Chamber of Secrets - plot to make terrible things happen at Hogwarts

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 171809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, dracojadon at ... wrote:
> At the beginning of CoS, Dobby warns Harry: "If Harry Potter goes  
> back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger [...] There is a plot  
> [...] to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts [...]. Dobby  
> has known it for months."
> 
> How does Dobby know -- how does Lucius know -- what Riddle will  
> choose to do, or if Ginny/some other student will try writing in the  
> diary at all?
> 
> Is opening the Chamber of Secrets the plot referred to?

va32h:

I would say yes. When discussing the diary horcrux in HBP, Dumbledore 
says that Malfoy must not have known what it was, or  he'd have been 
more careful with it...he was probably just told that if the diary were 
to make its way to Hogwarts, it would reopen the Chamber. 

The icing on the cake for Lucius is that he planned to have a Weasley 
child take the diary to Hogwarts, which would discredit Arthur Weasley, 
whom Lucius is furious at for raiding his house. 

Now while we are on the subject - I have to wonder if Lucius *did* know 
the diary was a horcrux, and wanted to get rid of it. Lucius got off 
quite easily after Voldemort's demise, and has secured a very good 
position for himself, on the board of governors at Hogwarts, close 
friend of the Minister, able to bribe and buy his way into a prominent 
position in wizarding society. He has quite a lot to lose if Voldemort 
does come back. 

va32h