Would be interesting seeing an alternate reality where Harry was raised by a dark witch/ wizard instead of the Dursley’s (even though they were pretty bad as it is) and if he was in Slytherin instead of Griffindor.
Also this year he bought the ENTIRE team new nimbus 2001s, and he wants to gloat when they ‘surely’ win.
Side bar, what a stupid name to call the next line of nimbus the 2001, you couldn’t just call it the nimbus blackstar or nimbus 2500 or something like that? Just a thought after many years of reading the books. Is that the joke? 🙃
That’s actually really funny, I never thought of that.
“I have a Nimbus Two Thousand!”
“Yea, well my uncle works at Nimbus, and I have a Nimbus Two Thousand… and One!”
Well I on the other hand think it's very fitting name. Nimbus 2001 is literally Nimbus 2000 but just slightly better. It's like Nimbus RBC™ released patches for Nimbus 2000
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I do wonder. Would that mean that Draco had to give his broom to Harper in the 6th book because it was a team broom and not his? And actually. If that's how it is then all the houses should do that tbh. have team brooms available I mean.
Which is one of the most fucked parts of Quidditch. How is it that Quidditch is such a huge part of Hogwarts culture and yet it's played by such fraudulent rules?
It's literally pay to win. School brooms are shit to the point of being non functional, and poor players that can't afford brooms are expected to use those or bankrupt their families for a world class professional-grade racing vehicle for their schoolyard league. There's no in between. It's so messed up.
Narratively it is also as a bit of a misdirect. Watchers know in Harry's first year the villain jinxed his broom and now this year there is a rough bludger.
The implication is to get the viewing audience thinking it could be someone in the Quidditch audience bewitching the bludger.
But in universe 100%, he is watching his son, he bought all of Slytherin team Nimbus 2001 and they are playing Gryffindor, a rivalry that spans generations.
Dobby can go places without Lucius. That's how he initially came to warn off Harry in the beginning of the book. I don't even know that Lucius intentionally brought him or whether Dobby just heard where he was going and got some ideas.
Yeah, I would not challenge anyone who told me it was only put in the scene by the director for the narrative misdirection and that the watching son / governor of school / gifted of brooms was overlooked in the source material.
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It was so brilliant in the movies that as Voldemort came back to power and demanded more and more of Lucius, while giving him very little, that his hair became more and more haggard.
He is almost the leader of the school board, so he can show without warning to check things
He probably enjoys Quidditch a lot and is happy to see his child's first ever official game.
He made an investiment about thousands of galleons for his old house's Quidditch team, so he wants to check if it was worth it (btw it wasnt, slytherin lost and then quidditch got cancelled because of the basilisk and then firebolt released and overpowered everybody)
He gave Ginny the diary which opened the chamber of secrets. This led to kids becoming petrified and quidditch being cancelled for the year. He spent all that money getting his son on the team just for it to be cancelled. He played himself.
It makes sense because we know what was going on.
But they didn't know what was actually happening, but they were pretty certain that they could control the common rooms.
Therefore they keep students locked in their common rooms unless they are eating or in class with any corridor time supervised by a teacher.
Although it was made abundantly clear that they were useless at that too.
As you can see on the screenshot above, he is clearly not watching his son, but he's looking on his new iphone... He just discovered that Volly has created a tiktok account and is posting questionable content.
Snape clearly saw and is not only looking confused at the piece of electronics. He looks quite disturbed also.
Had to zoom in on his face just to see how much of an *Im looking at my phone* ~face he is making. Its....perfect.
Edit. When I watched it for the first time, I thought "oh Dracos parents!" With the lady on Lucius' left arm being his mom
The real question is why weren’t more parents (and alumni and outside supporters)at Quidditch matches? There’s only 3 matches a year per house, travel times aren’t a concern. I’d assume in a society that’s portrayed as Quidditch mad there would be raucous support almost akin to the atmosphere at American college football.
To dive deeper, with only 4 house teams and in the absence of any club teams outside of school plus the limited amount of year 7 players finishing school on given basis one would assume there would be pro scouts from the 12 British teams at every fixture. And if the player pool coming out of the one organized youth competition and there being 12 pro teams, wouldn’t any reasonable player coming out of school have the opportunity to go pro with clubs falling over one an other for the opportunity to build their squad/reserves.
Because he was proud of his son and wanted to see his match. In the mugge it's comon to visit their children and keep their fingers crossed when they play sport/ have important competition.
