This Christmas could be a turning point for Britain's wizarding world, but no one is seeing the slightest sign yet.But there is one person who deeply understands the meaning of sadness. Lucius' father failed to survive this winter and completely left this world at the beginning of the new year.

This day was the day of Abraxas Malfoy's burial, and various carriages gathered beside the Malfoy Manor. Given the status of the Malfoy family in the wizarding world, the old Malfoy's funeral would naturally not be deserted.When everyone came to send the old Patriarch to the funeral, what kind of mentality they each had, but they couldn't say.

Lucius looked at the expressions of sadness, regret, or love in front of him, and he was distracted for no reason.

Some of these people have faces that he can't remember clearly, like the short and fat one who seems to be a small official from the Ministry of Magic, and the gorgeous one who can't hide his essence of a courtesan even though he is wearing black lady.

Lucius wanted to close his eyes and block out all these things that pollute his vision, and he said to himself, you are a Malfoy, and now you are the only one.

"Lord—" I heard someone yelling not far away, what is the honor and excitement inside, is that something that should appear at a funeral, Lucius firmly grasped the treasure hidden in his sleeve With the wand in his hand, he wished to give that person a Throat Curse, but he wanted to receive Voldemort with a three-point smile, three-point grief, three-point honor, and one part not knowing what to do.

"My lord, why are you here, my father..." Lucius paused for a moment, which was just right, expressing that complicated emotion.In fact, he didn't know what to say, and my father would be happy if he knew it. Isn't this nonsense? The Malfoy family followed interests, so how could they respect Voldemort 100%.

Voldemort's face was pale, and almost no one would look up and look directly into his eyes. He looked at Old Malfoy's tombstone, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't respond to Lucius, and he was silent for another minute, when Lucius responded When I came over, I heard the deep voice say, "Come with me."

Lucius raised his gaze slightly. It was obvious that Voldemort had something to say to himself alone at this time, so he could only signal to the person next to him, and entered the same room with Voldemort.

As soon as Lucius closed the door, Voldemort cast a few spells to prevent anyone from 'accidentally' listening to their conversation. "Lucius, I am very sorry for your father's departure, but the Malfoy family will continue. You have made it clear at the meeting in the past few weeks. This year, you are already in the sixth grade. You're about to graduate."

Lucius lowered his head, no one could see the expression on his face, and he didn't think about anything about the matter, in front of a master of instigating mind, letting himself go was also a way of not changing. "It is every Malfoy's responsibility to continue Malfoy's glory. I will follow my father's path." This is also a disguised promise to Voldemort of his surrender. Voldemort will not mark underage wizards, but will wait a year He would be a Death Eater like his father.

"Same as your father, is it the same as Abraxas?" Voldemort's tone didn't change, but Lucius heard a strangeness, as if there was some kind of secret hidden there. "Of course I believe you, Malfoy is the best partner." The next moment Voldemort took out a somewhat old book and handed it to Lucius, "Keep it safe, it was originally intended for your father Yes." After speaking, he patted Lucius on the shoulder.

Lucius took the book that looked like a Muggle item with both hands, a little surprised and cautious, and finally he just nodded and promised, "I will." Then he watched Voldemort walk out of the room.

When it was confirmed that Voldemort had left, Lucius frowned. He opened the book, which was nothing but nothing. Of course, he did not ignore the traces of black magic on it, but there was nothing on it, just an empty book.Lucius was silent for a moment, thought about it, and put it in the compartment of the study, hoping that it would not be used one day.

The moment he closed the door, he suddenly remembered a scene from long ago, as if it was when he was a toddler, he heard a voice, that kind of indistinct voice called the name of Abraxas, This tone of voice coincided strangely with Voldemort's voice just now.

'boom! 'The sound of the door closing interrupted Lucius' thinking, which was just an illogical memory that existed in childhood.It's a pity that there is no basis for everything. Abraxas Malfoy has died, and he has not left any portraits.

What this door is closed may be an unspeakable secret.

*****

"This Christmas is not peaceful, and Bella also went to her colleague's funeral." Regulus and Snape were making secret deals again, and he bought a copy of Snape's user manual from Snape. The correct posture of the spell, it has to be said that when the wizard casts the spell, the tone and posture can affect the power of the spell.

Why not learn from the family, Regulus would not answer this question, he would not ignore his mother's gratified expression when his room was covered with Voldemort posters, as if the person on the wall was something she was proud of family.

Don't be in a hurry, Regulus will silently recite three times every day when he wakes up, one day...

There was no expression on Snape's face, was it a step too late, even if he got the silver arhat flower.In fact, he didn't remember the time of old Malfoy's death clearly, and the friendship between him and Lucius was slowly established later.That was after Voldemort's defeat.

Snape felt that it was strange that he would call that Voldemort directly instead of the Dark Lord. It seemed that the fear that had been hiding in his body had dissipated, and along with it, the respect and resentment towards him.This is not just because of rebirth, but maybe because there are hidden changes in the soul's experience that he doesn't know about.But compared to the three who called the one Tom directly, he was considered better.

It was after Malfoy's predicament, Lily's death, and his own death, that he and Lucius began to have a deeper friendship.Before that, the distance between a pure blood and a mixed blood always seemed small, but in fact it was like a world apart.

"That one went too. I really value the Malfoy family." Regulus added, looking at Snape's unchanging stiff face, he changed the subject, "Thank you for your Christmas present, I'll give it to you." Are you used to your gloves?"

