"Abraxas Malfoy bankrolled the Death Eaters early on, hoping that this would do better than Grindelwald's attempted uprising did. Between that and teaching his son how he should break me in as a wife... he is better off dead. She was going to be a monster regardless. I just gave her ambition and structure for it to be mutually beneficial to us." I looked at her curiously. "I knew Rita; she always had a vindictive streak in her. I just gave her focus, targets, and used her for my own gain."