HP's Platinum Temptation

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When Narcissa knocked on the study door, she saw Lucius leaning on the armrest of the stool, propping his face with one hand, and playing with a delicate brooch with the other.

"You seem to be in a good mood today." Narcissa said.Although Lucius didn't have a smile on his face, he could feel the emotion of the other party from the eyes focused on the brooch.

"It's okay." Lucius raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, put the brooch back into the gift box on the table, and tapped his wand to make the wrapping paper close perfectly.His eyes stayed on the letter in Narcissa's hand for a while, then he raised his head and asked, "What's the matter, is there something wrong?"

"This is a letter from Mrs. Medici that was sent just now." Narcissa handed over the unpacked letter in her hand: "An invitation to the banquet next week."

Lucius took the letter and glanced at it, but without opening it, he threw it into the pile of letters on the corner of the table.

"Aren't you watching?"

"You don't need to look to know what it is." Lucius snorted lightly.

"I'm still wondering why the invitation to the banquet was sent to me. I only met that lady once more in Diagon Alley a while ago, so we can't talk about friendship. But she keeps writing."

"What are you talking about?"

"Probably that, nothing new, mainly about children. She often talks about her son when she asks about Xiaolong." Narcissa sat on the sofa by the fireplace and summoned the house elf to bring a cup of tea: " Said to be the leader of the Slytherin freshmen this year, heh." Speaking of the child, the beautiful Narcissus mother still couldn't help but let out a dry laugh.

"The leader? It seems that the definition of the Medicis is different." Lucius smiled contemptuously and sat up straight: "Dalton sent me a letter two days ago. His son is The current head of the academy."

"Why? What did you say? Didn't the Medici family now 'take control of the banquet'?" Narcissa deliberately emphasized her words a bit, highlighting the half sentence: "Isn't everyone talking about this topic recently? ?” The ladies’ social interaction has always been another battlefield, and Narcissa has obviously discussed this topic with her close friends.As for the final conclusion, it is unknown.

"To say 'mastery', Medici was too confident. Obviously, the little Mr. Medici failed to share some of the pressure for his father." Lucius' eyes sank, and he landed on the wrapped gift: " The heir of the Slytherin family was robbed of the position of grade leader by the youngest son from the Hufflepuff family, how could the Medici family make a big deal of it? What a pure blood family! "

"What do you mean? Could it be that Medici can't even keep his leadership position among this year's freshmen? Isn't that too ironic?"

"Do you remember Hufflepuff named Lambert in the same grade as you?" Lucius didn't directly answer Narcissa's question, but threw out a question instead.

"Hufflepuff?" Narcissa shook her head resolutely after only recalling for a while: "I don't think I will pay attention to a bitch wizard."

"He's not an asshole. But that's what I thought at the time. And if it wasn't because his height was too prominent among the students before graduation, I wouldn't have noticed such a person." Lucius picked up with his fingertips A parchment: "Bertram Lambert, current head of House Lambert, Hufflepuff; Gretchen Lambert, wife of the head, Ravenclaw; eldest son Terrence Lambert, the same Lambert as you, graduated from Hufflepuff College; the second son, Theodore Lambert, is currently studying in the seventh grade of Hufflepuff College; There is also a young son, Clarence Lambert, and a young daughter, Alvira Lambert. It is clear that this is a family of pure-blood wizards."

"A family of pure-blood wizards with four children? Isn't this too rare? Is it because of Hufflepuff?" Narcissa asked in surprise.After all, most pure-blood wizard families can have one qualified heir in each generation, but the Lambert family has three candidates.

"Probably everyone thought so at first, but," Lucius paused, and picked up another piece of letterhead: "Clarence Lambert, was sorted to Slytherin House on September [-] this year. In the second week of school, he replaced Medici as the new leader of the first grade. He was once isolated by Medici's counterattack because of his closeness to the shaman wizard, but the status of the grade leader has been re-established."

"What's the situation? An accepted pure-blood traitor leader? Is it a letter from Dalton? I haven't heard that the Malfoy family and the Dalton family are friends before." Narcissa frowned, holding back Asked a series of questions over and over again.

