HP's Platinum Temptation

Lucius' sudden action was quite rude, and the meeting between the two families had already attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

Except for Clarence, the other members of the Lambert family have not yet reacted to what happened.

"My God, you are..." Narcissa covered her mouth, the last name stuck in her throat.

Clarence showed a wry smile subconsciously, let go of Regulus' hand, and immediately chased after Lucius and left the venue.

For such a moment of stupefaction, when Clarence chased him out of the venue, no one could see the shadow of Lucius.

Clarence couldn't find Lucius, and his first reaction was to call with a water mirror.But all the call requests fell silent.Obviously he was the last person Lucius wanted to see right now.

Apart from a wry smile, Clarence didn't know what expression to make now.

Clarence dodged Lucius's many careful calculations earlier.It even made Lucius give up struggling with his identity.At this juncture, Clarence fell into the hands of Regulus in the end.Apart from saying it was Merlin's joke, I really don't know how else to attribute it.

Even without the champagne knocked over by Theodore, Regulus' action was enough to expose Clarence.

To be precise, there were only two people who could make Regulus take the initiative to do anything, except for Snape, and that was Winter.

Regulus held Clarence's hand for only a short moment, and no one saw it except the eight people standing nearby.

But then Clarence chased Lucius out, and that was in full view, and it was impossible to cover it up.

Lambert could only be alone if he was brave enough to chase Malfoy away.When everyone looked back at the circle of people in the center of the venue, it was obvious who was missing.

There are a few people who guessed the real situation on the spot.And in this circle, once someone knows a lot of information, it will no longer be a secret.

In less than two days, the guests present that day basically knew about it.

Two days later, the news spread from the laughing student of the pure-blood family, and quickly spread throughout the school during the holiday.

Two days later, the Daily Prophet reported on the matter.

In an instant, the entire British wizarding world was in a sensation.

******

After the fifth-grade Christmas vacation, Clarence returned to Hogwarts for the first time to fully enjoy a grand occasion that attracted the attention of thousands of people.

From the moment Clarence walked into the auditorium, almost everyone's eyes were glued to him.

This summer, the name Henry Winter definitely got enough of the limelight.A series of eye-catching performances have made him the hottest topic after dinner.

But Henry Winter was Clarence Lambert, who had just passed his sixteenth birthday.An underage wizard who overwhelmed three older men in his family.This news is too explosive.

The Lambert family naturally knows how to do crisis public relations. Anyway, once the news is leaked, the news published on the Daily Prophet is all actively requested by the Lambert family.

Taking over as the patriarch of the family at the age of eight, a series of remarkable achievements after that can be called a miracle if you look at Clarence's age at the time.

And his most impressive stroke is that he decisively solved Alecto Carlo under the eyes of thousands of people.

Originally, the Slytherin students looked at their chief only with respect, but now they turned into complete awe.After Clarence tapped Baker on the shoulder inadvertently once, the difference scared him out.Clarence restrained his usual body language helplessly.

Fortunately, everyone's attention on this topic is entirely on Clarence Lambert himself.Under the deliberate concealment of insiders, the issue of the ambiguous relationship between Lucius and Clarence stopped among the members of the Violet Society.

However, the members of these Violet Society will not speak out, but it does not mean that they will not discuss it internally.Therefore, the clear age difference of 15 years has become their favorite topic.

Since the dinner, Lucius has completely avoided Clarence.Although Narcissa did not avoid Clarence, her attitude was complicated for a while.

Of course, there are other people who have just learned the truth and chose a relatively simple and crude way to solve the problem.

The rolling black robe swept across the classroom like the wind, and the impact caused Clarence to spend only three drops of materials into a whole bottle.

puff--

A pot of potion was completely scrapped.

"Mr. Lambert, for your 'excellent' potion. Come to my office tonight for confinement." Snape's ability to avenge personal revenge is absolutely top-notch.

The confinement punishment received in Potions class in the morning, and in the afternoon, gossip spread that "Snape retaliated privately because he was dissatisfied that his student was more domineering than his identity".

At night, as soon as Clarence reached the door of the cellar, the door opened by itself, and Snape's voice came from inside: "Come in."

This was the first time Clarence had been greeted in Snape's office without opening the door, although it was obviously not a good sign.

Regulus was the first thing Clarence saw when he stepped into the room.

