you're nobody until somebody loves you
A HariPo drabble collection
by mew-tsubaki
Tags: M&MWP.
- ^-^3
She'd known of him since an early age. That was how pureblooded society worked—everyone knew everyone, because (eventually) people married and made families. But there were enough years between them that Lucius was merely a fancy in Alice's mind. By the time she was out of Hogwarts, he would have an heir or two already.
So seventh-year Alice Bulstrode was surprised to find Lucius around her family home, before and during the school year. "But—I heard about your engagement to Narcissa Black," she spluttered when her parents left the room.
"Nothing's cemented yet," he replied, his words inviting.