Would Lucius have gone on a Voldy hunt?

[ancarett]

No: HPFGUIDX 35215

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "uilnslcoap" <devin.smither at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

In Knockturn Alley, Harry saw Malfoy selling off some "suspicious" 
possessions: maybe he had planned to sell off Riddle's diary in much 
the same fashion? Passing it off on Ginny seems to me more an act of 
desperation and anti-Weasley sentiment than carefully crafted "set-
up." I doubt Malfoy had an idea of its abilities: do you 
really think he was the type to go writing in a diary? He might 
merely have wanted to dispose of the diary because of its provenance, 
all unknowing of its power. 
 
> 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.

I'm not sure Malfoy IS all that thrilled to see Voldemort returning 
to power. After all, the defeat of the first go-round has to be a 
haunting memory. Malfoy and others were able to survive his fall, but 
probably still feel it was a close thing. Now Voldemort's return 
threatens the status quo in which they're not too badly off: Malfoy 
still wealthy, extremely influential in the wizarding world and with 
a young son he might worry about as well (perhaps leading him to lean 
towards caution this time around).

> Devin, thinking of a possible scenario of Voldemort giving Lucius 
the 
> diary sometime in the late '70s/early '80s "just in case"

I think that Malfoy might be involved in 
the "mysterious ownership of the Riddle estate for tax purposes" 
which also could account for how Lucius Malfoy ended up in possession 
of Voldemort's effects.

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