"It’s over," Draco had first said to him. He had collapsed, shaking and bruised, in a Hogwarts hallway after the final battle. Harry had earlier glimpsed him and his parents sitting in the Great Hall. Somehow in the ensuing chaos and disorganisation, Lucius Malfoy had eluded the incoming law enforcement rounding up Death Eaters, snuck up onto the Astronomy tower and flung himself off the side. The exact reason for the suicide - devastation at losing the war, cowardice at his incoming punishment, shame in the face of his devastated family - perished with the Malfoy patriarch himself. "It's really over."