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Avoiding the celebration banquet, Bert quickly returned to the dormitory.

At the end of the game, Severus gave him a signal to hurry back.

There must be something more important, otherwise Severus wouldn't have signaled him like that.

In the hall, the Slytherins had to maintain their demeanor, but when they returned to the lounge, it was like a group of demons dancing wildly.

Although Narcissa seemed to be having a good time in it, she was always thinking about the ball of paper she handed to Severus today.

When Lucius gave her the ball of paper, Narcissa didn't see what was written on the paper, but she always thought it would be something amazing.

However, Lucius had already expressed his unwillingness to let her know what was written on it, so she stopped exploring the secrets inside.

Narcissa knew that Lucius would tell her the truth in the end.It's dangerous if you don't.

Things are not good right now, Narcissa knows.Although there was nothing in the papers yet, there had been several battles between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters.

Narcissa knew that war was not about justice or evil, but about naked interests.

No one will give up their own interests, and no one can allow themselves to be harmed without rebelling.Those who don't resist either die or submit cowardly.

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Burt opened the door, and Severus was sitting at his desk, deciphering the alchemically encrypted message Lucius had used.

"See what?" Burt put his hands on the corners of the back of Severus' chair.

"The goddess of the night holds the golden cup, the brilliant light is stained with dust, the glory of the millennium has been so far, the king sits on the throne, and the slaves sing generously." Severus read the poem on the note, a little confused.

Bert chewed twice and guessed what Lucius wanted to say.Severus watched it a few more times and knew exactly what Lucius was saying.

"Gold Cup, Millennium Glory, Hufflepuff's Gold Cup. Black—Bellatrix, Voldemort gave the Gold Cup to Bellatrix, and Lucius got something too." Burt wrote In this posture, reach out to take the paper on the table and feel it carefully.

Severus felt Lucius' pain and confusion from the poem: "Is he regretting it?"

Burt touched it a few times, felt the weirdness of the paper, and probed the paper with magic power, Burt revealed a layer of paper.

"He did regret it." Burt smiled when he saw the content on the paper.Handed the paper to Severus immediately.

"Maybe sweets taste better when it snows. 』

Lucius really tried his best to keep it secret, no matter what information he wrote, he wrote it so covertly.

It seems that his situation is not very good.

It's getting colder and snow isn't far off.The first snow, they meet at Honeydukes.

"Severus, shall we hang out together during Hogsmeade?" Burt saw that Severus had seen all the information, and burned the paper into ashes.

Severus nodded, Lucius, as one of his few friends, needs help now, how could Severus not help?

Burt still doesn't know what exactly Lucius discovered that made him look for a way out now.However, it is best for Lucius to be willing to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, although he has not let himself show his sharpness now.

Lucius could be said to be the spokesman for the Death Eaters, but he never said he was a Death Eater.Even if he was speaking for the Death Eaters, Lucius was so clever that people couldn't catch him.

Other than that one Death Eater mark, there wouldn't be any problems.

Burt also just wanted to see what was so great about the Death Eater's mark, Lucius could give him a chance.

He has a hidden stake among Voldemort, but he is not a high-ranking person, and it is not easy to keep him.Lucius just gave him a good chance.

……

Inside Malfoy Manor, Lucius looked at the black notebook on the desk. He couldn't figure out why Voldemort would give him such a common thing as a great reward.

Or it is not the value of the object itself, but Voldemort's own importance to these two things.

In other words, this Muggle notebook is the same as the Hufflepuff Gold Cup in Voldemort's heart.

This is quite unusual, especially the traces of black magic on it.Lucius' feeling of Voldemort was growing more and more frightening.

There was a sense of uncertainty about Voldemort. From his childhood, Voldemort was a very different person than he is now.Lucius knew that Voldemort in this state would definitely not be able to take them to the top of the wizarding world.

So Lucius had to find a way out now, and Burt was the first person he could think of.

The Alfred family was very strange. Even though they bowed their knees to Voldemort, they never agreed to Voldemort's coercion and did not join the Death Eaters.It's just that Voldemort almost agreed to those requests.

For example, there are many blueprints of alchemy products, and the free supply of more alchemy products.In the eyes of nobles whose interests outweigh the sky, this is almost impossible.

Of course, there were no promised things: branding the Dark Mark, borrowing Alfred's castle for a banquet...

Always insisting on the neutral line, Alfred's heirs are also quite thin, only Bert alone.It is of course reasonable not to want to stir up disputes here.

Moreover, Alfred is not that simple.How many old noble manor castles have Alfred's things, if they have tampered with it?

