Lucius & The Diary

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46650

Rich writes:

>>It's not in Lucius' character to take such an overt action. All of his 
actions from past to present have been at least covert enough that he would 
not be implicated<<

Well, he WOULD have the easy out of saying that he WAS doing this for LV 
since it was Riddle who became LV. Not terribly satisfying, to be sure, but 
uncertain enough to bew at least marginally believable.

I read Lucius as being a lot more ambitious and used to being in a position 
of authority than you do apparantly.

Okay; another scenareo. How's this?

Lucius was NOT holding on to the diary since LV's fall ten years earlier. He 
only aquired it (and possibly a cache of Riddle's other effects) durring the 
year of PS/SS. He started writing in the diary HIMSELF and got into a 
dialogue with Riddle. Malfoy is no naive 11-year-old. He was able to resist 
being taken over by Adolescent!Riddle. But he did fill Tom in on something 
about his future. In return, Tom filled him in on the Chamber and how he 
could be released from the book. They hatched the plot together, and Lucius 
only needed to get the diary into the hands of a child bound for Hogwarts. 

I still think he intended to giove it to Harry, but the run-in with Arthur 
Weasley convinced him to palm it off on Arthur's daughter instead.

-JOdel