That being said I love Lucius Malfoy as a character. Perhaps he would try to get Draco to have an affair/father a child with a pureblood witch or try for another child himself so that the Malfoy line "survives". This is also how I can see him being supportive of Draco in his relationship with Harry, although I can imagine him still wanting an heir of some kind.
I can see him trying to change - at least a bit - to please Narcissa.Īlthough, the most believable redemption arch for him, in the sense that he would become a "good" person would be - in my opinion - if he saw pleasing Harry Potter and getting in his good graces as (politically/socially) benefitial to him. I think he will never be a good person per se, but there's one thing we know then it's that he loves his family. He would ALWAYS make that choice and take back what he believed himself entitled to.
In my mind, there is absolutely no convincing iteration of Lucius Malfoy that would not take that deal, no matter what he went through to be 'redeemed'. All he has to do is give another diary to another Weasley child and sit back to let them die. Lucius is then approached by a wizard that tells him that Lucius can have everything he'd wanted before he'd lost the war: perfect social standing, pureblood society at the head, power, and money. He's still married and with his family, claiming to be redeemed after therapy and Narcissa and Draco giving him ultimatums. Imagine 20 years after the war, Lucius has been punished for his part in it. Unlike Draco, who could be redeemed through fic by coming to terms with who he was as a child and how he was raised, Lucius was very aware of every single choice he made and why he made them. But what do we know about entitled and cruel people in power when that power is taken from them? They blame the world, not suddenly find redemption. The second war was worse for him, certainly, and by the end he was a shadow of what he'd been. He was on the losing side during the first war, and then chose to extort his way back to his social standing and literally tried to kill Ginny Weasley. We already know what he's like after losing a war. In the mentioned discussion, I maintain that not only is Lucius one of the only arguably irredeemable characters in canon, but it is almost impossible for him to be convincingly written as redeemed in fic and still be considered 'in character'.
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