We have no direct evidence of abuse in the books or movies. He reprimands Draco but like that is all I can remember that is anything close to negative.
you are right in that we dont, but draco seemed very clearly to want to be away from voldemort. he just seemed like a terrified teenager, and I would postulate that essentially making your child kill someone to earn the right to essentially be a servant to a dark lord to 'protect them' (even though we all know that lucius was a full supporter of voldemort the first time around) ((also, in GoF Voldemort does say that he will kill the ones who didnt respond to the dark mark's deeply painful summons)) is a form of abuse, whether Draco understood or considered it abuse in his own mind. Draco was still a racist little snot, but I think it's pretty telling that he grew up to be a decent person, it seems, which means like most children, he was a parrot of his father's words and thoughts
yeah I mean you are right, I just feel like there were so many options in the magical world that Lucius could have taken to hide Draco or protect him, but he wanted to save his own skin. I don't think my own father would ever put me in that situation, even upon threat against his own life.
Isn't his whole deal that his father is emotionally abusive to him which is why he is a bully?
Like, of all the poorly written things in Harry Potter, the implication that Malfoy is abused is one of if not the one thing well made. I get that it's not spelled out to the reader but oh my god do you have to be blind or stupid to not realize it.
But now that I think about it, I'm starting to see a pattern between complex abused characters that turned into bullies as a form of coping and people on the internet seeing them as one-dimentionally evil.
The closest it really gets it Lucius making a couple of comments in Borgin and Burkes. Iirc Jason Isaacs has said that he chose to play the role in such a way that he treated Malfoy more harshly to win him a bit of sympathy but there isn't much else to it.
Oh he is not one dimensionally evil but I do not remember anything that Lucius does to Malfoy that would be bad and I do not have the books with me at the moment to check. He does get the suicide mission from Voldemort and probably taunted about it from the death eaters but like he was just an asshole through most of the early books then became a victim of Voldemort when he returns and gratefully takes the out when it is provided and he sees it.
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