Character Sketch Of Scorpius Malfoy

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Scorpius Malfoy is not his father or his grandfather. That is the first thing you need to know about him. If you're lucky, you'll get to learn more about him than that, but most people aren't that lucky. Scorpius is an intensely private person. Most people take one look at his aristocratic features, or simply hear his last name, and write him off as the son of a Death Eater, a snob, a blood purist, a this or a that, and never bother to dig deeper. To be fair, all of those things are true in part, but these judgmental masses usually fail to notice that there is much more to him than that. Scorpius is an introvert, his emotions extremely self-contained, exploding and fading so deep within him that they never show outwardly unless he wills them to. His words are rehearsed, analyzed for consequences, and double-checked for accuracy and sting before they ever leave his mouth. Everything about the way he interacts with the external world is controlled to allow him to come across a certain way. He is observant, is more likely to hang back and judge the air in a room or the tone in a conversation before he inserts himself into it with an unnerving perceptiveness and the unspoken implication that he knows more than he will actually say. He is every inch the politician, the master of noncommittal answers, of thinking one thing and doing another, of smiling in a room full of enemies as though he’s in a room full of friends. The language he speaks best is body language and he can tell from the slightest twitch of a muscle or movement of a hand whether all the people in a room truly get along with one another or if they are all simply putting on a farce. On the other hand, his body language always aims for ambiguous unless he has a set goal i...

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...ake in the grass at times, well-versed in fighting dirty but staying clean, in shaking hands with a partner against whom he is secretly plotting and without so much as a quirk of the brow to alert the other person to his darker intentions. Scorpius doesn’t think that there is anything he is incapable of getting if he wants it enough. He is an opportunist and a survivor for whom altruism or stupid mistakes are as inexcusable and incomprehensible as showing up to class naked. And simply because he is currently being overlooked doesn’t mean that Scorpius hasn’t stopped trying; after all, true power rests with those who have the respect, whether or not the accolade has been bestowed along with it. Scorpius can follow authority that isn’t his own, but he rarely finds himself respecting anyone but himself. And one way or another, Scorpius Malfoy is going to run this town.

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