Lucius Malfoy, Voldemort and World Domination

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 78587

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamee Livingston" 
<tamliv at w...> wrote:
> For a while, I've been trying to figure out what Voldemort's 
ultimate goals are, and if they're just about personal immortality 
and general destruction, why on earth someone like Lucius Malfoy, who 
seems intent on power and position, would follow him.  <snip>  So 
what has Voldemort to offer Lucius beyond the not too attractive 
"obey me or die" directive, that Lucius can't accomplish within 
Wizarding World politics?
> 
> I think that what the pure bloods following Voldemort are after is 
total world conquest.  I think that they hate the idea of concealment 
as much as they hate muggles and muggleborn wizards.  <snip>
> Tamee

Marika:
In Lucius' case I would like to add the fact that he is interested in 
the dark arts and has a collection of illegal artefacts. Besides a 
hunger for political power, he wants to use his magical ones as well, 
(including illegal curses). In the "wizarding world of today" there 
are rules and regulations which limits him. Voldemort is a possible 
solution to this dilemma. If he takes the power, Lucius would be free 
to be openly sadistic. Of course he has already lost a lot of freedom 
by working for V, but at least once he must have believed that it 
would pay off.  

Marika