Spoiled Sweet
Draco Malfoy, born November 26, 1980.
Most definitely Lucius Malfoy's proudest moment and greatest achievement. The snow was falling heavily and Lucius had come inside from attending to his winter roses, to find the hired help and the house elves and mediwitches rushing about urgently. They clucked and cooed and ushered and hurried him into Narcissa's bedroom, where she lay a disgraceful mess. In her arms she held a tiny, perfect child.
He liked to say that Draco had been born perfect, a miraculous promise of the Malfoy line. He liked to say it because it pleased him to think that he'd created such a perfect being. In truth, the end result had flaws, which could not all be blamed on Narcissa's involvement.
For instance, pettiness.
For instance, his obsessiveness over the Potter boy.
For instance, candy.
Sweets, his father told him, were temptations for little girls. Real men had a taste for the savory. But Draco Malfoy as a child demanded sweets as if they were necessary to his continued existence. Lucius, against his own better judgement, gave in time and time again, and he hated to admit it but he himself had a weakness for Honeydukes. Which he blamed on Hogwarts, and trips to Hogsmeade, chocolate melting over his closed fist as he consumed enough to sicken him just to spite his father.
Spite.
Certainly, that was why Draco had taken up with Potter. Lucius could only sigh, as he remembered being young, feeling anger at his father's control. In the end it had been all for the best, all his father's heavy-handed and unorthodox methods. He knew that now, but of course Draco would not see it until he, too, was older. Until then he was a boy, Lucius's pride, heir to the greatest of all the wizarding families. It was Lucius's responsibility to see to it that he respected that position properly.
He admitted at times he spoiled the boy, but there was just so much of Lucius in him, his own face, and he wanted the boy to have what he could not have.
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