With enemies like these.....

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 116404


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
><snip> 
> 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.
> 

Well, unlike RW where power is always political (i.e., dependent on 
acceptance by others), in the Potterverse power is substantive - 
Voldemort is *more powerful* than Lucius, regardless of political 
support. Moreover, because he is (semi?) immortal, in the long run he 
can never be beaten. Which necessarily makes him the victor in any 
power struggle that might arise between him and somebody else. So, no 
way is Lucius ever going to set himself against Voldemort. 


Naama