[HPforGrownups] Re: CoS Stuff (Dobby the Mail Thief)

[Marianna Lvovsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 21471


> But don't we?  Dobby shows the letters to Harry
> after
> inadvertantly revealing that he'd been stealing
> them,
> and Harry grabs them.  I never thought of the mail
> theft as something that Lucius inspired, but rather
> something Dobby did on his own to make Harry think
> his
> friends and forgotten him.  Thus, Lucius never even
> knew Dobby had the letters, much less got to read
> them
> and use the information inside them.
>  
> Just my two Knuts on the subject. :)
> 
> 
> Andrea
> 
>

Hi!

This is my first post here :)

I agree with someone who posted earlier, saying that
it was "lucky" chance. Another alternative is that
possibly there is a tracking spell, or such, that
Lucius could use to find out where the Weasleys were
going to be.

However, I think that it is not necessarily clear that
LM had this diary on purpose to stick into Ginny's bag
on that day. He possibly, and very probably, planned
to "give" it to a Hogwarts student (either a Mudblood
or Muggle-lover). Either before or during school year.
That it happened to be Ginny is (a) partly by chance
(she was there) and (b) she is a Weasley, wose father
provoked LM once more. So LM's planting the diary on
Ginny is a combination of his plan to plant it on
someone and her being around, and also the fact that
AW just fought him.  It might have been a general
plan, but after the scuffle, it also became directed
malice.

Another alternative is that he might have contemplated
doing something unsavory with it, and the nebulous
idea was crystallized by his meeting the Weasleys. As
to why he was carying it around? I believe if you
shook LM upside down at any given time, at least half
a dozen Dark Magic objects would fall out.

As to a point someone else made (I am sorry, I did not
keep the previous posts), I do not believe LM ever
wrote in the diary. He might be a Death Eater, but he
is also powerful and intelligent wizard. He knows how
dangerous that type of magic could be.

Much more than my 2cents

Marsha 


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