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

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No: HPFGUIDX 114113

SSSusan:
*IF* he had really set up the diary plot as a means of helping Voldy 
return, then **at this first opportunity** [read:  graveyard] to 
brag about how hard he worked, about the risk he took, about how 
close he came to success, then why NOT do it?  I'm simply taking 
Lucius' reticence at that moment as evidence that he DIDN'T set up 
the diary plan as a means of bringing Voldy back at all, but rather 
set it up to advance his own position in the WW.


Bookworm:
Could it be that he knew/suspected that Voldemort would ridicule his 
failed attempt ("You let a half-breed 12-year-old defeat you??").  
Malfoy is too proud to risk that kind of scene. He probably waited 
until a quieter moment between the two of them to mention it.  
Better yet, he got Crabbe or Goyle to sing his praises - when there 
weren't other DEs around to try to take advantage of his potential 
fall from grace.

Ravenclaw Bookworm