Lucius Malfoy (was: [HPforGrownups] Chapter 33 - The Death Eaters)

[Celeste Chang]

No: HPFGUIDX 13752

He's powerful, rich, capable, yes.

But if he's anything like his son, he's also dead sexy. *coughs*

Anyway, yes, Lucius may have kept that diary incident from Voldie 
intentionally, knowing Voldie's aversion to failure. 

And basically, it is because he is so powerful, rich, capable, (and 
hot *cough* okay maybe not THAT) that so many people in the Ministry 
FEAR him. Lucius is the kind of person I can imagine ruling by 
intimidation. In Latin, his name means 'brilliant' but it isn't 
necessarily a good light- it could be a blinding beacon of darkness 
that most people find they cannot face head-on. Plus, Fudge LIKES him. 
Fudge is oblivious to Lucius's true (or maybe not so true) nature. 
Which may or may not be evil, as many fanfic writers have explored. 
Third, people *fear* him. Yes, I know, I said it twice, but it's an 
important point. Lucius is an intimidating person. He knows how to 
threaten, and he knows where to threaten. He digs deep and uses 
people's own emotions against them. He is, in a nutshell, a cunning 
person.

- Celeste Chang

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> At 01:09 PM 3/5/01 -0800, Katie Kearns wrote:
> >He's powerful, he's rich, he's capable. He's also kept up a good 
deal of
> >his evilness even while Voldy was gone.
> 
> One question I have -- Does Voldy know about the CoS/Diary incident?
> He makes no mention of it in his speech.  Perhaps LM would not be so
> much in V's good graces if V knew that he had cravenly tried to 
bring
> him back by "cloning" (via the Diary) rather than searching out the 
real
> mccoy and having to answer for his seeming disloyalty since V 
vanished.
> 
> >He's had the ministry of magic
> >under his thumb -- and probably still has total power over them. 
That's no
> >small thing!
> 
> *Why* does he have so much power over the MoM?  Is he a big
> campaign donor?  Is he president of the National Unforgivable-Curses
> Association?  Does he have more dirt on everyone than Rita Skeeter?
> ("I have in my cloak a LIST...")
> 
> >He even got Dumbledore thrown out as headmaster for a short
> >period of time.
> 
> And now I'm worried that next time he'll get D. ousted for a *long*
> period of time.  (Disclaimer: No rumors that I know of to this 
effect --
> Just my own  personal anxiety about the "talk" Fudge is going to
> have with D.)
> 
> 
> 
>                                                  -- Dave