Snape and Lucius was James and Intent And Snape

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187106

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" <montavilla47 at ...> wrote:

> If Lucius was a prefect when Snape started school, then he would 
> have been gone by Snape (and the Marauders') fourth year.  


zanooda:

I wonder if other Snape's Slytherin friends (Mulciber, Avery & Co) were also a year or two older than him. That would explain why they were not around during and after that DADA OWLs exam, and why Snape was all alone there with no one to come to his aid... :-).



> montavilla47 wrote:

> My point was that, the way I read it, the incrimination was 
> to come from Ginny opening the Chamber, not from Ginny having 
> the diary in her possession.


zanooda:

That's how I see it as well. My guess is Lucius believed the diary was supplied with some kind of built-in Imperius curse :-). Anyone who opened it or used it would be put under the curse and therefore would obey the diary's command and re-open the Chamber.