Fanfic / Eden, by Obsessmuch

"Am I supposed to be moved by your pathetic pleas? How dare you ask me to pity you? I detest you!"

— Lucius Malfoy

Eden by Obsessmuch is an AU Harry Potter fanfic centered on the unusual pairing of Hermione Granger and Lucius Malfoy. Hermione and Ron are held as hostages by the Death Eaters. Lucius Malfoy is given charge of the pair, but the muggle-born Hermione gets under the hardened bigot’s skin. Lucius is determined to break her before she breaks him. Hermione is determined to survive. Both are forced to confront the darkest corners of their souls in order to achieve their objectives.

‘Eden’ is notable for being not only extremely long (at 364,082 words and 50 chapters), but also relentlessly dark and disturbing. Its slow pacing and strong themes of psychological horror mean it’s not for everyone, but it’s adored by its fans, having spawned a lot of fan-art, videos, song.

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This fanfic provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Hermione would at the start be uncomfortable with the idea of a grown man who is bigoted towards her being attracted to her before things take a different turn.
• Abusive Parents: Downplayed compared to other works regarding Lucius and Draco. While not to the extent of other fanworks that give Lucius this trope his canon self never truly had, his interactions with Draco later in the story don't mesh with how he was in the books or movies. Despite admitting to Hermione he does care for his son, he was more than willing to erase his memories upon learning of their relationship, face him and later abandon him so that he could run away with Hermione and raise the son he fathered with her. Hermione herself is very torn on this and fears Lucius would play this straight to his second son.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Despite the below trope, Lucius shows more redeeming qualities than his canon self. His relationship with Hermione and eventual care for her is something his canon self would have found revolting, as even after his Heel–Face Turn, he'd never consider showing any compassion or affection for Muggleborns.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Downplayed. In canon, Lucius commits crimes, but personally tormenting and raping a teenage girl probably isn't among them.
  • In the books, Draco would come to turn his back on the Death Eater lifestyle, eventually letting go of the prejudices his father indoctrinated him into. As the events of Deathly Hallows never happened, he does not go through a Heel–Face Turn, and the relationship between Hermione and his father would cause his bigotry to increase.
• Adaptation Deviation: The events of Deathly Hallows never occurs in this story.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In canon, Lucius and Hermione only had one notable interaction and it was during the beginning of Chamber of Secrets, where it was clear they had an equal amount of contempt for each other. Here, the two's constant interactions with each other develops to personal enmity, lust and even genuine romantic interest.
  • In canon, Lucius loved his wife and saw her sister as just an ally in their shared loyalty to Voldemort. Instead, he and Narcissa admit that they didn't truly love each other, having lost their initial spark for a long time, with he and Bellatrix having an affair behind her back before settling for the younger and much easier to overpower Hermione.
• Age-Gap Romance: As Ron and Draco point out, Lucius is old enough to be Hermione's father. The squickiness of the situation is not overlooked. Lucius is the father of her school bully and started out with a Villainous Crush he denied. He's the first to have sex with her, although the first time it was rape, got her pregnant, but ranges from caring to being abusive. They don't marry, though she still loves him even after his death.
• All for Nothing: Despite everything Hermione does, she fails to escape with Lucius, as he's killed by Bellatrix.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. Hermione hates Lucius with a passion. And the story goes to great lengths to show just how awful being in any kind of relationship with a man like him would be.
• Ambiguous Situation: While it's evident Lucius' attraction Hermione grew the more he was around her, Draco believes that his father may have had some attraction to her prior. He recounts canon incidents from the books, from when they were 12 when she first met Lucius, or when she was 14 and he sent a Death Glare that made her blush more from shame than attraction. Hermione denies the idea he had any interest in her as she was very much a minor, though given how close he was and how quick he was to deny he intended to rape her, much less show an interest in her, there's the possibility he had some attraction prior to when she was kidnapped. We will never know.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: During their private conversation in the garden, Lucius questions why did Hermione desire for him to stay with her, despite that he had raped her, murdered her parents and pushed her into an intimate relationship with a man as old as he was, especially after she begged him to leave her alone. Hermione admits that, despite that she still hates him for all the terrible things he had done to her, she fell in love with him. She's brought to tears by her confession and is consoled by him.
• Arch-Enemy: While they two have a genuine hate for one another in canon, Hermione and Bellatrix both grow a deeper hatred of one another over their shared attraction to Lucius.
• Armour-Piercing Question: What finally causes Lucius to start dropping his aloof attitude is when a broken Hermione finally asks 'Why am I so abhorrent to you? What is wrong with me? What did I do?'
• Asshole Victim: Dolohov is given no sympathetic qualities and he's killed off after an attempt to rape Hermione by Lucius.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Subverted. Hermione believes she can use her pregnancy to get Lucius to set her free and win her life back. But in the end, the fact that she's pregnant causes the death of Lucius which, due to the severity of her emotional dependence on him, leaves Hermione broken beyond repair and wishing more than anything she'd got rid of her baby when she had the chance.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Lucius watches Hermione sleep early on in the story. Not played completely straight, though, as Hermione finds it frightening more than anything.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: The lead couple.
