HP's Platinum Temptation

Lucius waited for his guests in front of the fireplace with Narcissa and Draco.

The scheduled time is ten o'clock in the morning, and the Lambert family has always had the advantage of being punctual.

At exactly ten o'clock, the fireplace at Malfoy Manor burst into green flames on time.The figures of the Duke of Rezland, the Duchess, Terrence and Emilia, Alvira, Theodore and Clarence came out of the fire one after another at almost the same intervals.In order to take care of the people who entered the fireplace in front, the users behind will leave a little time for the former to adjust their posture and walk away in time.

Seeing his target appearing in front of him without being disturbed, Lucius couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that the agreed date to take care of the Lambert family is actually because the Hogwarts school director's invitation letter was issued on this day.

The conviction, trial and execution of the Carlo family all take time, especially the issue of execution.After all, the Carlo family is not a nobody alone, and the assets tied up under this family also need a process of liquidation and transfer.In order to ensure that the target can appear at the right time, Dumbledore also helped.Moreover, Dumbledore also contributed a lot in order to prevent the two current school managers of the Violet Alliance, Hall and Macmillan, from knowing about this matter in advance and notifying Winter.

Lucius' previous connivance and temptations to Winter were actually paving the way for this trap that was set before the Quidditch World Cup.

In fact, Lucius really hesitated for a long time about setting up this trap.Even during the execution until now, Lucius' heart rate has not returned to a restful rate.He had calculated in advance the time interval required for the owl to depart from Hogwarts and arrive at Malfoy Manor.Then we deliberately arranged such an arrival time and arrival method.

After the Lambert family arrives, Lucius will lead them from the side of the manor where the fireplace is located, to the corridor inside the manor, and visit the carefully prepared scenery along the way to welcome the guests.The slightly detoured hallway helps Lucius adjust the timing of everyone's arrival in the living room.

With no flaws in his expression, Lucius led his guests through the long corridor and slowly walked to the living room where the guests lived.On the way to the destination, Lucius looked at Terrence and Clarence calmly.

Terrence asked Emilia to hold him, and listened carefully to Lucius' occasional introduction to the scenery along the way, nodding from time to time.Clarence seemed to be seriously cooperating with this tour, but was spotted several times by Lucius, who was secretly staring at him.His eyes were as hot as when he was leading him along the garden path in Lambert Manor.

There were no decorations on the hands of the two of them, and naturally there were no flaws.

Naturally, the invitation to the new school manager would not be hidden from the incumbent school managers, and Dumbledore was obliged to inform everyone.So at the latest when the invitation letter was issued, all the school managers would know about the invitation letter delivered to Chief Lambert.And of course Hall and Macmillan.

Everyone in the Violet Society knows the itinerary of the Lambert family's visit to Malfoy Manor today.Combined with the new school manager information at hand.Those two people will definitely realize the real purpose hidden behind this invitation immediately.And after they know, they will definitely notify Winter as soon as possible.

Because of the water mirror, Hall and McMillan had no difficulty in notifying Winter before the mail arrived.Lucius couldn't really guess how Winter might react.

Lucius and Winter had known each other for more than four years, and the only time he realized that he had touched Winter's bottom line was that time, when Winter used the violet mark to force him to take a stand.Besides, Winter was almost never angry with him, and his temper was so good that Lucius had nothing to say.

Although Winter lost his temper only once, Lucius remembered it deeply.It wasn't a violent storm, but a spring breeze on his face, but every word Winter said was like tightening the rope bit by bit, making people face the threat of imminent loss.

If Winter knew about the situation before he received the letter, would he just throw up his sleeves and leave to avoid the answer?Or fly into a rage?

If the reminder from Hall and Macmillan hadn't arrived in time, would it be Terrence or Clarence who received the letter?How will he react?

Last night, Lucius was still debating whether to temporarily cancel the plan.He wasn't sure if he could accept that final result.

But reality is pushing Lucius to continue this trap.Not to mention, the members of the Pure Blood Alliance clearly put forward the request to find out the identity of Winter in a separate meeting, and even he himself could not support the ambiguity with the unknown Winter.

"Mr. Malfoy? You seem a little distracted. Are you tired of looking at your own garden?" It was Clarence who spoke.

The visit to the interior of this kind of classical manor does not require the owner's non-stop introduction. What's more, they only need to play the role of a guide.The characters who will be guided by the owner should have a considerable level of appreciation.So during the process of everyone visiting on their own, Clarence didn't know when he got close to Lucius.

During the two major events during the summer vacation, only Winter and the Duke of Rezlan were publicly present in the Lambert family.Lucius found that every time he saw Clarence, there was basically a year's interval.And every time, the speed at which the youngest Mr. Lambert increased in height would amaze Lucius.When he visited Lambert Manor last year, from Terrence to Theodore to Clarence, he could still see the slight difference in height decline.But now, the heights of the former two have not changed, but Clarence's height has caught up. At this time, he is no different from Theodore and Lucius.

