[HPforGrownups] How did Dobby know the Chamber was going to be opened?

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 42690


eloiseherisson at aol.com wrote: 
 

Gretchen:
I should check my book for the exact quote, but Draco said to Harry/Ron as Crabbe and Goyle under polyjuice potion that his dad didn't know who opened the Chamber.  One would presume that Dobby knew from Malfoy's, but if they didn't know, how did he find out?


Eloise:
He said (IIRC) that the chamber being last opened 50 years ago, it was before his father's time, so he didn't know about it. How very convenient! Lucius 
has been a little economical with the truth with his son, I feel! He *does* know about the last time (IMO), but not from direct experience, only, like Harry, through communicating with the diary (and actually, we don't know how much Diary!Tom revealed to him).
But you know, if I were Lucius, I don't think I'd be confiding things like this in Draco, either. He be sure to go blabbing out of pride, or interfering 
and getting himself into real danger. 

 

I think you make some great points, Eloise.  First, I think that Lucius lies to Draco quite a lot, probably to protect him, and partly to protect himself, since you are probably right that Draco isn't bright enough not to brag or interfere.  Second, Lucius probably DID communicate with Tom in the diary.  It would explain a lot.  If Lucius successfully presented himself to Tom as a Slytherin sympathizer, Tom might have trusted him him enough with the truth.  And we know what Tom thought of Hagrid.  We also know how Tom used Hagrid as a scapegoat.  Lucius clearly also sees Hagrid as a handy scapegoat.  But I think it's Tom Riddle who gave him the idea.
This might serve to explain Malfoy's antagonism toward Hagrid, which seems to predate Draco's hippogriff injury.  As early as the first book, Draco Malfoy is disdainful of Hagrid, as though his mind had already been poisoned against him.  And just who would be in a position to do that?  His dad.  Why might he do that?  Because HIS mind was already poisoned against Hagrid by Tom Riddle.  I believe that Lucius Malfoy thought his actions would lead to the resurrection of Voldemort in the form of Tom Riddle from the diary, given corporeal form by feeding off the life force of the person writing in the diary.  Malfoy would then be in a position to serve as Voldemort's right hand.  Having failed at this in CoS, I believe he's still interested in this position, and I fully expect to see a power struggle between him and Wormtail in coming books.  This instability in Voldemort's inner circle might be an ingredient in his ultimate defeat.
 
--Barb
 
 



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