  • Hermione herself admits that before her kidnapping, she was a 17 year old who was "naive, brave, so proud, so clever". She's now an 18 year old who is brave because she has to be, far less emotionally stable and and "old beyond her years".
  • Lucius was proud of his bigoted, self-centered carelessness and loyalty to Voldemort, uninteresting love or compassion for others. He doesn't completely change, but he finds himself growing to care for a muggle-born old enough to be his daughter and throwing away everything for her. He does admit he hasn't completely change, and Hermione offers to help him get better.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Hermione spends a great deal of time and energy wishing for Lucius to die. When he eventually does die at the end of the story, his death breaks her completely, due to the severity of her Stockholm Syndrome.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: It's implied Lucius showing occasional degree of concern for her is one of the factors to Hermione falling for him.
• Beneath the Mask: Hermione wonders at how artfully Lucius keeps his true self hidden: 'It's as if he wears not only his Death Eater's mask, but also this pale mask of skin, concealing the real man beneath. What is he made of, this man I'm locked up with?'
• Betty and Veronica: There are two instances of this. The first with Hermione as Archie, Betty is Ron with Veronica as Lucius. The second with Hermione as the Betty, Lucius as the Archie and Bellatrix as the Veronica.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Avery. He never so much as raises his voice, or displays any kinds of emotion, and he is the one who eventually blows the lid on Hermione and Lucius.
• Big Damn Kiss: Chapters 29 and 44.
• Bigotry Exception: Downplayed, but as abusive as he is, Lucius gets along with Hermione far more than he reasonably should, for her blood status alone. He notably stops using the "mudblood" slur to describe her and admits he wishes she were pureblood to make his attraction less wrong.
• Bigot with a Crush: Both Lucius Malfoy and Antonin Doholov develop an unhealthy attraction to Hermione Granger, despite, or because, she's a teenage muggleborn. For Lucius, he takes it to far more destructive levels.
• Bittersweet Ending: Hermione and Ron survive and go on to start a family, but Hermione is so damaged by what she went through she spends the rest of her life essentially broken. What's more, the pair of them are left raising Lucius's son, who serves as a reminder of his father due to the strong family resemblance. For some fans, who were rooting for Lucius's survival, his death gives the story a Downer Ending.

• Break the Cutie: Hermione starts out very much as she does in canon. Following the torture the murder of her parents, the rape by said murderer, getting pregnant and watching the man she reformed die in front of her, she's not as idealistic as she once was.
• Break the Haughty: Having broken down Hermione both mentally and physically, Lucius is then broken down emotionally by Hermione.
• Bridal Carry: Lucius carries a severely injured and barely conscious Hermione like this. It's a confusing moment for both of them.
• Broken Pedestal: Upon learning what Lucius has been doing with Hermione, Draco is left devastated and disgusted with his father.
• Brother–Sister Incest: The Death Eaters at one point threaten to kill Ginny unless Ron has sex with her, something that Lucius found abhorrent. Thankfully, it never gets that far.
• But I Would Really Enjoy It: Death Eaters are forbidden from sleeping with muggle-borns. Which makes Lucius's attraction to Hermione very difficult for him to deal with.
• Canon Foreigner: All of the characters featured are from the source material, save for one. Hermione's two children with Ron are more than likely their canon children Rose and Hugo. However, the other child is a character who can't exist in canon; the son of Lucius and Hermione.
• Category Traitor: Lucius regards himself as a blood traitor because of his growing affection for Hermione, especially once he learns he's fathered a son with her. Hermione tries to convince him that he should see now blood isn't that important, only for him to react poorly.
• Central Theme: Love and hate are not that different from each other, being the strongest emotion one can feel towards another. Every character feels one or the other for a person; Hermione and Ron love each other, Hermione and Bellatrix had each other, but Hermione and Lucius feel both love and hate for each other.
• Child by Rape: Averted. Many believe that Hermione's son is this. He was most likely conceived during Lucius and Hermione's secret relationship, long after his father raped his mother.
• Child of Two Worlds: Hermione's son, fathered by a pureblood wizard who lived his whole life in the wizarding world, raised by a muggleborn witch who lived with muggles her whole life and not very well off financially. While he knows this, he wrongly believes his father is Ron when it's in fact Lucius, who was also a pureblood supremist and come from a wealthy family.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Hermione endures physical torment during the story through Lucius, all of it told very explicitly.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Lucius Malfoy fills in a similar role to titular beast from the "Beauty and the Beast" tale. Like the beast, he holds a beautiful young girl prisoner in a mansion until the two fall in love. However, Lucius didn't make any sort of deal, he kidnapped her, then physically abused and tortured her. And even then, he doesn't so much as fall in love as he does lust for her until he rapes her. The fact that Lucius still has a very human and aristocratic look as opposed to a hairy monster shows how, at the start, he's the polar opposite of the Beast before some semblance of good arrives.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Lucius openly despises Ron from the beginning, and uses any excuse to physically or mentally cause him pain. When he later finds him kissing Hermione, he tortures him into unconsciousness, not caring that in doing so he makes Hermione hate him all the more.
• Darker and Edgier: The story is far darker than anything done in actual Harry Potter canon. The story carries themes and concepts of bigotry, betrayal, lust, ephebophilia, rape, Teen Pregnancy, infidelity and murder. The opening statements by the author make it clear this is not meant to be a happy story.