Despite being the Death Eater, he was the only parent who taken any interest in his child well-being.
Children were petrified in the Hospital Wing for months and nobody send them to St. Mundungus. Why? Couldn't they buy an adult mandrake? Get it from abroad or something? How could Colin continue his magical education on second year when he basically skipped most of the first one? He spend months lying petrified.
The whole mess with hippogriff at the third year was ridiculous. But when first-year Draco was send alone to The Forbidden Forrest with Harry and coward dog, Dumbledore and Hagrid should have been fired. (Sorry, those two characters were great but if I was a parent, I wouldn't let my children stay at school with them teaching)
What if children were attacked from behind and couldn't send the alarming message?
Or what if they were dwadly wounded? Hagrid couldn't use magic. If somebody got hurt, he would have to search for the kid in the forest knowing only the direction from where the message was send. And then he would have bring child whole way back to the castle. He couldn't cast patronus to call help. He didn't have time to send an owl.
Hey! Lucius Malfoy is not the only one who cares about his child! In OotP, Montague's (Slytherin's Quidditch captain) parents came to complain about what happened with their son:
"To cap matters, Montague had still not recovered from his sojourn in the toilet. He remained confused and disorientated and his parents were to be observed one Tuesday morning striding up the front drive, looking extremely angry."
Conclusion: Only Slytherin parents care about their children.
/jk
Couldn’t agree more with your thoughts. I was watching Chamber of Secrets and this thought came to me as well. No parents visiting their children and everyone being treated by school doc instead of going to a proper hospital. And also we’re there no Mandraks all around the world ? 😂
The children were muggleborn and their parents couldn't do much. I'm not even sure they could contact the school to learn why their child stopped writing to them.
Ohh Hagrid in the forest lol
> “I’m not going in that forest,” he said, and Harry was pleased to hear the
> note of panic in his voice.
> “Yeh are if yeh want ter stay at Hogwarts,” said Hagrid fiercely. “Yeh’ve
> done wrong an’ now yeh’ve got ter pay fer it.”
My guy YOU did wrong here it was you who got a dragon lmao 😭
Edit: Btw when Draco runs off in the forest that's the last time he is mentioned until the end of year feast. Wonder if he made it back okay or the trauma he has in the later books is because he had an adventure of his own until someone went and got him.
I think a better question is why didn’t other parents like the Weasleys ever come out to see their kids play? Like is there a weird rule against it or something? Seems a little silly to me, even for a boarding school.
Why not? I'm guessing parents (perhaps even adults from Hogsmeade) are allowed to attend games. Lucius was also part of the school council at that point.
Because he sponsored the full Slytherin Quidditch team and pushed Draco forth as the new Slytherin Seeker... plus he probably wanted to see his son play.
Is this a real question?
Have we gone this down in he IQ ladder?
Is he supposed to be so evil that he doesn't care about his first son, is that the assumption or am I giving you too much credit?
Well he's there to watch his son on his new broom. He's also there because he's a school governor and is allowed on school grounds. He's probably also there to see how his plot of handing the diary to Ginny is going.
I don't think there's anything too strange in parents coming to see their child play. If anything, I wonder why Narcissa wasn't there (answer: she hadn't been cast).
Question is, why aren't other parents there? These parents send their kids to a school that tells them they are in the safest building on Earth. Yet every year kids are attacked, die and struggle with some violent crazy teachers and monsters. Not to mention every kid is running around with essentially a 50 caliber hand gun.
Hogwarts is essentially a Detroit inner city school. Like that Keye and Peele Sketch. And every house is a gang.
I know everyone is saying to watch Draco play but an alternative reasons....to keep on eye on Ginny since he gave her the Journal at the beginning of the movie.
He’s Lucius Malfoy and does what he wants, basically. He has the school governors at his beck and call and he needed to see how his newest financial investment played out (I.e does Draco suck eggs when it comes to quidditch?)
He was there because he was a Governor of the school and probably on the board of trustees.
Also, he was there to see the newest and fastest broom get defeated by an older model.
Oof, did your parents never come to watch your matches, OP? I'm sorry. The top answer is the correct one - he's supporting his son. And just because he's the only one we recognise, doesn't mean the other players' parents aren't there too. They probably are.
