Excellent essay overall, but I do want to make two counterarguments on some subpoints: The presumption that *Lucius* is from a wealthy background isn't canon-stated although it is canon-interpritation. It's just as likely that he was from a Weasley-like pureblood-but-poor family, and obtained any money from marrying into the Black family. I write about this a bit in my "Emma"-inspired fic on AstronomyTower.org - and it would explain his animosity towards Arthur Wealsey as well as his familiarity with Nocturne Alley, if he didn't have wealth and power while at Hogwarts.
Second, I just wanted to note that there were a lot of fics with a long-haired Lucius before CoS images were first distributed. Now it's more universal, but it was a trope in 2000 and 2001 too.
But those are tiny quirks in the overall splendidness of it.
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The presumption that *Lucius* is from a wealthy background isn't canon-stated although it is canon-interpritation. It's just as likely that he was from a Weasley-like pureblood-but-poor family, and obtained any money from marrying into the Black family. I write about this a bit in my "Emma"-inspired fic on AstronomyTower.org - and it would explain his animosity towards Arthur Wealsey as well as his familiarity with Nocturne Alley, if he didn't have wealth and power while at Hogwarts.
Second, I just wanted to note that there were a lot of fics with a long-haired Lucius before CoS images were first distributed. Now it's more universal, but it was a trope in 2000 and 2001 too.
But those are tiny quirks in the overall splendidness of it.