• Deadpan Snarker: Avery:
  Avery: Such charming language. You must be very proud of your son.
  • Lucius is quick to respond to things, namely Narcissa's desire for intimacy with him, is sarcasm.
• Deconstruction: For the crack pairing of Hermione and Lucius. Even if the two do grow to love each other, it gives them many problems: age difference, Lucius's marital status, differing viewpoints on the wizarding world, past conflicts, Lucius's prejudice towards Hermione's blood status and how it affects them and the people in their lives. Her pregnancy doesn't help either.
• Despair Event Horizon: Hermione learns that her parents are dead, then Lucius rapes her, then she falls in love with him and he dies. This all ends up haunting her for the rest of her life.
• Destructive Romance: The premise of the story. A growing attraction between a teenage girl and a grown man old enough to be her father on opposite sides of a war is, in fact, not a beautiful thing. His self-loathing at being attracted to her and his hostility to her causes Lucius to be physically abusive and eventually rape Hermione. Their becoming intimate only creates a fear of being exposed and those who find out are quick to express disgust on the age difference alone. Her getting pregnant with his child doesn't end result in them seeing a union of a love no one saw coming, but regret that they went too far.
  Tagline: An obsession that destroys everything it touches.
• Didn't Think This Through: How Lucius perceives his relationship with Hermione as things escalate, namely when she's revealed to be pregnant with his son. He never took such a thing into consideration.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Lucius dies in Hermione's arms.
• Dies Wide Open: Hermione has to close Lucius's eyes before sending his body into the lake.
• Dirty Old Man: Downplayed. Lucius is more than likely in his 40's, with white hair that only makes him look older. ^*  Canonically, Lucius was born in 1954, Hermione in 1979, so there is a 25 year gap between them and, since this is set during what should have been her 7th year at Hogwarts and assuming it'd still be set during that specific point in time, that would make him at most 43. Regardless, his attraction and growing sexual interest in Hermione is still seen as unsettling. Hermione even thinks that people would accuse him of being this if anyone finds out he is the father of her baby.
• Disappeared Dad: Lucius never lives to see his second son be born, much less have his connection to his son be acknowledged by anyone.
• Distressed Dude: Ron often owes his survival to Hermione's hold over Lucius.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Ron comes to admit to Hermione he loves her and will stay by her side, even willing to raise her son that Lucius fathered. Hermione is genuinely touched he cares this much, but her attachment to Lucius breaks her over it. When things came close, despite Ron's attachment, her desire for Lucius came out on top. Until Bellatrix stepped in.
• Domestic Abuse: Lucius is physically and emotionally abusive towards Hermione.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Draco quickly realizes that his father is having an affair with Hermione. However, he wrongly thinks she's seduced him (something Lucius himself did think was happening) and that the attraction happened back when they were still students at Hogwarts. He also doesn't even consider the idea his father is rather abusive towards her or that it's not how it started, assuming he knows of her parents' deaths or even considers the idea he raped her.
• Dramatic Irony: Hermione's son doesn't question his mother on whether or not his real father is Lucius Malfoy because he fears that, like the rumors suggest, he's a Child by Rape by an evil man. In actuality, he was conceived long after the rape and, by the end, Lucius was no longer that evil man everyone knew him as. This was part of Hermione's promise to a betrayed Narcissa, to never tell their son the truth of his father's identity.
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Lucius has a hard time genuinely admitting how he real feels around Hermione. It's either due to the her being muggleborn or the fact that he's experiencing feelings he's never felt before.
• Entitled to Have You: After Ron discovers the affair, Hermione wants to end it with Lucius. However, he refuses to let that happen, believing he has every right to have her.
• Ephebophile: Lucius and Doholov, grown adults, both have an attraction to 17 year old Hermione.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Even Lucius thinks that Avery and Bellatrix's plans for Ginny were a bad idea, and calls Avery out on it.
  • Despite being a pureblood supremacist like her husband and sister, Narcissa doesn't share their sadism towards Hermione and even shows sympathy for the deaths of Hermione's parents.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Hermione calls out that Lucius is incapable of understanding love. To him, it's a weakness and foolish idealism no matter how much Hermione describes it otherwise. She believes it's because he's never loved anyone. Subverted in that he does fall in love with her and admits that since bringing her their mansion, he was trying not to fall in love with her.
  • Bellatrix, however, doesn't understand why Lucius would want to be with a muggleborn teenager instead of her.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Implied. Based on Hermione's offer to teach Lucius be a better person and the information he learns about his yet to be born son, Lucius may in fact want his second child to avoid being like him, or his first, and not grow up to be as bigoted or as awful as he was before he fell in love with Hermione. While that does happen, he died months before Hermione gives birth, along with promising to never tell their son his true father's identity, meaning he had no involvement in raising his son.
• Eye Scream: Lucius casts a spell at one point which makes Hermione's eyes burn and weep blood.
• Fainting: Hermione faints in front of loads of Death Eaters. She's pregnant, and her fainting gives Avery an idea of the truth.
• Fate Worse than Death: After Lucius's body is taken away by the monsters in the lake, Hermione notices while leaving that a large pair of eyes are staring at her specifically. This causes her to believe that Lucius came back to life, but as one of these creatures.
