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

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 86514

 
> Carol:
> Young Tom Riddle would not have left any of his possessions in the
> Riddle House, which was never his and was the site of his family's
> murder. He had no home but the orphanage. When he sits in the dark,
> dust-filled room discussing future murders with Wormtail, it is only
> as a convenient place to hide, not because it is in any sense his
> home. The ownership is completely irrelevant. Nor would it give 
Lucius
> any advantage to own the Riddle House, which belonged to rich 
Muggles,
> not the unacknowledged son and grandson who was also their murderer.
> 
> While I agree completely that Lucius Malfoy is a scheming slimeball
> quite capable of betraying his "Master" especially if he discovered
> him to be a half-blood, I don't think he's certain yet that Harry's
> claim is true and I don't think that purchasing the Riddle House 
could
> in any way aid him in his objectives. Young Tom would not have left
> any belongings there after the murders. He had never lived there, 
and
> any possession, especially a diary with his name on the binding, 
would
> have made it all too easy to identify the identity of the murderer,
> who lived in a Muggle orphanage when he wasn't at Hogwarts and
> consequently would have been discoverable by Muggle police.
> 
> Carol

Young Tom Riddle could have put some sort of spell on the house when 
he murdered his father and grandparents.  The families that bought 
the house never stayed long.  "Perhaps it was partly because of Frank 
that the new owners said there was a nasty feeling about the place, 
which, in absence of inhabitants, started to fall into disrepair."  
Young Tom could have put a spell on it so nobody would stay long.  
Like Lucius, he could have made a secret place under the drawing room 
that nobody knew about and stashed his things in there. During VWI he 
could have persuaded Lucius to buy the place so he could use the 
house if he needed to. Nobody knew he was part muggle so they 
wouldn't even think of finding Voldie at the Riddle house when he 
needed to go into hiding.  He was in hiding for a while before the 
Potters were killed so this could be where he was.  

I say this because when I re read GOF, I too thought of Lucius Malfoy 
as the rich owner of the house.

Diana