Harry Potter: Who cares about belated motherly love?

—Third-person perspective—

The reason why Nott possessed Tom Riddle's Diary as a Horcrux was entirely due to a tiny deviation, which could simply be called a coincidence of "a trick of fate".

It all started when Ronnie and her friends went to Diagon Alley, or to be more precise, to Florin Leng Bot's bookstore to buy textbooks (almost novels).

Originally, Harry was supposed to have gotten lost in "Nightcrawler Alley" when he used the Floo Network for the first time, and it was not until he was taken away by Hagrid who happened to meet him that the Weasley family went out to look for him in Diagon Alley.

However, in this world, this did not happen, so the Weasleys arrived at Florian Leng Bot's bookstore about thirty minutes earlier than they should have.

These thirty minutes will greatly change the fate of Theodore Nott and Ginny Weasley.

Well, in order to frame Arthur Weasley and shake the "Muggle Protection Act" he formulated, Lucius Malfoy carefully set up a "trap".

To this end, he slipped "Tom Riddle's Diary" - an item that was easier to sneak in without attracting attention - into the school supplies of Ginny Weasley, the daughter of someone he disliked.

Lucius Malfoy certainly knew that the diary was a Horcrux. However, despite being a member of the Death Eaters, he was not a fanatical believer in Voldemort.

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Lucius Malfoy is a former Death Eater and a dark wizard who served Voldemort. This is true. However, if we want to correct one point, it is that he did not join the Death Eaters because he agreed with Voldemort's ideas from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, although he was a pure-blood and despised Muggles, he had no intention of completely eliminating Muggles.

He even thought that if this were to happen, Britain would perish because the wizarding world alone could not sustain its economy and life would collapse. He knew very well that many of the daily necessities and food sources of the British wizarding world depended on the Muggle world.

In fact, the wizarding world has been mostly hidden among Muggles since ancient times. This phenomenon has not changed even before the founding of Hogwarts. The isolation of the real wizarding world from the Muggle world has only gradually become complete in the past hundred years or so.

Lucius actually scoffed at Voldemort's ideas and thought they were ridiculous, but as a pure-blood noble, he had to bear the responsibility of his family.

Lucius' father, Abraxas Malfoy, had a deep friendship with Voldemort, and Lucius's wife, Narcissa's sister, Bellatrix Lestrange, was Voldemort's most loyal fanatic. She regarded Voldemort's orders as gods, and anyone who went against his will was not worth mentioning in her eyes.

So, when Voldemort asked Lucius to join the Death Eaters, he had no choice, otherwise Bellatrix might even kill him along with his wife.

This is why Lucius left the Death Eaters immediately after Voldemort's fall.

This time, he used the Horcrux "Tom Riddle's Diary" to frame Arthur Weasley for similar reasons. For him, if Voldemort was resurrected, he could explain why he quickly left the Death Eaters; if the Horcrux was destroyed, he could also dispose of this tricky black magic item. In any case, this was beneficial to him.

Therefore, he ordered the family's house elf Dobby to secretly monitor the Weasley family. Dobby did many things for "Harry's good" because he already knew Lucius's conspiracy.

Guided by the information provided by Dobby, Lucius decided to take his son Draco to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies (and dispose of some inconvenient items in Midnight Alley).

By the way, Lucius originally chose to secretly give the diary to Ginny Weasley. If it were a senior student, they might be suspicious of the diary, and the eldest daughter Ronaldinho's talent was very important to the wizarding world. Therefore, the young and immature Ginny was the ideal target. It happened that she was about to enter school and had a lot of school supplies, so it was difficult for her parents to concentrate.

His plan was perfect.

Originally, Ginny Weasley would have been attracted to this diary and almost died due to the exhaustion of magic power.

However, in this world, things did not develop according to the original trajectory.

The person who eventually became the holder of the diary, and Tom Riddle's "collaborator", turned out to be Theodore Nott.

Why is this?

In fact, at the same time that Lucius ran into the Weasleys in Florin Lloyd's, Theodore Nott and his father, Nott Sr., were also in the bookstore, selecting textbooks for the new semester.

Theodore's change of fate was not his own choice at all.