"It's not a friend, he just told me some information he thought I needed to know at the right time." Lucius put down the letter, and his eyes fell on the gift box again: "As for the pure-blood traitor, it seems Not really. Brother Lambert seems to be trying to spread some idea of ​​blood equality in Hogwarts."

"Then does that have anything to do with your not attending the Medici's banquet?"

"What do you think caused the Medici to organize such frequent banquets recently?" Lucius snorted coldly, "And it's because they used to suppress the status of the Malfoy family at the beginning, but now they take the initiative to send out multiple invitations."

"Could it be related to the Lambert family you mentioned? For the sake of his son's leadership, this would be too violent. It would probably only make people laugh."

"Of course it's not because of this. But it doesn't change the fact that Medici is very stupid." Lucius sneered: "The old Medici is probably only slightly better than his son. Originally, his strength can only be regarded as middle-level. If it wasn’t for that incident, how could he have a chance to stand out in the small family under him. It’s just that he was arrogant for a while, but he returned to his original form when he encountered an obstacle.”

"What hinders? It sounds like the situation has gotten a little complicated recently."

"Currently, Medici has discovered a small family alliance headed by the Lambert family, called the Business Alliance. The main members are those ancient families that have been silent for a long time that have appeared in batches after that person disappeared. Originally, the market of the wizarding world It fell under the control of the Medici, and the emergence of business alliances, if viewed separately, has no impact, but if the industries held by these families are viewed as a whole, it is enough to constitute a shaken Meidi. The status of the Diqi family is a big threat."

"So he intends to use the banquet to unite some big families outside the business alliance to fight against this alliance? This can't work!"

"That's why I say he is stupid. I haven't seen anyone who can successfully unify so many families. Without enough interests, this is completely impossible. Medici even hopes to become the leader of this union , and even more wishful thinking. Being carried away is the best portrayal of him at present."

"If he does decide to bring up this joint plan, what are we going to do? Refuse to join?"

"Of course not, we still need some time. Now is not the time to create more enemies. Even if the alliance can be formed, the Medici cannot succeed. Even with our support, this commercial alliance will obviously not be as it appears on the surface. It seems so simple. Hmph, how could it be just a coincidence that the family that has been silent for so many years suddenly came back at the same time? Even if it was suppressed because of the influence of that person before, it is also not a sufficient reason .I never believe they were united simply because of the same situation."

"Could someone be secretly leading the control? The Lambert family?" Narcissa put down her teacup, and turned her gaze to the gift box that had been placed not far in front of Lucius: "Is it related to that gift?"

"Mr. Dalton Jr. asked. It was Mr. Lambert Jr.'s birthday three days ago. It is said that at least fifty owls gave him birthday gifts that day, which caused a lot of commotion and sensation in the auditorium. This incident It was regarded by the Medici as a sign that the business alliance revealed the dominant identity of the Lambert family to the outside world. That’s why we accelerated the preparations for the banquet.” Lucius picked up the gift box, with a confident smile on his face: “The leader must be It exists, but it's hard to say if it wasn't the Lambert family they introduced. But since the other party is such an identity now, we can't be rude, can we?"

"Don't tell me those obvious perfunctory words. I don't believe that is the real reason for you to give the gift on purpose. There must be some other reason?" Narcissa folded her hands on her knees, straightened her back, and said to Lucius Showing an impatient expression: "I don't like that you always like to split your words into two parts. I don't have the hobby of guessing what you mean. If you don't say anything else, I will go to accompany Xiaolong."

"Don't go, it would be a pity not to share such an interesting thing with others." Lucius smiled brightly, and handed Dalton's letter to Narcissa: "The most important reason is that the letter mentioned that An original sentence of Mr. Dalton's "Unless there is no accident, Mr. Lambert Jr. will be the most powerful contender for the next head of the academy". That old fox in Dalton must have hidden some important information from me. This Lambert After all, the family has other problems. It’s just a small gift, let’s see their reaction. The answer I want, I can get it myself!”

Frowning and browsing through the letter quickly, Narcissa seemed even more confused: "So what? Are you going to win over the Lambert family because of this?"

"Brown? No!" Lucius raised his chin in a beautiful arc: "If you want to be an ally of the Malfoy family, a Lambert family that has just risen is not qualified!"