[HPforGrownups] Re: CoS Plot...

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 46609


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Richard Thorp <obby at b...> wrote:
How can the underlying plot of CoS make sense? I say this after a few assumptions, but reasonable ones, the main one being that Voldemort would not share power. Ever. With anyone. He's not the sort of evil overlord that would even want another version of himself taking over, I reckon, unless he was an integral part of that person...
 
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 Darla <talkative_alien_4000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Good point, but the way I always thought of it is that he was *sixteen* (or roundabout that age, forgive me for not having my book available to check the exact age) when he created his diary self, and I believe Voldemort had enough of an ego even then to believe himself to be pretty great even at that age. We've all looked back and laughed at ourselves at times, but back when we *were* that age... he 
wouldn't be thinking that he'd been sharing power with his younger self because the only 'self' he could relate to was the sixteen year old boy in the diary.

Me:
I think, considering that the young Tom Riddle had no way of knowing when or by whom the diary might be found and used, he probably thought it might be so far in the future that he cold have died already (having no idea that he would go further toward immortality than anyone else ever had).  This would, in a way, give him another life.  An even better question is what Lucius Malfoy hoped to accomplish.  
 
Was it merely enmity toward the Weasleys that prompted him to give Ginny the diary?  Did he know that there was the possibility that a young Tom Riddle would be walking about in the world?  If he did, would he want to be Riddle's servant or master?  Did he perhaps think his own son was turning out to be inadequately evil and wanted someone to look up to him who was worthy of helping a new dark lord get a good movement going?  Considering that he was upbraiding Draco for his grades, he might have thought that a former Head Boy (and he may also know that Riddle and Voldemort are one and the same) would make a better right hand man than his son.  
 
One must also look at some of the results of the diary being used: Hagrid went back to Azkaban, Dumbledore was temporarily removed as headmaster....Lucius could have been planning both of these things from the start.  Or was he?  There were so many unanswered questions at the end of CoS.  You have to wonder why the Malfoy house isn't under surveillance by the Ministry constantly!  Their friendship with Fudge may have a lot to do with that.  I have to say that I also hope/expect Arthur to bring Lucius down, and I will probably be cheering madly while I am reading, if/when that occurs...
 
--Barb
(who does not expect Fudge to be smelling of roses by the end of book 7...)
 



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