Lucius & the diary (was: Voldemort's recruitment)

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 128927

SSSusan:
>>>I think, for instance, that his CoS diary stunt was all
about trying to play for his own power and not at all about 
bringing back Voldy.<<<
 
Rebecca:
>> That's curious. What do you think he could have been trying to 
do? 

SSSusan:
> Any number of possibilities have been suggested: 
 
<snip various possibilities> 

> *Even, if one assumes that Lucius did understand the possibility 
> that Tom Riddle could return, that Lucius thought it would be 
> better to have a young, more-potentially-controllable Tom around 
> whom he could mold and manipulate and *use* in his own rise to 
> power.


kamion53:
I don't think Lucius was spontanious playacted to have a more 
potential controlable Tom Riddle back by dumping the TR-diary in 
Ginny cauldron.

I think it's a action well planned about 12 to 13 years before by 
Voldemort himself, propably around the time he gets yeast of the 
prophesy.
Voldemort is obsessed with conquering Death, and he had some 50 
years time to build saveguards of all kind, one of the first is the 
TR-diary. Another it the spell/potion used in Goblet of Fire. Malfoy 
Manor as one of his bases with a whole arsenal of artifacts stored 
is not that unlikely. In GoF Harry, the Enemy is crucial to the 
return of Voldemort. I think in CoS he was too, not for restoring 
Riddle/Voldemort to life, but for restoring him to full power. The 
power/lifeforce taken from Ginny would be not enough to give 
Voldemort the power he needed. After the first year at Hogwarts it 
is clear to Voldemort and the Malfoy what a potential cauldron of 
power Harry is. 
Playing the diary directly into Harry's hand would have been stupid 
Harry would have been very suspicious when something like that 
suddenly appeared between his useless collection of Lockhartbooks 
and he neither would have started writing his diary in in. He isn't 
the diary-type. 
As the one to play the diary into the victims hand Lucius is the 
ideal tool, he is a predator but a snake in method... snakes lay in 
wait before striking sensing the heat of their victims. And Ginny 
radiates as much heat as a lighthouse that day. 
I think Lucius didn't need much more of an order in the year before 
Voldemort fall as: " when such and such may happen, use the 
opertunity to strike, my slippery friend." 

It is even possible that Lucius kept the diary-Tom Riddle informed 
of what happened after the fall of Voldemort. I got the impression 
that diary-Tom Riddle knew about things that happened long after he 
made his diary. Some of that information is from Ginny of course, 
but is the scenario of Lucius Malfoy writing in the diary and 
getting direct instructions a strange one? 

In that case the action of Lucius is even more consieus and direct.
Why else should he be visiting Knockturn Alley to sell " hot" goods 
at a day Diagon Alley is crowded with peopel buying schoolgear for 
their kids. I would have taken a more quiet day for showing up in 
that neighbourhood. 
   
Kamion53