[HPforGrownups] Who is Lucius Malfoy's informant?

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I've been working on a story telling the events of CoS from Ginny Weasley's PoV and have often thought about this topic myself.

I think Dobby perhaps might have known about the diary; perhaps Lucius had been writing in it himself and was under the orders of TR. As a house-elf, I think that they go relatively unnoticed in the homes, so Lucius could have been a bit careless about leaving around information such as the diary or even perhaps Dobby caught Lucius writing in it.  Dobby knew Lucius was a dark wizard.  He could have been overheard talking to someone as well, as you say.  Perhaps one of his other DE friends? Crabbe and Goyle Srs are the first to come to mind.

And I do believe Ginny was the target, no doubt about it in my mind.  She's the youngest daughter of his enemy, new student at Hogwarts, Ginny is the perfect person to plant the diary on.

As for how Lucius planted the diary, like you, that's another question that I've been pondering.  It does seem to be a bit random, yet I don't believe that is the case.  Perhaps Lucius is a bit of a diviner? :)  My other random guess is that with the letters Dobby took from Harry, most likely in a letter Hermione writes, the date of the Hogwarts trip was mentioned.  We don't see what happens to the letters that Dobby stole, so it could be possible that Lucius might have had them from Dobby.  Seems highly unlikely, but its the only think I could think of.

Cheers,
Paula
Queen of H/G

In a message dated Mon, 25 Jun 2001  3:02:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it writes:

<< I'm re-reading CoS at the time and something is bothering me:
Dobby came to Harry in Privet Drive to warn him about the danger he 
would be in when returning to Hogwarts. His exact words are: "There 
is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen 
at Hogwarts...this year.<>Dobby has known it for months, sir...."

1) How did Dobby come to know about the plot? Certainly overhearing 
Lucius talking to somebody about his evil intentions. But who did he 
talk to? Now, IMHO, not to his wife Narcissa. This is just a feeling 
of mine, but based also on the fact that Narcissa isn't a DE (we 
know, from the Lestranges, that there are DE couples). I don't think 
Lucius talks "politics" with her. So the big question is: Who did he 
talk to?
2) In Cos, the Weasleys go for the traditional Diagon Alley-shopping 
on some day in August, not on the last day before school starts, as 
they do in PoA and GoF- just some day. The question that seems 
obvious to me is: How did Lucius know they were to go there on this 
particular day? The apriori for putting the problem this way is of 
course that he was targeting Ginny in the first place, which I 
believe he did: She was in many ways the ideal victim- girls of that 
age are more likely to write diaries than boys are; and certainly the 
youngest sister of six brothers would have something to write! Of 
course, he could've put the diary in some of the school books just at 
random, somebody would have bought it anyway, but it might have been 
a 7th year boy.
Riddle has certainly told Lucius WHAT to do, but who told him WHEN to 
do it? 

3) I'm not an English native speaker, but unless I'm very much 
mistaken, a plot is something that requires more than one person?! 
Excluding Narcissa, as I did above, this seems another clue to 
somebody else being involved.

Maybe someone's got suggestions?

susanna


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