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Fudge opened up a drawer of his desk and dropped the moneybag into the drawer— clink—then shut the drawer. Fudge’s look at Lucius now was shrewd. “That’s a friendly thing you did for me, Lucius. How can I show my appreciation?” Fudge gave Lucius a sharp look as he asked, “Would you be willing to swear on your magic that whatever illegal things you did between 1973 and 1981, you didn’t do of your own free will?” The films' take on Lucius using his cane as a shield of sorts while wielding his wand is similar to the daisho configuration of Japanese swordsmanship, where a samurai or other swordsman would use a smaller secondary sword as a shield while using a full-sized katana in their dominant hand. Ironically, the shaft of Lucius's cane is longer and is used for defence while the shorter wand is used for offence in duelling. This is quite appropriate for Lucius, as daisho configuration was typical among the elite samurai class during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and Lucius' old pure blood beliefs certainly mimic such institutional classism.
The man who followed could only be his [Draco’s] father. He had the same pale, pointed face and identical cold grey eyes. Mr Malfoy crossed the shop … Lucius’s good fortune continued. He had paid out another 130 thousand gallons to Fudge, and had bought pardons for another twenty-six of the Dark Lord’s most fervent followers. Lucius smiled as he thought, Tomorrow, when news of this breaks, every Death Eater in Wizarding Britain will be thinking, “Killing the Brat Who Lived—why didn’t I think of that?” The Malfoy grimoire, besides giving Lucius this spell, also had explained “triangulation.” With the spell, which was repeated as needed, as well as some map-marking and Apparation, it took Lucius only three minutes before Disillusioned Lucius was standing in the street in front of a disgustingly Muggle house.
Splendid,” Lucius said, “Here comes another five thousand.” Lucius waved his wand again, spoke the coins-transfer spell again, and another G5 000 was transferred between the moneybags. Clink-clink-clink. AUTHOR’S NOTE: In other of my stories, the so-called “blood-wards” are in fact vampiric wards that are powered by a siphon off Harry’s magic; but Dumbledore calls them “blood wards” to guilt-trip Harry into spending a certain amount of time each summer with the Dursleys. However, in this story the “blood wards” are what they claim to be—except that Dumbledore has made a disastrous presumption. Dumbledore set up the blood wards to be powered at first by Lily’s love for her son, then to be recharged by the love between Harry and Petunia and between Harry and Dudley, who all are related to Lily. But alas for Dumbledore’s design, the strength of those loves, H-P and H-D, is nil. To make an analogy between the Privet Drive blood wards and an automobile battery, what Lucius discovers is that the rubber belt that turns the alternator has broken long ago, and now in 1990, the car battery’s charge is almost gone. I’d like to think so,” Lucius said, still smiling. “And as a friend, I’m about to do something to help you out.” Malfoys did not show their emotions—otherwise Lucius would be grinning when he walked out of Fudge’s office. Lucius had walked into the idiot’s office being willing to pay twenty thousand galleons for an “Imperiused Death Eater” pardon; but now he was walking out with two such pardons and for half that price.
Lucius was sure that the DMLE, as underfunded as the department now was, would cause Lucius few problems; but if Lucius were arrested, he was sure that now he could buy another pardon from Fudge. As for Dumbledore, Lucius had no worries about him at all—the worst that would happen to Lucius tonight would be that Dumbledore would tag Lucius with a Stunner. Lucius did not bother to worry whether Dumbledore might cast an harsher spell than a Stun spell at him. I complained after [film] four or five that I didn’t have my own wand. I invented and designed my cane, that had a wand in it. I’d try to steal it at the end of the film and they’d catch me,” ( Interview with Jason Isaacs on Milling About at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland, sourced here)Within the UK and USA the price you see is the price you pay - you won't be charged any extra fees. Fudge smiled greedily; but what he said was “Purebloods have enough problems without needing to worry about Amelia Bones bothering wizards when she shouldn’t. Hand me another five thousand galleons and I’ll soothe your friend’s worries.”
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