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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 86485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Miller" 
<constancevigilance at y...> wrote:
> 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.


Jen R: I definitely agree that Lucius is the owner of the Riddle 
House and is in possession of LV's things, but not because LV 
trusted him or gave them to him. 

LV's biggest secret is that he is Tom Riddle the half-blood and he's 
not going to willingly give this information to a DE who could turn 
on him, and certainly not someone like Lucius with money, power and 
pureblood status.

Somehow, and I tend toward a connection with the seedy underworld of 
Knockturn Alley and lots of galleons, Lucius came by the diary and 
learned of the connection between LV and Tom Riddle. 

When the circumstances were right, i.e. he's on the Board of 
Governors at Hogwarts, the Muggle Protection act is cramping his 
style, and Fudge is turning to him as often as DD for advice, Lucius 
decides to hatch his plan. He know's *only* that Tom Riddle can 
possess people through the diary and open the COS, possibly killing 
the person in the process, but not necessarily bringing Riddle to 
life (sort of like when LV is possessing Quirrell). Finding out the 
extent of the diary's power is shocking to him and he realizes there 
may be other ways for LV to return.

So Lucius covers his bases, he does some research, locates the 
Riddle House and purchases it--LV wouldn't know of that. Perhaps he 
obtains some other possessions of LV's. He's prepared for LV's 
return and ultimate downfall. 

Jen R.