Snape just withdrew a slight arc, wanting to express a smile, "Thanks for the collection of the Black family, it can also be seen from the one in Gryffindor." Obviously, Snape also got it from Sirius A Christmas present, and another for him to pass on to Regulus.

Only then did Regulus look genuinely happy. Among Snape's Christmas presents, he saw the one sent by Sirius. Sirius did not come home for Christmas this year, so he probably spent it at Potter's house. yes.What occupied the Christmas topic in Black's house was how to tighten the relationship between Black and Voldemort in response to the death of old Malfoy. At this time, he would rather Sirius not be there.

Days like this will end one day.

*****

"John Vincent Atanasoff's Atanasoff-Berry-Computer" Snape read out the password to enter Dawn's temporary laboratory. Using this new invention and inventor's name in the Muggle world as the password for the wizard's laboratory is really not a good idea. A little awkward.Of course Snape knew about computers, even if he had never used them, but when he died, there were already many such things in the Muggle world. Could it be that they are popular now?

"Don't feel convoluted." Dawn didn't look up, he was dismantling the central control board they brought back, while chatting with Snape, "Atanasoff invented the ABC computer, which counts as a The father of computer, he brought this epoch-making technology to us. In fact, he has only recently become famous. It turns out that another person plagiarized his invention. It seems to be called Mo Shi. Don’t remember the name of the thief. Use this The password reminds us that there is no end to research and innovation, and this is how great computer inventions happen."

"Totally correct, I hope civilian ones will appear soon." Lovegood also raised his head from the pile of materials, and Merlin knew that he needed a computer so that his work efficiency would be higher. "The wizarding world just doesn't have such an efficient tool. In fact, it's good to borrow it occasionally."

"That's because there is no such a huge population base as Muggles. Although more things have to be recorded on parchment to be effective, so get rid of your theory of mechanical assistance." Lockhart aggressively attacked Love Goode.

"But maybe you can make an alchemy product with a similar principle. What do you think, Dawn." Lovegood did not give up.

"Don't pay attention to them, let the delusional people think about it, anyway, this matter has not been settled in the past few years." Dawn motioned Snape to do whatever he wanted, and Snape saw that in the last empty corner, there was already a A complete set of potion brewing equipment, he had to admit that it was much better than the one in his dormitory, and look at the protective array beside it, it had to be drawn after many bombings.

Snape had been drawn to the potion ingredients in the large cupboard to the side.Very well, here are the nails of the Arctic sloth bear from Iceland, and the sativa from Latin America.He opened the compartments one by one as if he was stroking treasures. This kind of storage is still not in place, a more reasonable layout is needed, some need to be added with a moisturizing spell, and some are better frozen.

"By the way, Snape, old Malfoy is only in his forties." Lovegood asked suddenly.

Snape missed the point for a moment, and replied, "It should be."

"Then he got married a few years after graduation, and immediately had Lucius. The key is that he also entered school in the 40s, so he must have known the original Tom at that time."

Snape was taken aback by Lovegood's question.Yes, so Abraxas Malfoy should know that Voldemort is Tom, but does Lucius know this?Speaking of people who worked for Voldemort, most of them were under 30 years old, so they don't know the changes.Even he himself didn't know who Voldemort really was. Only from Dumbledore's occasional expression in his previous life, Snape would guess that Dumbledore might have known Voldemort very early.Now it seems that Dumbledore is one of Voldemort's professors, how could he not be familiar with him.

I also thought of Voldemort's changed face in the later period. Perhaps Tom at that time had a different face from the current Voldemort.

Hearing Snape's speculation, Lockhart curled his lips. Is this a change of face? It's an effective way to avoid being hunted down. "Old Malfoy may not be very familiar with him, a child of a big pure-blood family, a surname may not come from a wizard at all."

"According to Tom's personality, this possibility is unlikely. He is not a low-key person, but he should be perfectly integrated into Slytherin, and he might be like a fish in water in it." A person who tells the world that he is a strong man will have an unknown student life, especially when he is a winner of a special honor award, maybe he has already shown extraordinary ambitions in his student days.

"I heard that there is a way of bloodline change. Maybe Tom has already cut off the part of himself that belongs to Muggles." Lockhart remembered a certain way of change.

Snape recalled Voldemort's strange changes, and his increasingly unstable personality, and later became brutal and lost his mind, so something more terrible than transformation must have happened to him, just like changing a soul.

In this way, Snape's speculation that Voldemort may have used Horcruxes became more and more solid.Dumbledore didn't tell him many things clearly in his previous life, but this didn't prevent him from guessing, perhaps because he had experienced the process from death to life, he had a deeper feeling for the soul.He thought maybe that forbidden method was the beginning of Voldemort's sorrow.

"We need more information before we can establish a profile of this person." Dawn decided that they were going to investigate Voldemort, no, Tom's past.

"Is it the method of solving crimes used by the FBI that is still under study?" Lovegood is very interested in this kind of data-related things.

"Yes, there are actually traces of a person's behavior, and the environment in which he lived in childhood and adolescence is the key point." Dawn has read some related books in his previous life, which can be said to exercise logical thinking good way.

"Well, it's kind of interesting. To restore a real Voldemort, we start from his past life." Lockhart agreed with the argument that childhood will affect a person's life.

"This is your next step. Don't let Tom Riddle go. It's got you through the Forbidden Forest, and it's going to continue, maybe face Voldemort."

Snape didn't want to face Voldemort so soon. He was a little more unnatural than the three who had never been in contact with Voldemort's horror, and this was the only way to overturn the past.

The author has something to say: The story of Tom and Abu can be seen from the occasional update of the short episode "Diary of Mr. Ben's Diary".

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