What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[kmcbears1]

No: HPFGUIDX 114337

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elfundeb2" <elfundeb at c...> 
wrote:
> Mac wrote: 
> > > > No, No, No, not his 'new' target: I'm sorry to KEEP 
> belabouring 
> > > this 
> > > > point, BUT why oh why does everone seem to keep 
> ignoring 'Dobby's 
> > > > warning'? when it is so strongly a cannon point? Dobby *knew* 
> the 
> > > > plot was about HP from the start. *HOW* we don't know. Even 
> so, 
> > > > there just doesn't seem to be any other explanation of 
Dobby's 
> > > > behaviour in CoS.
> 
> Carol:
> 
> > Mac is right--Malfoy's plot apparently centered around Harry from 
> the
> > beginning. But how could it? How could he know what the diary 
> would do
> > if he hadn't written in it, and if he *had* written in it, why 
> would
> > he think that killing "mudbloods" had anything to do with Harry?
> 
>  
> Ah, but Dobby doesn't say the plot was about HP.  What he says is 
> quite interesting.  He says he knows of "a plot to make most 
> terrible things happen at Hogwarts. . . . Harry must not put 
himself 
> in peril.  He is too important, sir!" 
> 
> We can also surmise that Lucius intended the diary to release the 
> basilisk to "purge the school of all who were [in Slytherin's view] 
> unworthy to study magic."  According to Binns, this meant those who 
> were not from "all-magic families."  Lily's Muggleborn status may 
> have put Harry at risk, even though all of the basilisk's victims 
> were Muggleborns, and not children of Muggleborns.  This would be 
> one possible explanation of Dobby's concern for Harry.  I think 
> Lucius's actual goal may not have been for the Basilisk to "get 
> Harry" per se, but to wreak havoc at Hogwarts so that Dumbledore 
> would be dismissed as headmaster, as he tried to do later in CoS.
> 
> What I find really interesting, though, is Dobby's reason for 
trying 
> to keep Harry away from Hogwarts:  Harry is "too important."  How 
> does he know of Harry's importance?  Is it because he knows about 
> the Prophecy?  Dobby seems to know a great deal about Harry (do the 
> Malfoys talk about him *that* much?), and he knows that it's Riddle 
> in the diary.  Maybe what Dobby fears is a confrontation between 
> Riddle and Harry that Harry will be too young to handle.
> 
> Debbie
> who thinks Dobby learned about the Prophecy from his deceased 
former 
> masters, the Potters, and that's why he's so loyal to Harry

kmc adds:

What if it was to get Hermione?  After all she beat Draco in grades, 
she's a Muggle.  And she helped Harry defeat QuirrelMort.

And Hermione reminds Lucius of that other meddling Muggle-born witch -
 Lily.  Voldemort got rid of her - Tom's memory can rid the WW of 
Hermione before she gets too powerful.

-kmc