Snape and Lucius was James and Intent And Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187107


> Alla:
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> I do not understand though how it will not be incriminating if other people do not know connection between Riddle and Voldemort's names, they would still know that Diary opened the Chamber?

Pippin:
Dumbledore said that Lucius wanted to get rid of a highly incriminating item. But why did Lucius think that just possessing the diary would incriminate him unless he knew that people would recognize the Riddle name? Nobody except Voldemort would know there was a diary involved.

Suppose you are an auror, and you are searching the Malfoy house for dark items. You notice an old Muggle diary dated fifty years previously, never written in, inscribed by one TM Riddle, a name you don't recognize. It doesn't appear to be enchanted, doesn't set off dark detectors,doesn't burn your eyes out or make you speak in limericks or anything like that. 

Okay, it's a little odd to find a Muggle item in a pureblood wizard's house. You question Lucius about it and he says, "No idea...long before my time, I'm afraid. Lots of old rubbish in a house like this. It's due of a good cleaning out, but try to get House Elves to do a decent job these days. You can't get good help anymore." (He's a good liar, since he convinced Crouch's tribunal that he'd been under the Imperius curse.) 

Even if you made the connection between the date of the diary and the date of Moaning Myrtle's death, why would you even dream they are connected? 

Am I missing something?

I don't think Lucius probed the uses of the diary himself. Surely the soul bit within would have made more use of a skilled dark wizard than it could of eleven year old Ginny Weasley, if it had the choice.

Pippin