He's a quote that's the basic theme of the different times in history. I played with some themes from Echo, like past/present/future, the idea of "thread of destiny," and this quote, which is the theme of each story inside the timeline.
"Your fate is not yet sealed.
"Even in the darkest night, a star will shine.
"A bell will chime, a path will be revealed."
-Page 587 of Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Present
I stare at myself in the mirror. Pale, tall, blue-eyed, platinum-blonde-haired. The image of a perfect Malfoy. Physically, at least.
But now I am broken. I have no life, no name, no reason to continue. I turned away the ones who could have ever cared, and the ones who cared the most cared for the wrong reason. And all of those people are gone. My first true home is gone and no one will ever let me back there for one second.
So now it's me, in my flat, downtown. Not even a wizarding flat, everyone here I see is just a muggle.
They frighten me.
A few blocks away is the entrance to Diagon Alley. I go there at night, when no one can see my face, to get anything I need. All of the Malfoy fortune I pulled out of Gringotts- currently I have several giant chests with undetectable extensions shoved into my closet.
What a great way to take care of the Malfoy fortune.
I just sit here right now. I think. I am technically unemployed. But then again, I have millions stashed in my closet. That will probably last me a long time. I sit and read a lot. A few weeks ago I started to write. I got my hands on a little blue journal and some really nice pens.
And I just wrote. I didn't have any inspiration, I didn't have ideas. I wrote about my life. And what I should have done. What I didn't do. What I did do.
The words just flowed out, like they had been trapped inside of my pen for my entire life. I relived all of the bad parts of my life, just sitting there, in a desk, in a muggle building.