Lucius' plot

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 22973

Rita Winston wrote:

>People on this list have speculated hugely about just why Lucius did
>that with Riddle's diary. I wonder if he could have been acting on
>instructions from Voldemort to 'use the diary to realise the basilisk'
>-- COULD Voldemort possibly send instructions in-between damaging
>Quirrell and meeting up with Wormtail? Maybe before Quirrell entirely
>died? 

Despite the hugeness, may I add my 2k by pointing out that if Malfoy had been under Voldemort's instructions, he couldn't have tried to convince V later that he was alert for the slightest sign of him.  I think he must have been acting on his own, IMO for something along the lines of the second reason below.  I'm not sure how definite his plan was - more opportunistic than anything (typical Malfoy, BTW), but part might also have been to use the petrifications (he would have expected killings) to remove Dumbledore.  His attack on the Weasley bill seems to depend on a Weasley having the diary - difficult to be sure of arranging, really.  I think it was basically an attack on Hogwarts with as much mischief making as possible along the way.  By itself, attacks on mudbloods would surely strengthen support for the Weasley bill.  Was an attack on Harry envisaged?  Dobby's fears just seem to be that Hogwarts is a dangerous place for an enemy of Voldemort, not that Harry was being targ!
eted.  Did Malfoy consider the full implications of a 16 year old Voldemort on the loose?  That depends in part on how much he really understands about the diary.  He may not have realised that Tom could reincorporate in this fashion.

>One popular theory is that he was trying to replace the real but missing
>Voldemort with the 16 year old Voldemort, who didn't know that Lucius
>hadn't tried to find him and had claimed to have been bewitched, and and
>who might be more malleable to Lucius's influence this time around...  
>
>Another is that he was using the diary and the basilisk entirely for his
>own advantage to disgrace Arthur Weasley so that the law written by
>Arthur would be voted down (and presumably the competing law written by
>Lucius would be voted up). 

David

BTW a bill in the UK is what an act is before it has been passed as an act.



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