Would Lucius have gone on a Voldy hunt?
uilnslcoap
devin.smither at yale.edu
Thu Feb 14 04:35:22 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 35192
I know, I know what you're thinking. "Of COURSE he wouldn't! He's
got his reputation to uphold, and he flees the Dark Mark just like
every other DE in GoF. You're a fool to even bring up the question."
I would have agreed with you until a couple of days ago, when I
realized that *dun, dun, dun!* Lucius gave Ginny Riddle's diary.
Now, I suppose we can say that he was really doing it more to get
Ginny to murder some Mudbloods and ruin Arthur's reputation
(tarnished with Muggle love as it already is) than to bring old Voldy
back, but he must have known that was going to happen.
(Side note: I suppose if Riddle had succeeded, he would've tracked
down the undead form of his older self and somehow reunited with it)
This begs the question: why does he seem to have pretty cold feet
about the whole idea of Voldemort coming back at any other time?
I'd say it's because he's in public almost every time we encounter
him. Even when someone shoots the Dark Mark into the air and you're
EAGER to have Voldemort back, you don't run to it because you don't
want to get caught.
I don't think I entirely understand Lucius's seeming reluctance to
bring Voldy back to power, but it seems his CoS antics at least
suggest he was trying to engender it in some way, even if he wasn't
as brimmingly enthusiastic as Crouch Jr. However, if someone has a
better idea about his motives in giving Ginny the diary in CoS, I'd
like to hear it.
Devin, thinking of a possible scenario of Voldemort giving Lucius the
diary sometime in the late '70s/early '80s "just in case"
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