A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179050

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> > 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?
> 
> a_svirn:
> I was always puzzled by that myself. Add to that that Lucius was 
> supposed to call some half-blood muggle-bread nobody his Lord and 
> Master, and that really makes little sense. 

Pippin:
Lucius's character was easy for me to understand (hmmm...should I 
admit that? <g> ) He thinks his blood status entitles him to the best of 
everything (peacocks!) , and anyone so presumptuous as to stand 
between Lucius and the best of everthing needs to be...removed. 
He feels threatened by the growing power of Muggleborns and it 
feels good to strike back with a bit of Muggle torture. 

He flattered Voldemort's pretensions just as he flattered Fudge's, for
the same reason. He needed them  for the messy job of removing 
people who didn't respond to threats and were too well-protected 
for poison or curses (his favored weapons per CoS.)  

He doesn't, IMO, have any more interest in the day-to-day tedium
of running the wizarding world that Voldemort does. He never
wanted to be a Dark Lord himself, he just didn't want those upstarts
at the ministry telling him, Lucius Malfoy, what sort of magic he
could or couldn't use. 
 
Lucius for me is analogous to the German upper class and high-powered
industrialists who supported Hitler because they thought he would keep
the Communists down for them. They thought they could control him. By
the time they realized they couldn't, it was too late. I don't think Lucius
ever wanted Voldemort back. That's why he didn't go looking for him.


DH!Lucius has of course lost all his influence, but it seems he 
realized finally that the best of everything was to have his son alive
and whole. Not that I think he became a nicer person, but I think
he'd had enough of being an outlaw at the end. 

Pippin