Voldemort in Cos

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39853

Pip asked:
>>>Lucius risks a lot in CoS. There's a small risk to Draco, 
there's the risk that the diary can be provably traced back to him, 
he does gets sacked as a governor because he's pulled in every 
threat he can think of to get Dumbledore out of the way - all this 
while he's being raided by the MoM for possession of Dark Arts 
materials.

 Why? What can he get from this apart from revenge against the 
Weasley's? Would revenge be worth blowing the position he's 
managed 
to regain in the Stalemate?<<<


 Lucius is being raided by the MOM for possession of Dark Arts 
materials. When Dumbledore says jump, Fudge says "How 
high?" Arthur Weasley is about to pass the Muggle protection act.  
As if that half-giant who risked his son's life in the Forest wasn't  
bad enough, Dumbledore is talking about  hiring a werewolf to 
teach Dark Arts if Lockhart doesn't work out.  On top of that 
Lucius has just learned for sure that his erstwhile master is a 
vaporous fume, a wreck of a wizard  who has been defeated 
once again by Harry Potter, who is a beacon of hope to 
the sort of folk who don't seem to know their place. People don't 
respect the Malfoy name any longer, Lucius sees his position is 
deteriorating and it's all down to Potter, Weasley and 
Dumbledore.  

Speculation:
As Lucius is moving his cache of cool dark arts stuff from the 
chamber underneath the drawing room floor to a safer location, 
one his blabbermouth son doesn't know about, he comes 
across the diary. Voldemort didn't give it directly to him, but to  
one of his "most intimate friends. " Malfoy's father, perhaps. 
There is a note,  instructing  that it must never be opened while 
the Dark Lord lives. But Lucius has no fear of the Dark Lord any 
more.   Lucius opens the diary. He and Tom hatch their plan, 
scribbling back and forth, unaware that they are being observed 
by Dobby, who has taught himself to read...

PIp:
>>>In CoS Dumbledore says:
"What interests me most is how Lord Voldemort  managed to 
enchant Ginny..."<

Dumbledore has already made the connection between the 
original opening of the Chamber of Secrets fifty years before, and 
Lord Voldemort. He tells McGonagall this as they're wondering 
what happened to Colin. "The question is not *who* " 

Dumbledore knows that  Lord Voldemort  is the heir of Slytherin. 
Only the heir can open the Chamber of Secrets and summon the 
horror within, therefore whoever did this  must have been 
controlled by Voldemort. Q.E.D.

What is a mystery to Dumbledore at this point is how Voldemort 
could have managed it when he is a vaporous fume in  
Albania. The diary solves that mystery: it is a memory, something 
like an enhanced version of the talking portraits on the walls. It is 
entirely  independent of  its creator and inspiration. If the diary 
and Albania!Voldemort were still connected, then stabbing the 
diary would have destroyed Albania!Voldemort as well. 

Dumbledore uses Lord Voldemort's name, not Riddle's, for its 
shock value.  Arthur is launching into a 
howmanytimeshaveItoldyou parental rant and Dumbledore 
wants both Ginny and her parents to understand immediately 
that she doesn't deserve to be blamed for what happened.

I think it's going to prove very important that Voldemort doesn't 
have a clue that Harry's been in the Chamber. For one thing, 
Harry knows how to open the statue. That means he knows 
another way out  besides the main entrance. That  could be  
useful, particularly if Voldemort doesn't know that Harry knows it.

Pippin