Everyone’s been posting this, and they all don’t explain why Lucius, with Hermione’s sentence almost a done deal, would accept an Occlumens’s testimony.
No, he doesn’t want to. He’s frothing for Hermione’s blood, the blood of the one who tried to murder the only precious thing in the world to him.
How could Eliezer make this clearer, write in a line like ‘Drool dripped from Lucius’s fangs as his eyes rolled up ecstatically, contemplating that filthy mudblood’s miserable death in Azkaban, a fate far too good for that murderess who tried to end the luminous life of his Draco! Death! Death to Hermione!’
Everyone’s been posting this, and they all don’t explain why Lucius, with Hermione’s sentence almost a done deal, would accept an Occlumens’s testimony.
Because he wants to. Putting harry in Azkaban would be no minor victory.
No, he doesn’t want to. He’s frothing for Hermione’s blood, the blood of the one who tried to murder the only precious thing in the world to him.
How could Eliezer make this clearer, write in a line like ‘Drool dripped from Lucius’s fangs as his eyes rolled up ecstatically, contemplating that filthy mudblood’s miserable death in Azkaban, a fate far too good for that murderess who tried to end the luminous life of his Draco! Death! Death to Hermione!’
Is it bad that I totally want this line to appear in the story now?