Myrine Malfoy

# **Summary**

**Myrine Isabelle Malfoy (née Bonnevie)** was a pureblood witch and the daughter of Sir Henri Bonnevie and Lady Juliette Bonnevie (née Rainier). She was the sister of Reynard Bonnevie, and thus is the aunt of Juliana Warrington (née Bonnevie) and Armel Bonnevie, and grandaunt of Cassius Warrington and Miranda Bonnevie. She attended Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, betrothed to Abraxas Malfoy in her Sixth Year and marrying him upon graduation. She is the mother of Claudius and Lucius, and grandmother of Draco.

# **Background**

## **Lineage**

Myrine is a descendant of La Famille Bonnevie, a bygone relic of French magical nobilities past who'd enjoyed the height of great sociopolitical influence in the days of the Ancien Régime. The family's influence has declined significantly since their exile at the end of the French Revolution.

At the current time, the Bonnevies are ruthless money-grubbers determined to reestablish their social imminence lost at the advent of the French Revolution, utilizing the girls and women of the family as bargaining chips to buy their way into prominent pureblood families across Europe. As with most traditionalists, the witches are expected to be the pinnacle of proper pureblood wives; stay-at-home witches who lunched, shopped, supervised the nanny elves while they did most of the child-rearing

# **Book 1: Ascension to Madness (AtM)**

It is revealed that Myrine Malfoy's marriage to Abraxas had been a deeply unhappy one. Upon her graduation, the two had married as was expected, with Claudius being born two years into the marriage. Abraxas had been pleased at his wife successfully completing her duty in bearing him an heir, and 'encouraging' her to bear him a daughter that could be used to secure an advantageous alliance with another pureblood family. After many trials and quite a few miscarriages, Lucius had been born.

Abraxas - a self-possessed tyrant on his best day - had naturally been furious at his wife's 'inability to breed properly', taking his anger out on Myrine and Lucius alike. Physical, verbal, and emotional abuse, none were out of the question for Abraxas. The monster's rage would be stoked all the more when Myrine would direct his fury away from Lucius onto her, maternal instinct spurring her to protect her young son the only way she could. Naturally, he doted on and spoiled Claudius, succeeding in turning his heir against his brother and his own mother. Abraxas had finally 'grown bored' of his horrific treatment in Lucius' second year, turning his attention to molding Claudius to become a 'proper' Malfoy heir.

Lucius and Myrine had been each other's support system, their relationship strengthening once finally gaining reprieve from Abraxas' heinous treatment. Myrine's patience, love, and fierce protectiveness had been critical to Lucius' development, ensuring both his survival and success within Slytherin House and within the manor. His mother had been very supportive of his relationship with Christina Fenwick, encouraging Lucius to follow his heart in courting the girl he loved with all his heart. To ensure that neither he nor his beloved would be penniless, Myrine had squirreled away thousands of her spending money away into her personal Gringotts account, one she had and maintained as a Bonnevie. She'd worked with the goblins to give Lucius unfettered access since his Fourth Year, making sure that he would become its immediate owner upon her passing.

Myrine had perished in Lucius' Sixth Year, murdered by Abraxas' hand. The erstwhile Lord Malfoy had discovered her encouragement of Lucius' relationship with the 'lowly pureblood harlot' Christina. That his son - in spite of his hatred of him - was debasing himself with a lesser was completely unacceptable, even more so that Lucius wanted to marry her! Just a week before Christmas Break, in a peak of drunken rage at her 'betrayal', Abraxas Malfoy violently beat Myrine unconscious, before dragging and drowning her in her personal bathtub. He'd then forced his elf to heal her physical injuries, leaving a gash on her head to make it seem as though she'd slipped and banged her head, drowning as a consequence. The aurors had believed his flimsy excuse, neither wanting nor having the means to pursue murder charges against a powerful lord of an Ancient and Noble House. Lucius on the other hand, had not accepted his father's boldfaced lies.

Upon discovering his mother's death (via owl-post), Lucius had Flooed into the Manor in an absolute rage, confronting his barely sober father. Foregoing his wand, Lucius had relied on his fists, succeeding in subduing and nearly beating his father to near death. With fists bloodied and an expression belying all-encompassing hatred, Lucius spat in Abraxas' face, swearing that he'd have his vengeance against him for murdering his mother, and he would never again step foot in the manor. Leaving his father in a bleeding heap, Lucius had emptied his room, making sure to take a portrait of his mother with him for safekeeping.

True to his word, Lucius had never returned to the Manor after Myrine's funeral, running away with Christina to Paris and using the funds from his mother's vault to keep them comfortably afloat. Unfortunately, his plans to marry Christina went to hell when Claudius had gotten himself killed in a drunken Abraxan accident. He'd been forced to marry Claudius' intended, and helplessly watched as the witch he loved above all was forcefully bequeathed to the degenerate Tiberius Nott by her money-grubbing family. And just like his beloved mother, Christina had been murdered by her violently cruel husband.