Regulus seemed to be sitting on the sofa in a daze of boredom.And when he saw Clarence, he took the initiative to show a shallow smile.

"Dean." Clarence said hello obediently.

"I want to confirm something that sounds very funny, Mr. Lambert." Snape, who was sitting behind the desk, tapped his hand on the table: "I wonder if you can answer your humble Potions Professor Does the Lambert family have a weird custom of letting the youngest troll in the family keep the patriarch's ring when they are free?"

"No." Clarence sighed: "The ring has always been with me."

"After Easter last year, when Mr. Winter was still in the Albanian forest, it seemed that Hogwarts had already started." Snape continued.

"That's Sirius..."

"Then, it's always been the aging agent plus the compound medicine?" Snape snorted again before he could get an answer.

This is a question asked knowingly, and Clarence can only nod.

Regulus next to him didn't seem to respond to the conversation between the two, Snape snorted coldly and kept staring at Clarence without saying a word.There was an eerie silence in the room.

"Dean, do you have any news about Mr. Lu...Mr. Malfoy?" Clarence originally blurted out to say Lucius, but after Snape gave him a fierce slap in the eye, he temporarily changed his address.

"No." Snape denied without thinking, "Please dispose of the fig peels on the table over there before curfew." After speaking, Snape lowered his head again, focusing on the things on his table.

"..."

Clarence thought that the confinement was just a reason to ask him to come here, but he didn't expect it to be true.He curled his lips helplessly and walked to the materials table on the other side of the office.As he passed the sofa, Regulus stood up suddenly and followed him.Facing Clarence's puzzled gaze, Regulus said, "I'll help you."

It turned out that Clarence received yet another ocular from Snape.

Clarence didn't understand the purpose of Snape's request for him at all, and his subordinates were supposed to be working for the whole night, but with the help of Regulus, the progress was fast.It was obvious that Regulus was quite proficient in handling potion materials, and his efficiency was higher than that of Clarence.This made Clarence unable to bear the illogical imagination in his mind.

Lucius once said that now Regulus is clinging to Snape almost all day long. Originally, Snape used various methods to refuse him, but later he gradually acquiesced, and Regulus followed suit casually. .Combined with Regulus' current proficiency in business, Clarence guessed that Snape probably got a skilled worker for free, so he let Regulus' pressing man-marking go.Anyway, Regulus would not follow the class unwisely.

At this time, the fireplace in the office suddenly lit up, and a figure stepped out from it.

"Severus, have you..."

The visitor raised his hand after landing, just in time to meet the sight of Clarence looking towards the fireplace from the material when he heard the voice.Coincidentally, the material table is facing the fireplace.

So, the conversation stopped abruptly, and the visitor didn't wait for Snape's answer at all, then turned around and disappeared from the fireplace.

Clarence received Snape's murderous sight for the third time tonight.

"Dean, the materials are finished. Shall I go back to the lounge first?" Clarence asked in a tentative tone.

"Wait a minute, you sit there." Snape pointed to the sofa, got up and walked to the medicine cabinet on the other side: "I have already made two kinds of experimental products for the potion that Mr. Potter needs."

"Successful? How do you use it?" After hearing the second half of Snape's sentence, Clarence's tone immediately became proactive: "Can you arrange the experiment?"

Snape took out two small potion bottles of different colors and handed them to Clarence: "There is no suitable human body to try, but I tried the medicine on Regulus, and the medicine has no effect on normal people."

"Isn't Regulus completely drug-resistant now?"

"No matter what potion he drinks, it won't show any effect, but if it hurts or is poisonous, he can know it. It's just that he will be fine." Snape calmly explained: "But just to be on the safe side For the sake of it, I tried it myself, and it really didn’t work.”

"However, Regulus and you are both adults, so it's not certain that they won't respond to minors. What is the principle of this medicine? What is its effect?" Clarence asked.

"The big bottle is based on the magical characteristics in the body, marking your soul in reverse, forming a complete protective layer for the soul. The small bottle is the soul burning potion, which is the formula found in the black magic book. The theoretical effect is to eliminate souls." Snape explained: "Because the magic power involving underage wizards may not be finalized, so I don't know if there will be a difference. But I haven't found any other suitable candidates for the test drug."

"..." After hearing the last sentence of Snape's words, Clarence was speechless: "You want me to test the medicine? I thought you meant to say that you can arrange a meeting with Harry."