Clarence's question drew Lucius' attention back.

The corridor visit was coming to an end, but the expressions of Terrence and Clarence did not change.Obviously, they don't know the trap waiting in front of them.

Lucius suddenly had a strange feeling, did Hall and McMillan actually want Winter's identity to be made public?Otherwise, no matter how late, if they want to send the message, Winter should have received it.

Winter has always concealed his identity. Wherever he appears, not only all members of the Lambert family will try to avoid it, even the members of the core families of the Violet Alliance, except for Mrs. Collins, will basically not be present.

It is said that within the Violet Alliance, only the patriarchs of the five core families know the identity of Winter.The other members are the same as the members of the Pure Blood Alliance. Even the fact that Winter's surname is Lambert is not completely certain.

Winter has absolute real power, so he is willing to keep it mysterious, and the members of the alliance have no capital to speak out against it.Therefore, the possibility that Lucius guessed just now cannot be completely ruled out.

Because there were family members watching, Clarence didn't get a response from Lucius, but couldn't continue to ask after hitting a wall, so he could only distance himself from Lucius in a friendly manner.

Lucius turned his head, just in time to see Emilia and Terrence talking about something, smiling happily, feeling a little irritable for no reason.The mood returned to the entanglement when Winter asked him who he really wanted to be.

Before entering the living room, Lucius took a deep look at the two suspects who still had no abnormal reaction, and felt a little annoyed that he was so indecisive and indecisive that he was so anxious and lost in thought all the way.Rambling associations are of no use.Whatever the reason, Lucius should be thankful that they didn't realize the problem.

Although Lucius thought that he had done his calculations this time, maybe Winter used his own method to avoid it.If this time a perfectly calculated ambush, Winter also escaped safely.Lucius decided not to hesitate, nor to dwell on the question of his name.As he finally answered Winter, for Lucius personally, he is Henry Winter, the best option.

After Narcissa accompanied Lucius to welcome the guests at the beginning, she left first for the reason of preparing the lunch.In fact, he was holding Lucius' water mirror and waiting for news from Dumbledore.If Winter accepted that invitation, Dumbledore's side would know immediately.

Seeing that the target time has entered, Terrence and Clarence are still unsuspecting.The success of the plan was right in front of Lucius' eyes.

flutter-

An owl with an ordinary color suddenly flew into the living room through the window.

Lucius' heartbeat rose to his throat instantly.

Because of his prior instructions, the house elves who used to receive letters on their behalf did not dare to stop any owls flying into Malfoy Manor.

The owl carried a gold-edged mail, wandered around the living room twice, and suddenly wobbled towards Lucius' direction.

Lucius subconsciously looked to his left and right, and Terrence and Clarence were impressively beside him.

As the owl approached, Lucius subconsciously slid his Adam's apple, his eyes fixed on the email.I saw the slightly unreliable owl swinging around, and finally heard Lucius' hand, using its own beak, gently pecked Lucius who was completely numb.

"Mr. Malfoy?" When the owl flew in, everyone present noticed Lucius' abnormal behavior.At this time, the latter was completely stunned, and the neighbor who couldn't understand the situation couldn't help but remind him.

"Lucius, the lunch is ready, you..." Narcissa immediately entered the living room after receiving Dumbledore's message.The luncheon is ready, which is the code word for Dumbledore's affirmative answer.Then the only owl in the living room was on Lucius, and Narcissa was dumbfounded for a moment.

Lucius clenched his fist subconsciously, and opened the email in a vacant mind.After reading clearly the simple line of words in the letter, Lucius' face instantly turned from white to red, from red to blue, and finally he let out a helpless laugh like a deflated ball.

Terrence, who was completely ignorant of the situation, leaned over to take a look, and found that it was written in a font he was very familiar with: The prank is over!

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Just as Clarence grabbed a handful of floo powder and was about to stand in the fireplace, next to Theodore's leaving back, he saw himself roll out of the fireplace.

Clarence, who looked surprised, didn't realize what was going on, and saw that "I" breathed a sigh of relief after seeing him, and then grabbed a handful of fly from the bowl on the table next to Clarence. Road powder, threw it on the fire, and called out the address of Malfoy Manor.

Just like when he came, "I" left in the same rush, and didn't even have time to say a letter to Clarence, the right lord.

Clarence grabbed the Floo powder, and before he could recover, he heard his water mirror ring.

"What happened, Mr. Lister? I just appeared in the fireplace, is it Jeffrey?" Clarence asked directly after turning on the water mirror.

