Half-Blood Voldemort and DE Children (WAS: 2 nagging questions)

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48868

blind_nil_date <Bratschen-Spieler> asked:
 
> 1 - Since Voldemort is not a pure-blood (witch mother and muggle 
> father), why do people like Lucius Malfoy have anything to do with 
> him?

Now me:

For the power.  Voldemort has power, Lucius wants power, Lucius is 
smart enough to realize that if he affiliates himself with a powerful 
wizard like Voldemort, he can gain the power he's seeking.

JKR, in a BBC 2000 interview 
(http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/text.htm), when asked about 
Voldemort being a half-blood, responded: "Like Hitler! See! I think 
it's the case that the biggest bully takes their own defects and they 
put them on someone else, and they try to destroy them. And that's 
what he [Voldemort] does." Voldemort has so successfully redirected 
the hate and prejudice of the DEs toward non pure-blood wizards that 
Lucius and the DEs probably don't even think of him as a half-blood.  

blind_nil_date again:

> 2 - Now that Harry, Dumbledore, and the group from the hospital 
> wing after the 3rd task now the truth, how do you think it will 
> affect the students at school whom Harry saw their Death Eater 
> parents in the cemetery? Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle could possibly 
> undermine anything positive at Hogwarts, right?

Me again:

Cornelius Fudge either doesn't believe, or is pretending not to 
believe, that Harry met Voldemort and the DEs in the graveyard at the 
end of GoF.  So while only OoP will tell us for sure, my guess is 
that Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle will also not believe, or pretend not 
to believe, that Harry saw their fathers as DEs.

~Phyllis