Lucius Malfoy and CoS plot/Lucius vs. Arthur

[joeblackish]

No: HPFGUIDX 39939

In message 39805, Amanda said:

I've always thought it might have been a Lucius Malfoy plan, to 
sow havoc at the school and get Dumbledore removed. I always 
considered Lucius the sort who constantly made trouble of the 
polite, diplomatic, take-up-your-time and obstructive type. 
Planting the diary to create this larger problem, to then get  
Dumbledore removed so that (presumably) Malfoy can step in, 
would do great things for the Dark cause. It would remove the 
most powerful wizard known, from a very influential position. It 
would also make it look, when and if Voldemort showed back 
up, as if Malfoy had actually been *doing* something to support 
the cause instead of just skulking and not looking for Voldemort.
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I agree. But I think it could go a little further. When Tom Riddle 
takes all of Ginny's stength, what else does he get?

A body.

Lucius could have planned it knowing this was the best case 
scenario, then Ginny ends up dead, and young Voldemort has a 
body. Lucius know's what happened with Quirrell, and knows 
that his master needs a host to have a body so he can come 
back to power. 

Now Lucius isn't stupid enough to volunteer his own body, he 
knows that he's gone the second it's no longer useful to the V-
man. But why not create a body to send to Voldemort? Why not 
send him his own body?

Imagine: Lucius to Riddle/Diary!V come to life:

"Okay, kid, killing Mudbloods is fun, and I'm really proud of you 
for finally doing in that Potter kid. But you want to really have 
some good times? You need to go reunite with your older, more 
powerful, and currently vapor self. It's perfect, you've got the 
body, he's got supreme evil know-how, think of the good times 
you two could have together."

Then Lucius gets hardcore props. Without having to stick out his 
own neck, he manages to stick it to the Weasleys (if Ginny ends 
up getting blamed, I guess), discredit Dumbledore, kill some 
mudbloods, and get all the credit for bringing back his old 
master, without having to stick his neck out.

It's brilliant!

P.S. Do we have any estimate on when the elder Malfoy was in 
Hogwarts? I have this pet idea (unsupported by canon as far as I 
know), that he was there around the same time as Arthur and 
Molly. Maybe their mutual animosity was in origin a lot like the 
Severus/James, Harry/Draco feuds. 

Could you imagine: thirteen year old Lucius sneering to thirteen 
year old Arthur in the great hall: "You're taking MUGGLE 
STUDIES as your elective, Weasley!!? Loser! What are you going 
to do with that, grow up and devote your life to protecting them? 
Ha ha ha ha ha!

I know this makes him pretty old to have his first child, but 
Narcissa could be a lot younger than him, Draco could have 
been an accident, he was too busy building up his position with 
Voldemort for all those years to worry about children, etc. Lots of 
possibilities.

Joe, who is incredibly proud of himself for having finally caught 
up with all the recent posts.