"Very good, it seems that we have caught up. Fortunately, fortunately." Old Rist on the other side of the water mirror was greatly relieved.

"what's the situation?"

"Trap." The old Rist took a deep breath before explaining seriously: "Hall received a notification from Dumbledore that Hogwarts sent you an invitation letter from the school board. The owl will run directly to hold Lambert It is obvious that Malfoy has prepared a trap for you in advance. If Geoffrey does not catch up, you may receive that invitation in Malfoy Manor, under the eyes of everyone letter."

"So you just kicked Jeffrey who drank the compound potion into the fireplace? I think I saw a footprint on his back." Clarence laughed.

"Are you still in the mood to joke? I thought you would get angry right away!" Old Rist was teased by Clarence helplessly.Obviously, it was impossible for him to act so unethically as kicking his son into the fireplace.

"Thank you, you helped me a lot this time. At least I'm angry, but I won't. Even if Jeffrey doesn't arrive in time, at worst, I'll just take Terrence and come back together."

"I don't think Malfoy will forget to turn off the fireplace in his house." Old Rist twitched his lips, obviously he still didn't have much affection for Lucius.

"The big deal is to be discovered. Are you worried that those guys from the Pure Blood Alliance will not accept it?" Clarence chuckled twice: "According to Lucius himself, between Terrence and me, they would rather be me." .”

"If I remember correctly, it's not those people from the Pure Blood Alliance that you want to hide." Old Rist sighed.

"That's right, it seems that I have to prepare a small gift for Lucius, just as a shock to Jeffrey."

Thus, the fake invitation letter that Lucius received was born.

Later, according to Jeffrey, who had been staring at Lucius, Lucius' expression afterwards was quite wonderful.However, it is estimated that except for Narcissa and Jeffrey, no one else understands it.

Clarence didn't realize it until after the forged letter was sent. Lucius had been planning this matter in advance for more than a month.If it wasn't for Jeffrey's timely rescue, Clarence was really not sure how things would end up.

After the Lambert family finished their visit to Malfoy Manor and went home, Clarence looked for Lucius once in a good mood.

Lucius didn't mean to deny his actions at all, and turned into a rage because he couldn't figure it out but was molested, and scolded Clarence, and finally, he said a word in anger: "Your disrespectful person likes to say Did not say!"

Obviously Lucius gave up on continuing to explore the identity of Clarence.Although the credibility of this statement is unknown, Clarence took a small pride in his narrow escape.

Time came to Christmas Eve in a blink of an eye.

At the ceremony in the afternoon, the thirteen main members of the New Violet Society formally signed the official magic contract for the merger of the alliance.

It can be seen that the other four members of the Pure Blood Alliance showed slight displeasure when they saw that Clarence still looked like Winter.However, they were afraid of the strong fighting power that Clarence had shown before, so they naturally didn't dare to show anything.Regulus, on the other hand, looked at Clarence a little longer, and there was no emotion on his face.As Lucius said, he was so silent that he no longer had a sense of presence.

The main core members have replaced the Dark Mark and tattooed the Violet Badge.In order to treat everyone equally, members of the Violet Alliance are also treated the same way.As for the rest of the tattoo work of the other members, it will be handed over to the representatives of both sides to arrange in batches, and then make another appointment with Clarence.

Henry Winter is obviously a member of the Violet Alliance, but he can't obviously support this side.Therefore, at the social dinner for all members in the evening, the identity of the new leader does not need to appear at all.The most important purpose of the dinner is to increase the chances of getting familiar with the two alliances that had barely communicated before the merger.In order to avoid the possibility of the scene turning into a fight, all members are required to bring their family members.If everyone has scruples, naturally there will be no disturbances.

Winter was not there, so the Duke of Rezlan and Lucius were naturally the two highest-status people present.No matter how embarrassing, the Lamberts and the Malfoys must lead by example and take the lead in communicating with members of the opposing alliance.

The Lambert family is more powerful here. Except for Emilia who is really not suitable to participate as a pure Muggle, there are six people in every action.This number of people is quite oppressive at the dinner party, and it is a bit too abrupt.And in the second half of the dinner, because of the leading role of the two families, the awkward atmosphere at the beginning was finally almost eliminated.

So after Wendell came over and dragged Theo away mostly.Jeffrey also dragged Clarence out of the team of the Lambert family, and ran to the balcony of the dinner party to catch his breath.

Jeffrey walked out of the balcony and was just about to speak when Clarence pulled him hard and pushed him behind the curtain of the French window of the balcony.Before Jeffrey realized what happened, he saw Clarence suddenly bowed his head and kissed him.

Jeffrey's eyes widened in fright, and he almost couldn't help kicking Clarence.

