Voldemort's recruitment . Was: Precious little to celebrate for 11 years...

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 128876

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> SSSusan:
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> So I guess, to your question of why would someone join the 
baddies, 
> knowing the tendency for baddie leaders to "eliminate" not just 
> enemies but fellows who tick them off, I would suggest the power-
> crazed individual.  *Particularly* a power-crazed individual who 
is 
> so confident in his own ability to manipulate and to play a part 
that 
> he believes he can *convince* the current Chief Evil Guy of his 
> loyalty, while all the while planning his own takeover at the key 
> moment.
> 
> Yup, I could see Lucius falling into this category quite nicely.  
Of 
> course, whether he's misguidedly *over*confident about his skills 
is 
> another story.
> 

I am afraid that you give Lucius too much credit. In the absence of 
LV he can be as power-hungry as they come, which is why he was in no 
hurry to bring him back. But as long as LV is once again in the 
picture Lucius is as much of his pawn as your next Death Eater.

 As for coup d'eta I think that Malfoy assisted LV in good faith 
(pardon the pun). He was not out of his teens when he was recruited, 
he probably followed the stapes of his father before him, he was 
over-eager to prove himself as it usually the case with novices, he 
must have been heady with his fist taste of blood and violence and 
yes! overambitious too. In other word he was easy pray for a 
consummate manipulator. And – if I am right concerning the structure 
of the "old" DE organization he was answerable only to the "Master" 
who recruited him and was supposed to keep all their activity in 
secret. Which means that he could have realized what was happening 
only when it was already too late. 

And it doesn't look like he "convinced" LV of anything. The current 
chief evil guy may be crazed both power- and otherwise, but he is 
not stupid, if his words at the graveyard any indication. 
a_svirn