Lucius betrayed? (WAS Re: JKR's cryptic answer: Who sent the Lestranges...)

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 119901



> chrusotoxos:
> >6) And this puzzles me: Lucius, well connected at the Ministry and 
> >very bright, must know that a prophecy would explode if it falls 
> >down, allowing everyone to hear what's inside it (and, two prophecies 
> >actually break while he's in the Department of Misteries). So the 
> >logical thing would be to hurt Potter in some way, the prophecy slips 
> >and the DE can hear 
> 
> Mari:
> As well connected and smart as he is, he can't know everything.  Another possibility is 
that LV did not want all of his DE to hear it.  
> 
> I agree that he is playing a more danerous game than Snape is.  Snape has 
> the protection of Dumbledore, but Lucius has nothing.

That part in the Department of Mysteries still doesn't convince me...even if Lucius didn't 
know beforehand that prophecies explode out loud, he would have known afterwrds, as 
two prophecies did just so while he was there. Maybe LV had given orders for them not to 
hear the prophecy, but all the same, when everything was lost, he could have shot it.

This way they're just back when they started...

And Lucius is mystery in himself...I'm thinking that he could be an anti-Snape, and this 
could explain why Voldemort didn't punish him and why Karkaroff didn't mention him as a 
very important supporter of LV.

Maybe he is a very important supporter, but he's working as a spy from inside the 
Ministry, just as Snape is spying for Dumbledore from inside the DE. That's why in a way 
Snape respects him: they're similar, but opposite (this goes as far as their bodies...). 

They're fooling each other.

Of course, if this is true, LV could not punish Lucius: it was his job to keep a low profile, 
after all. But maybe now LV doesn't need Lucius as a spy, because he's strong enough not 
to care about the Ministry. That's why he can afford to name Malfoy in front of 30 people 
and to send Malfoy to get the prophecy.

Oh well, we should just wit and see, I guess.