CoS theories, Why not Draco, Colin's camera

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 46854

The question has been raised as to how Lucius could have 
framed Ginny without clearing Hagrid. That is why I think the
petrifications were intentional--so that the restored victims would 
be available to confirm that Ginny had attacked them after Ginny 
herself had been disposed of. 

I think what Lucius planned  was that just before the victims were 
revived, the Diary would  force Ginny to write a detailed 
confession, including  that Hagrid  showed her how to open the 
Chamber. After that she would be got rid of:  driven  insane, killed 
(without becoming a ghost), or just "disappeared".  There would 
be nothing to indicate the Diary was responsible and Arthur 
Weasley would be utterly discredited by his daughter's fall, just 
as Barty Crouch Sr. was by the defection of his son. 

Tom might have preferred Draco to Ginny as a host, but Lucius 
wouldn't want Draco involved. Even if Lucius were willing to 
sacrifice his son,  Draco could tell the Diary far too much about 
Lucius himself.  

Riddle's plan was, of course, quite different. I wonder if Tom 
thought Harry might be a descendant of his? Anyway, once  Tom 
had escaped, Harry was dead and the Chamber sealed again, 
there would be nothing Lucius could do. I don't think Riddle 
would be the slightest bit interested in rescuing his failed older 
self from Albania, either. He hasn't got much use for losers.

I don't think that Lucius  believed that the "real" Voldemort could 
come back, at least until the Dark Mark started to reappear on 
his arm in GoF.  I think he has never been persuaded that 
immortality was possible without the Stone. He's very invested in 
Draco's future. Why should he be if he thinks he himself can live 
forever?  I believe Lucius is now praying that Voldemort "I forgot" 
has forgotten all about the Very Secret Diary and never asks what 
became of it.

How much Pettigrew could have learned about the Diary or the  
Chamber while he was Scabbers isn't clear. The connection 
between Voldemort, Riddle  and the Heir isn't discussed in 
canon anywhere but in McGonagall's office and the Chamber 
itself.   It wouldn't be  a matter for casual conversation between 
Ron and Harry or in the Weasley house. I think the Weasleys  
treated themselves to that vacation in Egypt with the idea of 
putting the whole sad business behind them.

 Wormtail might never have found out that Tom Riddle and 
Voldemort were the same until the night of the Graveyard, and 
even then, he might not know that Lucius was the one who 
planted the Diary on Ginny. 

We don't know if Harry ever told anyone that. I somehow don't 
think the Weasleys would have sat in the Top Box with the 
Malfoys if they had known. I don't see Arthur Weasley offering 
even  a "strained smile" to the man who  tried to destroy his 
daughter.

BBoy asks

>>Q: Why did't Myrtle's glasses protect her?

A: Because glasses or no glasses, she still looked DIRECTLY 
into the
eyes of the basilisk.

The only other person to look at the basilisk through a lense was
Colin. So why was he protected and not Myrtle? The only way to 
explain
this is to assume that Colin was using a 35mm SLR camera or 
a box
camera where you look DOWN into view finder that is mounted 
flat on
the top of the camera. Does anyone know what I mean by this 
second
camera, and do you know what the proper term for this type is? 
<<

Are you talking about a twin lens reflex camera? That has two 
lenses, one above the other. The viewfinder is mounted on top of 
the camera and the photographer sees the image reversed left 
right, reflected by a mirror at a 45 degree angle behind the top 
lens. When you squeeze the shutter button the picture is taken 
through the bottom lens. 

A  typical 35 mm single lens reflex (SLR) camera  has the same 
kind of mirror, plus a prism arrangement so that you see the 
image in the viewfinder right side up and unreversed, but there's 
only one lens. When you snap a picture, the mirror moves up out 
of the light path a moment before the shutter opens, which 
causes the image in the viewfinder to black out. I don't think that 
kind of camera would have worked with your theory. Colin would 
have been petrified before he took the picture and the film 
wouldn't have been ruined. 

I am afraid we are being way too technical here, since Rowling 
took dramatic license in the Hospital Wing scene. Either that, or 
she knows zilch about photography.<g> If Colin *had* managed 
to capture his attacker on film, the image would have been 
ruined anyway when Albus opened the camera, exposing the 
undeveloped film to light.

Pippin
sometime photography student