Lucius' malfoy's motivation in CoS (was: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[Hannah]

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>Hannah said:
The real question here is what Lucius Malfoy was hoping  to achieve 
with the diary.  I can think of three possibilities:
 1. Restore LV to power through diary Tom
 2. Kill off as many mudbloods as possible, and get the school shut 
 down.
 3. Discredit Arthur Weasley, hopefully killing some mudbloods along 
 the way. <snip explanations>
> 
Aura replied:
4. Maybe he had a completely different plan that just didn't pan out.
> 
>Or, and I hesitate to say, because I know it's natural law in HP 
verse that everything has deeper meaning, but, what if, this time, 
it doesn't?
 What if Lucius just happened to be carrying the diary (just bought 
or intending to sell it in Knockturn Alley?) and happened to see 
Ginny and
thought, "I wonder what kind of trouble this could brew for those 
pesky Weasleys?" (except more evilly.) Just sayin, sometimes people 
do stupid things for no particular reason; may evil Lucius just had 
a *feeling* hecould brew up some trouble, but he didn't have a real 
plan.

Hannah again now: I do agree with you, Aura, that not *everything* 
in the HP books can lead on to some incredible conspiracy theory to 
be revealed in later books (just most things ;-).  But this is a bit 
different.  

Remember at this stage, Dobby had already appeared in Harry's room 
warning him that there was a 'plot to make terrible things happen at 
Hogwarts.'  I don't think there's any question that he was referring 
to the basilisk problem.  So clearly there *was* a plot, before the 
diary was handed out, and this plot had something to do with the 
Malfoys (since Dobby was their elf).  

Thus I don't think it was an accident that Malfoy was there in 
Diagon Alley with that book; he intended to give it to a student.  
The questions are what he hoped to gain from it, and if it was 
specifically Ginny or just any susceptible Hogwarts sudent that he 
intended to pass the diary.
Hannah