Why not draco?

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 46855

Hi All,

--- In HPforGrownups, "Christopher Nuttall" wrote:
> There have been a lot of thoeries about why Lucious gave the diary 
> to ginny, but why would he not give it to draco?  It would work 
> just as well and draco might even be a willing subject.  Even if 
> not, his dad could have kept him imprisoned until tom fully took
> over. Why risk it all on ginny?

Apologies if this has been said already – I cannot open message 
46835.

Lucius intended Ginny to be caught and the resulting slur would have 
discredited Arthur's Muggle Protection Act. Giving Draco the book 
would have potentially discredited Lucius – not a good idea!

Here's Dumbledore on the subject:

"Because if Harry here [
] and his friend Ron hadn't discovered the 
book, why – Ginny Weasley might have taken all the blame. No one 
would ever have been able to prove she hadn't acted of her own free 
will [
] And imagine, [
] what might have happened then 
 The 
Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families, Imagine 
the effect on Arthur Weasley, and his Muggle Protection Act, if his 
own daughter was discovered attacking and killing Muggle-borns." 
Dumbledore, UK CoS paperback, p. 247

So I think Lucius' plan was to give Ginny the book, have Riddle kill 
a bunch of Muggle borns through Ginny, remove Dumbledore from 
Hogwarts, and then expose Ginny and stop the killings. The net 
result would be a Dumbledore free Hogwarts which Muggles were too 
frightened to send their children to and no Muggle Protection Act. 
This would not work with Draco.

But Tom changed the plan when Ginny told him all about Harry. Tom 
decided to kill Harry, and for that he needed his body back and 
hence Ginny had to die. He couldn't risk killing Harry through Ginny 
since he knew she loved Harry and hence might resist.


			Cheers,


		       Dumbledad.