What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113885

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:

> Mac: 
> > 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.
> 

Magda:
> I agree with Mac.  The plan from the inception (wherever or whenever
> that occurred) was for Tom Riddle to step out of the diary 
reanimated
> by the life force of another person - and who better than Harry,
> who'd shown his power to defeat the Dark Lord as a baby?  Ginny was 
a
> sideline only, a stepping stone.
> 
> Dobby wouldn't have been in such a panic or gone to such lengths if
> it had been Harry who was the target in the first place.

Geoff:
I think there is something wrong with the wording of your last 
sentence if you are agreeing with Mac. It implies that Harry 
was /not/ the original target. Should you have written "hadn't" 
instead of "had"?

Geoff
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