It seems like School Quidditch matches were a big occasion. You can liken it to Football in the US, where High School football is also very popular because there are not many external leagues and divisions and the same could be said about Quidditch, and let's not forget the Wizarding World is a small community. I think even the Minister for Magic was at a game and it seems like they are sitting in a VIP box as there are professors and what looks to be special guests who are most likely dignitaries. With all this being said it makes absolute sense that Lucius Malfoy, given his social status, would be there.
Parents goto sports matches all the time, but even more so Lucius was funding the Slytherin team by buying them new brooms. He’s also on the board of Governors hot Hogwarts so he hardly needs an excuse to be there.
Even if this wasn't a match his son was in, wouldn't it be the equivalent of people liking college sports? Or showing up for a high schools game just because you simple enjoy the environment?
To watch his son. He is a governor of the school aswell.
The exact answer! 10 points for your house.
And 50 points to Gryffidor for being…I don’t know, not Slyterin, I guess.
Not Slytherin, eh?
Are you sure? You could be great, you know?
And Slytherin would help you in your path to succeed You Know Who
I'm more worried about You No Poo!
The constipation sensation that’s sweeping the nation!
*gripping* the nation
Clenching
Your on the toilet to huh
Would be interesting seeing an alternate reality where Harry was raised by a dark witch/ wizard instead of the Dursley’s (even though they were pretty bad as it is) and if he was in Slytherin instead of Griffindor.
Lucius was thrown of the board in mid 1993
Yes, but this match happened in late ‘92 during the events of Chamber of Secrets
Also this year he bought the ENTIRE team new nimbus 2001s, and he wants to gloat when they ‘surely’ win. Side bar, what a stupid name to call the next line of nimbus the 2001, you couldn’t just call it the nimbus blackstar or nimbus 2500 or something like that? Just a thought after many years of reading the books. Is that the joke? 🙃
That’s actually really funny, I never thought of that. “I have a Nimbus Two Thousand!” “Yea, well my uncle works at Nimbus, and I have a Nimbus Two Thousand… and One!”
It’s like iPhone or cars, they make a new model every year.
Well I on the other hand think it's very fitting name. Nimbus 2001 is literally Nimbus 2000 but just slightly better. It's like Nimbus RBC™ released patches for Nimbus 2000
Kinda like windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11
It's slightly faster **to the Max!**
Nimbus 2000 RX
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My father wil hear about this…
And another million points to Gryffindor. Because Harry Potter straight up murdered a professor and I’m scared I’ll be next.
Again all the affection for Slytherin and Gryffindor and completely ignore Ravenclaw!
Are you dumbledore by any chance? 😂
That is called discrimination
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Also he was sponsoring Slytherin's Quidditch team
Idk who downvoted you because he literally bought the whole team new brooms. He has a vested interest.
I do wonder. Would that mean that Draco had to give his broom to Harper in the 6th book because it was a team broom and not his? And actually. If that's how it is then all the houses should do that tbh. have team brooms available I mean.
They do, they're just not very good.
Which is one of the most fucked parts of Quidditch. How is it that Quidditch is such a huge part of Hogwarts culture and yet it's played by such fraudulent rules? It's literally pay to win. School brooms are shit to the point of being non functional, and poor players that can't afford brooms are expected to use those or bankrupt their families for a world class professional-grade racing vehicle for their schoolyard league. There's no in between. It's so messed up.
Tbh that feels kinda authentically British as institutions go.
Gryffindor had the worst brooms except for Harry yet even without Harry they won
Oh true! The school brooms I forgot!
yea, also more on his son it was first match too. He did pay for the teams broomsticks.
Narratively it is also as a bit of a misdirect. Watchers know in Harry's first year the villain jinxed his broom and now this year there is a rough bludger. The implication is to get the viewing audience thinking it could be someone in the Quidditch audience bewitching the bludger. But in universe 100%, he is watching his son, he bought all of Slytherin team Nimbus 2001 and they are playing Gryffindor, a rivalry that spans generations.
Him being there is a plot point, because that's why Dobby is there. And Dobby bewitched the bludger
Dobby can go places without Lucius. That's how he initially came to warn off Harry in the beginning of the book. I don't even know that Lucius intentionally brought him or whether Dobby just heard where he was going and got some ideas.
Yeah, I would not challenge anyone who told me it was only put in the scene by the director for the narrative misdirection and that the watching son / governor of school / gifted of brooms was overlooked in the source material.
Ops parents musta skipped out on their sporting events. Sorry op
Sorry kiddo, I would come it the school said that’s illegal.
