Lucius Malfoy

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**Lucius Abraxas Malfoy** is a member of the Legion of Mullac and is a recurring antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World* series. He was taken from the *Harry Potter* series written by J.K. Rowling which was adapted into a Warner Bros. film series of the same name.

## Personality

In the face of the public, most notably esteemed wizards of the Ministry of Magic, Lucius Malfoy presented himself as a humble, polite and sophisticated man, who used his wealth to make many charitable donations which earned him a lot of favor with others. However, this is was nothing more than a façade which hid a bigoted, arrogant, ill-tempered and duplicitous person.

Lucius used his guile and wealth to escape many situations, such as claiming that he only served Lord Voldemort under the influence of the Imperius Curse. He also had a seemingly affable relationship with the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, something that allowed him oversee private matters, bend rules, and bypass laws. In truth, Lucius only saw Fudge as worthy for the leverage the Minister could give him. He was perfectly capable of abusing his position and use threats to get others to abide by him, as noted when he threatened to curse the board of Hogwarts ministers into having Dumbledore resign, and used the same mixture of guile and power to sanction the execution of Hagrid's Hippogriff, Buckbeak. Another display of Lucius's high temper was when he attempted to curse (and possibly kill) Harry after the latter had tricked him into freeing his family's House Elf, Dobby.

A stern advocate of Pure-Blood supremacy, Lucius prided himself with his family's blood status and was highly condescending towards Muggle-Borns, Half-Bloods, and Blood Traitors, but in less of an open and derisive way like his son, though he still showed flagrant disrespect towards his rival, Arthur Weasley. Upon becoming a governor of Hogwarts, Lucius requested that *The Fountain of Fair Fortune*, a Beedle the Bard story that depicted marriage between a witch and a muggle be banned from Hogwarts shelves, not wanting his son Draco to be influenced by this fictitious display of muggle-wizarding marriage. Lucius's bigoted nature clearly affected his son Draco as well, as he would come to be an arrogant, spiteful, and racist bully at school himself. Despite his superficial good nature, many people, including the Weasleys and Harry Potter were able to see Lucius for how scheming he really was. He alliance with Lord Voldemort did not die out upon years of being declared innocent, as he was willing to use his master's diary to brainwash Ginny Weasley, Arthur's daughter, into releasing the Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets, as it would go after and kill Muggle-Borns, making Ginny look like the perpetrator and therefore bring shame to her father and family. Thankfully, no one was killed, and the victims of the Basilisk were all merely petrified, though this displayed Lucius's ruthlessness in having an eleven year old girl be framed as responsible for attempted ethnic murder.

Despite his loyalty towards Voldemort, Lucius did not make any attempts to find his master upon being freed, something the Dark Lord would later berate him for (though it could be argued that he had to lie low to avoid any suspicion), nor was he willing to brave Azkaban in Voldemort's name as the Lestranges were willing to do. This can depict that he was more self-serving than truly loyal to his master's welfare, even though he pleaded that this wasn't the case. He still showed up alongside Crabbe, Goyle and Macnair when summoned by Voldemort and almost watched his master kill Harry Potter; a year later he had the audacity to address Harry after the latter had been cleared during an unfair criminal trial.

For his manipulative and unpleasant personality however, one of Lucius's redeeming qualities was that he genuinely loved his family and wanted to keep them safe from his master. After being forced to use Malfoy Manor as a hideout for the Death Eaters and, more importantly, when Draco was tasked with the impossible mission of killing Dumbledore, Lucius's priorities slowly pivoted from serving Lord Voldemort to protecting his family however he could. Even after being spared upon Voldemort's defeat however, Lucius's racist nature remained intact for the most part, as he was disappointed with his son for not being able to marry a member of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Though it should be noted he was still happier having finally broken free from the Death Eaters alongside his family, even if this was out of self-preservation rather than a genuine change of heart, it still proved that Lucius wasn’t a completely evil and selfish person underneath, and that he was capable of genuine love - something that was alien to Lord Voldemort and many who followed him.