No one wants to risk their life against Alfred.Even Voldemort never forced Alfred's surrender.

Lucius knew that Burt was a man of no interest, and Burt was unwilling to confront the Death Eaters head-on.As Alfred's heir, Bert is also quite valuable in the eyes of many Death Eaters.You know, Bert is the sole heir of Alfred, and his mind is full of Alfred's secrets.

So Burt's cautiousness in this aspect is not too much.

And Voldemort is now paying attention to the potion family Prince, who has closed the manor for many years.It is obvious that the two last Princes have already stepped into the coffin with half their legs, but so far there is no news from the Ministry of Magic that the heir of the Prince family has disappeared and the ownership belongs to the Ministry of Magic.

This made Voldemort very anxious. He had seen the old Prince and concluded that the old man had not much to live for.Unexpectedly, there is still no news.

Lucius is responsible for realizing Voldemort's ideas in this regard.Lucius also put a lot of effort into this.

In the end, the only information found was that the Prince family already had an heir.

But everyone knows that there was an accident in the Prince family in the early years. The son and daughter-in-law of the old Prince died, and the granddaughter Irene eloped with the Muggles. The old Prince decided to sever ties with Irene at that time.

Therefore, this sudden heir must be related to Irene.

After inquiring in the Muggle world for a long time, the last information Lucius found was Erin Snape, a drug researcher at a Muggle company.

Who else could Snape think of?

Only Junior Severus left.

If he is half a Prince for his particularly wonderful potion talent, then everything can really be explained.

Now the crux of everything fell on Bert, how could Lucius not communicate with this smart junior?

……

Deliberately urinating to avoid the ensuing carnival, Regulus walked out of the Slytherin lounge.

Generally speaking, many Slytherin students are afraid to travel alone.Although they all stubbornly refused to admit the fear in their hearts, Regulus understood.

The feeling of being isolated is so uncomfortable, and the professors turn a blind eye to it, which is chilling.

If the three colleges are dealing with one college, and this college doesn't form a group by itself, how can they survive?How could Slytherin still exist in this school?

When Regulus was a child, Sirius was the only bright color in the world. His father, mother, and sister were all the same kind of people. They told him to be elegant, and they told him to respect his brother. They made him a person who had no opinion and listened to his elder brother Be a good boy.

Sirius never told him what to do, and he even hated him following him all the time.

It wasn't like that at first, Regulus liked Sirius very much, liked him very much.Sirius also played with Regulus.

But later, Sirius became more and more rebellious, and his desire for freedom and justice became stronger and stronger.Gradually, Sirius looked down on his younger brother who only listened to his mother.

Sirius felt humiliated by refusing Regulus to follow him all the time.

Regulus has been weak since he was a child, and Sirius will always protect him, so Regulus is really not worried at all when Sirius is behind him.

Even if sometimes, Sirius made him wait too long; even if Sirius made him take the blame for some innocuous mistakes...it didn't matter.

It really doesn't matter.

Regulus only asked his brother to still have him in his heart, and that was enough.

Sirius, who was in school, never thought of him, and never wrote a letter to him.It didn't matter, Regulus would write to Sirius himself, and Sirius would write back to him by the way.

This is his happiness, and he is happy with it.

Sirius entered Gryffindor, and the family was under a lot of pressure.Voldemort summoned all the Death Eaters of the Black family and punished them one by one.

The family still withstood the pressure, allowing Sirius to remain the heir of the family.But Regulus also began to pay close attention to education.

When Regulus first took on these pressures, he was also depressed in his heart.But Sirius can still laugh, which is very happy.

Finally, he was able to do things for his brother.

However, he did not expect that Slytherin and Gryffindor had become so incompatible.He had no way to get close to Sirius, Sirius didn't understand him at all and just blamed him blindly.

Bazel was kind to him, but all Bazel's words were like sharp knives, piercing all his fantasies.

He was in pain, and asking him to leave Sirius was like ripping out his heart—bloody pain!

Wanting to be with Sirius, wanting Sirius to never lose sight of him again, wanting everyone to shut up about this relationship... Regulus knew the need to be strong.He didn't know how to become stronger.

Anthony provided him with the opportunity to become stronger, which made him forever grateful to his seemingly unreliable seniors.

Anthony is even more grateful for Bert's personal teaching.

Regulus began to change, the only thing that remained the same was the heart that was hot and beating for Sirius.

Walking leisurely to the Astronomy Tower, Regulus looked into the distance, thinking about his duel with Sirius today, thinking about the changes he had made along the way...

"...Rael."

While Regulus was immersed in his own thoughts, Sirius' voice came from behind.