DH reread CH 6-7

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 186365

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I don't see why making a copy of the sword was necessary to the 
> original plan if DD knew that Scrimgeour would leave it in 
> the headmaster's office


zanooda:

I think DD could have done it just to be on the safe side. He couldn't be sure that Scrimgeour will leave it in the headmaster's office. Or, he was afraid that after the school was taken over by the DEs, LV would want to take it for himself - he likes to collect objects of this kind :-). Anyway, it was safer to have the real sword hidden, just in case, so that only Snape knew where it was. All this means that the sword that Ginny & Co tried to steal was actually a fake :-). However, the version of events where the fake sword was made by Snape is also possible, IMO.