[HPforGrownups] Re: Lucius Malfoy's Ambition

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 126616

--- thursday morning <thursdaymorning at outgun.com> wrote:
> 
> Honestly, I don't think he was trying to get Riddle reborn.  There
> are never just two sides to anything and I have no doubt that
> Malfoy is on side #3 - his own.  He knew, just as well as Snape and
> Dumbledore knew, that LV was coming back.  Getting the diary into
> the school gave him something to show LV as proof of his continued
> devotion.  


Very true, but we should remember that the main impetus for Lucius to
get rid of a lot of things he happened to have around the house was
that the Ministry was conducting raids and searches and therefore
Lucius was prudently getting...questionable...artefacts out of the
manor.  Riddle's diary was a special case; it couldn't be sold
because it was possible to "activate" it and therefore since
something had to be done with it, the best option would have been to
get it into Hogwarts where it could wreck havoc - well away from
Wiltshire.

So the main impetus for getting rid of the diary was to get it out of
Malfoy manor before the Arthur Weasleys of the MoM could find it. 
There was no call from Voldemort to "plant" the diary on someone. 
Had the MoM not got too close for comfort, there's no reason to
suspect the diary wouldn't still be in the Malfoy family vault,
collecting dust.

Magda


		
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