Title - All Kinds - The Malfoys
Author - Paige Darke
Summary - They breed all kinds, the Malfoys. Some are darker than others. Some are struggling just to see the light.
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Damien Malfoy hates coming home for the holidays. He hates leaving his two younger siblings at the Manor when he goes back to school. He hates explaining the new scars to his teachers.
More than any of that, however, he's simply fed up. Fed up with a father whose idea of punishment for disobedient children was the Cruciatus Curse. Fed up with a mother who hadn't spoken to or looked at her children in years. Fed up with the vile family portraits that jeer as they walk by, the terrified house-elves, the banshees out back, the wineglasses that bite when they're reached for at dinner.
So he leaves. He packs up his angry twin sister, two terrified younger siblings, a loyal ghost, and all their belongings, and ships them off to a tiny Wizarding village near Durmstrang. There is only two years until graduation, and they are strong enough to hide for long enough. They do the Fidelius Charm, Kayli, his twin, as Secret-Keeper, and they hide for long enough.
And when they graduate, they leave the younger two, Galen and Dalia, at Durmstrang, and Damien and Kayli return to England, to Hogwarts, in search of Albus Dumbledore.
He agrees to see them, smiling kindly, looking them in the eyes and ignoring everything else - their shabby clothes, the small silvery scar near Damien's left eye, Kayli's twisting hands - and he does not seem surprised by their request to enter Auror training.
So Dumbledore contacted an old friend, and they passed that test. Then they passed the ones put to them by the Ministry with equal, grim determination.
There's a war coming, another one. Now the famous Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, is entering his second year at Hogwarts, and Damien fears for him.
Three years of hard training - along with one Nymphadora Tonks - and they emerge fully-trained Aurors. The first ever Malfoys to enter the "esteemed field of Magical Law Enforcement" - at least that's what is said in a small, tasteful column in the Daily Prophet. Hermione Granger read it in the summer before fifth year, wincing at a particularly sharp dig about Harry Potter.
Several times, he goes to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Enough times to learn how to dodge an angry Molly Weasley, or to see the huge crush Tonks has on Sirius Black.
He teases her about it, of course. The lack of guts to make a move. But they both know it's not about guts, because they've both seen the looks, the secretive glances and stolen touches between Black and Remus Lupin.
He leaves before all the Weasley children arrive. They've gone to school with cousin Draco, and he knows the Malfoy name will not bring good feelings.
Also, Molly Weasley doesn't like him, and she's scary.
So he goes recruiting. France, Poland, Germany, then south to Italy and Greece.
In May, word reaches him in a Greek pub about Sirius Black's fall through the Veil. He's dead.
But Damien's not like the rest of the Order. He knows Death, knows it's Dark Secrets, can greet it like an old friend. He was raised by a ghost, after all, and the son of a practicing necromancer. The Malfoys breed all kinds.
So he thinks about what he learned as a child, from his father and the books that he read. And then he remembers hearing Lupin's voice crack in the fire, and hearing Tonks sob in the background.
He pays his tab and goes off to find his broom, hoping he can find those books.
Author - Paige Darke
Summary - They breed all kinds, the Malfoys. Some are darker than others. Some are struggling just to see the light.
Feedback - Yay!
Damien Malfoy hates coming home for the holidays. He hates leaving his two younger siblings at the Manor when he goes back to school. He hates explaining the new scars to his teachers.
More than any of that, however, he's simply fed up. Fed up with a father whose idea of punishment for disobedient children was the Cruciatus Curse. Fed up with a mother who hadn't spoken to or looked at her children in years. Fed up with the vile family portraits that jeer as they walk by, the terrified house-elves, the banshees out back, the wineglasses that bite when they're reached for at dinner.
So he leaves. He packs up his angry twin sister, two terrified younger siblings, a loyal ghost, and all their belongings, and ships them off to a tiny Wizarding village near Durmstrang. There is only two years until graduation, and they are strong enough to hide for long enough. They do the Fidelius Charm, Kayli, his twin, as Secret-Keeper, and they hide for long enough.
And when they graduate, they leave the younger two, Galen and Dalia, at Durmstrang, and Damien and Kayli return to England, to Hogwarts, in search of Albus Dumbledore.
He agrees to see them, smiling kindly, looking them in the eyes and ignoring everything else - their shabby clothes, the small silvery scar near Damien's left eye, Kayli's twisting hands - and he does not seem surprised by their request to enter Auror training.
So Dumbledore contacted an old friend, and they passed that test. Then they passed the ones put to them by the Ministry with equal, grim determination.
There's a war coming, another one. Now the famous Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, is entering his second year at Hogwarts, and Damien fears for him.
Three years of hard training - along with one Nymphadora Tonks - and they emerge fully-trained Aurors. The first ever Malfoys to enter the "esteemed field of Magical Law Enforcement" - at least that's what is said in a small, tasteful column in the Daily Prophet. Hermione Granger read it in the summer before fifth year, wincing at a particularly sharp dig about Harry Potter.
Several times, he goes to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Enough times to learn how to dodge an angry Molly Weasley, or to see the huge crush Tonks has on Sirius Black.
He teases her about it, of course. The lack of guts to make a move. But they both know it's not about guts, because they've both seen the looks, the secretive glances and stolen touches between Black and Remus Lupin.
He leaves before all the Weasley children arrive. They've gone to school with cousin Draco, and he knows the Malfoy name will not bring good feelings.
Also, Molly Weasley doesn't like him, and she's scary.
So he goes recruiting. France, Poland, Germany, then south to Italy and Greece.
In May, word reaches him in a Greek pub about Sirius Black's fall through the Veil. He's dead.
But Damien's not like the rest of the Order. He knows Death, knows it's Dark Secrets, can greet it like an old friend. He was raised by a ghost, after all, and the son of a practicing necromancer. The Malfoys breed all kinds.
So he thinks about what he learned as a child, from his father and the books that he read. And then he remembers hearing Lupin's voice crack in the fire, and hearing Tonks sob in the background.
He pays his tab and goes off to find his broom, hoping he can find those books.