HP's Platinum Temptation

"Clarence, where do you always bring these dishes back? They're delicious!" Another weekend dinner in Hogsmeade, Jeffrey and Dana pushed all the dinners prepared by the house-elves. Going to the side, he concentrated on eating the shiitake mushrooms and chestnuts, red bayberry balls, snow winter pheasant and spicy lobster that Clarence had packed back: "I have gained ten catties in the past three months. My dad will definitely scold me when I go back from vacation."

"Yes, it's really delicious. Where did you buy it? I'll take Jasmine to taste it during the summer vacation." Dana picked up another lobster with a fork and asked enthusiastically.

"Not counting the chef's salary, each dish here costs more than seventy Galleons." Clarence poked the mushrooms on his plate without appetite, and the victim under the fork was already riddled with holes.

"Seven...seventy... Galleon?" Jeffrey was so surprised that he almost choked on the half-eaten chicken bone in his mouth.

"Yes, yes, I have never heard that the food is so expensive anywhere. The Chinese restaurant in Mahiona District can only cost ten Galleons for a meal. Where did you buy it? Could it be Have you been cheated?" Dana held the lobster fork, not knowing whether to bite or not.

"I didn't buy it, I made it myself." Clarence continued to poke the mushroom in front of him absent-mindedly, completely ignoring the two companions who had already petrified after hearing this sentence.

"Do you cook at Poplar Cottage every weekend in Hogsmeade? Please tell me it's not true." Dana threw down the lobster, with a face full of disbelief: "Are you crazy?"

"Nonsense, otherwise I made it up. I'm not crazy, I'm just lost! In love!" Clarence finally poked the mushroom in half and threw the fork.

"You must be joking! Could it be that you spent more than 2000 Galleons for this in the past three months?" Jeffrey shook his head, completely unacceptable.

"I'm broken in love, and I'm sad, so I'm happy to burn money to play, do you have any objection?" Clarence glared at the two of them fiercely: "If you want to eat or not, I'll throw it away."

"Don't pour, don't pour! What you pour is money!"

Clarence also felt that his behavior during this period was basically of the nature of anger.But every time he wanted to give up, when he thought of Lucius' appearance at that time, his teeth itched with anger, and he couldn't help wanting to bite Lucius to death.It would be fine if Lucius didn't feel anything for him, and Clarence wouldn't bother himself.But he's not a fool, Lucius' attitude was obviously wavering because of something he was struggling with.

Originally, Clarence thought that Lucius was upset because of his concealment of identity.But from the last test, it was obvious that although Lucius cared about this, it was not the key to his decision-making.

When Jeffrey and Danalo were snatching the remaining dishes regardless of their image, the water mirror in Clarence's arms vibrated, and the caller was Lucius.

"You guys eat, I'll go upstairs, and I'll go back to the dormitory later." Clarence whispered to Jeffrey, and went straight to the emergency room upstairs.

Of course the call didn't last until Clarence reached the eighth floor.However, after Clarence called back, Lucius quickly got through the call. After three months, when he heard Lucius' voice again, Clarence deeply felt that some of his impulses could no longer be suppressed. Living.

"Henry? Is it convenient to talk?" Lucius greeted calmly when he heard the call was connected.

"what's up?"

"Summer suddenly told me just now that he has already worked out a basic plan to remove the Dark Mark, and you can try it when you come over when you are free."

"Okay, I see." Clarence thought about his vacation time, so he said, "At noon next Sunday, you can bring Summer to the poplar hut to find me."

"it is good."

"Anything else?" Clarence asked.

"No, hang up." Lucius cut off the call without hesitation after speaking.

******

After postponing the meeting for three months, Clarence no longer had the desire to prepare lunch.Asking Link to bring himself a lunch and eating it in a hurry, Clarence sat in the living room waiting for Lucius.

When Lucius arrived, he smiled politely and the obvious sense of distance made Clarence, who was just a little depressed at first, but managed to keep calm, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Long time no see, Henry." Lucius greeted with hypocritical friendliness, without any smile in his eyes.

"Sit." Clarence pointed to the stool across from him and told Lucius to sit down.Summer couldn't wait to emerge from the surface of the crown and floated onto Clarence's shoulder: "How does your plan work?"

"Let him put me in the palm of his hand, and then put your hand on it, preferably with the left hand, and use the wand in the right hand to assist the output adjustment of the magic power. There is no way to change the mark with his own magic power, you have to try first Can it affect the status of that mark," Summer said.

"Does the change require a lot of magic power? Is my magic power enough? Do I need to prepare a magic power supplement potion?" Clarence and Sammy communicated sincerely, leaving Lucius aside and skipping the stage of pleasantries.

"The required magic power is not much, you should be able to support it." Summer was very confident in his master, then turned to Lucius and said: "It will probably hurt, you should be mentally prepared. Because your magic power will definitely be touched Loop, so you don't crash."

Lucius nodded in understanding, and reached out to Clarence with his left hand holding the crown.

