Arthur and Lucius (Was Re: Weasleys on the Tapestry)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90403

-John wrote:I want to know why it is that Arthur Weasley and and
Lucius Malfoy hate each other so much, even before the Chamber of
Secrets incident. Obviously their views clash, but there seems to be a
deep personal animosity over and above that.

Iggy responded::
It seems that they are close enough in age that their animosity would
have started back in school.  <snip>

Carol:
Are they? Lucius is 41 at the end of GoF, making him about four years
older than Snape and MWPP, whereas Molly says that she and Arthur were
students before Hagrid became gamekeeper, which happened about fifty
years before CoS. That being the case, the Weasleys must be in their
seventies, middle-aged by WW standards but much too old to have gone
to school with Lucius Malfoy. Unless the part about Ogg, the
gamekeeper, is a Flint, the age difference is too great for this idea
to be correct.

I agree, though, that it's that *kind* of rivalry, very like what we
see between Harry and Draco (or James and Severus as boys). Maybe
Lucius Malfoy's father was Arthur's school nemesis, and Lucius
inherited the mutual hositlity when he grew up.

Carol