HP's Platinum Temptation

Lucius chuckled disapprovingly: "Do you want to express your innocence?"

"I admit, this kind of thinking is quite naive." Clarence responded indifferently: "But for primitive people, living in a fixed address, no longer afraid of wild beast attacks, no longer need to worry about tomorrow. Where is the food. Isn’t it also a very naive idea? I actually prefer to regard naivety as a commendatory word. It is people’s naivety that promotes the development of this world. You can imagine that Hogwarts was established thousands of years ago. At the beginning, what was the situation in the wizarding world at that time, and what kind of naive ideas did the four founders of the school have? Maybe, we have realized their naivety."

Lucius paused perfunctorily for a while, and then replied: "Not interested."

Clarence laughed dryly himself, and stopped talking.

When the two reached the main hall, Mrs. Malfoy and Draco were already waiting there.When Mrs. Malfoy saw Lucius and Clarence appear at the end of the corridor, she looked at them with a smile that would not be overly enthusiastic.Standing beside her was Draco, who was much taller than what Clarence had seen a year ago. While maintaining the family etiquette and demeanor as much as possible, Draco had obvious curiosity on his face.

"This is my wife, Narcissa, and my son, Draco." Lucius formally introduced his family, but in fact, both of them knew that Clarence must have met Lucius family members.

"Welcome to Malfoy Manor, Mr. Winter, I hope you will have a very happy time here." Narcissa answered in time, and the lady's etiquette was perfect.

"Good day, Mr. Winter." Draco immediately followed his mother and said the lines he had mastered in advance.

"It's been a long time, Mrs. Malfoy, Mr. Malfoy." Clarence put his hand into his pocket and took out a small cage while returning the salute: "This is a gift for Mr. Malfoy." After speaking, he enlarged the shrunken cage and handed it to Draco.

"Pufflem!" When Draco saw the creature in the cage clearly, he seemed to be very pleasantly surprised to call out the name of this little pet.But soon, with a sullen face, he pushed the cage back to Clarence: "Thank you, Mr. Winter. But a qualified little gentleman doesn't need this kind of pet."

"Oh, yes. I think you're right." Clarence nodded, but didn't pick up the cage. He bent over, looked at Draco, and then at the sleeping white man in the cage. Fuqiu: "But I think, a qualified little gentleman should be willing to take care of a helpless lady?"

"Accept it, Xiaolong. Thank you Mr. Winter for the gift." Narcissa pampered Draco on the shoulder, agreeing to accept the gift.

Holding the cage, Draco raised his head at a 45-degree angle to meet the sight of the bent Clarence.He didn't accept the cage right away, but stared at Clarence very seriously for a while before thanking him.

Clarence wasn't too surprised by Draco's serious scrutiny.Two years of uninterrupted correspondence had given him a pretty good idea of ​​Draco's character.One of the reasons why Narcissa has been insisting on ghostwriting to encourage Draco to write to Clarence against the pressure of Lucius is that Draco hardly has a friend he trusts.Clarence was pretty much the only one.

At lunchtime, the Malfoy family behaved the same way they did when Lucius was at Poplar Cottage, disliking to talk while eating.So it wasn't until Dobby came to invite him to Lucius' study in the afternoon that he spoke to Lucius again.

"Did you rest well at noon?" Seeing Clarence walk into the study, Lucius greeted very casually.

"Very well, but your decorations are too gorgeous, and I'm not used to it." Clarence also rubbed his eyes cooperatively, as if he was really troubled by the problem of decorations.

"Since the rest is okay, let's start talking about the business." With the deepening of contact with Clarence, Lucius became more and more used to the one-handed approach that was not Slytherin. In the final analysis, the reason was Clarence's nonsense Ability far beyond ordinary people.

"Oh, okay." Clarence sat down in the direction Lucius pointed, then took the wine glass that Lucius handed over, put it under his nose and smelled it: "It's very mellow. Has it been a while? Aren’t you going to talk about business? Is it appropriate to drink?”

"If I can get you drunk, I don't have any loss." Lucius said bluntly, "I guess I will disarm you and find out your secret by all means."

"Wow, you were so unfriendly at the beginning. Tsk tsk." Clarence shook his head, but he drank the wine anyway: "I hope there is no Veritaserum in it."

