Dumbledore's offer (was Re: just how different?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180702

> Potioncat:
> Now that you mention it...
> HBP left many of us wondering whether Snape and DD had some plan, 
> whether DD was really dead, whether Snape was continuing his role as 
> spy...on and on. McGonagall, Lupin, Tonks had no idea, but surely 
> someone knew DD's plan.
> 
> We will discover in DH that no one knew anything.

Pippin:
Actually there was one person who knew about DD's plan to save Draco
and Narcissa: Harry. Presumably Dumbledore's portrait would know
as well. 

If there had been a little more time, Draco and Harry could have
hidden under the cloak before the other  DE's and/or Snape
arrived. Perhaps Draco could have sacrificed a finger to prove
he was "dead".  Dumbledore had given Lupin and Moody instructions to
trust Harry, so Harry should have been believed if he said Dumbledore
wanted Draco and Narcissa protected. The portrait would have
backed him up. It could also have arranged a substitute for
Snape's part of the plan if Snape had failed. 

No one knew every aspect of Dumbledore's plan but I think each
part was known to somebody, as well as the portrait.  


Pippin