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Following the Phoenix Chapter 108: The Muggle War, Final
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Author: u/EriktheRed *
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URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10636246/28/Following-the-Phoenix
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Score: 14
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Created: 2014-12-12T12:15:43
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u/JackStargazer [+8] Primordial Apologist (4 hours later)
Well. Quirrel got exactly what he wanted. These house vows and that contract with he Wizengamot are the White Mark.
u/kaukamieli [+1] (a day later)
Not quite yet. They need to become permanent and Harry has to accept the leadership position for longer than just for the negotiations.
u/None [+6] (4 hours later)
LORD MALFOY JUST SWORE HIMSELF INTO ETERNAL BONDAGE TO HOUSE POTTER.
I notice that I am confused.
u/mcgruntman [+8] (5 hours later)
If you can't beat them, join them. He has seen young Potter do multiple impossible things and has heard more yet from Draco. He recognises Harry will achieve power in the wizarding world that is simply out of his reach: Lucius has peaked. On his own he will never be anything more than 'faction leader'. Better to elevate Harry and follow closely in his wake.
That I think is the intended logic. However, like many things in this fic I find it a little too convenient. I feel like the author picked an ending and is transparently writing toward it, rather than letting characters do what they will. I am enjoying the ride nonetheless.
u/polymute [+2] (3 days later)
I feel like the author picked an ending and is transparently writing toward it, rather than letting characters do what they will. I am enjoying the ride nonetheless.
My sentiments exactly. Although I do hold out hope for the alternative.
u/notentirelyrandom [+5] (6 hours later)
The Malfoys have been doing this for centuries. If there's someone who's going to be The Most Powerful with capital letters and everything, you glue your lips to their signet ring and make sure you end up their second in command. This is perfectly in character for Lucius if he's extremely certain that Harry is going to win.
u/heiligeEzel [+7] (8 hours later)
Ah, so something you believe might be false? :)
u/itisike [+2] Dragon Army (a day later)
It's Quirrell disguised as Malfoy? If anyone can beat the Auror's spell, it's him.
u/itisike [+2] Dragon Army (2 days later)
Well, the obvious scenario is that, since Harry is sort of a horcrux, his control only works if Quirrell wants it to, so Malfoy if safe from him, even if Harry doesn't know. This also means that Dumbledore is under Quirrell's control, so MASSIVE WIN FOR VOLDEMORT.
u/heiligeEzel [+1] (8 days later)
(The false belief s that Lucius intends the bondage to be eternal. :P)
u/None [+5] (6 hours later)
It makes perfect sense, though I never would have pictured him doing it. Having given it some thought, the parallel with his servitude to Voldemort is natural (and suitably chilling after you read the final sections of the chapter).
u/JackStargazer [+3] Primordial Apologist (14 hours later)
There is an out. He simply has to kill Harry in such a way that Harry has no time to realize Malfoy did it and order him killed, and avoid Harry setting him a task with a kill condition. He knows Harry is unlikely to do the latter.
Also, this secures his legacy. Which is more important to him then his current power level or life.
u/None [+1] (20 hours later)
He simply has to kill Harry in such a way that Harry has no time to realize Malfoy did it and order him killed
Which, I believe, is why Harry named Hermione the heiress to House Potter.
u/rp20 [+1] (2 days later)
What I thought it was only until a week after negotiations end. Did I misread?
u/rtkwe [+2] (2 hours later)
Something just isn't right about the title Muggle War, Final when there's no treaty yet...
u/heiligeEzel [+5] (2 hours later)
The next arc will be called "negotiations". :P
(I actually don't like the title "The Muggle War" for 4-6, because all the battle is going on in the background, but I didn't have anything better. Suggestions are entirely welcome. :))
u/Nepene [+2] (13 hours later)
Politics is the Mind-Killer?
u/None [+1] (a day later)
No, Confundus, Imperio, and good old-fashioned rhetoric on the tongue of a well-disguised enemy infiltrator are the mind-killer.
u/rtkwe [+1] (5 hours later)
Oh it makes sense. I just expected a different ending to the chapter with that title.
u/Gurkenglas [+1] (13 hours later)
A side effect of not naming this one Final would be not having all the readers already know that the negotiations won't end in warful disaster.