Intro and Lucius

[Maria Holub]

No: HPFGUIDX 109041

Halloo, the List!

My name is Maria, and I am known in some circles as
The Artist Formerly Known as Flop (that's a rather
long story, but if you'd like to hear it, feel free to
mail me offlist.) For list purposes, I will go by
Flop, for the sake of brevity.

I am 23 years old, and I have written two
post-secondary papers on Harry Potter, one for a
children's literature course, and the other for
religious studies. I am currently in the process of
combining them into a (hopefully) incredibly
comprehensive papter, I just need to do a bit more
back-reading (you know, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Le
Morte Darthur....)

Now, for my requisite substantive post.

Since so many of the characters' names are
significant, I'd wondered why  she chose Lucius (of
all things!) for Mr. Malfoy (um... Light Bad-Faith?...
That's a LITTLE odd!)

Then a friend of mine pointed out that in the musical
Camelot there's a character named Lucius... and he's
evil. Now I had always expected a final pairing of
Malfoy and Snape for the hypothetical future epic
wizard-battle, but if there's an Arthurian Legend
parallel in there, then I will gladly predict that I
was WRONG!

Now, upon reading Book 5 of Le Morte Darthur (Thomas
Malory, 1475) I discovered that Lucius is actually the
Roman Emperor at the time of Arthur. To paraphrase a
rather long and EXTREMELY archaically worded passage,
Lucius sends emissaries to Arthur, demanding that
Britain pay Rome tribute. Arthur tells Lucius'
emissaries exactly where to stick their demands,
musters his armies and allies, and proceeds to conquer
Lucius' Roman arse.

Okay, then there's the fact that (according to the
Lexicon) JKR has said that there will be a new
Minister for Magic in HBP. Here's my theory: Lucius
Malfoy will be the next Minister for Magic (I know
that's awkward, since he finished OotP in Azkaban, but
bear with me and ignore that for the moment) this
will, of course, prolong the schism between the MoM
and the OotP, and ultimately ARTHUR (Weasley, of
course) will muster the Order and conquer Lucius'
Death Eater arse!

Any thoughts?

Flop


		
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