Written for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (challenges & assignments)
Auction: Gift for the Gryffindors using their prompt: Day 7, Auction 2 - (dialogue) "I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me. But I can't help it that I'm popular."
Summary: Lucius reflects on his popularity before he heads back to Hogwarts (crack!fic)
He was superior
Lucius smoothed down his pristine black robes, turning this way and that as he looked in the mirror. He held the edges, pulling them firmly down so the material smoothed against his chest to show off the Head Boy badge pinned on his robes. Yes, this was going to be a glorious final year at Hogwarts.
He was doing well in school, his N.E.W.T.s would be so easy to pass. Teachers adored him and his perfect marks. The students below him idolised him and the students in his year wanted to be him. Narcissa Black was his girlfriend, his skin was the best it had ever been, and his hair was divinely smooth, a strand never out of place.
His mother came into the room. "Oh, my darling boy. You look ever so handsome."
"I know, right?" he said, not taking his eyes off his reflection. Even his grey eyes were practically radiant with the splendour that was his life.
"How are you getting on with your friends? Did you have a good summer with them?"
Lucius rolled his eyes, watching his mother take a seat at the end of his bed. "There were a few… tense moments with Macnair, but nothing I couldn't handle."
"What did he do?" she asked. His mother always did love a good gossip over nothing.
"I told him he wasn't pulling his weight in the Slytherin dynamics. It apparently hurt his feelings." His mother laughed delicately, nodding. "I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me. But I can't help it that I'm popular."
"Never apologise for people not understanding that some of us are more superior than others, darling," his mother said.
She was right. He was superior and others would have to accept that. "Thank you, mother. I needed that reminder. I was beginning to think Macnair was losing his mind, but he's really just jealous that he doesn't have our standing, right?"
"Exactly."