This is just a short little idea of how anyone, well, remotely sane would react at the prospect of serving under I Crucio you just because I feel like it Voldemort.
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Harry was starting to lose hope, sure he had gotten himself into bad situations in the past, but this topped all of them. Wandless and bound to a gravestone, waiting for his hated nemesis to no doubt cruelly torturing him before ending his life.
As if Voldemort presence wasn't enough, there were also a good dozen Death Eater, having answered their master's call. All he could do was resign himself to his fate and watch the proceedings, hoping to maybe find any way out of this, no matter how unlikely.
The next few minutes proceeded as expected, with Voldemort laying into his minions and freely dispensing torture curses. Finally it was time for him to turn his sight onto Harry again. ''Well now, time to finish our business Harry, shall...''
Suddenly a man, which Harry was sure was Lucius Malfoy, raised his wand ''GET HIM!''
All of a sudden, every single Death Eater raised their wand and started bombarding their master
''AVADA KEDAVRA!''
''CRUCIO!''
''BOMBARDA!''
''INCENDIO!''
''REPULSO!''
''RICTUSEMPRA!''
It hailed curses onto the dark lord from every direction. At once, he felt his skin burn (and also tickle for some reason), his flesh part and his soul leave his body yet again. Rage overcame the Dark Lord as he prepared to flee, only to feel a strange sucking feeling. He tried to free himself from the invisible grasp tucking at him, but he found that he could not. After a few seconds of struggle, he was sucked into a strange device in the hands of Lucius Malfoy. ''Stupid Half blood, you are not the only one with connection and deep knowledge in the Dark Arts, no more resurrecting for you. Now where is that rat, Crab, Goyle, did you get him?'' He turned towards the two stupid but surprisingly competent 'friends' of his only to see them nod at him wordlessly, the ugly man's corpse at their feet.
Obviously pleased with the results, he turned towards the still tightly bound but now thoroughly shocked Harry. ''It seems we meet yet again Mister Potter, it gladdens that it is for happy circumstances this time.''
Harry would have loved to answer, but was still busy failing to comprehend the current situation.
Lucius however was too happy to let something small such as that bother him. ''I would assume you to be happy about the death of that Half Blood scum as well?''
''What, why, how... WHAT?'' Harry had very much so not managed to find his thoughts again.
Lucius just nodded sagely ''Yes, the situation would seem strange to you, wouldn't it? Very well, I shall explain. Your biggest confusion I assume stems from the fact that we just killed our 'Master' does it not''
A short nod
''It might seem strange to you, but honestly, why wouldn't we? What do we have to gain by him coming back? Most of us, especially me, are rich, successful and highly respected by society.''
Harry just grimaced ''I don't respect you one bit'' his gaze turned to what was once his Nemesis ''... I didn't respect you one bit.''
Obviously pleased, Lucius continued, ''Glad you see the light, Potter. I would like to point out however that most of Society does in fact respect me. No one cares if there are some rumors about a war long past when said person just financed their dying child's medicine, or gets them a new job, that's just how people work. Now, where was I? Oh yes, that dirty Half Blood, took me ages to find that part out by the way, was nothing but trouble for us. We had to hide ourselves from society and whenever anything displeased him he instantly started torturing or killing us. Why would we want that back? And don't even get me started on those stupid raids of his. Fear and destruction everywhere and for what, control of the ministerium? I can do that with a few Galleons in the right hands, no need for such savage methods. Believe me, we are all happy that he is gone, and you can believe me, it will stick this time.'' His last words were accompanied by a particularly evil smirk while be played with the strange box in his hand.
While most of it made a lot of sense to Harry, he was still not fully convinced. ''But then what was up in the second year? You tried to get the Chamber of Secrets opened and the monster unleashed?''
He could see the man's face lose his smirk and take on an annoyed expression. ''Don't you remind me of that boy. How could I ever expect such incredibly stupidity from the Weasley girl?''
''I... excuse me?''
Lucius gave a short curt nod, ''You are excused.'' Harry held back the urge to roll his eyes as the man continued. ''I obviously had no interested in the Chamber being opened, by Merlins sake, my Son goes to that school. I know how Voldemort works, there is no way that Monster was not going to be dangerous to everyone at school. I however had no desire to have this book continue lying around in my house so I decided to get rid of it.''
