Lucius, Lucius, Lucius

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179187

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> a_svirn:
> Of course he didn't – why should he? He got a lot of influential 
> families to back him. If they hadn't recognised him as their Lord and 
> Master he would have had to be more flexible. But they did, and he 
> didn't have to. That's what I find incomprehensible. 

Pippin:
Lucius didn't have to bow and scrape to Voldemort in public. Nor
was Voldemort's halfblood status an issue -- Lucius didn't know
the nature of the connection between the diary and Voldemort.

A young Lucius, chafing under the restrictions imposed by the
Ministry, and perhaps by older members of his family such as
Abraxian, might have thought that playacting subservience to
Voldemort was a small price to pay for getting to live out his
anti-Muggle fantasies. 

Anyway, Lucius may have considered Voldemort's title and
the robe kissing just superstition, meant to scare
weaker souls than he.

The marchers at the QWC probably didn't include any 
marked DE's beyond Lucius and the senior Crabbe and Goyle.
I suspect the rest were wannabees and weaker wizards under
the Imperius curse. Lucius was showing off as usual. 

Pippin