[HPforGrownups] Re: The Present for Lucius Malfoy

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 16117



rainy_lilac at yahoo.com wrote:

> Real-To:  rainy_lilac at yahoo.com
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> 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..

In CoS ""You have heard, of course, that the Ministry is conducting more
raids," said Mr. Malfoy, taking a roll of parchment from his inside
pocket and unraveling it for Mr. Borgin to read. "I have a few - ah -
items at home that might embarrass me, if the Ministry were to call...
The name Malfoy still commands a
certain respect, yet the Ministry grows ever more meddlesome."

is what made me think he wasn't *at* the Ministry-

Then Draco said to Harry & Ron, as Crabbe & Goyle, "You
know the Ministry of Magic raided our manor last week?"

And then, in Hagrid's hut, Lucius says:
"The appointment - or suspension - of the headmaster is a matter for
the governors, Fudge," said Mr. Malfoy smoothly. "And as
Dumbledore has failed to stop these attacks -"
Since he just uses his last name, not Mr or Minister, it seems like he's "outside" the control of the ministry.

So I let him run the Daily Prophet. He has fun there....and plays wizarding golf in the snow in wintertimes when those blasted muggles can't get onto the courses up on the north sea in scotland - the only time for real wizards to play....