The Diary; LV's mudblood ancestry

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57297

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. 
Valkly Speaking:
I disagree indupitably. Dobby was adamant in his pleas with Harry 
that the planting of the diary was intended to bring direct 
consequences on Harry.

In my opinion, as I have mentioned in other postings. I don't think 
that Lucius is a very powerful wizard. He appears to get by relying 
quite heavily on his wits and not his wizardry. I dont believe that 
Lucius would have the courage to open and converse with the diary. 
Although, it was obvious that he was aware that the essence of a 
powerful Tom Riddle, aka Voldemort, was stored within it.
He smuggled it into Hogwarts using a Weasley child for the reason of 
discrediting Arthur, quite probably.

However, his prime motivation was to unleash Lord Voldemort so he 
could do away with Harry. 

Lucius is threatened by a great many wizards, not least of all 
Dumbledore and Harry Potter. The diary, for him, was a weapon, to use 
against the more powerful wizards that threaten his rise to 
superiority in the wizarding world.

I believe his plan was something like this:
Find a child in Hogwarts to give the diary to. Once it is in the 
hands of a curious, foolhardy, first year student witch or wizard, 
the power of Lord Voldemort will be released to take its revenge on 
Hogwarts. Riddle could do away with Dumbledore, or at least discredit 
him enough to have him shamed out of his position of influence in the 
wizard world. He could also take on the inexperienced Potter boy and 
get rid of him too. 
I think the murder of mudbloods was inconsequential to Lucius, or at 
most, a sideshow to the main event. 

Which would be, to get Tom Riddle to do his dirty work for him and 
take on the big guns at Hogwarts. 
He then planned to work together with Voldemort to restore the DE 
movement to power through Hogwarts. He also made an assumption that 
his hand in freeing Tom Riddle would bring him favouritism with his 
master LV.
And finally, Why Ginny? It was a bonus that the feckless Ginny was 
available to him right at the particular moment that he planned to 
dispose of the diary. Why not take down Arthur Weasley while he was 
at it? 
You think so? I think so.
Valky