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[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142911

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" <greatraven at h...>
wrote:

> As for the last question, I can answer that because I have just been 
> listening to Stephen Fry reading HBP, chapter 23 is the one 
> concerned. DD tells Harry exactly what happened with the diary 
> horcrux - Lucius didn't know the horcrux was in there and just 
> thought he'd kill a few birds with one stone. LV didn't know his 
> horcrux had been destroyed till afterwards and was livid with 
> Lucius, who is probably glad to be safe in Azkaban. I found this 
> particularly interesting, because it has to be Snape who gave DD 
> that information and probably Lucius who went to Snape for sympathy 
> over the matter (who knows? A glass of expensive wine at Malfoy 
> Manor and a good whinge... "I dunno, Severus, he never TOLD me he 
> had a horcrux in there, did he? How was I supposed to know?" 
> Interesting, too, to think of the aristocratic Malfoy hanging out 
> with Snape, whom we know now is as working-class as they come, 
> assuming that's his family home at Spinner's End!)
> >
>


I actually envisioned a different scene when I read and listened to
that bit.  I saw the DE's surrounding Voldemort in a circle(shades of
the graveyard scene in GoF).  LV had just summoned all of them
together for their weekly staff meeting (or whatever you wish to call
it :) ).  this is probably after the fiasco at the MoM in OotP and LV
finds out about the diary - and gets very angry(meltdown comes to
mind) with his DE's for allowing this to happen.  And this is probably
the time when LV starts thinking about Draco and what revenge he can
get on Lucius, for not only messing up the retrieval of the prophecy
at the MoM, but mishandling the Diary and allowing it to be destroyed.
 Please note, I stated thinking, not telling his DE's in the meeting.
 The telling comes later.....


Why the big meeting?  Because I don't think LV is the sensitive
manager who would take his follower aside and chastise him/her
privately, as not to embarrass them in front of the other DE's.  The
more public LV's wrath, the more fear he instills in his DE's to NOT
screw up :)

colebiancardi
(who has been in private meetings with the boss about my alleged
misdeeds :)  Not a pretty sight....)