Of all the arguments Lucius could make, forbidding her to go was probably the worst. Though she would have been hard pressed to back down, there were points he could have expressed that might have convinced her. Yet telling her she couldn't go because he forbade it had made her all the more convinced she would be there.
Slowly she took her place next to him, sitting as she had been before he arrived. "It will be a cold day in hell before you forbid me to do anything, Lucius Malfoy. "I'm not a child, nor am I some simple minded fool you can manipulate into doing what you want. I will be there when all of this occurs whether I'm by your side or not. If you should like to end the discussion there, I would be happy to."