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Hey brother
J, I have a little riddle for you today who has gorgeous flowing locks is terrible at magic and somehow is still clung
To power, that's right
Lucius Malfoy. Yeah, that's right. I'm saying Lucius Malfoy is in the same boat as Gilderoy Lockhart
In fact Gilderoy Lockhart might actually be more useful like he teaches Harry expelliarmus, which is pretty handy
Well, no, no
No Snape Snape actually teaches him that but he provides the
circumstance, which is still more useful than what anything Lucius does but so today
we are going to discuss just the
absolute worst death eater of them all and try to determine whether or not he was trying to kill Harry Potter
Okay, well
I mean, obviously
Eventually, his plan is to kill Harry Potter or the very least help the Dark Lord who's trying to kill Harry Potter
But my real question is was he trying to kill him with his original plan when opening the Chamber of Secrets?
If so, then I agree. It's not a very good plan, but then again Malfoy isn't a very good Death Eater
So, there you go. Well Lucius that is it Draco actually ends up being pretty good
He proves himself a worthy occlumens and finds a way into Hogwarts
I think even Dumbledore was impressed with that
Lucius though Oh Oh Lucius worst Death Eater ever and not like worst in the good way
Like he's the best at being bad. No, that would probably be Bellatrix. She's great at being bad worst meaning
He's bad at being bad
I mean if you really go back and review he accomplishes exactly nothing through the entirety of the series. In Chamber of Secrets
He does successfully open the Chamber of Secrets, but nobody ends up dying
He loses his house elf in the process and ends up destroying a part of his masters soul also
and not to mention he drops a boatload on those Nimbus 2001's and the Slytherins still lose the Cup even with
Dobby's help whether he had asked for it or not who literally breaks Harry's arm mid-game, but seriously
this guy's supposed to be like such a big deal and he can't even rig a Hogwarts Quidditch match though in Prisoner
he's back at it again with a slightly less
diabolical plan than before when he opened like a death chamber armed with the giant snake
no, this this time what he's shooting for is getting one of Harry's best friend's pets
sentenced to death and he's not even successful at that though to be fair
I am glad that he took a break from brushing his hair to do literally anything else. Good job, bud
Good job in Goblet of Fire
He is one of the Death Eaters at the Quidditch World Cup causing a commotion
but then at the sight of the dark mark
He flees the scene and later lies to Voldemort about it who then calls him out
and finally
He famously fails to receive the prophecy in order of the Phoenix and then get sent to Azkaban
Just crushing it man, honestly, though
I don't know who Draco thinks that he's fooling with this whole wait till my father hears about this bit. Yeah, why Draco?
What's gonna happen is he gonna throw his hair into a ponytail and fuss about it? But despite the ineffectiveness of his many plans
He is constantly trying to do mean things
So the thing I want to talk about today is whether or not in Chamber of Secrets
He not only wants to open the chamber, but also try to kill Harry. When you read through the book
It would not immediately appear that this is his prime motivation
If anything it sounds like what he's really trying to do is have Dumbledore kicked out of the school, which to be fair
He does momentarily achieve that goal. But on the other hand, he does fail to even rid the school of a single muggle-born
So there's that and indeed that is the intended purpose of the chamber
But I think that he had a more direct target and we do have quite a few clues to go off
First of all who he gives the diary to to begin with, Ginny Weasley
This is actually an ingenious pick for a variety of reasons.
One, the Weasley family is a well-known pureblood family with a long history in Gryffindor
And therefore they would be very unlikely suspects for opening the chamber.
Second, Ginny is a first-year who you probably just wouldn't expect a dark magic to be coming from and she's a little girl the demographic
I'm assuming occupies the greatest slice of the ''people who still write in diaries'' pie
Which as far as I can tell fills out with the following:
High School age girls
Grandmothers
Middle School girls
People who live on ships
People who recently downloaded diary apps
and of course Dark Lords.
Heh, you heard me Tom Riddle. You just got pie chart slammed. Kids, please remember to always pie chart responsibly
also also actually actually Lucius would also know that Harry had become friends with the Weasleys because no doubt
Draco told him not now Draco. I have very important business to
attend to
No I doubt that losers would know that Ginny had a crush on Harry or that she would eventually write about him in the diary
but I have no doubt in my mind that he
specifically gave it to her for a reason especially when you consider his other option was basically going to Diagon Alley
just hoping to slip the book in with any other student and hoping that they would write in it. This was of course an item
that was entrusted to him by Lord Voldemort himself. So I have a feeling he wouldn't be totally careless with it
That being said he didn't know there was a Horcrux. Just thought it would open the Chamber of Secrets. It's possible
He didn't even know how it would open the Chamber of Secrets
But I have a question, do you think he ever wrote in it in himself?
