The diary and Lucius's many reasons (also TM Riddle)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 86545

Mandy wrote (one point among many)
 And again why Ginny? Why not use Ron? He's closer to Harry 

Ginger postulates:

I think that is why he didn't use Ron.  Ginny was a first year.  She 
didn't have friends going in, so if she needed a bit of time to 
herself, no one would notice, as opposed to Ron, who is almost always 
with Harry and Hermione.  

For Lucius, this time alone would mean to write in the diary and 
whatever else may happen afterwards.  For plot purposes, it involves 
killing the roosters and freeing the basilisk.  Lucius wouldn't have 
known these specifics (as far as we know! <veg>) but he would have 
known that something would happen.  Or at least have hoped.  

Lucius knew from Draco what Harry and Ron (and Herm, of course) went 
through to get the stone.  He would know that Harry would have 
noticed if Ron had suddenly started taking off by himself with no 
memory of what he had done.  Harry would also notice Ron acting 
strangely.  

Better to use inconspicuous wall-flower Ginny.  Even with all the 
clues JKR threw at us, we never suspected her.


Further along down this thread, someone said that Tom Marvolo Riddle 
on the diary would have indicated a wizard, due to the wizardness of 
Marvolo.  I'm afraid that the diary only said T M Riddle.  The Muggle 
address may have seemed odd to Lucius, but the name wouldn't have 
meant a thing unless he already knew.  

What I do find odd, is that after Harry told Ron and Hermione about T 
M Riddle, that Ron recognized the name T M Riddle as one who had won 
a trophy for special services.  I think that it's odd that the trophy 
said "T M" rather than "Tom".  Had it said "Tom" or "Tom M", there 
would have been more to the discovery.  So why just the initials on 
the trophy?

Ginger, who strongly recomends that posters who are eating squeezy 
cheeze aim directly at the cracker.  To do otherwise may cause the 
poster's screen to become covered in squeezy cheeze.  This is your 
Public Service Announcement for the day.  You're welcome.