[HPforGrownups] Re: Lucius Malfoy's Ambition

[thursday morning]

No: HPFGUIDX 126659


> 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.
 
I agree, Magda, that without the threat of further ministry raids the diary would most likely still be sitting somewhere in Malfoy Manor.  However, just as I don't believe there are ever just two sides to anything, I also suspect there's rarely only one reason for doing something - esp when you're dealing with someone like Lucius Malfoy, slippery Slytherin that he is.  So he needed to get it out of the manor and he couldn't sell it.  He could have found a way to destroy it.  Burn it?  Toss it down a lime pit?  He could have simply 'misplaced' it in Knockturn Alley.  Sending it to Howarts with Ginny Weasley:

1) got it out of Malfoy Manor,
2) created a possibility of discrediting Arthur Weasley,
3) created a possibility of discrediting Dumbledore,
4) gave himself something to show LM as 'proof' of his continued faithfulness (assuming he ever tells him),
5) his concern (not neccessarily *entirely* faked) for the students made him look good to Fudge,
6) got Dobby into Hogwarts (assuming he set up Dobby's part in the whole mess)
and probably another half dozen reasons I'm not Slytherin enough to think of.

As with my 'LM sent Dobby' theory, I don't think we have enough information to completely confirm any one theory so I don't feel I'm out of line to speculate on others.  I'm not investing anything of myself in them - I'm just having fun.  But I do want them to be well thought out - so the more opposing thoughts I get the more complete my theories become.

BTW, I should probably say that, as certain as I am that Lucius Malfoy is constantly plotting and adapting his plots to new circumstances, I'm sure he never expected Harry to free Dobby.  That had to have hacked him off big time.

Thursday 

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