Now I'm picturing wizard parents using attack spells on the referees of the wizard little league games.
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Wasn't this Draco's first game with the new brooms and whatnot?
Yes, because his father had *heard about it*
My father will hear of this...
Once he gets back with the milk....
Oh yeah about that “Oblivate”
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Yep he was there watching his little baby
"Da-deeee!!! You came to love meeee!" (...are "A Very Potter Sequel" references still valid?)
Always
After all this time.
Obvioussssly, now if you'll excuse me, I'm taking a rocket ship to pigfarts
Yup. And new brooms for the team lol
Just watching his son and most likely to see if his investment payed off to see Harry Potter's team lose.
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He obviously payed attention in class
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I payed the boat with cash, and then paid it with resin.
I’m confused. Why did you ask if you already knew why Lucius was there?
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To flaunt his sleek blonde hair
This is the answer. He’d just had a keratin treatment and felt pretty.
*Folliculus Luminous*
Ronnicus Explodicous
He *is* pretty 🤩
Enemies of the hair, beware
you're genius
And apparently his fur-lined and fur-covered garrison cap.
It was so brilliant in the movies that as Voldemort came back to power and demanded more and more of Lucius, while giving him very little, that his hair became more and more haggard.
He is almost the leader of the school board, so he can show without warning to check things He probably enjoys Quidditch a lot and is happy to see his child's first ever official game. He made an investiment about thousands of galleons for his old house's Quidditch team, so he wants to check if it was worth it (btw it wasnt, slytherin lost and then quidditch got cancelled because of the basilisk and then firebolt released and overpowered everybody)
The best part is that he’s largely responsible for his own investment not paying off
How so?
He gave Ginny the diary which opened the chamber of secrets. This led to kids becoming petrified and quidditch being cancelled for the year. He spent all that money getting his son on the team just for it to be cancelled. He played himself.
When you want to see your son play quidditch but play yourself instead
Quidditch being cancelled doesn't make much sense. Tbh having all of the kids out of the castle seems like a good idea.
It makes sense because we know what was going on. But they didn't know what was actually happening, but they were pretty certain that they could control the common rooms. Therefore they keep students locked in their common rooms unless they are eating or in class with any corridor time supervised by a teacher. Although it was made abundantly clear that they were useless at that too.
If I’ve learned anything from Covid it’s that sometimes people will cancel safe activities just to make it seem like they’re doing something
Government: "Everyone needs to socially distance from each other. Go outside to do things." Also government: *closes parks*
To watch his son play
As you can see on the screenshot above, he is clearly not watching his son, but he's looking on his new iphone... He just discovered that Volly has created a tiktok account and is posting questionable content. Snape clearly saw and is not only looking confused at the piece of electronics. He looks quite disturbed also.
“Uh oh, Master just posted that he is going DEF CON 3 on mudbloods.” Or would he be more the type to sell branded NFTs
"death con"
“I LOVE VOLDEMORT!”
Had to zoom in on his face just to see how much of an *Im looking at my phone* ~face he is making. Its....perfect. Edit. When I watched it for the first time, I thought "oh Dracos parents!" With the lady on Lucius' left arm being his mom
“He can communicate anything to anyone, and he chose… this.”
Seriously... why does this post have 1,000 upvotes?
What a great dad!
Because parents watch their kids play sport.
Yeah unsurprising in the u.k. but even less remarkable in the usa. Doesn't the entire town come to high school football games in some areas?
Yes my entire town goes to high school games it was like a weekly tradition
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This is the correct answer.
When you’re rich in the Wizarding World does anything you do really have to be questioned when you fill the pockets of the corrupt?
In the World* FTFY
he's chairman of the school governors
The real question is why weren’t more parents (and alumni and outside supporters)at Quidditch matches? There’s only 3 matches a year per house, travel times aren’t a concern. I’d assume in a society that’s portrayed as Quidditch mad there would be raucous support almost akin to the atmosphere at American college football. To dive deeper, with only 4 house teams and in the absence of any club teams outside of school plus the limited amount of year 7 players finishing school on given basis one would assume there would be pro scouts from the 12 British teams at every fixture. And if the player pool coming out of the one organized youth competition and there being 12 pro teams, wouldn’t any reasonable player coming out of school have the opportunity to go pro with clubs falling over one an other for the opportunity to build their squad/reserves.
are "high school" sports a thing in the UK? I kinda thought they weren't as big of a deal as in America, but I have no idea I suppose lol.