"Whether you can actually use it for Mr. Potter depends on the results of your test drug. Judging from the effect of the nightmare potion, you, like Regulus, have high drug resistance, but you have not been strengthened by the toxin of the necromancy. "Snape continued to explain: "And you can rest assured that the soul protection potion is indeed harmless and can be felt. After you are sure that you have activated the protective layer, you can try the soul burning potion. The latter potion The effect is also weakened to the greatest extent. Even if it is used for someone who has not taken the soul protection potion, it seems that it only weakens his own mental state, and the recovery period is relatively long."

"I guess you asked Dumbledore to help take people from the Carlo family to try?"

After pouring down the bottle of soul protection potion, the bitterness at the base of the tongue turned into an icy coldness, which seemed to radiate as it went down the esophagus, and then was absorbed by the magic circulation in the body, and then went up against the force of gravity, gradually Gather to the center of the brow.Clarence couldn't see the change, but he seemed to feel it.All the cold breath disappeared after reaching the center of the eyebrows: "How can I be sure that the protective layer has been formed?"

"Try to feel the center of your eyebrows with the breath of magic power, and you will feel that you see a sphere. The size of the sphere probably refers to the strength of your soul. Regulus and I feel differently." Snape said from the desktop He brought a piece of parchment, on which two imperfect circles were drawn: "A complete ball is considered a success. Regulus probably drank ten times more than me to complete the ball." a feeling of."

The subsequent experiments were barely successful, and confirmed Snape's guess that Clarence had a relatively high resistance to the drug. Although it was not at the level of Regulus, he still drank two more potions before finding Snape. The feeling of the complete sphere that Pu said.

Clarence suddenly felt that Regulus was a perfect match for Snape, with top-notch handling of materials, and a huge body with strong drug resistance, no reaction to poison, so he could help Snape try various drugs casually .This probably covered all of Snape's daily needs.

"Then I will be in charge of going to Harry's side. Do I have to wait until the Easter holiday? If you need more than one day." Clarence asked: "As for the staff, I probably need to call Dumbledore and Lucius .”

"I don't think..." Snape had just said three words when Regulus pulled his arm suddenly.Glancing at Regulus, Snape actually didn't say anything in the end.

Clarence's puzzled eyes turned back and forth on the two people opposite him again, but he didn't see anything.

******

For the accident at the dinner party, Lucius received a bolt from the blue without any mental preparation.

Compared with Terrence and Clarence, Lucius prefers the former to be the final answer.At least Terrence is only one year younger than him, at least Terrence has a spouse with a legal marriage relationship like him, at least when Terrence asks for further development of the relationship, Lucius can use the marriage relationship between the two parties to refuse ,At least……

But the result is exactly the opposite.

After leaving the dinner party and returning to Malfoy Manor, Lucius locked himself in the room directly.My mind was completely messed up, and I couldn't figure out any clues.

Shui Jing didn't answer calls, received owl emails and didn't reply, and the violet mark on Ren's hand turned into a beautiful red color countless times. Lucius didn't give Clarence any reaction at all.

If you think about it in reverse, the reason why Clarence concealed his identity is obvious.

The scenes of getting along with Winter in the past played back before his eyes, as well as everything that Clarence conveyed in his true identity. Lucius re-realized the seriousness behind every joke of Clarence.But at this time, Lucius deeply realized that he seemed unable to give what Clarence wanted.

It is completely impossible to answer the ambiguity before the identity is known.Take another step forward, and there are many obstacles.Even if Clarence's sincerity to himself was a little bit less, and all the promises were a little bit more false.Lucius felt that he might still be able to bear it.With Clarence's character, how could he be willing to stop the relationship as a lover?

And every time Clarence looked for and called him after the incident, this kind of panic in Lucius was exacerbated.

Clarence, now only 16, has been patriarch for eight years.Eight years brought a family that was almost forgotten in the British wizarding world to almost the top position now.Looking at all the things named by Violet, Lucius doesn't think he has this ability.

In terms of age, appearance, ability, family background and even personal combat ability, Lucius didn't find that he had any.Nothing is worthy of this love.

Not to mention the members of the Violet Alliance, even the members of the Pure Blood Alliance, after knowing all the meanings of Clarence's identity, passed the initial surprise and turned into ecstasy.Lucius' departure that night, and Clarence's chase.In an instant, the secret that only a few senior officials of the Violet Alliance knew became a topic of public discussion in the entire Violet Society.