"I have been investigating the information you said before, but I have no way to verify it. Whether it is the number of Horcruxes or the return of the Dark Lord, there is no trace." Lucius said directly: "Except for me The fact that you have a diary in your hand is indeed beyond what you said."

"Of course, if I don't have exclusive information, how can I use it as a bargaining chip to lobby you?" Clarence said directly: "Your investigation has not yielded any results, but you are still moved by my proposal. This at least proves that you sincerely do not want the Dark Lord's reign to resume."

"Your plan sounds very tempting, but you didn't elaborate on how to implement it. I need to know more details, otherwise it is still not convincing." Lucius shook his head and said dissatisfied.

"Although it sounds illusory, at least this is the first time someone has proposed the possibility of defeating the Dark Lord." Clarence changed to a sincere expression, restraining his casual smile: "I don't want to waste time , just to put it bluntly. The Dark Lord's rule is made up of his personal strength and subsidiary power. From his personal point of view, if we find all the Horcruxes before his return and destroy them before defeating him Horcruxes, to end his life is also a matter of death curse. But Horcruxes cannot be destroyed when found. Although the Dark Lord is not aware of the movement of Horcruxes, if the Horcruxes are destroyed, he will If his soul disappears, he will be aware of it. We cannot give him the opportunity to detect beforehand and escape. The Dark Lord himself is not hiding in England now, but in a forest in Eurasia. If we can Determine his location and monitor him early, in case someone can find him and help him. He can't regain his strength on his own."

"It sounds quite detailed. You already know the specific location of the Horcrux? If you don't tell me, you need my guarantee?" Lucius snorted coldly, barely agreeing: "What about his subsidiary power?"

"This part is up to you. There are many Death Eaters who are anonymous, right? But I think you should know their identities. There are a group of die-hard Death Eaters in Azkaban, and they cannot be left alive. Otherwise They may become a big trouble at any time, and there will be endless troubles. As for the other undiscovered Death Eaters, which ones are loyal and which ones are under pressure, I am afraid no one knows better than you. Do you have any suggestions?" Claren asked.

"The problem of Death Eaters is not so easy to solve. Although many are not absolutely loyal to that person, there are still two situations in it, one is involuntary, and the other is for the pursuit of interests. Even if we can Convince them of your plan, but the Dark Mark is a death talisman. Unless you can completely eliminate the possibility of that person using the Dark Mark to control Death Eaters, it will always be a ticking time bomb." Lucius shook his head: " This is the key."

"If the Dark Mark is not resolved, is the implementation of the plan completely impossible?" Clarence once asked Summer if he had the ability to remove the Dark Mark.According to Summer, everything in the world is theoretically reversible, but the more powerful something is, the more difficult and expensive it is to reverse it.The possibility that he, who has the memory of the Dark Lord, wants to crack the Dark Mark is not too slim.But this not only requires his master Clarence's magic to become more powerful, but also requires an actual Dark Mark to provide him with continuous research.And these two conditions, Clarence does not yet meet.

"No, but if you can remove the Dark Mark, you don't need to be so careful, and the success rate is much higher. However, Severus said that even Dumbledore can't do anything about the Dark Mark. So I don't care about it." I don't have much hope." When Lucius mentioned this topic, his tone became a little low.

"Besides the Dark Mark, is there any other problem that needs to be solved? When the Dark Lord was around, what did you usually do?" Clarence decided to hide the issue of the Dark Mark first and shift the target.

"Remove all obstacles that stand in the way of that person's progress, and obtain enough resources and wealth for him. Plan activities to attack the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's reputation. Control public opinion, find new pure-blood wizards that can be used by him. That's about it. Lucius reported these previous activities with a somewhat mechanical expression: "By the way, more than half of the activities were basically planned and organized by me."

"Then the Death Eaters made so many victims back then, you are so lucky to be able to escape the crime." Clarence raised his eyebrows, as if he was really grateful for Lucius.

"Oh, there are always enough volunteers for those activities, and it's not my turn." Lucius didn't notice Clarence's expression, and just laughed at himself.

"Ha, does that mean that I can feel a little more at ease when I sleep these two nights?"

"But that doesn't mean that my subordinates have never had victims." Lucius looked coldly at Clarence, who seemed to have never cared.

"So? Do you need some kind of soul salvation? Powerful people only do two things, face and bear." Clarence showed a wicked smile at Lucius: "Of course, if you It would be an honor for me to share with you.”

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