The Diary; LV's mudblood ancestry

[maria_kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 57242

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?

Echa replied:
>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.

Maria:
I'd have to say, yes and no. I think that jeopardising the Muggle 
Protection Act was Lucius's primary motivation, but really he was 
killing several birds with one stone - getting rid of Dumbledore and 
several Muggle-borns as well as helping out Arthur with his new law. 

I doubt that Lucius would have planted the diary in Hogwarts had it 
not been for the Muggle Protection Act. As someone pointed out, most 
likely it wasn't the first year that he'd had it in his possession, 
so he'd had an opportunity to do it before. 

Maria