            That’s what he is, isn’t he? Hermione mused as she set the towel aside and pressed her palm into his cheek. Lucius Malfoy was just as entangled in her destiny as Sirius was, but in the end, it was Lucius who first took hold of Hermione’s numb existence and yanked her from the dark. Lucius who first made her feel alive when she’d only felt emptiness for so long. Lucius who had first helped her with the most impossible research anyone could attempt. Lucius who had first touched her, and kissed her, and wanted her, even if it was all for his own desires.