DD's plan -- Minister of Magic

[Catlady (Rita Prince]

No: HPFGUIDX 189131

Pippin wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/189128>:

<< Now that I know how Dumbledore operates, I can't think quite as harshly of Fudge for turning against him as I used to. There's canon that Fudge shared Harry's illusion that everything would be okay as long as Dumbledore was there. Fudge knew he'd be outmatched if Voldemort returned, but he expected Dumbledore to have a plan.

And Dumbledore did -- but the plan was for Fudge to commit political suicide. Knowing Dumbledore, I doubt that he let Fudge know how much would be expected of him. >>

??? Do you mean it would be Fudge's political suicide just to announce that Voldemort had returned??? Did Dumbledore even really want to inform the public that Voldemort had returned? Did DD advise Fudge to do something to help the public defend themselves?

Was Dumbledore's plan only to protect Harry until DD and Harry had destroyed six intentional Horcruxes without anyone else's help, and then send Harry to die in the act of killing Voldemort, or did it include something to keep the Dark Lord from slaughtering people in mass quantities?

DD planned for poor Severus to kill him to get in good with the Dark Lord and become the Dark Lord's Headmaster of Hogwarts to protect the students, so it does not seem he planned to prevent the Dark Lord from taking over Hogwarts. It does not seem he planned to prevent the Dark Lord from taking over the Ministry.