercising his/her 
cunning by feigning relief s/he has reached the 'right side'). Or, 
and this is what I consider most likely, Voldemort was, as has been 
suggested, *lying*. If he enjoys making Lucius suffer, not alerting 
him to the possibility that Draco was evacuated from the castle to a 
neutral location would be a fine way to do it.

And, as has been pointed out, LV's statement to Lucius, because it 
includes the phrase 'like the rest of the Slytherins', is false. 
Crabbe never left the castle.