[HPforGrownups] Re: Lucius Malfoy's Ambition

[thursday morning]

No: HPFGUIDX 126656


> Hannah:
> Now that is a very interesting idea.  I personally think that he
> gave the diary to Ginny because he was hoping she'd be caught and
> thus he could use that as a way to discredit Arthur and stop the
> Muggle Protection Act.

Rather a win-win scenario for LM.
 
> The argument against his using the diary as a way to show LV that he
> still supported him would be why Lucius never brought it up in the
> graveyard scene.  There's LV, berating Lucius for his lack of
> loyalty, and not once does Malfoy say; 'but master, I planted the
> diary into Hogwarts!'

I have to disagree here. If my mother were berating me for-well, pretty much anything and I'd said *anything* other then 'yes, ma'am' or 'no ma'am' I'd be accused of talking back and gotten a good smack for it at the least.  Avery had already been crucio'd.  I consider LM to have been incredibly foolish for saying as much as he did.  Perhaps if LV had not interrupted him he would have babbled on and mentioned the diary.  I admit there is no canon evidence for my theory but I don't think this scene can be used against it either.  Unless I'm missing something?
> 
> I do think Dobby acted of his own volition, having heard what Lucius
> planned, and fearing that Harry would be endangered.  Whether there
> was an actual specific threat to Harry, or whether Dobby was just
> concerned that he'd be hurt accidentally, I don't know.

But what I don't understand is *why* Dobby would do this.  Yes, Dobby is apparently a *very* unusual house elf but this just seems so far out of house elf norm.  This wasn't an impulsive act.  Dobby was stopping Harry's mail all summer.  He continued interferring all the way thru the school year.  It seems to me so far out from the norm that I started looking for options, hence the 'LM sent Dobby' theory.  I would be very interested to see more complete arguments for the 'Dobby acts on his own' theory.

Thank you for the feedback, Hannah.  I hope to hear more.

Thursday

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