Harry's eyebrow rose, ''By smuggling it into Ginny's stuff?''
But Lucius just nodded once again. ''Of course, she is the daughter of Arthur Weasley after all, it is literally his job to get rid of Artifacts like that. I obviously assumed that she would instantly hand the book to him the second she found it. It would have gotten rid of the book and also gotten me a bit into the graces of the light side without cost for haven given up the book. But no, that silly girl decided to write into the fucking diary that wrote back, who does that?''
Harry desperately wanted to protect Ginny but could only think back to how Ron had told him that his father always had made it clear to them to never ever engage with an artifact such as this no matter what.
Obviously taking Harry's silence as an answer, Lucius began again ''I see that you agree with me mister Potter, I am so glad about that. Don't look at me like that I mean it, I was beginning to gaslight myself into thinking that maybe I did subconsciously actually try to open the chamber, the validation is quite nice. Now then, let's talk about what happens now.''
Harry couldn't stop himself from gulping, ''You are going to kill me aren't you?''
A horrified look appeared on Lucius face ''By Merlin no. Why would you think that''? Harry just looked at the Man. ''... Okay, fair enough but believe me when I have no intention of doing so.''
Hope rose in Harry's mind, ''You are not?''
Lucius shook is head. ''I most certainly am not. Now, here is what is going to happen. You take back the Hufflepuff boy, what is rest of the Half blood and worm tails corpse. When they ask you what happened, you tell them that they killed the boy before you managed to overwhelm worm tail and kill him, thereby also taking out what was left of the Half Blood.''
Harry couldn't quite believe what he was hearing, ''You will just let me go?''
Lucius nodded, ''Yes and have you take credit, don't forget that part.''
The deal sounded just a bit too good to be true. ''What is in it for you, though?''
The man looked genuinly confused upon hearing the question. ''What do you mean, what is in it for me? The Half Blood scum is finally dead for good and I will not be pulled into the spotlight in connection with him again. What is more that you now owe me your life, I would say I gained a lot''
Ah, there was the drawback. ''So, what do you want Malfoy? The money my family left me? That I serve your family?''
This time the man just laughed, it was a surprisingly nice laugh. ''Oh Merlin no, perish those thoughts. All I hope for is that you make up with Draco and spend time with him and our family.''
Once again, Harry was about to lose his ability to think coherently before managing to pull himself together. ''... But why?''
Still a smile on his lips, Lucius explained. ''Well, it's simple really. I already have most of what I need. You openly being supportive of my family however would actually be helpful to further my position even further. It's really not that bad for you, Harry. I will do my best to be as polite as possible, and I will have a talk with my son as well. There is that look again, do you really think I don't know that he can be difficult? I merely hoped he would grow out of it with time, sadly it seems I will have to have stern words with him instead. I tell you what, it's even good for you. You don't like how I want things to be run, but I am sure you don't like how it's currently run either, so why not support me? Together we have enough pull to change most things, and I am sure we can at least find some form of middle ground on most things. Hell, I can help you get your Godfather free first thing tomorrow.''
With that Harry's resolve broke, ''I accept your terms Mister Malfoy.''
After hearing this, Lucius cut him free and helped him up, ''Call me Lucius Harry.''
Dusting himself off, Harry looked around at all the other masked figures who had stayed silent all the time. ''What about them?''
Before Lucius could say anything one of them snorted ''Kid, Lucius almost literally owns most of us, believe me, we won't interfere. Actually, you know what, I will make you the same offer as him. Just spend some time with my family, help us throw off the old image completely. Sure, we might not do things like you like them, but what better way to try and change us than by interacting with us? And hey, if you want to change anything you need power anyway, no better way about that than be our friend. Think about Harry.''
And with those words he, along with the other hooded figures, disappeared with a pop.
Lucius looked around one last time before turning back to Harry. ''Well, that takes care of everything. I see you tomorrow for tea? We can talk about your godfathers process during it.''
Upon seeing Harry nod, he gave a friendly one of his own before disappearing without a sound.
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Well, that's it. I mostly wrote this because I always found it really strange that people like Lucius would want to have Voldemort back. Why would some Rich fucker that has the Government in his pocket want a random torture loving murder hobo back?