Author's Notes for "Lucifer"
It's obvious in canon that Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy have a history. Draco shows up for school with insults about shabby redheads tripping off his tongue, and then there's that fistfight in the bookstore. And then when you add in that all wizards are related....well, we know the worst fights are between relatives. I considered what would earn that level of unremitting enmity from Arthur Weasley, who is a genuinely nice guy. I know that he met Molly in school, dated her there, so probably no love triangle. But Arthur is a compassionate man, one who doesn't like seeing the wrong thing go on. So what if he is friends with a girl that Lucius ruins....a girl that Lucius kills...and it began to happen.
It is the single saddest thing I have ever written because everyone is harmed in the end. Arthur's illusions are ruined. Evadne is dead, along with her hopes to marry up. And Lucius has acted in desperation and haste and had it go terribly, horribly wrong for him. It left him with no alternative but to cover it up and bluff it out and pretend that he'd wanted this all along. He intended to blackmail her into leaving him when they graduated. When she turned up pregnant, he offered her maintenance....which she wouldn't take. But he didn't intend to kill her...just administer an abortifacient that would cause her to lose the child, and hence her hold over him. Her death was very much an accident, caused by the interaction between the migraine medicine and the abortifacient. In some ways, his path wasn't set until he sat there in the Headmaster's office, genially lying his head off and both of them knowing that he was doing it. I feel sorry for all of them.
As of this date, there is a sequel in the making, entitled, "The Waiting Game".
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