With enemies like these.....

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 116407


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> --- 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.<
> 
> Oh,  Lucius doesn't want power.   Lucius wants *influence.*  He 
> has no interest at all in directing the army of clerks that is the 
> Ministry.  What he wants is for them to put  L. Malfoy at the head 
> of the line for everything that he requires. 
> 
> If Voldemort is not up to snuff as Dark Lord, perhaps someone 
> else will shortly find the support of Lucius Malfoy an aid to their 
> rise to power.

Something like the German industrialists during the Nazi era?  Good
point.  If Lucius doesn't seek to supercede Voldemort, that's the reason.
> Pippin