[HPforGrownups] Re: Does Malfoy own the Riddle House?

[James Lawlor]

No: HPFGUIDX 112273

> Kemper now:
> If Malfoy is The Wealthy Man, then he could know of LV's bloodline.
> I don't think LV would have been willing to risk that.  I think DD is
> the Wealthy Man.

James:

I think Malfoy already does know of LV's bloodline, having been in
possession of Tom Riddle's diary for so long. At the very least he
would have noticed that it was a "muggle artifact" and therby not
something a "respectable pureblood wizard" is going to use, and
researching the name would have been easy enough. Lucius doesn't
strike me as the type to care about LV's bloodline - he's not
obsessively worshiping LV like other Death Eaters (Bellatrix, for
example). The theories that Malfoy is trying to set himself up as LV's
successor and such similar ideas make a lot of sense to me - he's not
in this because of LV, he's in it for his own gain, even if it
requires some groveling in the process.

I seriously doubt Dumbledore is the Wealthy Man. If DD bought the
house he would have done so because he expected it to be important in
the future - perhaps somewhere LV would go when he needed somewhere to
hide. If that was the case, he would have been keeping some sort of
watch over it, and ought to have realized that LV and Wormtail were
hiding out there. I seriously don't expect that DD would sit by if he
had the opportunity to capture or destory LV nor sit by and let LV
kill Bertha and plot against Harry.

As for Dumbledore owning the house and not watching it... Well
Dumbledore's smarter than that, isn't he?


- James Lawlor
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