Clarence looked at Lucius's left forearm, which was tightly wrapped with a strict long sleeve, feeling a little mixed.The only time he saw the Dark Mark on Lucius' hand was that night at Lambert Manor.Lucius didn't shy away from it because the room was dark at the time.But by the next morning, Lucius was unwilling to let go of the quilt covering his arms.Obviously he didn't want Clarence to see the mark on his hand at all.

According to Summer's instruction, Clarence closed his eyes, and the magic power poured down the tip of the wand held in his right hand, into the two clasped hands, and entered Lucius' body through the guidance of the crown.The perspective presented by the magic power output is different from that of human vision. In a dark background, apart from the light emitted by the magic power, there is actually temperature.These two different sensations in the limbs mixed with the information sent back through magic made Clarence frowned.

Clarence was able to clearly identify his magic power emitting a light green light. When he exercised his magic power to make this green light appear outside the skin of his palm, his own skin could not feel any warmth.But when his magic power entered Lucius' body, he realized that his magic power was slightly warm, while Lucius' magic power was white and a bit cold.Following the white magic power in Lucius' left hand, he soon saw a mass of black magic power that was as thick as ink.Even before getting close, one could feel a chill.

"Master, that's the Dark Mark." Summer's voice rang in Clarence's ear, causing Clarence to subconsciously open his eyes, but he didn't see Summer on his shoulder, instead he was holding Lucius's hand In his hand, the crown was emitting a milky white light.So Clarence closed his eyes again, allowing the magic power to enter along the route just now.

"Master, my voice appears directly in your consciousness, and it cannot be heard outside. There are some words that Summer feels cannot be heard by him." Summer's voice sounded again, another white color different from Lucius' magic power The light appeared at the forefront of Clarence's magic power: "The Dark Mark is the Dark Lord's use of his own magic power as a medium to transform the spell power carried by the runes into the lines in the magic tattoo, and at the same time add his own Formed by the magic brand. The magic pattern provides the ability to produce various changes in the mark, and the black magic attribute magic contract concluded with the magic brand as an introduction is the reason why the marked person has to obey. Although I have no magic power, But I can make the master's magic eagle fake the Dark Lord's magic brand."

"What can't Lucius know?" Clarence asked puzzled.

"Of course! Master doesn't know what this means? That is to say, in the future, master can also use the Dark Mark to control other people with the Dark Mark. Because after having that brand, all magic contracts will agree that you are The signer of the contract. That is to say, the master can choose to help them remove the Dark Mark, or directly control the Dark Mark, or change the contract so that this mark becomes another mark belonging to the master." Summer explained anxiously own research results.

"In other words, after having the brand you mentioned, this mark is actually just a magic contract plus a rune. Since the magic contract was unilaterally concluded by the Dark Lord, it can also be canceled unilaterally, right? Even, if I know how the Dark Lord uses this contract, I can now summon all the Death Eaters here like the Dark Lord?" Clarence was instantly shocked by this huge change.From the previous inability to eliminate it to the level where it can be replaced to control the Dark Mark, this span is really surprising.

"No need, I have the memory of the Dark Lord, and I know how he manipulated the Dark Mark." Summer's voice became very proud: "Master, please praise me!"

"Well, so, if I erase this contract now and create a new one on Lucius' arm, won't he realize it?" Clarence asked nervously suddenly.

"Of course." Summer affirmed without hesitation: "Anytime."

"Very good." Clarence finally revealed a satisfied tone.

******

Lucius kept his eyes open to watch Winter's expression during his operation.Seeing Wen Te's inadvertently satisfied expression, Lucius' high hanging heart was relieved.Obviously, Winter did master the way to remove the Dark Mark.

Then there was a long wait. After the light green magic power entered Lucius' arm, he felt obvious temperature.When the magical power finally reached the position where the Dark Mark was, another biting cold erupted from the marked position, causing Lucius to turn pale instantly.At the same time, the magic power of warmth disappeared without a trace, and the coldness became active.This feeling of temperature was sensed along Lucius' own magic power cycle, and caused a kind of pain that was not physical.It's like the cold that sticks to Lucius' magic power is like a solid body, and it wants to be peeled off from Lucius' magic power cycle little by little, resulting in a tearing pain.

Lucius gritted his teeth and persisted, not letting himself lose consciousness.The mark is as uncomfortable to apply as it is to peel off.

I don't know how long it took in the pain, and finally the cold gradually disappeared, replaced by the initial warmth.It wasn't until Winter's magic power exited Lucius' body that Lucius regained his strength and opened his eyes that had been subconsciously closed because of the pain.

"Is it finished?" Lucius couldn't help asking, and then heard his trembling voice.

The corner of Winter's mouth was raised, showing an obviously confident smile: "You can check it yourself."

Unable to imagine the final disappearance of the Dark Mark, Lucius hesitated, whether to roll up his sleeves here.But it's about freedom, Lucius let out a sigh of relief, and unbuttoned his cuffs.

As the clothes were pushed up, the ugly pattern that originally occupied most of the forearm didn't appear when Lucius' clothes were halfway rolled up, which finally made Lucius heave a sigh of relief.

