What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 113610

> Tonks wrote:
> > 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.

> Hannah replyed: 
> It sounds good in theory, but as I've said before, 
> Malfoy hands out the diary *after* Dobby has warned Harry about a 
> plot to make terrible things happen at Hogwarts, which he claims he 
> has known about for months.  So Malfoy was definitely planning to 
> use the diary to ill effect.


Mandy here:
Also, I would bet Lucius knows all about possessed diary's and how 
they work, enabling the originator of the diary to correspond with 
someone who writes inside it. Lucius would have almost certainly 
written in the diary got a some sort of response from 
Voldemort/Riddle.  Although Lucius may not have realized that LV had 
the power or ability to resurrect him through the diary, I'm still in 
two minds on that one. 

The question I have (which is unanswerable at this point with no 
canon)is exactly what sort of conversation did Lucius Malfoy have 
with LV via the diary? And just how much did LV reveal to Lucius 
about the diary's power?  One the one hand if LV was that desperate 
to come back he would have jumped on the chance to tell Lucius 
everything, but then again keeping one of your more untrustworthy 
followers in the dark can be a prudent decision.  Diary/LV may have 
decided to use Lucius to get the diary in the hands of a 
impressionable, young and easy controlled little girl to open the 
Chamber of Secrets, and kept quite on the whole reserrection bit. 

Cheers Mandy