Snape and Lucius was James and Intent And Snape

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 187108

> > Alla:
> > 
> > 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. 

Montavilla47:

But who is to say that it wouldn't set off dark detectors? It probably 
would.  

Which brings up an interesting question.  If Harry was a Horcrux and
Horcruxes are extremely dark magical objects--why didn't Harry set
off dark detectors in HBP?  They were scanning for dark magical 
objects all over Hogwarts that year.