GoF CH 7-9 Post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181779

Alla quoted: 
> "However, under the gaze if the Minister of magic, Mr. Malfoy didn't
dare say anything" - p.102
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Are we sure? Does Lucius really care whether Fudge thinks he has low
opinion of Hermione or not?


Carol responds:
 I don't think it's a matter of not daring, exactly; more like
common-sense self-preservation. As we learn later, Fudge believes
Lucius Malfoy's story that he was under the Imperius curse during VW1.
the last thing Lucius wants is for the Minister, whom he now has in
his pocket, to realize that he really is a Death Eater who walked
free--and who may already be plotting the Muggle-baiting incident that
occurs that same night.

Carol, who thinks that LV's characterization of Lucius as "slippery"
is right on the money