• Fingore: Lucius breaks Hermione's fingers and grinds them under his boot when trying to get her to give up information on Harry.
• First Kiss: Hermione gets her first kiss as an adult from Ron. It angers Lucius, who forcefully kisses and rapes her later.
• First-Name Basis: Lucius can't stand the fact that Hermione calls him by his first name. He makes a point of refusing to return the favour, referring to her only as 'mudblood'. Eventually he begins to accidentally call her by name, signalling a shift in his perception of her.
• Foil: Ron and Lucious are made out to be foils to each other concerning their feelings for Hermione. They're both purebloods, but that's about it.
  • Ron is her schoolmate who had feelings for her for years. He's her first adult kiss and cares for her despite learning of her relationship with Lucius. He decides to raise her illegitimate son as his own, marries her and then has two kids with her.
  • Lucius is the father of her school bully and started out with a Villainous Crush he denied. He's the first to have sex with her, although the first time it was rape, got her pregnant, but ranges from caring to being abusive. They don't marry, though she still loves him even after his death.
• Forbidden Fruit: It's made explicit that Lucius becomes obsessed with Hermione because her muggle-born status makes her forbidden to him.
  Lucius: Why? Draco, isn't it plain enough? Surely it should be obvious to you - a boy who has been so spoiled he's never been refused anything, even something he had no desire for in the first place.
• Forceful Kiss: Lucius plants one too many on Hermione. Some moments though, the tables are turned and its Hermione who does it to Lucius.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The chapter after being raped by Lucius, Hermione describes it as feeling like "something alive and unclean living, squirming and writhing" inside her. Several chapters and nights of consensual sex with Lucius later, she's pregnant.
  • Lucius brings up he'd rather die than let Hermione go.
  • Lucius pretends to want a Scarpia Ultimatum from Hermione in return for not killing her parents. Eventually, he rapes her, but later the two enter a, somewhat less violent, physical relationship.
  • Hermione's divination. It predicted her son with Lucius interacting with two children who look like her and Ron. The fact that they're referred to as brothers and sister and get along hint that Lucius will play no role in his son's upbringing.
• Forgiveness: Lucius thinks Hermione has forgiven him too easily and doesn't want her to forgive him for what he's done. Though while she says that she's forgiven him for murdering her parents, the abuse and rape, it clearly wasn't easy.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: Hermione asks what happened to Lucius to make him the man he is. He laughs and says nothing happened, he was just raised to be like this.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Despite that it's the child fathered by the man who murdered her parents and raped her, Hermione finds herself unwilling at first to get rid of the baby. While Lucius insists the child must be aborted, Hermione is given a vision to show their son growing up to be a well adjusted young man, causing her to reject the potion. She comes to believe she should have done the abortion after her pregnancy contributes to Lucius getting killed, only for her psyche to convince her not to.
• Good Stepmother: Gender inverted. Ron raises Hermione's son despite his resemblance to the man who killed her parents and raped her before the two became intimate. It helps that, despite the fact they two look nothing alike, he believes (or wants to believe) that Ron is his real father instead of Lucius Malfoy.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Voldemort is not directly involved in the main events, only appearing at certain points. However, since this is based on the world of Harry Potter, he's still the Death Eaters' master.
• Guilt Complex: Hermione develops an overpowering one over everything that happens in the story, including the death of Lucius.
• Happiness in Slavery: Averted, despite growing to love Lucius, Hermione clearly doesn't want to spend the rest of her life as his servant. Lucius, however, is fine with it as it is the only way he can be with her.
• Hard Truth Aesop: As beautiful as the idea is that Love Redeems, it's not that simple when the two have a clear difference in age and upbringing. Lucius, despite falling for Hermione in the end, isn't a completely redeemed person as he still harbors a sense of elitism and distaste for other muggleborns. It also doesn't mean the person in question is accepted by others, as Ron still despises him and only relents from outright assault because of Hermione and that he fathered her son. It's also clear that despite it all, Hermione and Lucius still have some level resent each other for being unwanted intruders in each others lives. Love can be messy and complicated, so love between two people who once hated each other religiously is far messier and more complicated.
• Hate Sink: For all of the terrible things Lucius does to Hermione, his growing attraction to her becomes a redeeming quality that helps him grow. The same cannot be said for his fellow Death Eaters.
  • Anton Dolohov is depicted as an Abhorrent Admirer who makes his desire to rape Hermione clear. Unlike Lucius, who does grow to care for her and did rape but grew to regret the decision, Anton's interest in Hermione is not treated in a sympathetic manner.
  • Bellatrix is a sick minded woman who doesn't mind sleeping with her sister's husband and almost all of her actions on Hermione boil down to sadism. She also puts Ron in a situation where she's forcing him to effectively rape his own sister, which Lucius was appalled by.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Averted. Hermione ends up marrying Ron and has two more children with him, but deep down she is still damaged from losing Lucius.
