HP's Platinum Temptation

In the early morning, when the morning sun penetrates softly through the windows, it illuminates the whole room.Lucius flicked his eyelashes and slowly opened his eyes.

The bedrooms are small in size, but very cozy.The bed next to the wall is facing the east window. When the curtains are not closed, the sunlight will warm the carpet beside the bed, welcoming the owner of the bedroom in the most warm state to start a new day.

Glancing at the Muggle clock by the bed, Lucius struggled to get up.But just when he straightened up, he was brought back into the bed by an arm.

Small kisses fell on Lucius' forehead, eyes, nose, mouth and chin, as if to describe his appearance with his own kisses.The gentle kiss conveys the most beautiful and touching meaning, and makes people's hearts soft together.

"Stop making trouble, get up." Lucius pushed the head buried on his neck helplessly, trying to prevent the two of them from wasting a good morning on the bed.

"Hey, sleep a little longer, I finally came back, let's just treat it as a day off." Clarence rubbed up resentfully, and put his arms around Lucius' waist: "I want to satisfy you! Dear husband, you can't Always give time to those jobs that are not emotional."

"Husband, you are big!" Lucius reached out and grabbed the culprit who was rubbing on his body: "Who is the one who devotes all his time to work?"

"Yes, yes, it's me, then you can sleep with me for a while."

Lucius was about to say something, when he woke up his 'wife' who was unwilling to get up, the figure of Blade appeared on the bright window, knocking on the window with his sharp beak, ruthlessly declaring that he could sleep in The morning fell through.

Lucius got up and put the blade in, and handed the letter to Clarence.

"Two letters! The blade is definitely going to make things difficult for me!" Clarence could only sit up from the bed, and opened the two letters with a slightly violent movement.

Lucius glanced at Clarence who had started working the moment he opened the letter, and sighed helplessly.After feeding Daofeng, he turned around and took care of his messy appearance when he just got up.

When Clarence tempted Lucius with delicious food once a week before Clarence, Poplar Cottage was completely converted into his own private residence by him.All the modified layouts in the cabin were placed and arranged according to the living needs of Lucius and Clarence.Coupled with the diligent cleaning of the house elves, no matter when they come back, they will feel like they are at home.

Clarence, who is definitely considered a local tyrant, prepared all the daily needs for Lucius in the poplar hut, and even filled the closet with clean new clothes.Lucius didn't have to suspect that he might be missing something here.

Therefore, Lucius, who had just rushed back to England last night, was taken back to Poplar Cottage by Clarence for the night.

"Do you have anything to do today?" Clarence casually threw the first letter aside, while paying attention to Lucius' situation.

"I have a date with the Dursleys today, and I will officially take Mr. Potter to the Malfoy Manor." Lucius replied casually, focusing on tossing his hair.

"Ah, then I'll accompany you...Damn it!" Clarence's gentle emphasis was suddenly followed by a curse, which made Lucius turn his head with a frown.

"What's wrong?" Lucius asked, "What letter?"

"Theodore sent it, one is the new semester's book list, and the other is about various chores. I still want to rest for a few days, ah - Dumbledore is looking for trouble for me again, annoying! Clarence rubbed his hair irritably, and finally got off the bed: "Do you want to see it?"

"I'm not interested in anything that old fox does." Lucius refused resolutely: "Then I'll go back first?"

"Let's go after breakfast, I'll do it for you. It's a bit troublesome, I still need to tell you, let me think about how to express... oh... my vacation..." Clarence was wearing a nightgown , He opened the door and went to the kitchen without combing his hair.

Lucius looked at Clarence's back, his eyes softened a bit, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.If every morning can be spent like this, it will probably be really warm!

The house elf prepared the ingredients for breakfast early, so that Clarence didn't need to waste much time cooking it himself.Breakfast was ready by the time Lucius got dressed and went downstairs.

"Eat first, I'll go wash up."

Lucius had always felt that Clarence's habit of insisting on cooking himself when he was free was a waste of his few downtimes, but Clarence never tired of it.

"Is it delicious?" When Clarence changed his clothes and reappeared in the kitchen, Lucius had just finished a third of his meal.

"Yeah." Lucius nodded silently: "Will you have a job later?"

"It's not work, it's trouble." Clarence was depressed when he mentioned this.

"Dumbledore made it?"

