After talking with Dobby for a while, Harley had more or less figured out what had happened.
Dobby's former master, Lucius Malfoy, was the head of one of Britain's most prestigious Pure-blood families. He had once followed Voldemort as a Death Eater.
The Malfoy family, however, was naturally cunning, and Lucius was no pushover.
There was a saying among other wizards: "You'll never see a Malfoy at the scene of a crime."
Though he was very powerful in a fight and even skilled in Wandless Magic, Lucius had never shown off his combat abilities.
Instead, he made a point of displaying his aptitude for making money and his apparent lack of strength, which led Voldemort to put him in charge of important logistical matters.
For various reasons, Voldemort had entrusted Lucius Malfoy with an important Dark Magic object.
If Voldemort had remained powerful, the object would have stayed safely tucked away in the deepest part of the Malfoy family vault forever.
Unfortunately, Voldemort had failed to live up to expectations and ended up half-dead. Naturally, the turncoat had chosen to shift his allegiance elsewhere.
On top of that, Arthur Weasley, the head of the Weasley family and a longtime rival of the Malfoys, had recently searched the Malfoy family's holdings for Dark Magic objects several times.
To evade the searches and undermine the laws Arthur Weasley had enacted to protect Muggles, Lucius had secretly slipped the object to Ginny.
According to Voldemort, that Dark Magic object was the key to opening the Chamber of Secrets.
"Lucius certainly played his hand well!" After hearing Dobby out, Harley considered Lucius's motives.
"Opening the Chamber of Secrets would lead to the Muggle-born students being wiped out.
"And it would be the daughter of Arthur Weasley, a staunch advocate for protecting Muggles, who killed