Ever since the day of Dumbledore's funeral, when Voldemort led his Death Eaters into Azkaban to break out of the prison and completed the ultimate and magnificent turnaround, the Death Eaters were no longer the poor creatures who were often suppressed by the Ministry of Magic and could lose their lives at any time.
Recently, the Death Eaters have become more active and their numbers are slowly increasing. Voldemort has used practical actions to tell everyone in the British wizarding community that they are the ultimate winners of this wizard war.
As for the Ministry of Magic, Voldemort never really took it seriously.
In a recent meeting, Voldemort also reiterated his plan to kill Scrimgeour and take control of the Ministry of Magic.
Now that Dumbledore is dead, Voldemort no longer needs to worry about anything. Taking complete control of the Ministry of Magic and preventing it from becoming a threat is Voldemort's most urgent goal.
He was ready to completely break the knife in the Mudblood's hand to prevent him from causing trouble for him through the Ministry of Magic.
Of course, there are many benefits to completely controlling the Ministry of Magic. He can use the power of the Ministry of Magic to completely destroy the Order of the Phoenix, and easily take control of Hogwarts and complete his subsequent goals, as well as deal with Harry Potter.
Voldemort never took Harry Potter seriously, but he knew very well that he had to kill Harry Potter with his own hands to let those stupid Death Eaters understand that those so-called prophecies were not credible from beginning to end.
The famous savior Harry Potter is not qualified to be his nemesis.
This is all just a bad joke.
After the meeting, each Death Eater was assigned his own task.
Lucius, who had just been rescued from Azkaban prison, was no exception. He was now responsible for finding and monitoring the whereabouts of Albert Anderson.
This is undoubtedly the most unpleasant job of all.
However, Lucius had no choice. The successive failures made Malfoy's situation extremely embarrassing. The task that countless Death Eaters avoided finally fell on Malfoy and his son.
Among the Death Eaters attending the meeting, no one was more unpopular than these father and son.
Even though he managed to save his life and his identity as a Death Eater, Lucius was still looked down upon by all Death Eaters and became the object of people's ridicule. Naturally, the dirty work and the most unpopular things fell on their heads.
Nowadays, no blind Death Eater dared to look down on Albert Anderson. Even if they used derogatory terms like Mudblood in private, not many Death Eaters were willing to deal with such a sinister and dangerous person.
From the number of vacancies in the Death Eaters' seats, one could tell how dangerous and terrifying that guy was.
The group of Death Eaters who had tried to kill him were now being retaliated by that guy, and all went to see Merlin in the past year.
Especially the Death Eaters who went to his wedding with Lucius to disrupt it, most of them were killed one by one by that guy with the help of the Ministry of Magic, and the Death Eaters were forcibly replaced by a new batch.
As a result, no Death Eater is willing to provoke Albert, for fear that they will become the next unlucky person to be targeted.
Therefore, the job was finally handed over to the tough Lucius Malfoy. Anyway, the two sides had a deep hatred. They had not forgotten that the Malfoys had wanted Albert's life, and Lucius himself knew Albert better than many Death Eaters.
Malfoy and his son had no choice but to take on this troublesome task.
"Severus, do you have time later?"
After the meeting, Lucius called his old friend. He had been looking for an opportunity to thank Snape for saving his son Draco and to get some information from Snape.
"Oh, of course!"
Snape was recently wanted by the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort did not give him too much work, but asked him to temporarily help keep an eye on Harry Potter's whereabouts.
Although Harry Potter was always protected by members of the Order of the Phoenix, it was not easy to monitor him. However, as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Snape knew the Order better than the Death Eaters, and he easily completed the surveillance task through his own channels.
"I haven't had the chance to thank you for Draco's matter." Lucius had a complicated expression. He used to help Severus, but now the opposite is true.
Today, Snape has become Voldemort's right-hand man, which was his former position. It would be a lie to say that Lucius is not jealous, but Lucius knows very well that the most important thing for him to do now is to maintain the friendship between them.
"You're welcome. I'm only trying to complete the Dark Lord's mission." Snape shook his head and said, "Helping Draco is just a side job."
Although there are indeed other reasons, this is actually the truth.
"No, I still have to thank you, especially as a father of a child, I am very grateful that you saved him." Lucius reached out and held Draco's head, and solemnly saluted Severus to thank him.
"I guess you're not just doing this for this." Severus moved aside and changed the subject.
"There is indeed one more thing. Did you know that Narcissa is missing? I have been looking for news about her recently." Lucius couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Their relationship with Severus remained unchanged, which was very important.
"That... I'm not sure either." Snape turned his head to look at Draco, "I remember Narcissa should have been using a two-way mirror to get in touch with you, right?"
"That was true before, but after Mom stole the Felicia Felix from Hogwarts last time, she suddenly lost contact." Draco felt a little confused when talking about this. "At that time, Aunt Bella suspected that Mom gave me the only bottle of Felicia Felix she got, so she was embarrassed to meet them, but... she did disappear later, and no one knew where she went. The last person who saw her was Goyle, but according to Goyle, Mom should have left Hogwarts Castle through the tunnel."
"Don't worry, I think Narcissa should be fine." Snape said comfortingly.
"Thank you, Severus." Lucius pursed his lips. He already had a bad feeling.
After separating from Snape, Lucius took Draco quietly back to his former home. Looking at the manor that had been reduced to ashes and the completely destroyed dungeon, Lucius Malfoy's eyes were confused and he couldn't adapt for a while.
In just less than a year of being imprisoned in Azkaban prison, the world outside has undergone such tremendous changes.
His home was gone, his son became a Death Eater, and his wife disappeared inexplicably.
The Malfoy family's status plummeted, and they lost several of their original important allies. The Strange family was also completely ruined, and Bella even disappeared in the attempt to murder Dumbledore.
Maybe Bella was quietly executed after being caught by the Ministry of Magic.
Goyle and the Crabbe family also gradually distanced themselves from Malfoy, and their relationship with the Carrows also became cold.
Lucius really couldn't understand how a good family could become like this
Is this the Dark Lord's punishment for him
"Don't worry, we will find Narcissa." Lucius put his arm around his son's shoulders and whispered soothingly.
"Um."
At this moment, Draco was also very confused. He completed the task assigned by the Dark Lord, but did not receive any reward. Perhaps it was related to the fact that Snape was the one who killed Dumbledore. He did not expect any reward now, but only hoped to find his mother.
However, after several days, Draco still had no news of Narcissa. Even using a tracking spell, it was useless. It was as if she had disappeared out of thin air.
"Dad, do you think Mom might have turned to Dumbledore and been hidden by them?" Draco lowered his voice and expressed his guess. "Dumbledore did mention this matter at the beginning."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Lucius paused and shook his head vigorously, "I don't believe that Narcissa will not come back to reunite with us after learning that I have escaped from Azkaban."
Lucius knew his wife very well, and perhaps she might really turn to Dumbledore for their safety, but Narcissa would never disappear like she did now after she was sure that they were safe.
"Narcissa will be fine. We'll find her." Lucius muttered to himself as he looked at the wreckage of his own manor.
"Do you think this matter has anything to do with Anderson?" Draco suddenly remembered something and muttered, "This must be his revenge, revenge for the Malfoy family's bounty for his arrest. Yes, it must be him. So many Death Eaters have suffered his revenge. There is no reason for that guy to let us go so easily."
"It must be him, it must be him."