Lucius Malfoy was great at two things, making money and greasing palms with it to ensure things go his way. He knew corruption was woven into the very fabric of humanity and he used it to his benefit. He had realised that someone like Dumbledore who wanted nothing more than glory was busy using people like pawns in grand chess set. Himself and his son included. For all of Dumbledore’s talk about the light and equality, he did everything to ostracise Slytherin in his son’s first year and has always shown a lot of favouritism towards Gryffindor picking most of the Head Boys and girls from either that house or Ravenclaw. He did nothing to promote inter-house unity and ensured that schools syllabus for defence against the dark arts was extremely tame. Lucius found it hard to believe that as someone who had dabbled in the ancient magics himself, Dumbledore chose to keep all that away from the students. In fact when he became headmaster, he removed the muggle induction classes entirely. Lucius was not thrilled about muggle studies but he never understood why teaching muggle borns about their legends, magical communities and religion was removed from the curriculum entirely.