[HPforGrownups] Re: Re: Lucius and the Diary

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46664

In a message dated 11/15/02 10:38:45 PM, kaityf at jorsm.com writes:
<< And if I remember correctly (a big "if"), Riddle first learns about 
the great Harry Potter through Ginny.  Riddle also says that his original 
goal had been to get rid of the mudbloods at Hogwarts, but after learning 
about Harry from Ginny, he changed his goal to getting rid of him.  So why 
was Harry in danger?  Why did Dobby want Harry to stay away from Hogwarts 
that year?  Was the goal to get rid of mudbloods first and then half bloods?
<snip>
 Why that year? >>

Me:

To me, Dobby's warning Harry shows that Dobby: 
1.) knew of Lucius's plan to plant the get the diary into Hogwarts, and
2.) knew that the diary contained the essence of Tom Riddle who would someday 
become Voldemort (his hint "not He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" implies Voldemort 
before he was Voldemort), and
3.) knew that Voldemort tried to kill Harry
and that's why he warned Harry that he was in danger and to stay away from 
Hogwarts.  

Lucius at least knew how the diary worked, even if he didn't write to 
Diary!Tom and explain his plans.  I believe Lucius planned on Diary!Tom 
learning about Harry and coming after him.  Diary!Tom does say that he 
learned about Harry's history from Ginny, and since he planned on killing 
Harry, he didn't really have any reason to lie to him.  If Lucius had told 
him about Harry, I think he would have stated so.
Diary!Tom says:
"`My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for

months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes - how

her brothers tease her, how she had to come to school with

secondhand robes and books, how" -Riddle's eyes glinted "how she

didn't think famous, good, great Harry Potter would ever like her . . . ." 
"Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to

be exactly what I wanted .... I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of

her deepest fears, her darkest secrets."

This says to me that Diary!Tom was sort of in a dormant state until Ginny 
began writing to him, and the first thing Ginny told him was about Harry.  He 
goes on to say:

"..Ginny told me all about you, Harry," said Riddle. "Your

whole fascinating history. " His eyes roved over the lightning scar on

Harry's forehead, and their expression grew hungrier. "I knew I must

find out more about you, talk to you, meet you if I could."

ORIGINALLY, back 50 years ago, Tom created the diary to open the Chamber 
again and rid the school of muggle-borns: 

"I decided to leave

behind a diary, preserving my sixteen-year-old self in its pages, so that

one day, with luck, I would be able to lead another in my footsteps, and

finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work."

"Well, you haven't finished it," said Harry triumphantly. "No one's died

this time, not even the cat. In a few hours the Mandrake Draught will

be ready and everyone who was Petrified will be all right again -"

BUT, Diary!Tom of CoS's main goal was to confront Harry, just as Lucius 
suspected he would:


"Haven't I already told you," said Riddle quietly, "that killing Mudbloods

doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new target

has been -you."

Audra