Intro and Lucius may not be evil

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 21061

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "DM" <dangermouse42 at y...> 
> While I'm here, I thought I'd air out a few thoughts of my own.  If 
> this has been discussed before, I apologize (the archive for this 
> list is very, very large).  I think my sister is tired of hearing
my 
> talk about this and I'd also like to get some fresh opinions.  Here 
> goes:
> 
> I don't think Lucius Malfoy is a bad guy.  I don't think he wants
to 
> be working for Voldemort and was most likely coerced into doing it. 

> 
> Anyway, I would like to know what everybody thinks.  I don't claim 
> that Lucius is a saint.  He was probably dabbling in the Dark Arts 
> long before Voldemort approached him, but that doesn't
automatically 
> make you evil.
> 
Welcome, Dangermouse.  You certainly have aroused discussion!  As you 
see, opinion in this thread and in earlier threads seems to be that 
Lucius Malfoy (does anybody else see the allusion of "Light, doer of 
Evil" to Lucifer, the most beautiful of angels who fell from heaven?) 
is a baddy.  Rather than being a pawn of Voldermort, I see him as an 
"eminence grise". It wouldn't be the first time that an old 
aristocratic family used a poor boy (orphanage) of low birth 
(half-Muggle) to its own ends.  I leave all the textual clues to the 
other posters, there are surely enough of them.  Oh, yeas, Lucius is 
evil.

Haggridd