[HPforGrownups] Re: LV's mudblood ancestry

[echa_schneider at mac.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 57204

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 12:26 AM, Ladi lyndi wrote:

> My big question is not if Lucius Malfoy knows if
> Riddle and Voldemort are the same person but why
> Malfoy took so long to use the diary.  Why not
> use the diary soon after Voldemort disappeared?
> Why not use it before Draco arrived at Hogwarts?
> Could it be the Lucius was communicating with
> Diary!Riddle and it was decided to wait until
> Harry showed up at Hogwarts so that Riddle could
> kill Harry and then go get his future self and be
> restored?

I always got the impression that the Diary didn't really have much to 
do with Harry, but rather it was all about Lucius pulling out a card to 
play against Arthur Weasley in response to the Muggle Protection Act.  
Had nothing to do with Voldemort, it was just vengance, plain and 
simple.

Echa