"Obviously. And if Theodore didn't take the initiative to inquire and tell me clearly, I probably won't know until the beginning of school." Clarence sighed: "I was in France before, and I didn't refuse them to join the live-action duel once. Is it? As a result, Dumbledore is now next. It is said that the Triwizard Cup has not been held for many years, and it happens that Hogwarts has this system, so the Beauxbaton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang College and Seiler Mu Wizarding Academy has been invited. The Ministry of Magic has also agreed, and it must be that old Crouch has regained his vitality."

"Salem? Isn't it American? Why are they here to disrupt the situation?" Lucius frowned.

"Who knows. Theodore can only get some basic information, or because he is in charge of the real scene system of Hogwarts, Dumbledore had to inform him." Clarence sighed: "And, more than that Such a thing. Dumbledore asked Sirius to be this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. And the black dog also agreed. It's really... courting him."

"Dumbledore started to guard against you?" Lucius raised his eyebrows: "It's faster than I thought."

"The Death Eaters have been weakened a lot by us, and you have also been peacefully evolved by me. Dumbledore probably felt that the threat of the Dark Lord has been greatly reduced, so he messed up. He obviously didn't like me openly to Muggles. My dear, how much hatred does Dumbledore have with your pure-blood families? He seems to have never wanted the two factions of the Violet Society to integrate smoothly."

"It's not much enmity, class antagonism, conflict of interests. He always thought that if our influence is allowed to grow, other mump wizards will lose their freedom." Lucius obviously thought this question was boring.

"Every time I think about the total number of wizards in Britain, I don't think it's necessary to make things so complicated."

"It's not complicated now. If you prepare for that match in advance, it should be fine. Apart from you, there are no key figures in the school. Not many people know about Harry's residence in Malfoy Manor."

"What worries me now is that the news has been leaked by an unknown leaker. We've pretty much traveled all over Europe and haven't found the Dark Lord's whereabouts at all. Although it's possible that his whereabouts just missed us, But it does not rule out that he knew that I was looking for him, so he avoided it. But the only condition for the second situation to appear is that someone who understands the general situation and situation of the wizarding world helps him. Originally, if the Dark Lord was only tossing around in England If you want to, you only need to control the other wizards except him. But if someone disrupts the situation, the situation will become complicated." Clarence analyzed: "Your home must be prepared for defense."

"Do you suspect that Dumbledore has any other plans to influence the Dark Lord?" Lucius frowned, quite speechless about the degree of defense Clarence mentioned.

"Even if he doesn't have that intention and motive." Clarence thought for a while, and added: "At least he is the most suspected."

"Is there anything I need to do?" Lucius asked proactively, "Except for looking after the savior."

"Not yet, it seems that I have to go back to Lambert Manor later."

Lucius nodded silently.The two then changed the subject and talked about unrelated things until they finished breakfast.When Lucius was about to leave from the fireplace, Clarence hugged him again: "I will go to Malfoy Manor later today."

"Well, I know, Draco has been waiting for you for a long time. Sissy will prepare your dinner."

"You can always call Narcissa by her nickname easily, but you rarely call me by my name." Clarence complained slightly aggrieved.

"Clay." Lucius shouted obediently.

"Hmm." Clarence, who was easily satisfied, showed a comforted expression.

Lucius smiled, leaned forward, and kissed Clarence's lips proactively.Tongue entangled, Clarence tightened his waist in his arms, held Lucius' left hand with his right hand, and interlocked his fingers.A deep and lingering farewell kiss did not slowly separate until the breathing of both of them became a little disordered.

Clarence raised Lucius' left hand and kissed the ring on the ring finger: "Lucius, you can hide this ring, but don't take it off. You promised to marry me, no Repent!"

"understood."

******

Clarence was last at 12, Grimmauld Place, for the funeral of Lady Black.Both the first time and the last time.

After more than three years, the internal environment here is completely different.

Regulus had moved back to live here after Snape diagnosed him with regaining the ability to take care of himself.Both Kreacher and Mrs. Black's portrait are quite happy about it.Although Regulus didn't like to speak, he always seemed absent-minded.But the fact is that he has the thinking ability and action ability that a normal person should have.

Sirius would rather work for Clarence and have nothing to do with other ordinary wizards employed by the Lambert family than to inherit the Black family.So it was Regulus who picked up the neglected family affairs again.Lucius was worried for a while at first, but it turned out that Regulus, while spending a considerable amount of time sticking to Snape, also handled it quite well.

