The diary (Was: Snape as a Spy and Spy!Lucius, too!)

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 86450

--- justcarol67 wrote:

 BTW, I still don't understand how Lucius got hold of the diary, which
 couldn't have been left in the Riddle house at the time of the
 murders. The police would have found it and realized that Tom Marvolo
 Riddle, the name on the binding, was not the name of the Tom Riddle
 who died. A little investigation would lead them to the older Tom's
 divorce, an unacknowledged son in an orphanage, and a certain teenage
 murderer. Maybe Voldemort told Lucius that it was at Hogwarts and
 Lucius forced Dobby to find it and bring it to him?

Constance Vigilance (me):

I think LV gave it to him during VWI. Lucius was a trusted lieutenant 
at that time, probably the highest-ranking one. I think LV gave him 
many personal belongings for safe keeping. My guess is that these 
things are being stored below the floorboards in the Malfoy parlor. I 
think Lucius was also given the control of the Riddle house to manage 
under the guise of the Rich Owner Who Needs Tax Advantages, but I do 
not think that the diary would have been stored in the Riddle House.

The diary was always a worst-case backup plan. And while I love the 
theory that Lucius is a spy, I really think that Lucius did know that 
the diary contained the essence of LV. But he thought that Diary!Tom 
would be content to kill Muggles.

Constance Vigilance