Canon for OFH!Lucius

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 160985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" wrote:
> 
> Pippin:
> <snip>
> 
> But perhaps we mean different things by slippery.
> If Snape remains loyal to one character or side  and is
> deceiving everyone else, that is slimy but not slippery, IMO.
> Slippery means to me that allegiance shifts as a 
> matter of convenience. I think Canon!Lucius wins that one 
> hands down. 

Mike:
OK, I'm getting a little confused. Is Lucius 30W oil and Snape axle 
grease? No, that can't be it, that would just make Snape less 
slippery than Lucius but still essentially slippery, right? 

Let's try this one; Snape is that thick mud on the bottom of the 
pond and Lucius is that oily film that resides on the top. That 
makes Snape mostly slimy but still a little slippery, right? That 
also means Snape is much *deeper* and impossible to get to the 
bottom of. You ever try to shovel out a hole in the bottom of a 
pond? No chance, the hole just keeps filling in, you can never find 
the base material under the mud.

Hey Pippin, doesn't this also make Lucius pond scum? And you can see 
right through him but what you see is distorted by his character. 
There could be something good under him but it sure doesn't look 
that way from where you're standing. On the other hand, and far more 
likely, he could be hiding a giant snapping turtle ready to take 
your hand off if you get too near.

Analagies courtesy of my summer struggles to make a pond habitible 
for indigineous fish and failing miserably, in more ways than one.

Mike, hoping the Snape/Lucius analogies work better than my shovel