A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179078

> Mike:
> So we're back to "dark glamour" again. Maybe it's as simple as that. 
> Maybe Lucius comes from one of those old wizarding families that was 
> used to using whatever dark magic that they felt like using. So when 
> they see their perceived "rights" being taken away, coincident with 
> the rise of Muggleborns' authority, the false cause and effect 
> analysis gives the Malfoys reason to look elsewhere for recourse. And 
> there sits Voldemort, champion of the pure-bloods, decrier of the 
> Muggleborn usurpation. Aha, that looks like the way to go.
> 
> Maybe it's not as complicated as I thought?!
> 
a_svirn:
Maybe.  But somehow it still doesn't look simple to me. We are talking
about the WW aristocracy (natural nobility and all that), after all.
It is one thing to resent muggleborns and mugglephils taking away
their natural right to practice the Dark Arts (whatever they are). It
is quite another thing, however, to renounce the most natural right to
be one's own master. Why on earth should they? The Black seniors may
have approved on Voldemort agenda, but they didn't take to death
eating. They probably thought they were even darker (Black in fact)
than this self-styled Lord and certainly purer. Why would all those
natural noblemen and noblewomen want to impersonate house-elves? As
you said, however glamorous Voldemort might have been, he never showed
anything but contempt to his followers. 

To use my favourite Shakespearean malapropism they all had a "great
infection to serve". It was practically a pandemic among the
purebloods (perhaps inbreeding had lowered their resistance?)