Lucius, Dobby and side #3 was:Lucius Malfoy's Ambition

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126807



> 
> vmonte:
> 
> Or then again, Thursday may have a point here. Lucius could've 
been 
> thinking that the diary just might kill two birds with one stone.  
> Maybe he was hoping that Diary Tom and Voldemort would wipe each 
> other out (as well as wiping out Harry), and leave the playing 
field 
> open for his own rise. 
> 

a_svirn:

I don't think that Lucius is overly powerful wizard or that he is 
breathtakingly brilliant but I think he is shrewd enough not to plan 
anything so ill-judged. How one can let lose so dangerous a force as 
the diary Tom in HOPE that he would wipe out LV (who is in hiding 
after all) and get Harry in the process? Some plan indeed. It was a 
pure chance that Harry came by the diary. And even then he could 
simply flush it down the toilet. Or he could show it somebody who 
could recognize it for the dark magic artefact it was. Or McGonagall 
could confiscate it when Lucius's own clueless son tried to take it 
from Harry. Moreover, how was Lucius to know that Ginny had a crush 
on Harry and would regale Tom with the stories of Harry's heroic 
deeds? Because he learned how LW powers were destroyed from Ginny, 
not from Lucius.

"And why did you want to meet me?" said Harry. Anger was coursing 
through him, and it was an effort to keep his voice steady. 
 "Well, you see, Ginny told me all about you, Harry," said 
Riddle. "Your whole fascinating history. " His eyes roved over the 
lightning scar on Harry's forehead, and their expression grew 
hungrier. "I knew I must find out more about you, talk to you, meet 
you if I could."

And later:
"Haven't I already told you," said Riddle quietly, "that killing 
Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new 
target has been -you."

Which means, I suppose, that initially when he started his games 
with Ginny his goal WAS killing Mudbloods. Moreover it looks like 
Lucius purposely withheld certain very important information from 
Tom. Probably so that Tom wouldn't wander from the suggested course? 
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