Malfoy Sr's Intent with TMR's Diary (CoS)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113329

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:

Mac:

> LM may simply have known that the diary could be a means to open 
the 
> chamber, but if so how was that a *direct* threat to Harry and why 
> should Dobby choose Harry to warn rather than all Hogwart's 
> students? 
> 
> Does LM really want Voldemort back? (not my original idea I freely 
> acknowledge). But if not, what is his own agenda for wanting to 
kill 
> harry and/or open the chamber and/or reincarnating Tom Riddle?

Geoff:
As I wrote in message 113085, I think that Malfoy was merely trying 
to climb to the top in the absence of Voldemort. I do not think that 
getting him rebodied [sounds like an old bus! :-)] was on his agenda 
if he could avoid it.

However, what does he know in full about the Chamber? We know from 
Draco's comments that the Chamber was opened 50 years ago and that a 
girl died. We know from Binns that the Chamber was supposed to 
contain a monster (the horror within).

How much more detailed information does Lucius have or do we have for 
that matter at that point in the story? Is Malfoy working in the dark 
just knowing that the Chamber contains something which could be used 
in an attempt to unseat Dumbledore and destabilise the Ministry but 
not knowing the specifics?

Geoff
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