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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