CoS - Lucius' Intent for TMR's Diary (was: What Malfoy's doing there?)

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 113298

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, message 113015 "Hannah" 
<hannahmarder at y...> wrote:

<snip>

> Hannah now: 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.

<end of snip>

Mac: You've not listed a 4th possibility which to me seems even 
likelier and IMO better supported by canon, namely to generate 
trouble aimed directly and specifically at Harry Potter (i.e. with 
intent to kill, badly harm or otherwise disable/diminish him). Why 
else would Dobby appear at Privet Drive? - long before the Malfoy's 
visiting Knockturn Alley with 'important business elsewhere' that 
may or may not have been to go to Flourish and Blott's and slip the 
diary into Ginny's cauldron (or to anyone else who could predictably 
set its magic in motion at Hogwart's).