Pandora Malfoy Lovegood
โข the younger sister of Lucius Malfoy, rejected by her pure blood family for her marriage to Xenophilius Lovegood, a half blood wizard โข
Lucius and Pandora had never been particularly close; they were nine years apart in age, born from different mothers and raised distinctly in accordance with their gender. Like the Lestranges, the Malfoys only recorded the male line in their family tree. Since birth, Pandora was made to feel separate from her family.
At Hogwarts, Pandora Malfoy was expected to be sorted into Slytherin. She was clever, visionary and resourceful, and she had never met any Malfoys sorted into any other house. In a plea for acceptance, she begged the Sorting hat to select Slytherin, but it firmly disagreed with her sentiment, โWith your intellect, you will explore possibilities beyond your family line.โ
For the first night in the Ravenclaw dormitory she cried herself to sleep, knowing her familyโs disappointment was imminent. At least, she pondered, Ravenclaw was better to be in than Hufflepuff - but it certainly wasnโt Slytherin, and a Malfoy was always to be in Slytherin.
Ravenclaw had less continuous lines of families within it, and Pandora found that many of her friendsโ family members were in houses different to their own, or hadnโt even attended Hogwarts. As time passed, she began to embrace the open-mindedness of her house freely and abandon the pure blood ideologies she was raised with.
Pandora fell deeply in love with fellow Ravenclaw student, Xenophilius Lovegood; Xenophilius was a half blood wizard with what the Malfoys considered to be โdirtyโ blood. So when they graduated and decided to wed one another, she was cut off from her family permanently. Though, they had become so distant from her that she was barely upset by it.
Pandora lived happily with her husband, but she still hoped that she might reconnect with her brother one day, the only family member she still respected. He hadnโt done anything so immoral and horribleโฆ yet.
โThe things we lose always have a way of coming back to us.โ
However, it didnโt happen; not when he married Narcissa Black - the Slytherin girl so nice she couldโve been a Hufflepuff, not when he proudly announced the birth of his son - Draco - to the rest of the pure blood elite, and not when she gave birth her daughter, Luna.
Luna was aware of her motherโs family, but never grew to know them. From a young age, she was aware that her mother had been effectively disowned because of their prejudice against non-purebloods, and so she concluded that anyone who would reject her brilliant mother was not a person she wanted to associate with. Especially when the accident happened, when Pandora died and suddenly the best person in her life was gone. Trying to reconnect with the Malfoys and listening to their cruel criticisms would be too painful to bare.
News of Pandoraโs death eventually trickled down to the Malfoys, but she had been estranged for so many years that even her parents shed no tears for their daughter, whom they wholeheartedly believed had betrayed them by marrying โthat dirty-blooded Irishmanโ.
No Malfoy but Lucius, who wept for his little sister in solitude. He went into mourning behind closed doors, keeping up appearances within his social circles. But though he cried for his sister, his loss did not alter his beliefs. He remained fanatic about the superiority of pure bloods, he never attempted to contact his sisterโs young daughter, and he never, ever told Draco of his aunt.
It was easy to do so, after all - Malfoy women were not recorded on the family tree.
