I don't have time to respond to all of this, though I'd love to spend ages talking about it, but I'll hit on the one aspect of Lucius that I've been consumed with lately--his relationship with Narcissa.
Although I've written her as an inconvenience and as a trophy wife in the past, I don't really believe this, simply because I look at the family she's from. Andromeda had enough strength of will to defy her family and marry Tonks' dad for love, and Bellatrix is a very strong personality in her own right. I can't imagine Narcissa as anything less.
She convinced Lucius-- despite his better judgement and his loathing of Dumbledore-- to send Draco to Hogwarts rather than to Durmstrang, where he would rather send his son, as there are no Muggleborns allowed, and which most likely teaches Dark Arts as standard curriculum. And she is probably the one sending Draco sweets and cakes daily while he's away at school.
Any woman who could stand toe to toe with a man like Lucius Malfoy and convince him to keep his son in the UK despite his feelings about Hogwarts and its Headmaster is most likely *not* a weak-willed pushover.
I think that they honestly do love each other, at least in their own way, and that he respects her, because I don't see him indulging her on a matter as serious as his son's magical education just to get her out of his hair, you know?
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] wrote a fantastic bit of angsty L/N smut about the relationship they have, and how they got to where they are. And there's no neat resolution in the end, either. I like it a lot:
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Although I've written her as an inconvenience and as a trophy wife in the past, I don't really believe this, simply because I look at the family she's from. Andromeda had enough strength of will to defy her family and marry Tonks' dad for love, and Bellatrix is a very strong personality in her own right. I can't imagine Narcissa as anything less.
She convinced Lucius-- despite his better judgement and his loathing of Dumbledore-- to send Draco to Hogwarts rather than to Durmstrang, where he would rather send his son, as there are no Muggleborns allowed, and which most likely teaches Dark Arts as standard curriculum. And she is probably the one sending Draco sweets and cakes daily while he's away at school.
Any woman who could stand toe to toe with a man like Lucius Malfoy and convince him to keep his son in the UK despite his feelings about Hogwarts and its Headmaster is most likely *not* a weak-willed pushover.
I think that they honestly do love each other, at least in their own way, and that he respects her, because I don't see him indulging her on a matter as serious as his son's magical education just to get her out of his hair, you know?
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] wrote a fantastic bit of angsty L/N smut about the relationship they have, and how they got to where they are. And there's no neat resolution in the end, either. I like it a lot:
Silence (http://www.livejournal.com/community/lucissa/1292.html#cutid1)
Check it out! :)