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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 113946

Karen L, trying to get into this conversation,
> IMO, Lucius Malfoy knew about LV's attempt to return to the land 
> and the living via Draco.  Remember  what DD told Harry while 
> he was recovering in the hospital wing.   
> "...What happened down in the dungeons between you and 
> Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole 
> school knows"  (PS, uk ed. pg 436-437)
> To me that says that everyone must have known  that Quirrell 
> was being "possessed" by LV, and Draco had to have told his 
> dad...no canon to support that, but anyway. 


SSSusan:
No canon to support my view either, but I don't think this was the 
case.  I took "the whole school knows" comment as being about Harry 
STOPPING Professor Quirrell from stealing something, period.  
Whether they knew it was the Sorcerer's Stone or not, I couldn't 
say, but perhaps.  Either way, I think they knew Quirrell was trying 
to do something "bad," something against the rules, and that Harry 
stopped him and, in the process, Quirrell was killed.  

If the whole school knew that Voldemort was a part of the story, 
then I don't think we'd have spent the next three school years with 
next to no discussion of Voldy by the students.  When the Chamber 
was opened, the student body began whispering **about Harry.**  
There didn't seem to be discussion about Voldemort perhaps being 
behind it in any way, shape or form.  IF everyone had known that 
Voldy was attached to Quirrell and had come close to returning, and 
had been at Hogwarts, I think they'd be looking for him to attempt a 
return again.  Yet we hear precious little discussion about him at 
all until Cedric dies.  Well, really, until Book 5.  Until then, 
whenever something untoward happens, it seems all people talk about 
is whether Harry is a nutcase or not.  If people really understood 
that a returned Voldy was a possibility, wouldn't they have been on 
the lookout for him? wouldn't the surprise over the Dark Mark in GoF 
have been less of a surprise?

Just a knut or two.

Siriusly Snapey Susan