Dearest Tom, Narcisa yelled at me again. She keeps telling me that it's unbecoming for a husband to have better hair than his wife
But I just can't bring myself to cut it. I just feel so powerful with a bow in my hair.
My guess is that the very least Voldemort had told him that he had preserved his
Sixteen-year-old self inside of the diary and that it could be used to open the chamber of secrets
Lucius would have known that it was Voldemort who opened the chamber the first time or at least it's implied by Dumbledore when he says
The same person as last time Lucius Lord Voldemort from there
It wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume that whoever the diary talked to would inquire about Tom Riddle's future self
And once he learned about Harry Potter, attempt to kill him
But it's more than him specifically selecting Ginny Weasley to give the diary to and kind of a vague overall
understanding about how the diary works that points to Harry as the true target.
First, there's the timing of the events which to fully understand
we need to look a little bit further into the Malfoy's past. In a recent article on Pottermore about Draco Malfoy
We learned that despite what Lucius tells Voldemort at the graveyard
He actually had different plans while his master was in hiding.
After Voldemort fell Lucius actually managed to maintain his power and status in the Wizarding community
He would give two seemingly worthwhile causes but secretly was hoping for another chance at world domination. Though, Malfoy's hopes
did not lie in the return of Lord Voldemort, but instead none other than Harry Potter
It was a weird and comforting thought to many of the ex-Death Eaters that the only thing that could have taken down Lord
Voldemort himself
Especially by a baby is that he must have been an even more powerful dark wizard one that they could perhaps eventually
rally behind again
So so in other words Lucius's big grand plan for world domination
Rested on the tiny little shoulders of an infant. The rationalization is actually kind of there
maybe Voldemort himself
Went to attack the baby because he knew that eventually
It would grow up to be his match and maybe this belief that this boy could potentially be a Dark Wizard is the reason why
He was removed from the Wizarding community
altogether, but of course we know this isn't true despite Lucius's hopes Draco would return home from Hogwarts with the report that the great and
powerful and famous
Harry Potter is nothing more than a mediocre muggle loving boy. Who was
consorting with the worst kind of pureblood wizards imaginable, Ron Weasley, and this I think is exactly
The reason why the Chamber of Secrets gets open in Harry's second year because Lucius is no longer holding out
Hope that they could all eventually rally behind Harry. The timing of it really is kind of critical
Have you ever wondered why the chamber opens in Harry's second year at school? In every other book
the key conflict is the result of some other outside cause but Harry would have had a pretty
regular second year at Hogwarts if the chamber hadn't just randomly been open, but this provides some much-needed
reasoning like why wait 12 years? Why not
just send the diary along with Draco during his first year. Or that matter
why send it while your kid is at school at all? putting him at risk
All of these questions are answered by Lucius, finally realizing that Harry himself is not a Dark Wizard
He was instead a potential threat and the reason why his old master was destroyed and needs to be eliminated
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Now back to the video if you are still not convinced there is still the dobby factor
Who does Dobby come to to specifically warn about the opening of the Chamber of Secrets?
Harry Potter, why why only Harry why is it only important that Harry Potter doesn't go back to school?
everyone else can die because
Dobby lives with the Malfoy's and knows that Harry is the real target and you might be saying oh Ben
he tells us why because
He's heard of Harry's greatness and how he took down the Dark Lord and how lives improved for house elves after that. Mm-hmm
I hear you. But remember what we just learned Lucius thought that Harry might be great and powerful
The irony of Dobby is that it's possible that he's helping Harry for the wrong reasons, like think about it
The reason why Dobby thinks Harry is great is probably because he's just listened to the Malfoys for the past 11 years
Talk about how potentially great he is
Of course
He knows that they are mean and that house-elf lives have improved since Harry has been around and that now they want to kill Harry
so Of course
He wants to help also the fact that Dobby arrives at the Dursleys over the summer before the diary has even been given to ginny
Weasley makes it seem like the plan was a little bit more thought-out, but there you go J
that is my thoughts on why I
Believe Harry was the real target of the opening of the Chamber of Secrets for my question of the day
What do you guys think do you buy into this idea?
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That's all I've got for you today, man. I will see you on Tuesday