What were the Malfoys DOING there?

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No: HPFGUIDX 113621

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> > --- 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

I Know it's hard to read the back-posts (BOY do I know!), but is 
Dobby time-travelling when he, at huge danger to himself, warns 
harry potter there's a plot against him? Please see: 113331 and 
posts at the time.

And please don't say perhaps Dobby's psychic (a true seer or 
whatever) as part of special elf magic - he got it wrong (of course).