Lucius / LV success???(Re: What were the Malfoys DOING there?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 113131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
>snip> 
> SSSusan:
>snip.  I suspect Lucius was royally disappointed 
> when Voldy reappeared.  Like you, I think getting DD out of 
Hogwarts  and whomever it was he wanted INTO Hogwarts was simply one 
step  along the hoped-for path to the top for Lucius.  All those 
monetary donations, all that glad-handing at the ministry--it's all 
been part  of his plan to get *himself* in power.  Now that Voldy's 
back, he  has to pretend that he's thrilled to be doing these things 
in the  name of the Dark Lord, but I'm not buying it. (Is Voldy?)
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

mhbobbin:

Lucius doesn't strike me as someone who would be all that happy 
having to answer to Voldemort again. Lucius strikes me as wanting to 
be the top bad wizard with a free hand to run the WW--from the 
shadows-- and be cruel to Muggles. While getting richer.

For LV to continue to rule the DEs and strike fear in the hearts of 
wizards, he has to start having successes. So far, what success has 
he had? Since his return: His planned duel to the death with Harry--
to prove that Harry had no special power over him --- ended in 
Harry's escape, resulting in his attempts to find out more about the 
prophecy. He made Bode try to take the prophecy. That failed.
We don't know what his role was in the Prison breakout. But that may 
be his success. We don't know what his envoys to the Giants were 
able to accomplish. And then LV sends his DEs to the MoM and they 
end up being thwarted --mostly by kids--and sent to Prison. Granted, 
the Dementors seem to have left Azkaban for LV. BUT if LV hasn't 
lost his evil touch, it can't be apparent to his followers.

Right now, many of the DEs are trying to determine when they'll 
break out of prison--in Chapter 1 or maybe Ch. 2 of Book Six.  But 
when they do, will a wizard like Lucius meekly go back to LV as a 
Follower or will there be some challenge to LV's authority? Seems to 
me that Lucius is the wizard most likely to lead such a challenge. 

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