I... partially agree? I never thought Lucius truly believed that there was Slytherin Monster (or at very least that it still existed). I cannot imagine someone so invested in his family's legacy to the point he was joining wizarding KKK, risking his only heir to a creature so fickle as Basilisk. IMHO he probably thought the pre Voldie war Slytherin Heir victims were, in fact Voldemort's victims- obviously the dark lord was smart enough to make everyone think Salazar's nasty surprise is still around. I think we have to backtrack a bit to understand Lucius' thinking process.
When he does the diary switcheroo? He is under Arthur's investigation. He needs to get rid of his... more questionable trinkets. He doesn't know what it exactly does but knows its purpose- to be given to Hogwarts student to cause mayhem. To me it sounds like mind control. So perhaps that is what Voldie-war-I-Lucius thought when he got it. But let's face it CoS!Lucius has no idea there is Voldiewraith out there waiting for willing bodies. In his PoV if the puppet master was cut out, there should be no problems with the puppet. So what would happen if you send a cursed object to "the most secure place in Britain"? Well, the person who brought it there should be under stern investigation. I can just imagine Lucius face on the second day of the school year when there wasn't an article in the Prophet about a daughter of a ministry official bringing a cursed muggle object to the school. Then around November, he might have heard from Draco about Mrs. Norris. He probably dismissed it as students being students. Then he might have heard about the students. And here is the problem- I cannot imagine Malfoys hearing about what happens in Hogwarts and keeping Draco here. Perhaps Dumbledore monitors students' correspondence? It certainly explains why the troll incident never made out of the school. Malfoys certainly felt safe enough to leave Draco at the school during winter holidays. So maybe Lucius didn't know about attacks on the students until it leaked out to the MoM? And then swiftly came onto Dumbledore since obviously whatever curse Voldie laid on the book was supposed to dethrone him? So it should deactivate once he is out of Hogwarts?
I have another theory about Tom Riddle=Voldemort problem. Somehow almost nobody other than Albus and Horace make the connection between Tom and Voldemort, which always weirded me out. But we also know Voldemort dabbled in foreign magics. What if, beside Horcruxes and whatever spells made him look snake-like, he invested his skill points in secrecy spells? My theory goes like this: Tom used 2 different secrecy spells. The first one prevents his followers from sharing what he considers sensitive information. I imagine it's intention-based, so if the spell doesn't sense you wanting to betray Tom it doesn't act up- it would explain how Snape can pass sensitive information while the Ministry has such a hard time gathering info from DEs. The other spell prevents anyone who doesn't know Tom=Voldemort from making the connection. Explains why Albus can show off his knowledge and everybody goes *le gasp!* As for diary being property of T.M. Riddle? Well, Riddle isn't pureblood name and you have to smuggle dark object somehow ;P
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Date: 2021-06-14 09:59 pm (UTC)I never thought Lucius truly believed that there was Slytherin Monster (or at very least that it still existed). I cannot imagine someone so invested in his family's legacy to the point he was joining wizarding KKK, risking his only heir to a creature so fickle as Basilisk. IMHO he probably thought the pre Voldie war Slytherin Heir victims were, in fact Voldemort's victims- obviously the dark lord was smart enough to make everyone think Salazar's nasty surprise is still around.
I think we have to backtrack a bit to understand Lucius' thinking process.
When he does the diary switcheroo?
He is under Arthur's investigation. He needs to get rid of his... more questionable trinkets. He doesn't know what it exactly does but knows its purpose- to be given to Hogwarts student to cause mayhem. To me it sounds like mind control. So perhaps that is what Voldie-war-I-Lucius thought when he got it. But let's face it CoS!Lucius has no idea there is Voldiewraith out there waiting for willing bodies. In his PoV if the puppet master was cut out, there should be no problems with the puppet.
So what would happen if you send a cursed object to "the most secure place in Britain"? Well, the person who brought it there should be under stern investigation. I can just imagine Lucius face on the second day of the school year when there wasn't an article in the Prophet about a daughter of a ministry official bringing a cursed muggle object to the school.
Then around November, he might have heard from Draco about Mrs. Norris. He probably dismissed it as students being students. Then he might have heard about the students. And here is the problem- I cannot imagine Malfoys hearing about what happens in Hogwarts and keeping Draco here.
Perhaps Dumbledore monitors students' correspondence? It certainly explains why the troll incident never made out of the school. Malfoys certainly felt safe enough to leave Draco at the school during winter holidays.
So maybe Lucius didn't know about attacks on the students until it leaked out to the MoM? And then swiftly came onto Dumbledore since obviously whatever curse Voldie laid on the book was supposed to dethrone him? So it should deactivate once he is out of Hogwarts?
I have another theory about Tom Riddle=Voldemort problem.
Somehow almost nobody other than Albus and Horace make the connection between Tom and Voldemort, which always weirded me out. But we also know Voldemort dabbled in foreign magics. What if, beside Horcruxes and whatever spells made him look snake-like, he invested his skill points in secrecy spells?
My theory goes like this: Tom used 2 different secrecy spells. The first one prevents his followers from sharing what he considers sensitive information. I imagine it's intention-based, so if the spell doesn't sense you wanting to betray Tom it doesn't act up- it would explain how Snape can pass sensitive information while the Ministry has such a hard time gathering info from DEs. The other spell prevents anyone who doesn't know Tom=Voldemort from making the connection. Explains why Albus can show off his knowledge and everybody goes *le gasp!*
As for diary being property of T.M. Riddle? Well, Riddle isn't pureblood name and you have to smuggle dark object somehow ;P