Lucius & the diary (was: Voldemort's recruitment)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 128961


> wherritt009:
> 
> My response to this is what if they did know that LV was not a 
pureblood but, followed him 
> because of what he wanted to accomplish and not because of who he 
was.  This idea could 
> be akin to the Nazi's during WWII.  Hitler said that the only 
people that should be alive are 
> blonde hair blue eyed people, but Hitler himself was not blonde 
haired or blue eyed. 

a_svirn:

Did he really say that? I wonder.

> wherritt009:
  Voldemort's hatred of muggle borns and 
> his being the "most powerful evil wizard in a hundred years" could 
have also have made 
> people like Lucius follow him even though they knew about his past.
> 

a_svirn:
Lucius didn't have to follow anybody, much less a half-blood Muggle-
bred nobody to indulge in his hatred for muggle-borns. He was doing 
quite well on his own. 
a_svirn