At this moment, Jeffrey heard a light voice: "Scared me, I thought someone was eavesdropping. It turned out that they came out to have an affair." If it wasn't for Jeffrey being completely quiet because he was scared by Clarence, he probably wouldn't be able to hear it.

The Lamberts are dressed in the clothes that Muggle nobles would wear today. Clarence is also wearing a highly recognizable suit, but because the venue is relatively hot, he took off his jacket on the seat at the beginning. Now Only wearing a white shirt.If it's just a white shirt, you can't tell if it's wizard clothing or Muggle clothing.And Jeffrey was short of Clarence by nearly a head in height, and because he was wearing a black robe.Under the condition of dim lighting, it is normal to be mistaken for a young couple who ran out of the venue to have an affair.

Of course, the precondition is that Clarence has such a quick reaction and makes an action that looks like he is in a hurry to do something regardless of whether there is anyone on the balcony.

Clarence stopped after getting close to Jeffrey Road to a certain extent, and listened carefully to the movement behind him.

"Go in, don't disturb these young people." It was a different voice from just now.

"Didn't Malfoy say that he would know Winter's identity before the dinner party, and he apparently avoided this topic, hmph."

"Wait a minute, isn't the dinner party over yet?"

"How long has he been delaying? Could it be that he didn't mention this condition with Wen Te at all?"

"There is no other way. If Malfoy can control Winter, the leader of the Violet Society will not be theirs."

The sound of the conversation gradually fades away as the interlocutor moves away until it is completely inaudible.

Clarence paused for a while, making sure no one else was around, before letting go of Jeffrey.The two returned to the venue together.

"What do they mean?" Jeffrey asked in a low voice.

"Obviously, I was required to disclose my identity as one of the conditions for the merger, but Lucius kept this secret and didn't tell me."

"Why—" Jeffrey's question was interrupted by a bump and a loud cry in the middle of the sentence.

"Ah, Clay, you just came back." Theodore, who came out of nowhere, grabbed Clarence and led him to the Duke of Razlan in the middle of the venue.Wendell and Jeffrey, who were left with helpless faces, looked at each other.

"The two of you came just in time." Terrence turned his head and saw the target he was looking for coming up by himself, and immediately waved.In the center of the venue, facing the Duke of Rezlan and the other four, stood the Malfoy family and Regulus.

"What's the matter?" Theodore asked, meeting Terrence's gaze.

"Mr. Malfoy is introducing us to Mr. Black. Mr. Black is Mrs. Malfoy's cousin and one of the twelve seats." The Duke of Rezlan answered the words, and finished speaking to the two sons who had just leaned over, and then Looking at Regulus, he introduced seriously: "This is my second son, Theodore, and my youngest son, Clarence."

Regulus had seen considerably more change than Clarence had seen before.In fact, during the afternoon meeting, Clarence noticed.

When Regulus was first rescued from the cave by the sea, Regulus had always looked left and right, but now, Regulus has not only increased in height, but also seems to be a size bigger. He looks 25 years old look.

Regulus was not talkative, but he was not completely unresponsive.Hearing the Duke of Rezlan's introduction, he also looked at Theodore and Clarence.

The moment he met Regulus' eyes, Clarence had a subtle feeling that something was going wrong.

The next second, Regulus stretched out his left hand suddenly, and also held Clarence's left hand.

Throughout the night, Regulus's most actions were passively nodding to those who spoke to him, but now he suddenly took the initiative to hold Clarence's hand.This also made the other eight people in the chat circle look over together.

Just when Clarence was about to let go of Regulus's hand with tingling scalp, Lucius' expression changed drastically while looking at the two hands clasped together, and Narcissa couldn't help but uttered a cry of surprise. call.

Clarence knew it was bad the moment he looked down.

When Theodore rushed over to pull him just now, he bumped into Jeffrey, so the glass of champagne in the latter's hand was completely spilled on Clarence's left sleeve.

The white shirts worn at the dinner party are basically made of those specific materials. While meeting the requirements of lightness, self-cultivation, and decentness, these materials also have a common feature, that is, they are basically almost transparent after being wet.

At this time, the violet mark on Clarence's left arm near the elbow was clearly visible through the wet shirt sleeve.

Not to mention that the people who made Regulus take the initiative to approach him could be counted with a single slap.

The tattoo of the Violet Mark should not appear on anyone other than the twelve members of the Violet Society.

But with this on Clarence's arm, there's only one explanation.

Lucius' reaction was, without saying a word, he left everyone behind and turned around to leave.

The author has something to say: <(￣▽￣)>Wow haha... This chapter is the thickest and longest ever!

Yuanyuan's foreshadowing from Chapter 92 finally came into play! ! ! ! !

Yuanyuan actually endured until now before she broke out this foreshadowing~

It's really not easy/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~