[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood Protection

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 159085

> a_svirn:
> And that beats my argument how? Lucius planted Voldemort's old 
diary
> because he wanted stir trouble in Hogwarts, yes. But his reasons 
had
> nothing to do with Voldemort.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> Ah! But I disagree with that reading of the text and think that 
Lucius knew
> that the diary was the key to opening the CoS which he knew had 
everything
> to do with Voldemort. Not only did that advance Lucius personal 
ambitions,
> but it had everything to do with Voldemort and Lucius Malfoy 
knew it.

Magpie:
>>Of course he knew it was the key to opening the CoS but that still 
doesn't make his reasons anything to do with Voldemort in terms of 
his being an ex-DE working for his master. It having to do with 
Voldemort doesn't make Lucius' reasons Voldemort-centered. In fact 
Lucius' actions were directly against Voldemort's wishes and helped 
the good side tremendously. The Chamber of Secrets is Slytherin's 
more than Voldemort's.<<


Marion:
My two cents: Arthur Weasley and his Ministry buddies were razzia-ing the homes of Old Families, including the Malfoys (Lucius says this in Borgin and Burkes? when he tries to sell certain objects that might or might not be classified 'Dark') He clearly wants to rid himself of any object that might sully his reputation; he's a Law Abiding Citizin now, and he likes to keep it that way. But pesky Arthur Weasley has a personal feud against Malfoy (there's a story there, I'm sure) so what better place to plant an object that once belonged to Voldemort in the bag of one of those Weasley pests. The youngest, no less, and the only daughter! Talk your way out of *that*, Arthur Weasley!
There is no reason to believe that Lucius knows what the diary will do. He most likely never wrote in it, so the diary never gets 'triggered' in the Malfoy home.
If you ask me, Lucius was a young, ambitious man when he got sweet talked into the Death Eaters. He has a ruthless streak, to be sure, but I personally think he danced a jig with Narcissa when Voldemort 'died' that Halloween night in 1981. Now he could live the way a Malfoy was supposed to live: get richer, love his family, lobby for political clout. The reason Draco is kept out of his fathers business, is protected, doesn't understand death and therefor cannot see Thestrals all point to this: he doesn't want his son to be a DE and probably curses the day he ever got that Dark Mark. But he got it, and once a DE, always a DE. Alas. The DE are a dead-end street, after all, and no self-respecting Slytherin would enjoy being the slave/servant of a petty dictator. No, Lucius was glad to be out of it, and he planted that diary on Ginny to a) get rid of it, and b) to incriminate the Weasleys. And then it bit him on the @rse when Voldemort returned from the dead and it turned out to be a horcrux. Oops. And now Voldemort tries to punish Lucius by setting up his only son. Draco would've been doomed either way if not for Snape AK-ing Dumbledore. If Draco had killed Dumbledore, he would've been a marked man, a murderer and destined to Azkaban. If he had failed, Voldemort would've been justified in killing him (and probably Narcissa as well), which Voldemort intended in the first place. How sweet his revenge on Lucius. Lucius, sitting in Azkaban, knowing that his family, the one thing he cares about, is doomed....



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