• Heroic Bastard: Hermione has vowed to make sure that, as much as she loved Lucius, she will ensure the son he sired with her will never become an elitist or bigot like the rest of the Malfoy clan he refuses to believe he's descended from. It helps that he wants to believe Ron is his father despite how little he resembles Hermione and how he has no resemblance to Ron at all.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Lucius is unable to admit to himself he has any sort of interest or attraction to Hermione without hating himself over it. This entitled belief that she is his while also being possessive of her has caused him to murder her parents in an attempt to keep her alive, assault Ron in her presence, then rape her. While he's hit with guilt over his actions, especially the latter, he refuses to believe himself at fault and goes as far as to think Hermione was manipulating him or wanted to sleep with him. Furthermore, even when the two enter an intimate relationship, Lucius still regards his actions as treachery and treats her almost like an addiction. Upon learning he fathered a child with her, he's horrified because he didn't stop to even consider he'd get her pregnant. Ironically, all of his problems could have been solved if he had just killed Hermione when he had the chance.
• Hope Spot: After they seemingly defeated Bellatrix, Hermione begs Lucius to restore the unconscious Ron to health. He only agrees if Hermione agrees to be with him forever, which she accepts. After a moment, the two share a laugh at how they've escaped and can start a new life together. That's when Lucius ends up stabbed in the back by Bellatrix.
• Hot Guy, Ugly Wife. Downplayed with Lucius and Hermione. Lucius is sometimes described by Hermione as aristocratic and almost like chiseled stone, whereas Hermione herself is often described as very average or otherwise unremarkable in looks.
• How Dare You Die on Me!:
  Hermione: WAKE UP! Bloody wake up! Don't you leave me! Don't you bloody... you bastard...
• Hypocrite: Lucius Malfoy. He gets called out for it several times about his pureblood status and beliefs and his relationship with Hermione. Hermione even calls him out for being one for two reasons. First, he's afraid of his wife thinking he's cheating on her with a muggleborn, despite that he slept with her sister Bellatrix without concern. Then, when Hermione is pregnant with his child, he tells her he won't pretend to accept it because it wouldn't be fair to lie to her, when he wasn't exactly fair to her when he raped her.
• If I Can't Have You…: Bellatrix murders Lucius before he can escape with Hermione.
• Ignored Epiphany: From Lucius' perspective in "Fall of Man", he starts to recognize what he's doing is wrong, realizing Hermione isn't seducing him or manipulating him into acting how she wants, but he ignores it since he's older and stronger than her, so he decides to rape her. He ends up regretting the decision as soon as he leaves her room.
• I Have No Son!: Lucius refuses to accept the half-blood child that Hermione is carrying. Eventually, when he begins to admit his love for her, he stops calling his new son "it" and admits it to be their child.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Doholov and Lucius are both attracted to Hermione. Doholov tried to take advantage but Lucius got in his way. Lucius, however, goes to excessive amounts with minimal trouble.

• Inconvenient Attraction: Lucius Malfoy in no way wants to be attracted to Hermione Granger, much less fall for her, because she's a muggleborn, much less the same age as his son. He unfortunately can't help himself.
• Informed Attribute: Hermione has mentioned she believes there is good in everyone, even a monster like Lucius. She also sees this as a reason why he fell for her. However, even without taking the books or movies into account, Hermione doesn't always display this way of thinking. She has multiple, justified reasons to believe Lucius is a Dirty Old Man and not once considers people like Bellatrix or Antonin capable of redemption. In the books and movies, she tended to come off as abrasive with people. It took Harry and Ron saving her life for her to start opening up with them after all.
• Informed Deformity: Hermione is frequently called unattractive or bland by the Death Eaters. Lucius himself never refers to her as beautiful or that her looks played a part in his attraction. She herself even admits she's not that good looking and one point has Lucius cast a spell that made her look amazing. Even if one doesn't imagine Emma Watson when thinking of this story, illustrations and book covers that depicted what she looked like are too cartoonish to determine how accurate this is.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After seeing what Avery and Bellatrix tried to do to Ron and Ginny, Lucius pours himself a drink, pushing one onto Hermione, too.
  Lucius: I thought you might need a drink. God knows, I do.
• Innocence Lost: The final nail in the coffin that darkens Hermione and causes her to cease being who she was in canon is when Lucius tears her clothes off and rapes her while begging him not to do it.
• Insult of Endearment: Lucius takes to calling Hermione "Mudblood", even after he stops being cruel to her. She notes how odd it is he can say something meant to be an offensive racial slur in an almost affectionate manner.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Hermione implies that Lucius often hits her before and after sleeping with her.
• Interrupted Suicide: Hermione tries to kill herself, but Lucius stops her from doing so.
• Intertwined Fingers: Lucius sometimes holds Hermione's hand this way.
• I Reject Your Reality: In "Fall of Man", it's shown Lucius thinks Hermione is seducing him and battles between giving in and killing her. He starts to see signs that any attraction she might have is superseded by fear of a man old enough to be her father harming her and she doesn't want anything like that. He ignores any of these hints, thinking she's either manipulating him or irrelevant to what he thinks, but it finally hits him he's made a mistake after he raped her.
• Ironic Echo: Lucius kisses Hermione and then carries her bridal style to her bed, where he rapes her. 3 chapters later, the same repeats, only this time it's consensual.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Even after learning the child Hermione carries is a boy, Lucius refers to the child as an "it".
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Lucius doesn't get to finish his sentence before he's stabbed by Bellatrix.
