What were the Malfoys DOING there?

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No: HPFGUIDX 113778

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:

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> Malfoy then hands out the diary, either deliberately to Ginny 
> because of her father (depending on his motive) or just because 
she 
> is the first young girl about to start at Hogwarts that he comes 
> across.  Tom finds out all about Harry from Ginny (and she's got a 
> huge crush on him, so she's going to be only too pleased to tell 
Tom 
> his life story, even without prompting).  He then makes Harry his 
> new target.
> 
> Hannah

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No, No, No, not his 'new' target: I'm sorry to KEEP belabouring this 
point, BUT why oh why does everone seem to keep ignoring 'Dobby's 
warning'? when it is so strongly a cannon point? Dobby *knew* the 
plot was about HP from the start. *HOW* we don't know. Even so, 
there just doesn't seem to be any other explanation of Dobby's 
behaviour in CoS.