[HPforGrownups] Re: Lucius and the Diary

[Richard Thorp]

No: HPFGUIDX 46624

Thursday, November 14, 2002, 11:55:20 PM, jodel wrote:

jac> What if Lucius intended to suplant Voldemort in his absence? Once the
jac> revenant was released, he intended to contact Diary!Tom (he was certainly 
jac> keeping a close enough eye on the school during second year to know whether 
jac> the revenant had been released or not) and feed him the glorious story of 
jac> what he had done over the past 50 years. Then regroup the DEs in Voldemort's 
jac> name and under the revenant's titular leadership. But in actuallity, Lucius 
jac> thought that he would to be able to keep a 16-year-old Riddle under his own 
jac> influence and be the real guiding spirit behind the DE movement. 

Yay! Someone gave me an excuse to write some Lucius stuff! :)

I really don't think its within LM's character to even think of being
leader of the DEs. Hes a petty bully, not an evil overlord (although,
like most petty bullies he'd like to think of himself as an evil
overlord).

He also doesn't seem to be all that clever, at least, not clever
enough to have figured out LV's purpose, diary wise. At least, not
enough to formulate such a plot.

It's not in Lucius' character to take such an overt action. All of
his actions from past to present have been at least covert enough that
he would not be implicated. He's not going to be able to deflect such
a thing, especially under the stare of LV.. And any half-clever DE
would figure out that Voldie has more than just one plan to get back
to being a "human" again.

Basically, Lucius is a coward. Cf. his snivelling nature in GoF
(Graveyard scene), the fact that he was one of the first to claim the
Imperius defense, he dropped all overt connections to Voldie as soon
as humanly possible when Voldie met his end, these are all actions of
the classic bully, or even closer to bully's henchman to be honest. He
will bully people when he has power behind him:
PS/CoS/PoA - Power of MoM connections, and pretty much immunity to
prosecution.
GoF (World Cup Muggle Torture) - Power of memories of Voldie's reign,
and the power associated with being behind a mask/disguise. (As an
aside, he was the ringleader in that I assume, and since he was
ringleader, and the Dark Mark turned up, they scattered... Well, this
is just him showing his cowardly nature once more)
Post GoF (maybe) and Voldies-Reign (deffo) - The immense power of a
hugely powerful Dark Wizard and the power of the Death Eaters behind
him.

LM is not a credible evil-doer. Hes the lacky. Hes the expendable
bugger that gets sent in when the big guy can't be bothered to waste
his energy on the heroes. Designed to fail, in a literary sense this
failure tends to be amusing.. Though not so in this case :)

Wow. I think I've rather gone off on one here. Nevermind :) Something
in there will make sense!

-Rich
msn: obbles at hotmail.com

PS. As an aside.. Whos writing the Lucius character FAQ? If there is one,
that is?