Lucius & Voldie'sWorld (was: Longbottoms)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L. <kethlenda at y...>"
<kethlenda at y...> wrote:

> Kelly wrote in part:
> 
> Also on the subject of Lucius: I've been wondering how he is going to 
> respond to the return of Voldemort.  For years, he's been lording it 
> over everyone around him, and now the Dark Lord is back and will 
> likely want to see Lucius fall into step behind him once again. 
>
> ...edited...
> 
> Kelly L.

bboy_mn:

Lucius has a pretty comfortable and certainly a wealthy life. But how
stable is it now that the Dark Lord is back?

True killing people and torturing muggles might be great fun, but has
Lucius or any of the Death Eater pause to think over these thirteen
year, what it is that they will have if Voldemort becomes 'king'?

True Voldemort will take care of his closest supporters; he will give
them wealth, power, perhaps immortality, and many muggles to keep them
entertained. 

But what world will they inherit? A world in ruins, in chaos; economy
and infrastructure destroyed. The world a field of ashes, which would
make Voldemort King of Ashes. Which would make Lucius Crown Prince of
Ashes. (Some would argue that an 'S' should be substituted for the
'h', but we'll let that go for now.) To get wealth, you have to take
it from somewhere, but how much wealth can a world plunged back into,
if not the stone ages, then at least the dark ages produce? How long
before the well runs dry? Not long I think.

How eager is the rest of wizard Europe or the rest of the world going
to be to do business with wizard Britain, if Voldemort takes over? He
doesn't seem like a very reliable trading partner. So, in my eyess,
the entire UK wizard world falls apart, and logically, or logically to
an insane megalomaniac, Voldemort solution to chaos and instability
will be to rule with an iron hand, to become more oppressive, which,
of course, will only make the problem worse, and downward the spiral
goes until the world of Voldemort comes crumbling down. The trouble
with insane, unstable, self-absorbed, megalomaniac is that they are so
short sighted. Evil is the architect of it's own doom.

Lucius has a good life, is he really willing to plunge it into chaos
just so some insane, unstable, megalomaniac can be lord and master of
all he surveys? He's pretty stupid if he is.

That's my story of doom and gloom, and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn