Canon for OFH!Lucius

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 160880

> Pippin:
>
> My goodness where to start...
> 
> After VW1, He pleaded that he was under the Imperius curse, 
dissociating 
> himself from his own sister-in-law who proudly went to Azkaban for 
Voldie.  
> He later used Voldemort's precious Diary in a scheme of his own, in 
the 
> course of which he secretly threatened to curse the families of his 
fellow 
> members of the Board of Governors unless they backed the ouster of 
> Dumbledore.  He backed Fudge with gold  while secretly returning to 
his 
> DE activities, and of course Voldemort himself labels him 'my 
slippery friend' 
> for using his Death Eater connections to organize a pleasant 
evening of
> Muggle-baiting instead of seeking the return of his Master.
> 
> Snape, OTOH, may be slimy but he's not slippery. He changed sides,
> but that seems to have taken a huge effort on his part. He's pretty
> rigid, actually. 


Neri:
Hmmm, it seems to me that you don't compare Lucius and Snape on equal 
footing here. You compare Canon!Lucius against DDM!Snape. No wonder 
you find that Lucius is more OFH. That's basically managing to prove 
what you were assuming from the outset.

If you want to be fair to Lucius you need to compare Canon!Lucius 
against Canon!Snape. In this case killing Dumbledore would hardly 
appear "rigid" of Snape. Nor backing Fudge when he wanted to execute 
Sirius. Nor avoiding any responsibility (from both sides!) to the DoM 
fiasco. Quite slippery, in fact.

OTOH if you insist on keeping DDM!Snape then to be fair you need to 
compare him against DDM!Lucius, the courageous secret agent who 
obviously slipped the diary to Ginny and then sent Dobby to Harry in 
order to destroy Voldemort's Horcrux, and later made sure to fail 
capturing Harry and retrieving the Prophecy, all this on Dumbledore's 
orders and despite the terrible consequences to himself and his 
family... He's pretty rigid, actually <g>.


Neri