A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

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No: HPFGUIDX 179038

Potioncat:
Extra credit? Is there more? 

> Mike:
> Lucius is an enigma for me. He alone amongst all the DEs we were 
> introduced to doesn't seem the type to join LV's organization. When 
> Lucius hissed "Prove it" in CoS, and DD admits that no one will be 
> able to, it showed me that Lucius had as much moxey in his dark 
plans 
> as LV did. So why did he need LV?

Potioncat:
Many wizarding folk thought LV had the right idea. Lucius is a Dark 
Wizard, who was attending a school that discouraged the study of dark 
magic. LV was this incredibly Dark Wizard, who was well versed in 
Dark Magic. Who knows what he promised Lucius, but I'm sure he 
offered some prize. Look at HBP. Draco was proud to have been chosen 
by LV to carry out a special assignment. It's only later that the 
full impact hits him.

> Mike
> I could have bought him as somebody's #2 when Voldemort is still in 
> his purging-the-competition stage (from the original post in this 
> thread), but Lucius Malfoy was too young. Could it be that Abraxus 
> was that #2 and recruited his son after being co-opted into the DEs 
> himself? That seems like too much speculating. I wish someone that 
> gets Lucius better than I do could enlighten me.

Potioncat:
My memory is fuzzy here, but didn't Slughorn distance himself from 
Abraxas pretty quickly when Draco mentioned him? So you may be on to 
something.  

(Oh, heck, who am I kidding? My memory looks like a Persian cat.)