Reply To: Will Jafar's plan still work?

[Josephine]

Okay, I went back to October rewatched the scene where Amara informs Jafar about the three genies:

Amara: This book contains all the world’s wisdom about genies.

Jafar: Genies? That’s what you’ve refused to share with me all this time?

Amara: Well, I had to wait until you were ready and you are. Inside these pages is a spell that only the power of the three genies will allow us to cast. A spell so powerful that even I, with all my magic, could not attempt alone. But now that I have a partner…

Jafar: What kind of spell could be so difficult that it requires both of us?

Amara: One that if we succeed, will make us the most powerful sorcerers the world has ever known. We will be able to change the very laws of magic. And once we do that all we desire will be at our fingertips

Jafar: And you wish to share this with me? Your generosity–I don’t know how I could ever repay it

Amara: I have waited many, many years to find someone worthy of this Jafar. Just as you have waited years to seek your revenge, not only on your father who cast you out, but on all those who ever…. belittled you…or doubted you.

Jafar: No one has ever showed me such kindness

Amara: No one…has ever loved you like I do.

I think she scammed him because she wanted her sons back and their curse reversed and her she couldn’t do it alone.  She trained Jafar so I’m thinking she knew how to play him and now that Cyrus is freed, it will affect the final outcome.