Book Two Discoveries!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 112197

> Terpnurse wrote:
> Ya know, something else Harry learned in CoS (both in the book and 
> in the Forbidden Media - where it might easily have been cut) is the 
> fact the Lucius has other things hidden away at his house that once 
> belonged to Tom Riddle. That's such a vague clue - and one repeated 
> by three characters; DD, Draco, and Arthur Weasley - that we're 
> forced to wonder just *what* else the Malfoys have in their own 
> secret chamber.
> 
> Ravenclaw Bookworm responded:
> Same scene, different POV – The Hand of Glory.  It doesn't
> add anything to the plot. 
> 
> The deleted version of the scene is much longer and includes Draco 
> almost finding Harry.  IIRC, the part with the Malfoys coming into 
> the store was deleted, but the Hand was left in.  I might be willing 
> to stake a couple of knuts on it – any takers?

Carol adds:
The Malfoys do come into the store in the film (how much was cut I
don't know as I don't own the DVD), but the hand of glory scene is
much more developed in the film (theatrical version) than it is in the
book, where Draco asks if his father will buy it but neither he nor
Harry actually touches it. I do think (hope) we'll hear more of the
goods Lucius has stashed away (why mention them so frequently if
they're not important), but I also think we we were introduced to
Nocturn Alley, and specifically to Borgin and Burkes, for a reason. I
noted Mr. Borgin's muttered reference to "*Mr.* Malfoy" after Malfoy
had left (will his dislike prove important?), and I also note that
Borgin and Burkes has a recurring ad in the Daily News on JKR's
website for exactly the sort of suspicious objects "to be found in the
best families" (quoted from memory) that Malfoy is likely to be hiding.

So my vote is either Borgin and Burkes or Malfoy's stash of contraband
potions and artifacts or both.

Carol