• Like Father, Like Son: Interestingly, both Lucius and his unnamed son with Hermione both deny any sort of connection with someone they're meant to hate. Lucius denies any attraction he has to Hermione, while their son denies the idea that a bigot and a potential rapist like Lucius Malfoy could possibly be his real father despite the lack of any physical similarities to who he thinks is his father.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Lucius Malfoy is a pureblood supremacist whose lust for Hermione grows until he begins experiencing love for despite being at least 2 decades her senior. Draco Malfoy refuses to believe his father would ever do such a thing and refuses to see Hermione as anything but beneath him despite that them being the same age would make an attraction more likely. In addition, Hermione's son is a half-blood who was raised to be as far away from the Malfoy bloodline as possible. Assuming Hermione's divination was accurate, he would grow up to be a nicer and well adjusted young man.
• Lima Syndrome: Zig-zagged with Lucius towards Hermione. On one hand, he becomes more considerate to her as he starts to develop feelings for her. On the other hand, he's still abusive and cruel to her on occasion.
• Love Cannot Overcome: Defied. Hermione makes it clear her feelings are for a man she has every reason to hate and that her relationship with him is extremely damaging and conflicting. Despite this, and despite Ron's love for her, her heart belongs to Lucius. That is... until Bellatrix makes one last move.
• Love Dodecahedron: Lucius and Hermione are... involved in a relationship that is difficult to define. At the same time, Hermione and Ron are genuinely in love with each other, although not in a physical relationship. Meanwhile, Bellatrix pines after Lucius, whom she has been having an affair with behind Narcissa's back. And Dolohov lusts after Hermione. And it's implied that there is a small, weird sexual attraction between Bellatrix and Draco.
• Love Epiphany: Hermione realizes she's fallen in love with Lucius when he decides to end their relationship to avoid suspicion. Lucius realizes he's fallen for her when it becomes clear he might lose her when she tries to escape.
• Love Hurts: The relationship between Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger somehow becomes more damaging to them once they begin to feel something other than hate. The fact they come to care for someone who is against everything they stand for causes them to feel a sense of self-loathing, as well as heartbreak that the world would not accept them. That's in addition to Hermione's suffering and Lucius' growing guilt over torturing and raping her.
• Love Is a Weakness: Lucius believes the very concept of love is foolish, a case of irony.
• Love Redeems: Lucius's growing feelings for Hermione make him start to reconsider his life. Hermione even believes her inherent desire for good and redemption is what made Lucius fall for her.
• Love Triangle: Type 7 - Hermione and Ron are genuinely in love, but she and Lucius have an incredible emotional dependence on each other.
• Lust Object: Hermione Granger is this to Lucius Malfoy. She's become an obsession for him before he goes too far.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: Hermione becomes romantically and sexually attracted to Lucius despite the torture, racist comments, murder of her parents and being raped by him.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Lucius spends a lot of time trying to gain complete victory over Hermione. But he eventually admits both to Hermione and to himself that her terror of him has lost its appeal.
• Misplaced Retribution: Narcissa makes it clear she will never forgive Hermione for her relationship with Lucius. She completely ignores it was never Hermione's intention to fall for her parents' killer and her rapist, much less have his baby, and it was all Lucius' intent.
• Morality Pet: Hermione to Lucius. She is the only character who can bring out some good in him, and that good is negligible at best.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Bellatrix attempts this at the end, trying to murder Hermione for "stealing" Lucius from her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: "Fall of Man", a story by the same author, tells chapter 26 through Lucius's perspective. It shows him suffering this trope during his assault on Hermione, but keeps trying to ignore it. By the end, he goes through this when he realizes he has just raped an unwilling, defenseless, emotionally torn teenage girl who has lost her virginity.
  • Lucius becomes horrified with how he's let his attraction get the better of him this when he realizes he's gotten Hermione pregnant.
• Never My Fault: Lucius has a nasty habit of not taking responsibility for what happens to Hermione, even as he begins to reform. He's responsible for: becoming obsessed with her, murdering her parents, physical abuse, raping her, depriving her of being with Ron and getting her pregnant but feels she's just as much to blame, though Hermione calls him out on it.
• Nightmare Sequence: Hermione has several nightmares during the story, some meant to be symbolic of her torment like a snake eating a beautiful young woman who does nothing to fight back while smiling, representing how she willingly sleeps with Lucius at that point. She believes that the reason Lucius sleeps so peacefully, with no nightmares, is that he has no conscience.
• No Name Given: The illegitimate son of Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger is never referred to by any name.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Lucius will get as close to Hermione as he wants when they're alone, not caring how uncomfortable she is.
• No Sympathy: Narcissa holds no sympathy for Hermione after the discovery of the affair, not caring she was raped by her husband and openly declaring she won't forgive her for indirectly causing his death.
• "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Lucius skirts very, very close to this when he attacks Hermione. 'Fall of Man' shows that he's aware, afterwards, of what he's done. Hermione herself is confused and disgusted by the whole thing, but never doubts that what Lucius did was straight-up rape.
• Only Sane Man: Ron is the only major character in story not in a relationship with any kind with a Death Eater, and upon learning of Hermione's sexual relationship with Lucius, he's rightful grossed out. At times, even he thinks that Hermione's lost her mind, and she doesn't entirely disagree with him.
