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

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 113879

> Carol:
> 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.

RL now:
I think LM wanted to bring back a young TMR, not LV, he wanted 
someone he thought he could manipulate from behind the scene, 
someone who would take the fall for all the necessary bad deeds and 
to take over from when the time was ripe. If LM told LV he tried to 
bring back his 16 yo self instead of looking for him in Albania, LV 
would have caught wind of LM's plan and he was toast.

>> Carol 
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.)


RL now:
It all depends on JKR's view, of course. She did say that restored!
Tom would have made LV stronger so the first possibility is probably 
the more likely. OTOH, I read a book once where a guy found a way to 
duplicate himself and went on holidays with his family while his 
duplicate slaved away at work. The duplicate had a mind of his own, 
though, and he married a colleague, so when the guy came back he 
found himself a bigamous husband. What I mean is that restored!Tom 
may have started off for Albania to find spirit!LV and then refure 
to be possessed and wandre off on his own

Romulus Lupin who can also envision Lucius playing LV1 and LV2 
against each other