During last summer vacation, because of the Quidditch World Cup and the wizarding competition, Sirius had been living in the sports park.After the game was over, he went back to Black's old house with Regulus obediently, and the family seemed to get along happily, and there was no trouble that made other insiders feel helpless.

However, Clarence had come to find Snape.

After confirming through the water mirror in advance that Snape was not conducting experiments, Clarence came to Black's old house with the fireplace at ease.Although the house still maintains a cool tone, compared with the time when Clarence came here, there are already many traces of inhabitation.

As soon as Clarence stepped out of the fireplace, the first person he saw was Sirius: "I haven't congratulated you yet, Professor Black!" Seeing Sirius' smiling face, Clarence was furious.When he opened his mouth, he spoke words full of sarcasm, which made the originally flattering Sirius suddenly embarrassed.

"Haha, I don't dare to call myself a professor, the boss is better..." Sirius felt rather guilty when facing himself as a future student.Given that his current record against Clarence is still a total defeat, he absolutely does not want to be solved by his future students before school starts.

"I'm looking for Snape, why did you show up?"

"I heard him say it when I was having lunch just now, so I came to wait for you."

"Why are you waiting for me? Don't you need to file for the new school year's courses?"

Sirius didn't know the specific reason why Clarence was angry with him, but his keen animal intuition made him realize that something was wrong.But Clarence obviously didn't want to continue talking to him, so Sirius could only follow behind with a smiling face.

Regulus bought a super-large potion laboratory in Black's old house, and only then did he successfully lure Snape to visit here from time to time.It can be regarded as well-intentioned.Snape, who was concentrating on his potion research career, chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb to Regulus' possible ulterior motives.

When in Europe, Clarence once chatted with Lucius about the current situation of Regulus and Snape.He originally thought that since Regulus had successfully entered the school and followed Snape to school, the relationship between these two people should be closer than the relationship between himself and Lucius.

But the truth is, what Clarence saw was Regulus' most in-depth progress.

Lucius and Narcissa couldn't tell when Regulus fell in love with Snape.The specific reason, the two did not ask.As for Snape's reaction, apart from giving in a little when Regulus' Potions Assistant passed the appraisal, he still had the attitude of marrying Potions for the rest of his life.Solving Harry's problem allowed the man to focus more on his world of potions.

Regulus didn't seem to grow and change on his own.From the moment he was rescued to the time when he regained his ability to be independent, he had always looked like a young man, far from what he is now, with a slightly stronger physique than his brother Sirius.At a certain stage that no one noticed, Regulus seemed to have made a lot of aging potions for himself.After taking a lot of it, it became what it is now.And what's amazing is that Regulus' appearance was fixed, and he didn't change back because the aging agent's effect time expired.And his physical development can't be summed up in the genetic range of the Black family at all.

It turned out that Clarence thought that Mrs. Black should want Regulus to have offspring to inherit the Black family.But Lucius said that Mrs. Black had completely calmed down about Snape's frequent visits to her house. One very important reason was that Regulus was actually infertile.In other words, although Regulus came back to life, he was no longer a real human being.

After confirming that her youngest son wanted to improve his situation in this life and could only rely on Snape to make some kind of potion, Mrs. Black naturally changed her attitude towards Snape, and also changed her attitude towards Sirius.Before, she only liked to yell at Sirius, 'Nail! ' and so on, now I only like to say a word 'Hurry up and give birth to an heir to the Black family! '.

In a way, Sirius and Clarence can be regarded as sympathetic.

"Although you emphasized the importance of the topic, I still can't understand why you insist on coming here to find me under the premise that we will all go to Malfoy Manor later?" Snape saw Clarence entering the door Time, complained impatiently.

"There are some things that I don't want to say at Malfoy Manor. Please don't reveal them to Lucius. I'm afraid he'll think about it." Clarence directly ignored Sirius who was following him, and focused on talking to Snape.

"I don't think there is anything the Lambert family or the head of the Violet Society need to discuss seriously with a Hogwarts Potions professor."

"But as one of the rare or even unique potions masters in the UK and even in the European wizarding world, I think this matter can only be told to you. I have studied for a long time in the past and checked a lot of information, but I have not found the answer. Think Let me ask you, is there any potion that can help the Squib regain its magic power? Even if the magic power produced in the end is not strong." Clarence automatically filtered out Snape's impatient complaints, and directly explained his point.

