Talk:Lucius Malfoy

Antagonist status
Why do some people reckon that Malfoy is the "true main antagonist" of Chamber of Secrets? Anyone who has the slightest familiarity with the Harry Potter series knows that it has only one main antagonist, and that's Voldemort. OK, so Lucius Malfoy has the spotlight as the antagonist-of-the-moment in CoS, but that's not the same thing as being the main antagonist.

(And as has been remarked before on other wikis, such depth of detail tends to be overthinking anyway; few if any authors go beyond thinking "he's the main character [protagonist], him and her are supporting characters [deuteragonists], this one [who may or may not be one of the characters already named] is the bad guy / opponent [antagonist], and the rest are the supporting cast [tritagonists]". In particular, "protagonist", "deuteragonist" and "tritagonist" between them cover all possibilities, hence are unqualifiable.) — Evilquoll (talk) 12:53, May 8, 2017 (UTC)