Ask Us Anything!

[alt_moderator]

The cast thread is filling up rapidly, and while we don't have to fuss about comment collapse, it is getting difficult to navigate...

So here's a new post, where we're asking YOU to ask US: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

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[(Anonymous)]

But you can believe in a cause and still not want to fight for it! So...I guess what I'm really asking is, did he buy into the Protectorate's garbage? Did he believe Muggles deserved to be rounded up like cattle and enslaved, or was he just going along with it in order to keep his family safe?

And omg, now I'm dying to know which muggle bands Lucius liked. I can't really picture him listening to acid rock...

[gwendolyngrace]

I think he was somewhere in the middle. He (and Lucius) considered things like Muggle music "slumming," like white people in the 20's going to jazz clubs in Harlem. He was a racist, just not a violent one. If he'd been free to express opinion, he would have said the Protectorate was going too far too fast. If he had survived the war, he would have been in the much more moderate camp about what to *do* with the Muggles once they'd won, but over time, he likely would have become more and more callous about it all.

FWIW, even Lucius wasn't originally thinking through the implications of enslaving an entire population (other than the abstract "We should put them all in their place")--Voldemort's insistence and charisma and mania is what led to all the DEs collectively moving the needle. When he pitched taking the Mark to Tony, Lucius at that time stressed that only the "loyal" people would be trusted to appropriately cherry-pick Muggle cultural assets--and that by deigning to like something Mugglish, they would by definition be relieving it of some of its taint (within their own circle. Not generally.) Tony saw which way the wind blew and he agreed with Lucius that if they were going to be able to enjoy the "privilege" of picking and choosing which bits of Muggle culture to embrace with impunity, then he needed to be an active ally to Voldemort.

As for Lucius' taste in music, well, we already know that the Warlocks either were or were a closely-related band to the Beatles (fun fact: their names are all anagrams of the Beatles' names) and if they weren't actually the Fab Four themselves (I think they were, leading a complex double-life), then they at least covered almost every song in the Beatles' catalog. I think *most* of his music consumption was from Muggle bands that never recorded much--thus little evidence of his "transgression" would have survived. He liked other British Invasion bands (The Who, the Kinks), and was heavily into British blues (especially Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton), but not so much Psycheldelic rock (with a few exceptions like Pink Floyd and when the Beatles/Warlocks and the Yardbirds went psych). Once the sound changed to electronica, he was Out, and drifted back to more wizard-produced music, as well as the ever-present classical music.