ragginovel Chapter 250 The 'Truth' of Lucius
Chapter 250 The 'Truth' of Lucius
Chapter 250 The 'Truth' of Lucius
"FK!"
"That old fox!"
Lucius Malfoy walked around Snape angrily, cursing Dumbledore constantly.
Now, Snape's office has fully recovered from that attack.
And the decoration inside has changed a lot compared with the original one.
The original old fireplace, which was filled with glass jars, has been cleaned up and reopened.
Now there is a bronze crucible standing there, almost like a big cauldron, with dark green flames constantly burning underneath, and various potions inside the crucible rise and fall.
poof, poof...
There are viscous bubbles of different sizes.
A strange pungent smell slowly drifted through the room.
The bottles and jars that had been on the shelves around the room had disappeared.
After removing those things, Snape's room looked empty.
The only thing in the room now was a long, disorganized wooden table, an old armchair, and a rickety stand of candle lamps.
It looked a little desolate and deserted.
The magic candle on the candle lamp holder was flickering constantly, and the faint and dim candle flame and the green flame in the fireplace were the only light in this room.
They continuously elongated and distorted the shadow of Lucius walking back and forth, making this place give the visitor another kind of intrusive feeling compared to before.
Narcissa shuddered, although it was not her first time here, she was still a little uncomfortable.
She turned to look.
The huge long table was placed in the middle of the office, and it was full of brass balances, weights,... dry and wet ingredients for various potions.
(Snape learned his lesson, he specially stored the potion ingredients in another room in Hogwarts, and now here are only the ingredients needed to brew the potion these days)
On the other side of the table was a messy pile of draft paper filled with scribbled notes.
This is Snape's calculation based on the potion steps and brewing method...
Seeing this... Narcissa was relieved. In fact, she also knew that even now, Snape Severus could be regarded as a master of potions even among wizards all over the world.
It is actually the most suitable for him to brew this potion.
In addition to this, Narcissa has another layer of worry.
For some reason, after coming down from the top, her husband looked so worried... terrified, as if he was worried about something.
Narcissa felt that he was hiding something from herself...was it related to Malfoy, the [Chamber of Secrets], or the devil who couldn't even be named.
"Damn Dumbledore, let it take its course...everything will be revealed after a while!"
"I think he has to wait until another accident happens at Hogwarts and he is expelled before he can wake up..." Malfoy kept cursing.
Seeing Lucius's appearance, Snape's thin lips twisted into a slightly sarcastic arc.
Lucius looked exactly the same as when he was in that empty classroom.
"Lucius! Calm down!" He sat down in the battered armchair, then waved his wand to summon two old chairs beside him.
"Sit down and have a drink!"
"Lucius! What the hell happened?"
"What on earth did you come to find me for!"
After he finished speaking, he waved the magic spell again, summoning a wine glass and a dirty bottle that looked old.
Under the command of the wand, the wine glass dangled and floated in the air, and three glasses of blood-red wine were poured out.
It floated to Lucius and Narcissa again.
Narcissa muttered 'thank you' and Lucius held it up and drank it down without saying anything.
After drinking it, it seemed to ease the mood a little.
Snape motioned for the two of them to sit down.
After Malfoy regained his composure, he finally took off the black cloak. He threw it into the air, as if there was a coat rack in the air, and the cloak hung squarely in the air.
He sat on the rickety chair, staring at his pale, trembling hands crossed on his knees.
Narcissa walked over and stood behind her husband, her eyes fixed on the pot of potion, and she looked at her husband with doubts and worries from time to time.
"So, what can I do for you?" Snape adjusted a comfortable posture, allowing himself to face the Malfoys while taking care of the potion in the cauldron.
"There...is there no one else here!...No one can hear us talking!" Malfoy asked softly.
"of course not."
"If you're really worried..."
Snape pointed to the ground with his wand, and there was a loud bang—bang!
Like a bubble bursting, a purple mist appeared on the ground, spreading continuously, completely wrapping the walls around the entire room, like a layer of gauze.
