Alternative title: Are You Smarter than A Sixth-Year?

Your challenge is as follows: you are Draco Malfoy. You have been sworn in as a Death Eater by Voldemort himself, but he's given you a mission that seems impossible to fulfill: you have to kill one of the greatest wizards in the world, Albus Dumbledore. Failure will result in execution of not only you, but probably also the rest of your family down the line.

You have enjoyed 5 years of Hogwarts education so far; your OWLs were good, but not beyond compare, and among the NEWT classes you qualify for are Potions, DADA, and Transfiguration.

Beyond that you also know Occlumency, taught to you by Bellatrix, and you have some knowledge of Dark magic, passed down by your father.

Your resources are the dwindling fortunes of the Malfoy family. You can count on some minor help by other Death Eaters, though they expect you to do all the heavy lifting.

Other people you can call on are your mother, Aunt Bella, and Severus Snape. Your father, currently in Azkaban, is beyond your reach. At school, you can always count on Crabbe and Goyle; other Slytherins may or may not support The Cause and will need to be tested.

Additional restrictions: no muggle weaponry. Let's not start that particular shitstorm again, and besides it'd be really out of character for Draco. Use of canon magic is preferred. More points if your solution ends up being working out on a narrative level.

tl;dr: How would you go about murdering Albus Dumbledore?

 

Simple is always best, just have some younger slytherins cause a distraction like a Great Hall wide Fight with spells flinging everywhere
Get close to Dumbledore and AK, have it so that it'd hit someone else like a first year if he dodged, and be close enough that he can't throw up something to block it fast enough. Also, pick a day that Fawkes is a baby.

Liberal use of imperio would be needed for step 1 of course.

 

Similiar plan to Saez.

Steal invisibility cloak from Harry.
Imperio Crabbe Goyle to cast Fiendfyre in great hall (Plausible deniability)
From beneath Cloak, AK dumbledore while he's fighting the spell.

Gtfo

 

Condition D:
Any plan must involve/account for fifteen minutes of pussying around saying that you're going to do it.

 

The only reliable way to kill Dumbledore is to create a situation where he must kill himself / allow himself to be killed to achieve his goals. All the other plans in this thread fall apart when Dumbledore waves his wand and vanishes the fire, detects the person under the cloak, summons a statute into the path of the killing curse etc.

The other way is to be a Wizard of the Dumbledore-Voldemort level, but the OP rules that out.

A third option is approach him openly, explain the family killing situation and see if he'll let you kill him. I give it better odds than the combat plans.

 

• Acquire a small needle made from Goblin silver.
• Imbue needle with most potent poison you can gain access to.
• Charm needle to be extra sharp
  
• Implant needle in cushion of Dumbledore's chair in Great Hall such that it is not visible when the cushion is not compressed
• Infiltrate Hospital wing and destroy all potions there-in; hopefully this will keep nurse, Slughorn, and Snape busy during breakfast
  
• Dumbledore sits on cushion, sticking himself with poison needle; hopefully doesn't notice if needle is sharp enough
• Dumbledore dies of poison

 

For all the shit we give her, the way JK killed him was plausible.

 

Imperio an house elf. Poison Dumbledore's food.

 

Hide his lemon drops. He'll have a heart attack when he finds them missing

 

Maybe it's the Victoria Potter influence in me, but I would be shocked if poison would actually work. It would have to be fast acting enough or esoteric enough to where a bezoar can't cure it or Snape can't create a cure. That's even if it gets ingested and Dumbledore doesn't notice it and transfigure it into a zesty sauce for his lamb chops.

 

Honestly? I see two ways to do it that have a fairly reasonable chance of success.

1) Imperio Weasley or Granger (Potter would be ideal but he showed himself resistant to the Imperium a couple years back) and force them to AK Dumbledore in a moment of inattention during the inevitable next time Dumbledore corners his favorite students.

2) Get a dose of Felix Felicis and an invisibility cloak (or any other reasonably successful means of hiding), organize something that requires Dumbledore leave the castle, then Imperio a house elf to let you into Dumbledore's office under the guise of cleaning it. Use the potion and equipment to hide at the bottom of the stairs, ideally in a way that would let you easily follow someone up them. Then simply wait for Dumbledore to return and AK him in the back as he ascends.

There's no such thing as a failure proof plan, but both of these should have a fairly high chance of success.

 

• Steal Potter's dose of Felix Felicis
• Drink the Felix Felicis
• While under effects of Felix Felicis, find four-leaf clover, a lucky rabbit's foot, stand under a horse-shoe hung above a door, and put on your lucky underware
  
• Dumbledore (or Voldemort) trips and falls down the stairs

Edit: New idea

• Sneak into Dumbledore's private bathroom and peel the adhesive duck stickers off the floor of his shower.
• Dumbledore slips in the shower and hits his head.
• In his concussion induced delirium, Dumbledore mixes up his bowl of lemon drops and his bowl of floo powder
• Dumbledore ingests floo powder and accidentally sends his internal organs to the Ministry of Magic

 

I don't know why you think he won't see it coming. I'm talking about the spell. Though I suppose many people don't use a model of the HP magic system where wizards can develop the ability to sense spells.

 

Perhaps a simplistic solution but:

1. Kidnap literally anyone. If it's someone like Harry, Neville or a Hogwarts Student then much better but any non-Death Eater should do the trick.

2. Threaten to kill/torture them unless Dumbledore kills himself. If he hesitates, start cutting off fingers and limbs and send them to him.

3. Done.

 

I think that'd be an excellent way to get a displeased Dumbledore on your front porch.

 

I was going to say good job, right up until I remembered Dumbledore has a phoenix.

 

That only matters if he thinks to call for it. Maybe the poison is fast-acting enough that he doesn't have a chance to do so.

 

I'm just here for the visual of Fawkes crying on Dumbledore's ass in the middle of the Great Hall during breakfast