• Pet the Dog: On some occasions, Lucius will do something good without expecting anything in return from Hermione, such as telling her she's not a whore for sleeping with him.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Hermione begs Lucius to wake and not leave her and their unborn son after death.
• Please Wake Up: Hermione desperately begs Lucius to wake up after it becomes clear he has bled to death.
• Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Both Hermione and Ron call Lucius out for fixating his energies on destroying a teenage girl.
• Poor Communication Kills: "Fall of Man" shows that Lucius thinks Hermione is seducing him and shares the same lust for him as he has gained for her. In chapter 26, where "Fall of Man" happened, Lucius doesn't at all tell Hermione at all why he's doing what he's doing, only that she "brought it on herself". Hermione clearly has no idea what he means, and Lucius is unwilling to admit he thinks she's seducing him. By the time he realizes, it's too late and he rapes her. This becomes the turning point in their relationship.
• Practically Different Generations: The unnamed son of Lucius and Hermione is roughly a decade and a half younger than his half brother Draco.
• Precision F-Strike: Ron gets a very satisfying one.
  Ron: What now, Lucius fucking Malfoy? WHAT NOW?
• Pregnant Badass: Hermione kills Bellatrix as triumphantly as she can while being a few weeks pregnant.
• Primal Fear: The dark for Hermione.
• Promoted to Love Interest: An exaggerated example. Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger, two characters with little interaction who clearly hate one another for their allegiances, become close and fall in love. Complete with a son.
• Psychological Horror: Hermione experiences psychological pain and torment from beginning to end.
• Rage Against the Reflection: Lucius glares at his own reflection in a mirror before smashing it, though it's not clear whether his self-hatred is due to his sleeping with Hermione, his feelings for her, or his awareness of how terribly he has hurt her.
• Rape as Drama: Hermione has Doholov attempting to rape her, and Lucius actually doing the deed later, damaging her physically and mentally.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's after the raping of Hermione, even after she begged him not to and it clear she's not seducing him, that Lucius begins to hate himself for his treatment of her. He later beats her after interrupting her suicide into telling no one, despite that her death would keep it secret. However, it's after this that his sadism towards her pain leaves, finding that he's hurt her enough and starts to show some level of kindness after.
• Redemption Equals Death: Lucius dies trying to get Hermione out.
• Scarpia Ultimatum: Lucius pretends to offer Hermione one of these to save her parents’ lives. It's just a power game of his: after she agrees, he refuses the offer, and kills her parents anyway.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Lucius offers Avery all the money he has to let him and Hermione go when they've been found out at the end of the story. Avery refuses.
  Avery: I'm not in this for personal gain. That's where you and I differ, I think. I am able to keep the cause at the forefront of my mind, always. I see no need to abandon it for my own desires, unlike some I could mention.
• Second Love: Assuming he ever truly loved Narcissa, or at least cared for her to a close enough level, it's clear that feeling has subsided for Lucius, who begins to see Hermione as someone else he comes to be attracted to and has another son with her.
• Selective Obliviousness: Even though it's obvious he has no resemblance the Ron, who he calls his father, Hermione's son refuses to believe his father is Lucius Malfoy, the man who raped his mother. Even assuming he'd never even seen his father's picture, the fact that he has blonde hair should be something of a giveaway his mother was impregnated by another man. Though he likely doesn't question it or confront his mother out of fear it's true.
• Self-Serving Memory: During their talk where Lucius reveals how much he's come to care about Hermione, he brings up that she's aware he's a married Death Eater and yet she still invited him into her bed. She's quick to call out that she didn't invite him, he raped her and clearly she didn't want to have any sort of relationship like that with him at first. It's clear he's trying to deny how wrong his actions were to her at first.
• Separated by the Wall: After Lucius rapes Hermione, she sits with her back to her bedroom door, in tears, trailing her hand down the door. 'Fall of Man', which tells this chapter from Lucius's perspective, reveals that at the same time, Lucius is on the other side of the door, pressing his forehead to it, eaten up with self-loathing.
• Sex Signals Death: Lucius has sex with Hermione and dies in the end.
• Shipping Torpedo
  • Lucius is wholly against Hermione being anywhere near Ron. He's aware they have feelings for each other and it's clear his lust for her is making him see Ron as a rival of sorts for her.
  • Essentially anyone who discovers the complicated relationship Hermione and Lucius have is against the two being together in any way.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • Hermione pulls several of these on Lucius. Most notably when he attempts to victim-blame her:
    Hermione: You won't blame me. How could you blame me? I was seventeen years old – I was a child. But you – you're a grown man, with a wife, a son my age, for god's sake. You should have known better.
  • Ron gives one to Voldemort:
    Ron: I'll tell you what - why don't you cut the melodramatic crap for a change? No one really wants to listen to a drama queen throwing a strop.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Hermione, despite everything that happens to her, still loves and wants to be with Ron because despite everything that happens to her, and what she does behind his back, he cares for her and is still willing to raise her son as his own despite Lucius being the real father. This may be the reason why she tries to help bring out some good in Lucius, so that her attraction to him is less disturbing.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Taken to a horrifying extreme with Hermione and Lucius in their relationship, given that Hermione admits there's a series of nights where Lucius will literally slap her before sleeping with her.