"Okay, now you can rest assured!" Snape raised his glass and drank it himself.
Afterwards, he quietly waited for Malfoy to tell his reason for coming.
Lucius Malfoy hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"Don't you feel something is wrong, Severus!"
"Sorry, you mean..." Snape seemed to think Lucius' suspicious look was funny, he covered his mouth and coughed twice.
Although Lucius knew that no one could hear them now, he still looked around nervously before speaking in a low voice.
"It's [Secret Chamber]! Don't you know who opened it last time?"
"The Dark Lord..."
Snape put the wine glass on the table beside him, and said slowly after exhaling.
He stared at Lucius calmly.
Snape felt that the guy in front of him was going to tell him a secret.
An astounding piece of critical information that is relevant to the current situation.
Narcissa, who was behind Lucius, took a deep breath, shifted her attention from the cauldron, and stared closely at her husband.
"But, I didn't feel him coming..."
Snape asked hesitantly.
"Don't be stupid, Severus!" Lucius said in a low, angry voice, a little annoyed.
"If the Dark Lord doesn't want us to know he's back, we won't be able to find out..."
With trembling hands, Lucius got himself another glass of red wine and drank it down.
He took a few breaths before speaking again.
"What's more, don't say that you can't feel the chilling atmosphere in the magic world in the past few months... This kind of continuous terrorist attack..."
"Snape Severus, don't you notice something from this way of pressing the Ministry of Magic step by step?"
"That coward Karkaroff has been writing letters since last month, trying to ask me something... It seems that he has also noticed something is wrong!"
"Not to mention you..." Malfoy stared hard at Snape's expression and said, "Don't say you don't know!"
"Really?" said Snape, changing his tone slightly, also showing a hint of contempt for the man.
"Indeed, that coward Karkaroff is very good at this. He will sniff out any trouble... It was like this at the beginning. As soon as the Dark Lord disappeared, he felt something was wrong... Then he immediately escaped the judgment of the Ministry of Magic by betraying most of his colleagues."
"After that, he went to Europe, and even... I heard that he is now the headmaster of the Durmstrang School of Magic."
Speaking of the principal of the Durmstrang School of Magic, the three people present all showed a look of contempt.
It was this same feeling that brought the people in the room closer.
The atmosphere began to become a little more harmonious.
Malfoy chuckled too, looking a little more relaxed, but still staring at Snape for an answer.
"I do have some doubts...that giant plant..." Snape got himself another glass of red wine, which he gently swirled. He stared at the scarlet liquid, and said slowly with some hesitation.
"Giant plants?!" Narcissa Malfoy repeated in a low voice.She didn't understand why Snape would talk about something unrelated to [Chamber of Secrets].
"Yes, the giant plant... I don't know where Malfoy you noticed the problem, but from what I know... this spell is very similar to the result of the Dark Lord's research!"
"Malfoy, you should also know how much that lord likes the spells created by [Despicable Hai Erbo]!"
"Before that happened, he had hoped to study this giant plant to make soldiers, to make some kind of powerful weapon...to deal with those Muggles who were as numerous as ants..."
"If the Dark Lord is really behind this matter, then it seems... his previous plan is about to succeed!"
Snape paused for a moment, looked at Malfono's thoughtful expression, and then continued.
"And the state of Decora and Percy Weasley is indeed somewhat similar to the appearance of the victims of the Chamber of Secrets last time... Adding this, it seems that there is indeed a high probability..."
"The Dark Lord is coming back soon!" said Snape.
Although I have doubts in my heart,
But when Lucius heard this conclusion, his hand trembled and he almost dropped the glass directly on the ground.
Narcissa whimpered even more, her body shook a few times, and she was a little unsteady.
"Yes, but why! This is why!"
"We have always been loyal believers of the master, why did he hurt little Dracola...that is my only son!"
"Then you'll have to ask your husband! . . . huh? Lucius!" said Snape, turning his unemotional eyes to Malfoy. "What the hell did you do to offend him! So much so that his punishment fell on Dracora Malfoy..."
