The Present for Lucius Malfoy

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16115


Arrrghhhh... are you sure? Not even in Cos? Maybe she says he is influential in the ministry rather than having an actual position, I dunno... I will look for this... But I always took that to mean that he had a real position there, and that people had no choice but to listen to him..

I just cant picture him playing golf all day. He is just too obsessed. He has an in somewhere, and it isnt respectable for a man to have NO profession.  

I imagine him having a high position, but keeping bankers hours.

--Suzanne


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
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> rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
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> > Doesn't Rowling say in a number of places that Malfoy as a high position in the MoM? Draco doesn't miss a chance to rub this in when he heckles Ron. 'My father is Senior and associates with the important people in the ministry; Your father is junior <snort> and runs an unimportant department... '
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> No, she doesn't say it anywhere.
> The bit you're thinking of is on the train in GoF - "But then, Father's always associated with the top people at the Ministry. . . . Maybe your father's too junior to know about it, Weasley. . . yes. . . they probably don't talk about important stuff in front of him. . . ."
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> Associated with does not = "worked with" - in fact, it means quite the opposite. It means socialized with, worked on committees with...not "has senior rank over..."
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> > People like Lucius, who value rank and position, are often very hardworking (even workaholics), and greatly skilled at working the system-- but have strong ideas about what kind of work enhances their position, versus that which is beneath them. It is not about money.
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> Oh, absolutely!