Answer a question that you're never asked.
Where are they?
They don’t even ask those in Azkaban those questions because perhaps it terrifies them to know. There’s a safety in anonymity after all. Maybe, their loved ones can say, maybe they got away. Maybe they’re safe somewhere. Maybe they didn’t suffer. Maybe it was quick and they fought back. Maybe they were heroes.
People like the maybes. It gives them hope and Lucius is a gentlemen and it’s bad manners to correct someone, especially if it profits no one.
Where are they?
Gone. If by a knife, or a potion, or a wand. More often than not, it wasn’t really planned at least by no Death Eater; all those black cloaks and masks were the Dark Lord’s fingers, his whims. How did they die? No more noble, or weak then a hundred Muggles in a hundred wars across time. Maybe they were quick. Maybe they were heroes.
No. They died. There’s nothing heroic about it. The circumstances varied, like the killers did. But the only thing that matters- really matters to men like Lucius Malfoy- aren’t the whys and where; the maybes. It’s the fact that he is with his son, after he’s shed the cloak and mask, and he’s safe and sound.
Where are they?
Dead. Should it matter and if it does, why?
Lucius Malfoy
Harry Potter
218
They don’t even ask those in Azkaban those questions because perhaps it terrifies them to know. There’s a safety in anonymity after all. Maybe, their loved ones can say, maybe they got away. Maybe they’re safe somewhere. Maybe they didn’t suffer. Maybe it was quick and they fought back. Maybe they were heroes.
People like the maybes. It gives them hope and Lucius is a gentlemen and it’s bad manners to correct someone, especially if it profits no one.
Where are they?
Gone. If by a knife, or a potion, or a wand. More often than not, it wasn’t really planned at least by no Death Eater; all those black cloaks and masks were the Dark Lord’s fingers, his whims. How did they die? No more noble, or weak then a hundred Muggles in a hundred wars across time. Maybe they were quick. Maybe they were heroes.
No. They died. There’s nothing heroic about it. The circumstances varied, like the killers did. But the only thing that matters- really matters to men like Lucius Malfoy- aren’t the whys and where; the maybes. It’s the fact that he is with his son, after he’s shed the cloak and mask, and he’s safe and sound.
Where are they?
Dead. Should it matter and if it does, why?
Lucius Malfoy
Harry Potter
218