Lucius, Lucius, Lucius

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No: HPFGUIDX 179190

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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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
>

I don't believe Lucius had any interest in the responsibilities of
being a "public servant."  Throughout the series we see him sucking up
to anyone who has power and influence (much like Slughorn) in order to
get what he wants.  Lucius does not want to truly work for his goals,
he wants to coax other into doing what he wants for him so he can lay
around the house and goof around with his family, what I think every
family member would like.