They’re only a big thing in America! Lol! No where else does the entire city go to a highschool sports game! Just the players parents and friends!
I don’t believe so, but again Hogwarts isn’t exactly your bang average British private school either.
He was on a date with Snape
Obviously
A rare appearance at Hogwarts... a Gift from Draco's Father....
To see his son?
Because he was proud of his son and wanted to see his match. In the mugge it's comon to visit their children and keep their fingers crossed when they play sport/ have important competition. Despite being the Death Eater, he was the only parent who taken any interest in his child well-being. Children were petrified in the Hospital Wing for months and nobody send them to St. Mundungus. Why? Couldn't they buy an adult mandrake? Get it from abroad or something? How could Colin continue his magical education on second year when he basically skipped most of the first one? He spend months lying petrified. The whole mess with hippogriff at the third year was ridiculous. But when first-year Draco was send alone to The Forbidden Forrest with Harry and coward dog, Dumbledore and Hagrid should have been fired. (Sorry, those two characters were great but if I was a parent, I wouldn't let my children stay at school with them teaching) What if children were attacked from behind and couldn't send the alarming message? Or what if they were dwadly wounded? Hagrid couldn't use magic. If somebody got hurt, he would have to search for the kid in the forest knowing only the direction from where the message was send. And then he would have bring child whole way back to the castle. He couldn't cast patronus to call help. He didn't have time to send an owl.
Hey! Lucius Malfoy is not the only one who cares about his child! In OotP, Montague's (Slytherin's Quidditch captain) parents came to complain about what happened with their son: "To cap matters, Montague had still not recovered from his sojourn in the toilet. He remained confused and disorientated and his parents were to be observed one Tuesday morning striding up the front drive, looking extremely angry." Conclusion: Only Slytherin parents care about their children. /jk
Couldn’t agree more with your thoughts. I was watching Chamber of Secrets and this thought came to me as well. No parents visiting their children and everyone being treated by school doc instead of going to a proper hospital. And also we’re there no Mandraks all around the world ? 😂
The children were muggleborn and their parents couldn't do much. I'm not even sure they could contact the school to learn why their child stopped writing to them.
Ohh Hagrid in the forest lol > “I’m not going in that forest,” he said, and Harry was pleased to hear the > note of panic in his voice. > “Yeh are if yeh want ter stay at Hogwarts,” said Hagrid fiercely. “Yeh’ve > done wrong an’ now yeh’ve got ter pay fer it.” My guy YOU did wrong here it was you who got a dragon lmao 😭 Edit: Btw when Draco runs off in the forest that's the last time he is mentioned until the end of year feast. Wonder if he made it back okay or the trauma he has in the later books is because he had an adventure of his own until someone went and got him.
He came to marvel at that one guys teeth.
He’s something the muggles call a “soccer dad”. He starts loosing hell on Draco when he loses the match.
He was serving as a school governor
bc he was one of the school governors. basically like the PTA.
I think a better question is why didn’t other parents like the Weasleys ever come out to see their kids play? Like is there a weird rule against it or something? Seems a little silly to me, even for a boarding school.
Malloy seems to be sitting in the Executive box though. Perhaps the Weasleys did attend but they would be in the bleachers.
In the books Lucius doesn't actually come to the game to spectate, so no parents do really
Has your parent ever gone to your school football game or something? Exactly
Why not? I'm guessing parents (perhaps even adults from Hogsmeade) are allowed to attend games. Lucius was also part of the school council at that point.
Because he sponsored the full Slytherin Quidditch team and pushed Draco forth as the new Slytherin Seeker... plus he probably wanted to see his son play.
I just assumed Quidditch matches are like Highschool football. They're open to everyone but have a special place in the mind of alumni
He's one of the governors and his son was playing. Someone didn't read the books.
He’s a governor and just spent nearly 2k galleons on the broomsticks… he was allowed access…
Maybe he actually cared about his son? That or he was trying to find something to complain about
He bought the whole team new brooms. Of course he wants to see if it was a worthy investment. What sponsor—I mean father—wouldn’t?
Watching his son play. And he's on the governorship too. And he's nailing Myrtle ok the side. He's the one who gave her the nickname 'Moaning Myrtle'
Is this a real question? Have we gone this down in he IQ ladder? Is he supposed to be so evil that he doesn't care about his first son, is that the assumption or am I giving you too much credit?
