Lucius Malfoy, Voldemort and World Domination

[evilshelly]

No: HPFGUIDX 78611

--- 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.  I know someone 
said recently that probably Lucius looks on Voldemort as a means to 
his own ends, and I think that's very likely.  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 just came across this message as I was trying to check if the 
question I was about to ask had already been discussed, and found 
that the two issues seem to tie in with each other quite nicely. If 
this has already come up, just ignore me, give me a slap on the wrist 
and point me in the direction of any relevant posts, and I promise I 
won't bother you guys again. I was wondering - what exactly was 
Lucius trying to achieve by giving Tom Riddle's diary to Ginny? Was 
it his own idea, or was he perhaps somehow receiving [or had in the 
past received] orders from Voldemort? Would the 'current' Voldemort - 
weak and almost powerless - not have been rather put out with having 
his 16-year-old self competing with him? I had the impression that 
serving Voldemort had been a bit of an inconvenience for Lucius - he 
just doesn't strike me as the grovelling type, and of course he never 
tried to find his old master. Were his actions in 'the Chamber of 
Secrets' an attempt to bring back a Voldemort indebted to him, to 
guarantee himself a position of greater power this time round?

<tamliv at w...> also wrote:
> What I see Lucius desiring is for control of the WW followed by the 
conquest of muggles and a world ruled by a wizard elite with himself 
preferably at the head or at least the power behind the throne.  
> 

Indeed.

Tamee: I apologise for hijacking your post, I hope this makes sense 
to you.