[[HPforGrownups] Why Does Lucius Still Have Influence After the Diary!Riddle Incident?]

[heidit at netbox.com]

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"erisedstraeh2002" <bdmorrp at budget.state.ny.us> wrote:
> This implies that only Dumbledore and Harry know the truth about how 
> Ginny got Riddle's diary.  However, this must have been communicated 
> to others, for on p. 340 we learn that "Lucius Malfoy had been sacked 
> as a school governor." 
> 
> OK, so good, so far.  The news was broadcast that Lucius was behind 
> the diary, and he got what was coming to him (although I think 
> Azkaban would have been more appropriate, but I digress).  But here's 
> where I get confused - how, after being sacked as a school governor, 
> and presuming that his "sacking" was due to others learning about his 
> role in the Diary!Riddle incident, did Lucius still have the 
> influence needed to order Buckbeak's execution?  

Actually, I think you're making a bit of a leap back from the sacking to the
connection to the diary. It's entirely possible that Dumbledore and a few
others know the truth but that Lucius had enough influence, even at that
point, to allow himself to be thrown off the board under a pretense - perhaps
a false accusation of Hagrid combined with the force pressed against the other
governers on that paper to force Dumbledore down as headmaster.

In other words, what might've been made public is that Lucius was sacked as a
governor because he falsely accused Hagrid and put unacceptable pressure/made
threats against other governors to get Dumbledore out of office. And that
wouldn't've been enough to keep him from having continued influence at the
Ministry in PoA.

heidi


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