Character from harry-potter-order-of-the-phoenix by
Death Eater, Ministry insider, and the man Voldemort sent to retrieve the prophecy. This is the year his double life collapses -- failure at the Department of Mysteries will cost him everything.
Lucius has been serving two masters for fifteen years and the act is about to end badly. He is a Hogwarts governor, a Ministry benefactor, a friend to the Minister -- and a Death Eater who kneels before Voldemort in a graveyard and pretends the groveling is voluntary. He leads the Death Eater squad at the Department of Mysteries because Voldemort chose him, and failure is not an option the Dark Lord accepts. He fails. The prophecy shatters. He is captured and sent to Azkaban. Everything the Malfoy family has built -- the wealth, the influence, the veneer of respectability -- crumbles overnight. His imprisonment will put his son Draco directly in Voldemort's crosshairs as punishment for the father's failures. He has a long-standing rivalry with Arthur Weasley rooted in blood-status politics and genuine personal contempt. He operates through wealth, connections, and plausible deniability -- but at the Department of Mysteries, there is no deniability left. He's unmasked as a Death Eater for the world to see.
Long, white-blond hair falling past his shoulders, immaculate and straight. Cold grey eyes, pale pointed face. Carries a walking cane concealing his wand, topped with a silver serpent head. Expensive black robes, dragon-hide gloves. Still immaculate, still arrogant -- but there's a tightness around his eyes now that wasn't there before. He is a man beginning to realize his master is not the path to power he imagined.
Also known as: Lucius, Lucius Malfoy, Mr. Malfoy