[HP] Shh, it's a secret

While the funeral at the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts was getting ready, the one at Malfoy Manor had just ended.There were only two people standing in front of the black marble headstone, two Malfoys.

"Let's go back."

Narcissa.Malfoy took the veil off from the corner of his eye, and put his arm around her son, Draco.Malfoy's hand.

Sleeping on the side on the second floor of the main building of the manor, Draco opened the secret door.

"dad."

"Are you back?" Lucius put down the book in his hand and pointed to the chair beside him, "Where's your mother?"

Draco sat down on the chair obediently: "Mom is packing up there, and the Dark Lord has agreed. She said that she will go to France tomorrow. But Dad, I don't think Mom really wants to go."

Lucius smiled: "Your feeling is not wrong son, I let her go."

"dad……"

Lucius raised a hand, signifying that the subject was over.Draco shut his mouth sensibly, he thought he knew what his father meant, he wanted to keep his mother out of danger.But he always felt that something was not right. After all, France is not far away, only the English Channel is separated, and they are all wizards. No matter how far away they are, they can't match the word "Disapparation", not to mention the Dark Mark... …

"I know what you're thinking," Lucius glanced at him, "I have my reasons." He said, standing up from his chair, "Okay, it's time for drinks again."

Lucius drew out his wand and tapped three times on the wall behind him. The wall spread softly like a curtain falling to the ground, and what appeared in front of him was a fully equipped potion preparation room.Two crucibles, one large and one small, were emitting hot steam from the black marble configuration table.

Draco's eyes widened. He had never known that this dark room was so dark.

"You have a lot to learn from my son." Lucius smiled and put on a pair of dragon leather gloves placed next to the cauldron, and then used long tweezers to take out a few strands of silk from the small cauldron and throw it into the large one. Only. "Wormtail's hair," Lucius explained, "I had to put them in a live potion made by Severus to keep them alive."

Draco frowned.

"Dad, he's unreliable."

"Oh?" Lucius raised his eyebrows, and changed the tool in his hand to a stirring stick, "Isn't he from Dumbledore?"

"Yes... maybe, maybe. That's just Potter's sidelines. Maybe Potter just said that to annoy the Dark Lord. Only Snape himself knows who he is."

"Whoever Draco is, as far as we're concerned, his potions are reliable," Lucius said.The thick liquid in the large cauldron bubbled and then turned an ugly yellow color, just as described in the potion book.

"Okay, it's perfect." Lucius put the potion in the crucible into the potion bottle, the largest one contained 24 potions.He picked up one of them, raised his head, and drank it down.Almost immediately, his body changed, ten seconds or less, Lucius.Malfoy becomes Peter Wormtail.Pedirou.

No matter how many times this process was watched, it would not be pleasant, Draco simply looked away.

"Dad, I don't understand, since 'you' is dead, why do you have to be so stupid?"

"Because Wormtail is 'alive'." Lucius replied, "You're still too naive Draco, even if the Dark Lord doesn't look up to him, he's still a branded Death Eater."

"I'm sorry Dad, I was going to use a Muggle death row... I was found by that mouse when I came to find my mother, so..."

"That's good." Lucius stepped forward and patted Draco on the shoulder, "I have to go."

Lucius walked to the wall and stretched out his right hand, pressing down on the center of the marble in the middle.With the sound of "click", there was another hidden door with a height of one person between the walls. Behind the hidden door was a deep passage leading to nowhere.It is hard to imagine that this dark room originally only existed in the wall connecting two side rooms on the second floor.

"A space spell," Lucius said. "At the end of the passage is the manor's underground cell, which used to be a storage room. The Dark Lord needs a place to detain opponents. When the Ministry of Magic came to search before, I always put Something interesting was hidden in the passage, and now I have to hide myself there and come out of the cell at the right time."

"Dad..." Draco was at a loss for words.

"It's time for you to go back to Hogwarts, exam week, remember?" Lucius stepped into the secret door with one foot.

"What, back to Hogwarts?" Draco looked a little surprised, "I killed Papa Dumbledore."

"Yeah you killed Dumbledore, that really surprised me. But who knows but the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord, huh?" said Lucius, putting his other foot in the secret door as well.The door was closed immediately, and the secret door immediately returned to the appearance of a wall.

"Potter knows," Draco said softly, facing the wall.

The next morning, while Narcissa was heading to France accompanied by her own sister, Bellatrix, Draco also Apparated outside the gates of Hogwarts.This time it was Filch the Administrator who opened the door for him.

Contrary to his expectations, his presence did not cause any commotion as it should - a crowd surrounded him with wands raised, and then the Aurors rushed in - not at all.People in the castle were indeed talking about Dumbledore's death, and what they said most was "Who killed Dumbledore".

It seemed true that no one knew that the "criminal" they were talking about was walking among them.Draco frowned and quickened his pace.A group of Hufflepuff third-years surrounded the door to the Slytherin common room, the middle one holding a newspaper.Draco walked over quickly, raised his hand to "take" the newspaper and pushed open the door.

