COS musings/questions (long)

[halli]

No: HPFGUIDX 105368

leb <lbiles at f...> wrote:
> In ch 18 Dobby's Reward --
> Harry gives the diary back to Lucius.  Even though all the ink 
> drained out of it when it was pierced by the fang and it is 
> supposedly empty wasn't it a dangerous thing to return?  DD also 
> warns Lucius "not to go giving out any more of LV's  old school 
> things."  Does this mean that TR and LM were at school together?  
> Why does Lucius have them and what else can we expect to see?


halli: 
   Lucius is 41 in CoS and VM is at least 60, because he went to 
school with Hagrid, 50 years ago. Lucius wouldn't have been born yet! 
IMO, he just got the diary from VM as a plan to attack Hogwarts from 
the inside, and since his downfall, Lucius just now got around to 
planting it.