Snape frowned when he heard this: "I heard that Prince Lambert's newborn son is a complete squib. But that should be due to the Muggle royal blood. As far as I know, there is no relevant potion record. "

"It's not the little guy's problem. There is no precedent for the characteristics of royal blood being reversed." Clarence shook his head: "Although I wanted to ask you to help study these two subjects before, you have been busy studying Harry's Question. I mean potions that awaken the magic of Squibs, and potions that give birth to children."

"Birth potion? What are you thinking?" Snape's face instantly became ugly and dangerous.

"Don't be nervous, and don't be angry. It's not what you think. Let me just say that this topic can't be discussed in Malfoy Manor. Even if you think so, Lucius will think more about it." Clarence waved his hand quickly : "I don't intend to let Lucius give birth to me, don't worry. If the Lambert family really needs the birth potion to breed an heir, I will hand over this important task to Theodore."

"If you have a new business plan, maybe you should talk to someone from the Violet Club, not me."

"Of course not, I'm only talking about this because I have to face the problem at hand." Clarence sighed, and took out a thick piece of information: "Here are all the information I have collected so far about these two Information about potions. Fertility potion is not the point, but a reference. Among the information that can be found, the principle of fertilization potion is to allow wizards who do not have the ability to reproduce naturally to construct a body that can breed new ones by adjusting their internal body structure and magic power cycle. The environment of the magic power cycle. Squibs just don’t have the magic power cycle of wizards, so considering the principle of birth potion, is it possible to change their body structure through potion and artificially create a magic power cycle.”

"This idea is feasible, but there are not many squibs in the UK right now. I don't think it is important or urgent to study this potion." Snape was not interested in Clarence's statement.

"Not many, just over 100. After all, there are only more than 3 wizards in the UK. But in the next period of time, there may be an important turning point. Our number is too small, while the number of Muggles is too many Eight years ago, they were able to find the Lambert family, and they must be able to find other families in the future. Now because of the cooperation, the Muggle government's plan to interfere with the wizarding world is limited. What if the cooperation is terminated? The number of Muggles and wizards is too different , if wizards are not encouraged to integrate into the life of Muggles, but separated from Muggles, sooner or later they will be found out by Muggles and persecuted as aliens. But Dumbledore does not agree with my point of view. Even if the Dark Lord's The problem is solved, the next thing is to face this problem. You can't watch the wizarding world slowly disappear like this, you can only prepare as soon as possible. The increase of wizards and Muggle marriages will lead to the increase of Squibs. This is my point of view The biggest problem inside. If this medicine can be researched, at least this weakness will be overcome."

Snape frowned and nodded, agreeing with Clarence's statement, but he asked again: "If that's all, why can't you tell Lucius?"

"It's inconvenient, and he doesn't know how to study potions. Regarding the problems that may arise from the ratio of wizards to Muggles, his attitude is actually similar to that of Dumbledore. And when it comes to childbirth potions, he must think too much. This Research must be hidden from everyone."

"Actually, you don't need to be so concerned about this issue, right? The Lambert family has already established a firm foothold in the Muggle world. Even if the British wizarding world suffers, probably your family will be fine." Snape asked again : "This research and this problem are long-term. You don't have the obligation and reason to take this problem on yourself?"

"It's not just the Lambert family that I care about. There are some things that need to be done or not done. Of course, they must be perfected and no dead ends can be left." Clarence looked at Snape: "Then, this research, Did you agree?"

"Okay." Snape agreed simply.

"Very good, now we're going to settle the matter of Mr. Sirius Black." Clarence, who had been very friendly to Snape just now, turned to Sirius who had been listening to the secret for a long time, with a look on his face. The expression has turned from sunny to cloudy, and the situation is cloudy.

"Did I...do something wrong?" Sirius couldn't help but shrink back when he met Clarence's eyes, and his tone became unstable: "I won't say what you just said."

"I've worked so hard to catch Lucius, and I haven't warmed up our relationship yet! Thanks to a certain stupid dog, my father already knew about my proposal to Lucius in Italy, so I wrote directly today The letter came asking me to make a clean break with Lucius. How do you settle this account, eh, Professor Black?" Clarence's voice instantly became extremely cold and stern, scaring Sirius into a rut.

The author has something to say: ah, I feel that the first part is very sweet, and my heart softens~

then……

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama is the beginning of the visual entanglement~

Really painful and happy 'married life' wow~

PS: Daddy L and Clay are not actually married, it's just a formal verbal promise between the two.The current situation of the two is doomed to be unable to conclude a valid marriage contract, SO, you understand~