Malfoy's Goal in CoS (was: Re: Lucius Malfoy, Voldemort and World Domination)

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 78794

CW commented:

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>>To me, this passage clearly indicates that the Tom Riddle of the 
diary is fully aware of his future, and who he became, and is 
indeed one and the same person in this scene, so I am not sure how 
Lucius Malfoy could have thought he could manipulate a schoolboy 
Voldemort. 
But perhaps Lucius misunderstood the nature of the 'being' that was 
held between the diary's pages ?<<  

KathyK replied:
 
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>But if it helps clarify how I interpreted Diary!Tom's above 
statement, read message # 78653.  In that post, I wrote some of the 
reasons why I believe Diary!Tom is self-contained and not in any way 
connected to the present Voldemort.<  
 
CW then replied:
 
>>Yes, I've read your post, and it is an interesting idea that he 
only knows what has happened through what Ginny etc may have told 
him, but the 'odd red gleam in his hungry eyes' ? I thought this 
description was a real giveaway. I think his eyes only got this 
creepy after he left school and sunk himself in the dark arts ? I 
still think the Diary was one of his long-term ploys to avoid death, 
and it so nearly succeeds ! I agree that Malfoy almost certainly 
would not have wanted him to reappear though.<<

KathyK again:

I concede the point.  I still like my idea, but Voldemort and Diary!
Tom being one in the same does make more sense the more I read and 
think about it.  Not the least of reasons being the conflict of 
having two Voldemorts existing in the world.  Neither would stand for 
it.  Although they *could* team up and try to take on Harry.  They'd 
have a better shot with two Dark Lords.  (That last bit was a little 
facetious, in case you were wondering)

So now I'm left asking, and I think I read a similar question 
recently, what happens if Diary!Tom succeeded?  He'd be restored, but 
as what?  Would he be just a sixteen-year-old again with the past 
experiences of Voldemort?  

Would the Diary!Tom subsume the not really alive but not really dead 
Voldemort?  He's the one with a body after all.  When he came alive, 
would the Voldemort hiding out in Albania just cease to exist, in a 
sense, because he already exists because he is Tom Riddle?

I still like to think Malfoy would have tried to control Diary!Tom 
and would have taken perverse pleasure had he succeeded.  Which he 
couldn't have because Voldemort would be all too aware of what he was 
trying to do, as he is both Diary!Tom and the current Voldemort. <g>  

KathyK