Mr. Malfoy & the Chamber of Secrets?

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 4405

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Yeah, but I haven't heard anyone positing a theory as to how the 
defeated> Voldemort lurking someplace obtained information from a re-
animated memory> committed to a separate object (the diary) long 
years ago and thinking and> acting on its own via life-energy 
obtained in the present day. The diary> entity clearly knew nothing 
of Voldemort's existence or actions past his own> sixteenth year, and 
enough had happened up to that point that he thought the> memory 
should be preserved.
> > I've put my finger on it; what bothers me about book 2. It's> > 
that  "interlude" feeling, sort of. The action must be seen so we'll 
know> > certain things and understand certain relationships, but this 
is the only> > book of the four that feels at all contrived as a 
vehicle for these> > revelations more than an entity that needed to 
be written.
> For Voldemort-of-the-forest to have learned what saved Harry in> 
their confrontation from Tom-o-the-diary, there *must* have been some 
sort> of communication, and I don't see how. Tom didn't learn what he 
wanted to> know until that confrontation scene in the Chamber, and 
he "died" shortly> thereafter when Harry put the fang through the 
diary. The animating energy> he'd stolen from Ginny was returned, and 
the spell which caused him to> "live" in the pages was destroyed. If 
there were some sort of psychic> connection between Tom and 
Voldemort, I don't think Voldemort would have> wasted any time having 
Tom or Ginny start contacting Death Eaters to have> someone come and 
GET him already!
> 
> > --Amanda

Everything you say here, Amanda, sounds accurate, so I can't think 
what may have been the point of book 2.  I never delved that deeply 
into the whys and hows of CoS to see that from the Vold/Harry angle 
it doesn't really move the story along, that it was just another 
adventure.  Seems it was nothing more than Lucius being ticked off at 
Arthur, then attempting to get him at least fired, if not out of the 
way completely.  That would be the point of him giving the diary to 
Ginny, wouldn't it?  Did he know what would happen, how the diary 
worked?  Apparently he did.  When reading GoF, as you go through the 
story and learn Vold wanted Harry's blood specifically, the gleam in 
Dumble's eye, Dumble saying Vold's overcome that barrier or whatever, 
my mind went to:  okay, Vold overcame that protection, how did he 
know to do this? from that part in CoS when he learned that it was 
Lily's love/protection that saved Harry from him the first time.  
That's it.  I never gave it any more thought.  Book 2 was just 
another instance of Vold trying to remove his competition, yes?  
Albeit, not the Vold of today, but still Vold just the same.  This 
would be a good question for her, if we ever get another 
opportunity...

Kelley