No, I can’t swear such a thing on my magic. But the reasons are complicated and embarrassing. I wish to not embarrass Narcissa publicly.” I complained after [film] four or five that I didn’t have my own wand. I invented and designed my cane, that had a wand in it. I’d try to steal it at the end of the film and they’d catch me,” ( Interview with Jason Isaacs on Milling About at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland, sourced here) I’d like to think so,” Lucius said, still smiling. “And as a friend, I’m about to do something to help you out.”

Anyway, when the Dark Lord returned, now he would have twenty-eight Death Eaters legally free to serve him. Lucius was certain that House Malfoy someday would be well rewarded by the Dark Lord. This evening, he, Lucius Malfoy, would return to Little Whinging, Surrey and would cast the Killing Curse on Harry Potter and on his Muggle housemates. Fudge opened up a drawer of his desk and dropped the moneybag into the drawer— clink—then shut the drawer. Fudge’s look at Lucius now was shrewd. “That’s a friendly thing you did for me, Lucius. How can I show my appreciation?” Splendid,” Lucius said, “Here comes another five thousand.” Lucius waved his wand again, spoke the coins-transfer spell again, and another G5 000 was transferred between the moneybags. Clink-clink-clink.

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Fudge gave Lucius a sharp look as he asked, “Would you be willing to swear on your magic that whatever illegal things you did between 1973 and 1981, you didn’t do of your own free will?” AUTHOR’S NOTE: In other of my stories, the so-called “blood-wards” are in fact vampiric wards that are powered by a siphon off Harry’s magic; but Dumbledore calls them “blood wards” to guilt-trip Harry into spending a certain amount of time each summer with the Dursleys. However, in this story the “blood wards” are what they claim to be—except that Dumbledore has made a disastrous presumption. Dumbledore set up the blood wards to be powered at first by Lily’s love for her son, then to be recharged by the love between Harry and Petunia and between Harry and Dudley, who all are related to Lily. But alas for Dumbledore’s design, the strength of those loves, H-P and H-D, is nil. To make an analogy between the Privet Drive blood wards and an automobile battery, what Lucius discovers is that the rubber belt that turns the alternator has broken long ago, and now in 1990, the car battery’s charge is almost gone. The sun was casting long shadows when Lucius Malfoy, Disillusioned invisible, again stood in the street by the house where the Potter brat lived. By sunlight, Lucius saw that one of those painted rolling machines rested in front of Potter’s house. Meaning, Potter’s adult housemates were home.

Malfoys did not show their emotions—otherwise Lucius would be grinning when he walked out of Fudge’s office. Lucius had walked into the idiot’s office being willing to pay twenty thousand galleons for an “Imperiused Death Eater” pardon; but now he was walking out with two such pardons and for half that price.Lucius, with his wand in his right hand and his snake-head cane in his left, entered Harry Potter’s Muggle house. Lucius made himself revisible; he wanted the Muggles and Harry Potter to see their killer.

Lucius replied, “I find Amelia Bones to be overzealous and bothersome. I can’t convince her that my Death Eater activity all was done whilst under the Imperius Curse.” Lucius’s good fortune continued. He had paid out another 130 thousand gallons to Fudge, and had bought pardons for another twenty-six of the Dark Lord’s most fervent followers.

Moreover, it is explicitly confirmed by the actor who played Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) that he was the one who came up with the concept and the design Lucius smiled a completely insincere warm smile. “Congratulations on your election, Minister Fudge.” Lucius smiled as he thought, Tomorrow, when news of this breaks, every Death Eater in Wizarding Britain will be thinking, “Killing the Brat Who Lived—why didn’t I think of that?” The films' take on Lucius using his cane as a shield of sorts while wielding his wand is similar to the daisho configuration of Japanese swordsmanship, where a samurai or other swordsman would use a smaller secondary sword as a shield while using a full-sized katana in their dominant hand. Ironically, the shaft of Lucius's cane is longer and is used for defence while the shorter wand is used for offence in duelling. This is quite appropriate for Lucius, as daisho configuration was typical among the elite samurai class during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and Lucius' old pure blood beliefs certainly mimic such institutional classism.