• Someone to Remember Him By: Hermione gives birth to Lucius' son after his death.
• Spiteful Spit: Several. Hermione spits at Lucius when first captured. Ron spits at Bellatrix at one point. After Draco finds out about Hermione's relationship with his father, he spits at her.
• Stalking is Love: Lucius becomes to attracted towards Hermione that he hovers around her and keeps all eyes on her at all times.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Lucius and Hermione. Divided by age, racial status, families and friends and, eventually, death.
• Stepford Smiler: The epilogue shows Hermione has hidden just how broken she really became due to her time with Lucius, loss of her parents, Lucius's death and their son not knowing his real father.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Hermione frequently notes how similar Draco is to his father Lucius. Even moreso their own son, who has such a strong resemblance to his late father that the only thing that kept Hermione from going crazy was that he inherited his mother's eyes.
• Survivor Guilt: Hermione blames herself for Lucius's death.
• Tell Me About My Father: Averted. The epilogue states that, although Hermione's son has his own suspicions about his parentage, he never questions his mother about it, due to his love for her and fear of the truth.
• Tender Tears: Hermione cries more than anyone else in the story, somewhat understandably. In "Fall of Man", Lucius states that he hates to see her cry, as he can't stand the effect her tears have on him (that is, they make him feel pity for her).
• That Man Is Dead: After Lucius rapes her, Hermione believes that she is no longer Hermione Granger, the determined and optimistic girl, anymore. Because Hermione Granger was a virgin.
• Together in Death: Hermione hopes for this after Lucius dies
  Hermione: I can only hope that he's waiting for me. Even if it's only in oblivion.
• Traumatic Haircut: Lucius casts a spell to make Hermione lose her hair at one point. It grows back a short while later.
• Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Averted, Ron raises the illegitimate son of Lucius and Hermione as if he was his own after marrying her. He loved the boy's mother more than he hated his father enough to care for him.
• Unequal Pairing: Even ignoring the war, age, blood and marital status, Lucius Malfoy is a rich man from a high-class family in the wizarding world while Hermione Granger is the teenage daughter of muggle dentists.
• Unreliable Narrator:
  • Hermione's narrative, especially concerning her feelings, can often be misleading, due to her suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the extreme emotional and mental pressure she's under.
  • In 'Fall of Man', Lucius's narrative is extremely unreliable, due to his deteriorating mental state. He often paints Hermione as a stupid, villainous manipulator, despite all evidence to the contrary.
• Vengeance Denied: Hermione had desired revenge on Lucius for so long that she finally gets an opportunity to kill him in his sleep while he's vulnerable. Despite that he murdered her parents, tortured her and raped her mercilessly, Hermione had become his reluctant lover and was awoken in his bed after they had sex. Due to her emotional dependency on him, coupled with her growing love for him, she finds it ironic she's unable to commit the deed she wanted. His death by Bellatrix also renders any harboring hatred she had for him null and void.
• Villainous Breakdown: Lucius, Bellatrix, Dolohov and Draco are all driven to one gradually. Draco's eventual breakdown is pretty spectacular:
  Draco: Oh you're sorry? I'm sure you're fucking sorry, you bitch! Sorry? SORRY? LIKE HELL YOU ARE!
• Villainous BSoD: When Hermione tells him she's pregnant thanks to him, Lucius freezes up before it finally dawns him she's telling the truth and the realization of what he's done causes him to panic.
• Villainous Crush: Lucius tries not to have one on Hermione, but it gets the better of him.
• Wall Bang Her: Implied in chapter 31 that instead of going to his wife as he probably should, Lucius choses to have sex with Hermione while pinning her to the wall.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: After stabbing Hermione in the shoulder, Lucius fixes the wound he has created up for her. He suggests that she should be grateful to him for healing her. She just tells him to Get Out!.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: "Fall of Man" reveals that the thing Lucius admires about Hermione is her eyes.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Ron gives a big one to Hermione when he learns how she's sleeping with Lucius, the Death eater father of their high school nemesis, pureblood supremacist and murderer of her parents.
• What You Are in the Dark: Another major theme. One example: Lucius, when he thinks Hermione is asleep, hugs her tightly after a night of bliss as they sleep in his bed without clothes. This indicates to Hermione that deep down he cares for her.
  Lucius: It’s darkness that shows us what we truly are. In the dark, one can be whatever one wishes to be.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Subverted, Hermione thinks Lucius is going to rape her several times, but he doesn't because he claims to find sex with a muggle born disgusting, but he ends up doing the deed because he couldn't help it. Played straight when she also thinks she's in a story where one can Earn Your Happy Ending, where she can make her own future with Lucius and spend their lives together, but she's unable to save him from dying.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: Lucius hates all muggleborns but says Hermione is the only one he doesn't want exterminated. He even goes on to wish she were a pureblood.
• You Are Not My Father: While it's never done in person given said father's death months before his birth, the illegitimate son of Lucius and Hermione refuses to believe or even accept that he's the son of a Death Eater who potentially fathered him after raping his mother. Part of it is fear of the truth, but also not to worry his mother.
• You Killed My Father: Lucius murders Hermione's parents, making her even more disturbed that she falls for him and carries his child.