Voldemort's Orders re Not taking Harry in HPB

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 186338

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at ...> wrote:
> Again, I'm aware of Snape trying to protect Harry.  I just don't see why Voldemort wouldn't have ordered them to bring Harry to him alive, and I don't see how Snape could explain away the fact that they didn't.

Zara:
Voldemort would have no reason to expect that Harry would wind up encountering the Death Eaters he sent to Hogwarts. The planned called for them to lure Dumbledore (alone) onto the Tower and have Draco kill him there. Harry should have been sleeping in his dorm when it all happened.

Snape probably referred to some standing order, and exploited it to protect Harry when the latter unexpectedly wound up in the middle of DUmbledore and Voldemort's competing schemes that night.