With enemies like these.....

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No: HPFGUIDX 116347


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 
> What I wonder is, how long will Lucius put up with this?  It's got to
> occur to him he could do a better job as villain than that slit-eyed
> nut job whose robe he has to kiss.  He was content to bide his time
> before, being comfortably monied up and all, but now his "leader" has
> landed him in the can. This isn't what I signed up for, Lucius moans.
> 
> I fear Lucius.  He's smarter, colder, and crueler.  He's sanely evil,
> a successful psychopath.  He would have offed Harry the minute he got
> the blood he needed in GoF. He'll know how to hurt Harry, and he will
> if he can.  I'd like him to stay locked up, but he won't.
> 

Ah! Lucius!
"The smiler with the knife under his cloak" as I opined in an offering
I made about who pulls Fudges' strings a few days back.
Is he Cassius or Brutus to Voldy's Caesar? Or something else entirely?
I agree, Lucius would be a much more dangerous opponent than
Voldy - he thinks, he plans, he doesn't chew the carpet.

You know, I still wonder what part Lucius had to play in Dobby
warning Harry in CoS. House Elves are only concerned with 'their'
families; they do what they're ordered to. And Dobby flitting 
backwards and forwards between chez Malfoy and Harry Potter
for most of the book just doesn't add up. Once I could accept,
circumstances somewhat similar to those that allowed Kreacher
to get out -  though even then I'd expect him to go to *family* -
Andromeda, say. Unless Malfoy was up to something very
devious and not in the best interests of Voldy.

With a bit of luck Malfoy will show himself as a worthwhile
enemy in the next book. Something to look forward to.

Kneasy