A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179086

a_svirn wrote:
> 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. <snip>

Carol responds:
At the time that, say, Lucius Malfoy joined the DEs, he probably
didn't expect to be treated like a House-Elf, and he certainly didn't
find it degrading to bait and torment Muggles. He enjoyed cursing
people with impunity, and that, I imagine, is one of the attractions
to him of Death Eating, along with the pure-blood agenda that
attracted young Regulus Black. It's not all that different from what
young Dumbledore dreamed of--Wizards ruling Muggles--except that for
Lucius and those who shared his views (Yaxley and Travers, for
example), there would be a hierarchy: the old pure-blood Wizarding
families at the top (carrying out Voldemort's agenda, which is also
their own), then talented Half-Bloods like snape, then the
Muggle-borns doing any dirty work that required magic, and then Squibs
and Muggles as "natural" slaves, doomed by their inferiority to serve
their masters or die. House-Elves, Goblins, "half-breeds," and others
would be still lower, probably classified as beasts. Lucius Malfoy
loves being lord of the manor. He probably thought that by joining
Voldemort, he could have both power, or rather influence, and prestige
without any effort beyond poisoning or cursing those who got in his way.

Carol, quite sure that Lucius never dreamed that the Dark Lord would
torment *his* family or treat him like a servant in his own home