More Malfoy Thoughts

[Rita Winston]

A while ago, I posted some thoughts about the Malfoy family 
somewhere -- that they claim to be descended from Slytherin and 
their family arms are a reference to Slytherin's arms, for example. 
To the arms of, on a silver background, a green snake (Slytherin's 
stuff color-reversed) wrapping itself around a black sword and 
dripping venom on it, and supporters of dexter, a man on fire and 
sinister, an angel holding a bloody sword with which he just 
stabbed someone in the back, I now add

a motto: Watch Your Back
a crest (that's the ornament on top of the helmet, in real 
life usually a handkerchief or a feather): the head of Janus wearing a 
coronet (two-faced)

I also made up some genealogy, in which Lucius's father, Malaspina 
Malfoy, had a son Mercutio born 1929 or 1930 by his first wife and 
then Lucius was born in 1949 from his 'second wife' Lucretia Borgin, 
so Lucius had to kill off both Malaspina and Mercutio to inherit the 
estate. Then Mercutio would have been in school just a couple of 
years behind Tom Riddle, and Malaspina was doubtless on the Board of 
Governors, so two opportunities for ambitious poor orphan Tom 
Riddle to insert himself into the Malfoy family -- and be there, as 
a bad influence, for all of Lucius's life. And find Lucius so 
simpatico that he helped Lucius kill his father and brother who had 
been Tom's friends first....

But it occured to me, after I went to bed last Sunday night, that 
(with the slower-aging of wizarding folk) Lucius could have been 
the one born in 1929-30, Tom Riddle's friend from school, and no 
need to murder anyone to become the Malfoy heir.....