"Lucius!" Narcissa screamed in a low, disbelieving voice, looking up at her husband.
Lucius blushed, let out a breath, and looked very angry. He wanted to stand up, but he had no choice but to slam his body back on the chair.
Looked weak and powerless.
He seemed to be completely turned away by Snape's words from the inside out, his face was ashen, and he didn't dare to look directly at his wife.
After a long time, he said weakly, "I..."
"I... didn't mean to. I... just..."
As Lucius Malfoy slowly narrated, the two people in this room knew a 'truth', or what he called a 'story'.
When Hogwarts was about to start, the Ministry of Magic suddenly went crazy.
They sent Arthur Weasley (the disgrace of the pure-blood wizard family) to frantically sweep up the dark wizard items on the market that could endanger the wizarding world, even the Malfoy family was not spared...
"You know Snape..."
"For a prestigious pure-blood family like ours, how can there be no magic items handed down from one or two ancestors in the family... And the ones handed down from that era have more or less traces of black witchcraft..."
"not to mention……"
Malfoy's voice was quieter again, almost inaudible, but both Narcissa and Snape heard it.
"What's more... before the Dark Lord disappeared, he entrusted me with a batch of things for safekeeping..."
"Does the Dark Lord not trust those goblins..."
"This is enough to prove that he thinks I'm his most loyal and reliable..."
Malfoy babbled about himself, how loyal the Malfoy family was to the Dark Lord, how he trusted him...I knew many secrets of the Dark Lord!
"Really?" Snape was really impatient now, he interrupted Malfoy coldly, expressing his disbelief.
"Do you still think so after what happened to Dracora Malfoy?"
"Why don't you hurry up and tell me exactly how you offended the Dark Lord?"
Malfoy's face turned red and then pale, and at Narcissa's almost begging urging, he continued—from the place where the Dark Lord handed over a batch of things to him for safekeeping.
"I don't know what the Dark Lord gave me... But I can be sure that Arthur Weasley, who is like a sewer rat, can't find these things!"
"So I want to temporarily store him in the Bojinbok store in Knockturn Alley for a period of time for protection..."
"You've probably heard about what happened afterwards. Arthur Weasley was searching Knockturn Alley. I had to change my plan. I went to buy a new book for Malfoy first, and then I was looking at where I could keep these things... I didn't expect to meet that idiot Arthur again in Lihen Bookstore..."
"After a conflict, the thing I was keeping disappeared... I originally suspected that Arthur Weasley's little daughter, maybe Harry Potter, or that little crazy mudblood picked it up..."
"I was afraid that Arthur Weasley would find out that I had a connection with him... so I didn't dare to speak up after that!"
"I thought I had failed the Dark Lord... Arthur Weasley had already destroyed this thing!"
Snape sneered, even if he didn't use Remembrance, he would know that this guy was full of lies.
Lucius' loyalty to the Dark Lord was just that... no better than his own.
He was now only filled with fear of losing or deliberately throwing away things that the Dark Lord had given him to keep because of the possibility of the Dark Lord's return.
The reason why Dumbledore urged Dumbledore to return to Hogwarts to solve this matter just now was because he didn't want to face Voldemort's wrath!
Judging from the information he provided.
——Lucius Malfoy believes that this thing is the culprit that has brought about all the current situations.
"Lucius, what exactly are you talking about!"
"I've got to know to help you!" Snape pressed on, his voice raised, showing impatience.
Malfoy was silent, hesitating, and after a while, he spoke at Narcissa's urging.
"That's a notebook... a diary of the Dark Lord when he was young!"
"When he handed it to me, he once said this... This is the key that can open the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets!"
Malfoy looked at the two people next to him, his expression full of fear, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally told the most terrifying secret in his heart,
"That's what the Dark Lord said back then: Malfoy! This notebook is me..."
His voice trembled, and he could hardly speak.
For a while, the only sound in the room was the heavy breathing of a few people and the bubbling sound of 'puff puff' in the cauldron.
(End of this chapter)