Dobby redux

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 106269

>> First Aggie wrote:
>> What was the whole point of opening the Chamber?  
 
> Then Kneasy responded:
> We don't really know, apart from spreading a reign of terror and 
possibly
> getting DD sacked.
> Just what  the revived Tom Riddle was intended to  achieve is still 
a
> mystery. From what was said in the Chamber, Harry's death would
> have been a bonus, or perhaps the next phase of the plan. The whole
> point of the plot seems to have been the resurrection of Tom. 
> There have been hints from herself that we'll learn more later about 
this.

boyd:

I've always thought that diary!Tom and Lord Voldemort would have been 
able to, er, merge (please no slashfics here) post-CoS if Tom had won, 
and thereby become more powerful than before. Remember, at the time, 
LV still needed a body of his own, and Tom was becoming nearly real 
until Harry stabbed the diary.

Of course, I also wonder whether the diary was meant for Ginny in the 
first place, or if Lucius had planned on giving it to someone else but 
got so angry at Arthur in the bookstore that he instead planted it in 
Ginny's book. And who would have been his original target? Harry, 
Neville, Ron or Hermione (to kill them)? Whichever student was handy? 
Or perhaps (yuck) Draco as a sacrificial lamb to LV (to make for a 
more powerful and more annoying Dark Lord)?

--boyd