[HPforGrownups] Re: Lucius Malfoy

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 23793

Deva wrote:
> 
> I've been lurking around this list for awhile now, but this topic is 
> just too tempting to pass up.
Welcome, Deva!

> 
> While I don't think that Lucius will become "good," I think he could 
> turn against LV. An interesting point was brought up in a fanfic I 
> read by Soz at ff.net. (Sorry Soz, if you're out there.  I'm 
> a  coward 
> when it comes to posting on the internet; that's why I don't 
>  review.  This is the first step toward getting over that.)  Anyway, 
> the scenario was that Lucius discovers Voldemort's heritage and, 
> because he _is_ a "pure-blood snob," immediately begins plotting to 
> overthrow LV and to take over as the head of the DEs. This is rather 
> like Marcus's point that he may not want to be "a toady of a psycho"; 
> he doesn't want to be the toady of a Mudblood.

You do have a point here re: toadying to someone who isn't of pure wizarding
blood, although Voldy isn't a Mudblood, he's *half and half* to use Seamus
FInnegan's explanation. And I am not sure that makes a huge amount of
difference to some of the radically-pure-blood snobs, but it very well
might. I mean, for example, Draco hasn't said anything nasty to Harry about
his mum being muggleborn, or to Seamus for being half-and-half - and he's
certainly had the opportunity. 

> 
> This made a lot of sense to me, and I'm interested to see what other 
> people think.  Do you think the DEs knows that LV is a Mudblood?  
I am looking for Gwendolyn Grace to chime in on this one, because we've had
some very interesting discussions of when Lucius and Tom Riddle became
acquainted. In my backstory for Surfeit of Curses (in which the Malfoys own
the Daily Prophet), I've devised a chronology where Riddle works for the
paper in the PR & advertising department after graduating from Hogwarts, and
meets a young Lucius then - and Lucius *knows* that Riddle's father was a
muggle. 
It's also possible that the Malfoys are, and have always been, Kingmakers -
in other words, the people who never want to take the throne themselves, for
various reasons, but want to be the power behind the throne - and have a lot
of control over the "king". In GoF, I didn't see any toadying by Lucius to
Voldemort, and Voldemort called Lucius by his first name, a "consideration"
he didn't show to anyone else. It seems evident to me that Lucius is no
ordinary Death Eater...