"Don't you want to check it thoroughly?" Winter said when he saw that Lucius' sleeve rolling stopped halfway up his forearm.

Lucius didn't react at the time, this sentence actually implied another meaning.Because of the shadow of the Dark Mark, Lucius rolled up his sleeves much faster next time.

When the sleeve was pushed above the elbow, Lucius, who was in a relaxed mood, suddenly took a breath, and his eyes locked on the place near the inside of the elbow.A delicate purple violet tattoo with two green leaves is present in that position.

"How is it, does it look good?" Winter seemed not aware of Lucius' nervousness, and said cheerfully, while rolling up the clothes covering his left arm: "I also got one for myself just now. Two It’s sensory! I also set three transformation spells for this mark! The first one is—"

"Do you want to control me like this?" Lucius' nervousness was replaced by violent anger, and the fiery anger rolled in his chest. With his roar, this anger instantly rushed to the smiling face sitting across from him. Winter.

"What's the hurry, I haven't finished talking about how to use this mark, come on, let me show you." Wen Te lowered his head completely unmoved, and covered the violet mark on his left arm with his right hand: "Like In this way, put your hands here, if I say 'I miss you'," as Winter's voice paused, Lucius felt a warmth on his left arm, and then looked down: "Well, the violet petals will turn blue."

"you--"

"I haven't finished yet." This time it was Winter who interrupted Lucius' words: "The same action, if I say 'I love you'," the pattern on the arm changes again, producing a vivid The obviously much stronger heat just now is like a flame burning, but it will not hurt: "Then, the petals will turn red. Even if I don't pass the letter or the water mirror in the future, if I want to say these two sentences to you, It can be conveyed through this mark. This violet mark is two-way, so if you also want to convey this meaning to me, you will have the same reaction." Winter turned his gaze to Lucius' changed arm, The tone was as gentle as if he was saying the most touching words of love: "Isn't this a good idea?"

"Enough! Mr. Lambert! Get rid of this boring thing! I don't have time to play love games with you!" Lucius' anger didn't cool down at all because of Winter's explanation: "Immediately! Remove!"

"Oh, do you want to remove it?" Winter snorted softly, raised his head, and met Lucius' eyes that seemed to be burning with flames: "It's also very simple to remove, it's the third transformation spell I mentioned, and it doesn't need I operate, as long as you press him with your right hand and say it. Do you want to know?"

"Say!" Lucius pressed his left arm angrily, glaring at Winter angrily.

"Well, it's okay to tell you. I don't have the perverted control desire of the Dark Lord, so don't be so nervous. You can take it as a boring prank." Winter still had a smile on his face, and his tone was calm: "The spell It's 'I hate you' plus my real name, not Henry Winter, but the real name whose surname is Lambert. As long as you say these five words, the violet mark will be automatically lifted."

Lucius would not be overwhelmed by anger. Winter never revealed his real name, but used it here as a spell.Obviously, Lucius won't be able to get the cancel spell that Winter said so easily.Anger plus suspicion was Lucius' silent response at the moment.

"Don't worry, I won't shamelessly let you guess. It's not difficult to guess, you just have to try the names of the four men in our family, and you will succeed, and I guarantee that there will be no harm if you call the wrong spell." question." Winter's smile was still full.

"What are you trying to do?" Lucius looked at Winter vigilantly, and the anger in his heart began to cool down inexplicably because of the other's smile.

"What's the matter, I said it was just a prank, why don't you try it. I don't mind if you try it now, and then, when the mark is lifted, won't you be able to know my real name?" Wen Te spread his hands .

"What else? I don't believe you only have this level of meaning." Lucius took a deep breath, let go of his right hand holding his left arm, and said solemnly: "Say clearly!"

"It's nothing." Winter shrugged: "I just want to ask you for a favor. Personally, I never believe that love is perfect, nor do I believe that love is due to fate. I only believe in myself, as long as it is I believe that I can pay any price to hold on to each other. So I don't intend to deny my feelings and attachment to you. I don't know what you are thinking, and I don't want to hypocritically guess. You treat me It must have been carefully considered. I am just making a final confirmation. I promise you with my life, with this mark as evidence, from the moment it disappears on my arm, the relationship between you and me In addition to cooperation, they are just strangers."

The feeling of anger and vigilance was like falling into an ice cave in an instant, and Lucius only felt chills all over his body.Winter's smile seemed to be tainted with brutal madness in an instant.

"You can call me mean or overbearing. I never think I'm a bad person. I admit that I'm threatening you and using your feelings for me as a bargaining chip. If you don't mind our future relationship at all Become like that, you can change your decision at any time. I did fall in love with you, and I did deliberately hide my identity from you. I have my reasons, and I don’t think it necessarily needs to be explained. Love, the essence also belongs to A kind of equivalent exchange." Wen Te got up, knelt in front of Lucius on one knee, took his left hand, and kissed the back of his hand lightly: "I will obey your choice."