In the new issue of "Daily Prophet", the headline on the front page——

Dumbledore dies by devil fire, murdered by Death Eaters

Death Eaters!Aren't they Death Eaters?Draco smiled and tossed the newspaper into the trash can by the side of the aisle.

"Draco, are you back?" Goyle and Crabbe greeted him as soon as they passed through the door of the lounge.Gore was the first to speak.

"The family wrote to us, Mr. Malfoy..." Crabbe hesitated to speak.

The other Slytherins scattered about the common room were also watching him and whispering to their mates.Obviously Lucius.The breaking news that Malfoy was killed by a dementor because he escaped from prison is no secret in this lounge.Slytherins are always better informed than others, and perhaps someone more informed will know who killed Dumbledore.Draco raised his chin with a sneer, and his sharp gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, making everyone lower their heads smoothly.

"Draco, you're...really you..." Goyle moved tremblingly to Draco's ear, and Crabbe pricked up his ears even though he didn't move.

Draco glanced at him, who immediately shut his mouth.

"Subjects for the morning exam..." Draco said suddenly.

"Ah... oh oh, it's Transfiguration, Potions in the afternoon." Goyer hurriedly replied, "History of Potions tomorrow morning, Defense Against the Dark Arts in the afternoon..."

Crabbe took the opportunity to get close to Draco's other ear, and whispered: "Everyone only knows that one of the Death Eaters killed Dumbledore. Several people in Gryffindor said that Potter saw It was you... No one believed it, not even their headmaster. Someone at the Ministry of Magic proved that you were off work that afternoon, and that old fellow Dumbledore was still unconscious in his frame."

"Really." Draco nodded.

The time for the exam was getting closer, and the students in the lounge left in twos and threes.Draco instead sat down on the sofa near the fireplace, with Goyle and Crabbe sitting on the other side in tacit understanding.Just when Goyle and Crabbe were wondering what Draco was going to do, Draco suddenly stood up from his chair and left the lounge in two or three steps.The two big men looked at each other and hurriedly followed.

In a blink of an eye, Draco had reached the stairs, where the students were running up and down to their respective examination rooms.only hear-

"Draco. Malfoy!"

Harry.Potter rushed down the stairs, walked ferociously towards where Draco was, and raised the wand in his hand quickly.No one present reacted to the change, except Draco.Malfoy himself, who drew his wand at the same time.

Immediately there was a sound of exclamation all around, followed by the sound of "clacking" on the stairs, Potter's friends, Weasley and Granger rushed down and hugged Harry's arms from left to right.

"Harry, don't be impulsive." Granger whispered in Harry's ear.

"Are you all right, Draco?" Goyle and Crabbe also arrived.

Draco shook his head and put away his wand.

"Potter, don't you have a long memory? Is your nose itchy and you want another kick?"

"Release!" Harry broke free from the grip of Weasley and Granger, and rushed to Draco in a stride.Surprisingly, he didn't raise his wand again, but just lifted Draco's collar and glared at him viciously.

"I know it's you!" he said. "Why did you do that? And Rosmer Tower and the diadem..." Harry's voice dropped so low that it finally became a whisper, as if if he didn't You can't help but growl.

With a snap, Draco slapped Harry's hand off his collar.

"I don't understand what you're talking about Potter, but if you don't want to be locked up for exams week... better get out of my way. Good dogs out of the way, Potter."

After a few seconds of stalemate, Harry moved out of the way, incredible!

"Harry, did it... Did Malfoy use black magic on you? Imperius Curse?" Looking at Draco's back, Ron said blankly, "You let him go!"

"Maybe Harry finally realized that Draco wasn't the murderer who killed Dumbledore." Hermione said, "He's just a student like us, and he doesn't have that ability at all."

"No, it's him. It's just..." Harry leaned painfully on the banister of the stairs, the exam bell was about to ring, and there were only three of them left here.Harry took a deep breath and took the nearly burnt diadem from his pocket.

"It's a Horcrux. Malfoy found it, he gave it to Dumbledore, and he destroyed it. I don't understand...I really don't understand..."

"Merlin's beard!" Ron's eyes widened. "You mean..." Hermione covered his mouth in time, and then cast Confusion and Ignoring Charms around them.

"You mean Draco. Malfoy found it? A Horcrux?" Ron's eyes widened to the limit, "I thought it was you and Dumbledore who found it."

Harry smiled wryly and shook his head: "What Dumbledore found was a locket." He took out a scorched and completely unrecognizable thing from another pocket, "it was also destroyed by the devil's fire." , together with Dumbledore."

"Then you mean Draco. Malfoy also destroyed two of the Dark Lord's Horcruxes while killing Dumbledore, and one of them was even found by him and given to Dumbledore?" Herr Min said, "That's impossible Harry, let's not say that Draco has no ability to kill Dumbledore at all, just the fact that he found the Horcrux and handed it to Dumbledore... It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense at all!"

"But it's the truth! I saw it with my own eyes, with my own eyes! I've had enough!" Harry jumped up excitedly, rushed out of the range of the spell, and stepped up the stairs irritably.

"Hey! Wait!" Ron followed.

"No...it doesn't make sense." Hermione shook her head and followed after her.