Lucius Mafoy's job? - glancingly TBAY

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49745

Dave: 
> > 
> > Where does canon imply that Lucius owns the Riddle house? 

Heidi:

> The implication is in this paragraph: 
> <<The wealthy man who owned the Riddle House these days neither 
lived
> there nor put it to any use; they said in the village that he kept 
it
> for "tax reasons," though nobody was very clear what these might 
be. The
> wealthy owner continued to pay Frank to do the gardening, however. 
Frank
> was nearing his seventy-seventh birthday now, very deaf, his bad 
leg
> stiffer than ever, but could be seen pottering around the flower 
beds in
> fine weather, even though the weeds were starting to creep up on 
him,
> try as he might to suppress them. >>

Now me, a different Dave:

How does this imply Malfoy is the owner?  Some kinds of genre 
expectation would say that if you have an unidentified rich person 
in your story, and an identified one, they are the same person: is 
that all it is?  Or am I missing something?

The question has significant implications, since if it is Malfoy, it 
probably implies he has remained loyal to Voldemort, and therefore 
there is a degree of deception going on in the graveyard scene, and 
therefore that Voldemort thinks there is a chance Harry will escape, 
and hence into Pip's whole Spying Game/MAGICDISHWASHER scenario.

See www.hpfgu.org.uk/hypotheticalley for details

David