Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch 1: The Riddle House

[kamion53]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98 at ...> wrote:
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> I do think that it was easy for him to go back there, because he knew where it was and that it was unoccupied.  I beleive, as suggested by others, that Lucius was the "wealthy man" who owned it.  LV could not have paid for Frank's services when he had just gotten out of school and during the period he was in hiding in Albania, but Malfoy could easily have done it for him.
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The connection "wealthy man" and Lucius Malfoy is quite unlikely.
The Riddles are Muggles and live in the Muggleworld and they die when Voldemort is still in school, so years before Lucius excist.
the most normal way is that the house would run a course of going through Muggle hands as Muggle try to make a living in it but faile till the house becomes dead capital and thereby interessing for a real estate dealer or agent.
Lucius dealing in Muggle property is not in his nature as he despises anything Mugglish, from the timeframe it seems that "the wealthy man" is already there when Lucius himself is still in school, so financially still under the thumb of his father Abraxas.
there is no connection mentioned ever between Abraxas and Voldemort, so he probably would not buy the house either at order of Voldemort.