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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113637

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> macfotuk at y... wrote:
> > In GoF LV, when he *does* finally return to physicality, makes a 
> > comment along the lines of how come you never looked for me 
> > Lucius? Does *that* LV not know what LM did (or tried to do) in 
> > CoS? Why does he single out Avery for punishment, not Lucius? LV 
> > goes on to mention his thwarting as Quirrel!Mort by Harry, but 
> > skips then to Pettigrew's return and does not mention CoS or Diary!
> > Tom. So, is he aware of what went on in CoS? Seemingly not, at 
> > least in the graveyard scene.   
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> NO, Voldy isn't aware, I don't think.  In fact, I keep trying to use 
> this "Voldy didn't ask about/Lucius didn't offer up info about the 
> diary" scene as evidence that Lucius was attempting to use the diary 
> to advance his own agenda, *not* to bring Voldy back.  I'm not sure 
> anyone's listening, but that's what I've been trying to say for 
> months.
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Carol:
I agree that LV doesn't know about the attempt, but that doesn't mean
that Lucius wasn't trying to bring him back. (Otherwise, how can we
explain Dobby's concern for Harry and Harry only since Harry isn't a
Muggleborn? Obviously, there was some scheming going on in the Malfoy
household--Dobby calls the whole family "bad, Dark wizards.")

If Lucius tried to bring Voldemort back via diary!Tom and failed
spectacularly, why would he tell Voldemort? And in any case, he hadn't
had a chance to communicate with him and didn't know he was restored
to his physical form until he was summoned to the graveyard.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, SSS, only that I don't think we can
rule out the restoration of Voldemort as a possible Malfoy motive
based on LV's not knowing about it in GoF.

My question, which another poster has also raised, is what would have
happened if Diary!Tom had been restored? Would he have found his older
self in Albania and allowed his body to be possessed--the great and
terrible Lord Voldemort in the form of a sixteen-year-old boy? Or
would we have had two Voldemorts, restored!Tom and restored!LV
confronting each other to see which had the mastery? (I can just see
slippery Lucius playing them against each other.)

Carol