Lucius Malfoy

**Lucius Ambrose Everest Malfoy** (b. 1954), codenamed "**Vemon**" is a British pure-blood wizard, and the eldest child of Abraxas and Layla Malfoy. He is the husband of Narcissa Black, the father of Draco Malfoy and the grandfather of Yvonne and Corona Malfoy. As well as a member of the Malfoy family. Lucius was educated at Hogwarts, where he was made a prefect in Slytherin House. As an adult, Lucius was an aristocratic wizard and patriarch of the Malfoy family. He is also the godfather of Nathara Prince-Slytherin and older brother of Eliza Malfoy.

## Biography

### Early life (1954–1965)

Born in 1954 in Great Britain and raised in the lap of luxury at the ancestral home of Malfoy Manor in the county of Wiltshire in England; a magnificent mansion that had been in his family's possession for around a thousand years. He had one younger sibling: A sister named Elizabeth, who preferred to be known as "Eliza". Historically rather well-known for their cast-iron belief in wizards’ superiority over Muggles and espousal of pure-blood values, Lucius adopted the unfeigned contempt for the Muggle world of his elders from a young age and was encouraged to make friends 'of the right sort' when the time came for him to attend school, a sentiment Lucius would later follow to the point where he eventually viewed those who associated themselves with Muggles to be a "disgrace to the name of wizard". This belief was lost as he came to see Severus Snape and Marvolo Riddle, two half-bloods, as friends and brothers. Descending from a long line of cold, brutal fathers that produced cold, brutal sons, while it is unknown just how close he was with his parents during his formative years, quite arguably the biggest influence in his young life was that of his father. A proud member of the social elite that commanded great respect in certain circles, Abraxas Malfoy was, in addition to a harshly demanding parent with high expectations and known to have kept a collection of dark magical artefacts harking back to family history, also a man of considerable (and much resented) influence at the Ministry of Magic in London; all things that Lucius would eventually go on to emulate later in life.

### Hogwarts years (1965–1972)

Lucius was educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from around the year of 1965 to 1972, once there he honoured his family's tradition of being Sorted into Slytherin House, a place where many other like-minded young idealists was often found. It was during this time that he first met his future wife, a proud member of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black; one of the most prominent pure-blooded wizarding families in Great Britain, and, like the Malfoys, one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Lucius' third year also saw the premature retirement of Nobby Leach, the first Muggle-born Minister for Magic to ever hold office, after he fell ill with a mysterious illness. Before long, a number of conspiracy theories were circulating regarding what actually happened to him, and for a time, Lucius' own father fell under suspicion of having had a hand in the shady plot that led Leach to resign, although nothing was ever proven against him.

The scion of an old wizarding family noted for its wealth and influence, Lucius was ultimately a model student that lead by example and became a voice of authority among his peers; and effectively managed to uphold his family's noble name, be a credit to Slytherin House and master the art of keeping up appearances all in one fell swoop when he was named a Prefect in his fifth year, and by being invited to join the out-of-hours dining and social club hosted by their always talent-scouting Potions Master, Horace Slughorn, known as the 'Slug Club'. In 1971. Lucius became the first person apart from Liliana Selwyn-Evans to ever extend Severus Snape (later Severus Prince-Slytherin) a hand of friendship; warmly welcoming him into the fold after the latter's sorting into the same house; a gesture that marked the beginning of a lifelong, mutual respect and camaraderie between the two young students that outlasted their respective school careers. This group later extended to Bellatrix, Narcissa, Rodolphus, and Marvolo, who Severus ended up marrying. This was not to say, however, that his magical education was by any means an uneventful one.

Lucius's arrival at school coincided with a recent increase in dark magical activity throughout Great Britain; while few knew what lay behind the mounting attacks and sightings, the truth was finally revealed in the form of a Dark wizard of immense power. But whereas Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters were swiftly becoming a source of widespread fear by a most of his own kind, Lucius, on the other hand, found himself rather disagreeing with their views regarding the treatment that the non-magical community deserved. Over the course of his schooling, Lucius also developed a strong dislike for the school's Head of Transfiguration. Not only a shamelessly vocal pro-Muggle activist, Albus Dumbledore was also quickly becoming the biggest symbol and rallying point for opposition to the Dark Forces, thus representing everything that Lucius despised: as such, when Dumbledore succeeded Armando Dippet as headmaster, Lucius saw it as the worst thing ever to have happened to Hogwarts; a sentiment he would carry with him into to adulthood.

### First Wizarding War (1972–1981)

"*Malfoy's been giving generously to all sorts of things for years... gets him in with the right people... then he can ask favours... delay laws he doesn't want passed... Oh, he's very well-connected, Lucius Malfoy.*"
— Arthur Weasley regarding Lucius' influence at the Ministry

Lucius graduated from Hogwarts in the year of 1972, and being independently wealthy and with no need to work for a living, continued to inhabit the family estate; free at last to enjoy full-time the creature comforts that their ancestral home had provided him throughout his privileged upbringing. At some point, he also became romantically involved with Narcissa Black, a fellow wealthy pure-blood and Slytherin student back at Hogwarts with whom he had a lot in common; not least of all their shared anti-Muggle sentiments, fondness for the lavish and privileged lifestyle that their rich family vaults afforded them. In due time, the uppish couple entered what was seen as a very respectable, pure-blood marriage, and took up residence at Malfoy Manor. In doing so, Lucius also officially assumed both the patriarchy of the Malfoy family, ownership of their House-elf, Dobby, and gained the possession of a prized family heirloom that had been passed down for many generations. This, he began to carrying around with him, both as a status symbol and as a replacement for his original wand. Heir apparent to a long line of wily beneficiaries of political patronage in the magical community, Lucius also wasted little time in carrying on the family tradition of frequenting the headquarters of the Ministry of Magic in London, where he successfully used his family name and fortune to curry favour with a number of high-ranking Ministry officials, and became a very well-connected man. In 1979, he also served as the best man for Severus's wedding to Marvolo Prince-Slytherin and was present at his daughter's christening ceremony, where he and Narcissa, along with Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange were named Nathara's godparents.

That was not to say, however, that this was all he aspired to do with his life: Because even though his former teachers had done an adequate job of sheltering their charges from the storm that had only continued to brew in the world beyond Hogwarts Castle in the years that he had resided there, and despite the strong-arm tactics that the Auror Office had been authorized to employ in the effort to suppress it, it was nevertheless the case that the Dark Lord's campaign of violence had just grown ever fiercer. Throughout the entirety of his magical education, Lord Voldemort and his followers had only been gaining in strength, until finally the ongoing conflict culminated in the First Wizarding War.