What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 113573

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
> <susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> >  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.<<<

Tonks here:

Well Malfoy is very upset when DD comes back to the school, so 
getting rid of DD could have been his plan. But I have another 
thought. How do we know that Malfoy Sr. knows what the diary will 
do? Maybe he couldn't get a good price for it or that Knockturn 
Alley store (can't remember name) would not take it. So he had to 
get rid of it and it seemed like a good idea to stick it in her 
book, might get her father in trouble instead of Malfoy. Maybe he 
had no idea what it could do. If he didn't want LV back and didn't 
know what the diary could do then he would not have known that it 
could help open the chamber again. Maybe he just wanted to get rid 
of something of LV's and not have it around the house.

Tonks_op