There were many discussions from the outside world, and Lucius knew all about it.Lust for Clarence turns to jealousy for Lucius.The Malfoy family has already been pushed to the forefront because of unrealized rumors.

Draco was still young, and the Malfoy family could not lose their support.The only thing Lucius needs to do now is to let the Malfoy family safely withstand the threats from the outside world, and then he will safely hand it over to Draco.

Before figuring out his complicated feelings, Lucius sentenced his relationship with Clarence to death.

Lucius hypnotized himself over and over again, ignoring everything Clarence sent, believing that time could dilute the discussion of everyone, as well as his own turbulent mood.

But Lucius' original firm defense crumbled the moment he saw Clarence in Snape's office.

When he saw those deep and charming green eyes that were unfamiliar but familiar to him, Lucius' heart was instantly disturbed and he fled.

Who can tell him what to do if he loves so much that he can't help himself before he realizes it?

Lucius ignored all messages from Clarence, and forbade Narcissa and Draco to reveal anything about themselves to Clarence.Even the official meeting invitation written by Clarence about Harry was ignored by him.

The savior problem doesn't need Lucius' presence to solve it.So Lucius continued to avoid Clarence with an ostrich mentality.

However, one day he discovered that Clarence no longer sent requests for water mirror calls, activated the violet mark on his arm, and no longer sent any letters except for the formulaic content about the Violet Society written by Yvette. .

When the reactions that Lucius expected to get appeared one by one, he panicked again.

Was Clarence angry?

Or did he finally give up completely?

Before the Hogwarts Easter holiday, Lucius received letters from Snape, Dumbledore and Terrence respectively, hoping that he could meet at the Broken Ax bar the next day after the start of the holiday. The Shleys brought Harry Potter out.At that time, Snape was in charge of treating Harry to remove the soul tablet, while the rest of them discussed the next plan together.Once all the Horcruxes are dealt with, it's time to start taking action against the Dark Lord himself.Lucius is the only person in the six seats of the Pure Blood Alliance who has full knowledge, and he has the obligation to attend this meeting.

******

The first to arrive at the Broken Ax was Snape and his special assistant Regulus.Lucius was the second to arrive.Snape silently gestured with his eyes after seeing him, and didn't say much.

Lucius' expression looked obviously more sluggish than at the dinner party three months ago, and even the strict attire couldn't completely cover up his poor attitude.

Soon, a smiling Dumbledore also appeared in the bar.

"It seems that Mr. Lambert is late?" Dumbledore asked.When Lucius heard that surname, his heart tightened.

Snape used a time display magic, and it was 2 minutes before the agreed eight o'clock.

"Oh, then I can have another candy. I think His Excellency is a punctual person." Lucius frowned at Dumbledore's second sentence.He remembered that he had overlooked a question. When the three people wrote to him, they didn't mention whether Clarence would show up tonight.

Half a minute before eight o'clock, a man in a black Muggle suit pushed open the door at the entrance to Charing Cross Road.He quickly looked around the inner circle, and after locking Dumbledore and the others, he walked over quickly.The man walked in and said in a voice that only these four people could hear: "Principal Dumbledore, Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Snape and Mr. Black, good evening, His Excellency the Prince is already waiting for the four of you outside, please follow me Come."

Dumbledore nodded and took the lead to follow the man in black out of the bar.

Except for the broken axe, there were not many people on the road at night, but the things not far in front of the five of them at this time were particularly eye-catching.It was three Muggle cars, parked not far from the road.It didn't matter that the front and rear cars were Muggle sedans, which are common on the streets of London.What matters is the one in the middle of the two cars.The smooth lines of the car body, the beautiful dark green exterior paint, and the rare elongated luxury body all show the prominent status of the owner.

The man led the private to the eye-catching RV in a low voice.Another man in a black suit standing next to the RV saw the four people walking in, opened the RV door respectfully for them, and made a gesture of invitation.

The four got into the car one after another, and the guarded people in black trotted into the car respectively, and the convoy started slowly.

Sitting in the car was naturally Terrence, who was neatly dressed in the prince's standard gorgeous clothes.

Of course, there is also Clarence, who is dressed in a blue robe and looks as cold as ice.

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