——It’s because of his father, Nott Sr.

Theodore's father, Nott Sr., aka Jaden Nott, was, like Lucius, a loyal Death Eater of Voldemort.

Therefore, Jaden Nott disliked Lucius Malfoy.

The sons of Jaden Nott and Lucius Malfoy were in the same class, but there was an age difference between them that was equivalent to that of father and son.

Originally, Jaden was a five-year junior of Lucius's father, Abraxas Malfoy, and a one-year senior of Tom Riddle. During his school days, Jaden always admired Tom Riddle, but didn't think much of Abraxas Malfoy.

The reason for all this is that although the Nott family, one of the "Sacred Twenty-Eight Families", was somewhat declining at the time (even so, it was still rich enough in the eyes of ordinary people), the power of the Malfoy family was growing day by day, which made Jaden jealous. At the same time, Abraxas Malfoy's arrogant words and deeds also made Jaden very dissatisfied.

In addition, although Abraxas Malfoy had agreed with Voldemort's ideas since the time of the "Walpurgis Knights", the predecessor organization of the Death Eaters, and supported its activities with money, he was only a financial sponsor and never truly submitted to Voldemort. This also annoyed Jaden.

When Lucius Malfoy was favored by Voldemort because of his identity as the "Son of Abraxas", Jaden could not tolerate it even more.

In Jaden's eyes, Lucius Malfoy was just a "nasty kid". When Voldemort disappeared, Lucius was the first to leave the Death Eaters, which Jaden thought was intolerable stupidity.

However, no matter how dissatisfied he was, the other party was still the current head of the Malfoy family.

In the British wizarding world where the Black family is almost extinct, it is not a wise move to openly become an enemy of Malfoy. If this is done, the Nott family may perish in Jaden's generation.

Because of this, Jaden suppressed his emotions and treated Lucius in a friendly manner. Perhaps because of this, Lucius was not too wary of Jaden (although he seemed to be vaguely aware that Jaden did not like him), and their sons almost became childhood playmates.

Even so, Jaden still hoped for Lucius's downfall.

That’s when Jayden witnessed the moment.

He saw Lucius Malfoy quietly putting the old textbooks he had taken from Arthur Weasley's youngest daughter into her cauldron of school supplies, among which was a black diary.

Jaden Nott is a senior member of the Death Eaters.

Therefore, he knew that Voldemort had made the "Horcrux" and handed it over to some high-level officials for safekeeping.

So when he saw the diary, he couldn't help but become suspicious.

After confirming that his son was talking to the Malfoy's son, Draco, Jaden quietly left the scene and purchased a new diary that was very similar to the one Lucius hid in Ginny Weasley's luggage.

Then, taking advantage of the chaos of the fight between Lucius and Arthur Weasley, Jaden quietly swapped the diary he bought with the one Lucius had hidden.

Restraining his excitement, Jaden returned home with his son Theodore and re-examined the diary.

After Jaden confirmed that the diary was the "Horcrux", he was ecstatic.

Through this diary, he continued to inject magic, hoping to help Voldemort resurrect, and provide the "master" with various information about Voldemort's disappearance 11 years ago. However, this situation lasted less than a week.

Jaden was one year older than Tom Riddle, which meant he was 1992 in 67.

Even if he was loyal, his magic power and physical strength could not continue.

Tom Riddle knew this very well, and in order not to lose this loyal head of a famous family, he instructed Jaden to hand the diary over to someone else.

So, Jaden chose his son Theodore.

Why would Jaden sacrifice his beloved son?

This is due to Jaden's loyalty to Voldemort and his misguided love as a father.

In Jaden's view, Voldemort is an absolute existence. As Voldemort's "Horcrux", "Tom Riddle", who sealed Voldemort's memory and personality, is also an absolute existence.

For Jaden, giving himself to Voldemort was the greatest joy and happiness.

Jayden's biggest mistake was that he firmly believed that this would be a blessing for his son as well.

Theodore accepted the diary, which was obviously a dark magic item, without any objection and used it according to his father's instructions, simply because he did not want to see his father's rapid decline in just one week.

——Theodore sacrificed himself to protect his father.