Lucius' ambition. Was: Inside Bella was Re: What would Bella think or do?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126396


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> A_svirn:
> Personally, I am much more puzzled by Lucius. He certainly NOT a 
> fanatic, his ambition probably rivals that of LV and his social 
> standing is (or at the very least was) infinitely superior. So why 
> on earth would he pledge his loyalty to a dangerous power-hungry 
> half-blood, who expects him to grovel and call him "Master"?! 
There 
> is nothing to be gained from such an arrangement for Lucius and 
> everything to loose. 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I think the general answer to your question about Lucius is simple 
> enough ( IMO anyway). Lucius thinks that Voldemort can give him 
> something that nobody else can and this SOMETHING is so valuable 
to 
> Lucius that he is willing to abandon his pride and grovel at his 
> feet.
> 
> Now, my suspicion that this something is no less than immortality, 
> as we had been told of Voldemort's pursuit of immortality, 
although 
> we don't know much concrete information yet. Maybe he promised to 
> share the potion or the formula or something like that with his 
most 
> loyal DE. 


a_svirn:

You may be right, but if Lucius believed that he must be dumb 
indeed. Could be, of course. 

a_svirn