Mr. Malfoy & the Chamber of Secrets?

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No: HPFGUIDX 4083

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 
wrote:
> What do you think was Lucius Malfoy's true motive in CoS?
> Was he really trying to create a Voldy "clone", a la _The Boys
>  From Brazil_?  Or was the object to frame Ginny and drive
> Arthur from the Ministry?  Or did he just have this sudden urge
> to sweep all Muggle-borns from the face of the Earth?
> 
> Does anyone else find it interesting that Voldy seems to have no
> knowledge (based on his "story" he tells the Death Eaters) of the
> events in CoS?
> 
> 
> 
>                                                  -- Dave
	We don't know whether Malfoy was in communication with the diary 
and plotted the whole thing with Riddle, but it seems likely to me that 
he did.
	Riddle implies that all his info comes from Ginny, but there is no 
need to assume that is so.   In that case, Malfoy's motivations, 
whatever they were, would be subordinate to Riddle's. It appears, 
though, that the main  objective of the plot was to drive Dumbledore 
from the school, and at this, it very nearly succeeded. Undermining 
Arthur Weasley and the Muggle Protection Act would have been secondary.
	Since the partially reembodied Voldemort in GOF could have heard 
about the events in CoS only from Wormtail, he could know only what 
Scabbers had overheard. This would not include anything Harry is 
(presumably) keeping to himself, such as Dumbledore's theories about 
Harry's ability to speak Parseltongue and the idea that Harry has 
assumed some of Voldie's powers. 
	One assumes that the Riddle in the diary had no further knowledge 
of the 'real' Riddle, and vice versa.
Pippin