What Did DiaryTom Know & When Did He Know It? (Lucius in CoS)

[magicroxx]

No: HPFGUIDX 73558

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "janna" <jlh_hp at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
> wrote:
> > I think DiaryTom got all of his information from Ginny.  
 
> > bibphile
> 
> ~ I believe bibphile is probably correct.  However, another 
> possibility is that Lucius has been keeping DiaryTom up to date, at 
> least recently.  Maybe he gave DiaryTom a few nuggets just before 
> slipping the diary into Ginny's books?
> 
> maybe?
> 
> ~ janna ~


I wasn't going to mention this here because it is a bit farfetched. 
Interesting, but definitely out there. 

IN book 2, in Borgin and Burkes, Lucius mentions that he has 
important business elsewhere that day. I mean, he wouldn't KNOW that 
the Weasleys were necessarily going to be in Diagon Alley, so 
dropping that book couldn't be his business. The sane speculation 
stops there.

In book 4, we learn about memory charms, and when they are powerful 
enough, they can lead to severe issues. This was the case with Bertha 
Jorkins. (I admit it, I read the Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter). 
Well Bertha's story is well laid out. Crouch Sr. put the charm on her 
and it was really powerful and was broken by Voldemort. From her 
broken memory, they (LV and PP) learn about that Crouch Jr. is alive. 
They also about the Tirwizard. So the key to Voldemort finding out 
about Crouch Jr. was in Bertha's memory. I am done with the 
recapping, on to the real theory.

Many parallels can be drawn between Bertha and Neville, the really 
strange memory loss. So we must ask ourselves, assuming that someone 
DID put a memory charm on him, what clues does his memory hold? I 
have an idea for that too.

Bagman said that Bertha's memory was like a leaky cauldron. Percy, 
who worked for crouch was trying to solve the problems of the leaky 
cauldron bottoms. Interesting, all the people involved here. So, it 
COULD be said that Neville has a memory like a leaky cauldron. On to 
next point..

I have to possible villains here, two people that may have been 
present when Neville's parents were tortured. The first is Lucius 
Malfoy because he had important business that day, he was in 
knockturn alley, the entrance to knockturn in through diagon alley 
and the entrance to that, is through THE LEAKY CAULDRON. The key to 
finding out what Lucius was doing, is in Neville, the leaky cauldron. 

There is one other possibility, Fudge, whom Percy and all his Leaky 
Cauldron experience now works for. Fudge we know, feels himself above 
the law, that for the sake of the wizarding world, he is willing to 
create new laws, to bend them and not follow them. If for some 
reason, he thought Neville may be a threat, he would put a memory 
charm on him. 

There is also the possibility that the two of them are involved 
considering that they are on a first name basis. 

I told you it was farfetched...

Roxx (who needs another hobby now that OOTP has been released and 
reviewed and analyzed and speculated)