CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets Ch. 2, Dobby's Warning

[ZaraG]

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> Eustace_Scrubb:
> At the time of Chamber of Secrets it was much easier for a reader to believe that Lucius fully knew what he was doing than it became later in the series. I wonder whether LV would actually have told Lucius that the diary could lead to the opening of the Chamber (it seems clear that LV didn't tell his followers details about the horcruxes in any case--that would have been an unacceptable risk to his planned immortality).
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> If Lucius did know that the diary could be used to open the Chamber, did he have any reason to believe this would definitely occur if it fell into Ginny Weasley's hands?  

Zara:
What I think makes this interpretation problematic is Dobby's statements in the chapter we are discussing. He comes to Harry (days or weeks before the trip to Diagon Alley in which Lucius gives the Diary to Ginny) to warn him there is a plan underway to make terrible things happen at Hogwarts in the coming school year. I don't see what else Dobby would mean, but the use of the diary in some way to open the Chamber of Secrets.