[HPforGrownups] Re: Another mysterious message

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 165870

> Kemper concurs:
> I, too, believe the Diary has a Charm charm and not because I detest
> Horcrux Harry.  I see the Diary less a soft spoken Siren and more a
> Venus Flytrap.  The reader is lured into the pages, is allowed to
> write a bit, until the writer triggers the trap, snaring her, and
> letting the Diary suck the juicy soul at its leisure.
>
> Of course one would wonder why Lucius wasn't compelled to read the
> Diary.  Or maybe he was and the Diary told him to get it back to
> Hogwarts.  How else would Lucius know it was cause damage?  My reading
> of the Dark Lord isn't that he shares information readily.



I think this answer is because Lucius KNEW that the Diary was from the Dark 
Lord, and thus knew enough not to touch it with his bare skin. He always 
treated it with something in-between his hand and the object, like the 
poisoned necklace had to be treated. I think he knew enough about cursed 
items to be savvy enough to know how not to be taken in by them. He had to 
suspect that if he was hiding this item for the Dark Lord, that it couldn't 
have been just an ordinary item. Otherwise, why would he want to plant an 
ordinary item into Ginny's hand and thus into Hogwarts? He had to have known 
something about it.

Shelley