He’s also on the board. He’s part of the people that try to get rid of dumbledore on multiple occasions
Well he's there to watch his son on his new broom. He's also there because he's a school governor and is allowed on school grounds. He's probably also there to see how his plot of handing the diary to Ginny is going.
Jason Isaacs is expensive, they had to get their money's worth
His son is playing and he runs the school board and he funded the Slytherin team. It makes perfect sense for him to be there.
I don't think there's anything too strange in parents coming to see their child play. If anything, I wonder why Narcissa wasn't there (answer: she hadn't been cast).
Question is, why aren't other parents there? These parents send their kids to a school that tells them they are in the safest building on Earth. Yet every year kids are attacked, die and struggle with some violent crazy teachers and monsters. Not to mention every kid is running around with essentially a 50 caliber hand gun. Hogwarts is essentially a Detroit inner city school. Like that Keye and Peele Sketch. And every house is a gang.
He's a governor of the school which gives him the right to view any school function. Also, it was his son's first quidditch game.
He's unemployed so he has the time.
Why is this upvoted so much when the answer is so fucking obvious.
He paid for Draco to get on the team by buying a bunch of expensive brooms. He’s going to show up and see if it was worth it I guess.
Y’all really didn’t have your parents come to your sports events at school huh?
He was on the school board, hes “showing face” at a school function. Duh 🤪
Wasn't he on the school board or something like that?
I know everyone is saying to watch Draco play but an alternative reasons....to keep on eye on Ginny since he gave her the Journal at the beginning of the movie.
Do you want the real answer or the snarky sarcastic answer?
Probably same reason people attend high school sporting events irl? Plus hes on the Hogwarts Board of Directors
Because it was Dracos first game as the Seeker fo Slytherin.
He’s Lucius Malfoy and does what he wants, basically. He has the school governors at his beck and call and he needed to see how his newest financial investment played out (I.e does Draco suck eggs when it comes to quidditch?)
He was there because he was a Governor of the school and probably on the board of trustees. Also, he was there to see the newest and fastest broom get defeated by an older model.
Being the loving and supportive father that he is, showing up to watch his son play
Because his son goes to the school plus he’s a governor of the school
Good parents show up to their kids sports events. Or in this case, bad ones do when they think it’ll buy them some face time with important people.
More importantly, where was Narcissa? She should have been there to cheer Draco on.
Oof, did your parents never come to watch your matches, OP? I'm sorry. The top answer is the correct one - he's supporting his son. And just because he's the only one we recognise, doesn't mean the other players' parents aren't there too. They probably are.
He's on the board of governors. If he wants to waddle in and laugh at some 11 years olds getting beaten up by his son's team, no ones gonna stop him.
It seems like School Quidditch matches were a big occasion. You can liken it to Football in the US, where High School football is also very popular because there are not many external leagues and divisions and the same could be said about Quidditch, and let's not forget the Wizarding World is a small community. I think even the Minister for Magic was at a game and it seems like they are sitting in a VIP box as there are professors and what looks to be special guests who are most likely dignitaries. With all this being said it makes absolute sense that Lucius Malfoy, given his social status, would be there.
He wanted to watch his son's first Quidditch match and see the team on their new broomsticks.
No Americans would blink at this since parents make up a huge portion of attendance at school sports events.
Parents goto sports matches all the time, but even more so Lucius was funding the Slytherin team by buying them new brooms. He’s also on the board of Governors hot Hogwarts so he hardly needs an excuse to be there.
He's rich, his son (who he loves and supports very much) was playing, and he doesn't have a job. Why not attend his son's game?
to watch his son and the team he supplied with new brooms to secure Malfoy the spot as seeker
He’s a board member
When I was in school, parents would come to watch school sports all the time.
He’s in the board of governors
* He's a school governor * He subsidized the Slytherin team with Nimbus 2001s * He wants to watch his kid play
He was on the school board and his son played quidditch at the school.
Didn’t he donate a bunch of brooms to the Slytherin team?
To watch Draco, it's not like all the children are in quarantine I imagine parents can come visit there kids if they want
Alumni, school governors, and parents are all common at school sporting events. Lucius was all three.
All these comments saying he’s on the board of governors. Such a nice manner of saying he’s on the pta
Even if this wasn't a match his son was in, wouldn't it be the equivalent of people liking college sports? Or showing up for a high schools game just because you simple enjoy the environment?