"Yes! Yes, that's right - Miss Lily Evans, well... that's what your mother looked like when she was young..."
"No, it's Lily Potter."
Harry didn't seem to agree with Slughorn's name for his mother.
"Oh, then it was Lily Potter." The fat old man didn't dwell on the meaning of his last name. He quickly brushed aside this small contradiction, "Do you want to hear me tell you about the past when your mother was a student? ?”
To be honest, Harry really wanted to hear it, but he knew that it must not be now. And rather than hearing it from Slughorn, he thought it would be better to ask Sirius and Lupin another day!
"Well, I think we can choose another time -" Harry shook his head quickly and said, "You know, breakfast is probably ready in the Great Hall."
"Ha! I'm getting hungry when you say that!" Slughorn raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "In that case, dear Mr. Potter, why don't you just tell me your purpose today? Or... maybe we can continue chatting on the way to the auditorium?"
Harry came running over this early in the morning, obviously with a purpose. Otherwise, judging from the attitude he showed a few times before, it would be a fantasy for him to take the initiative to come here.
Harry looked a little embarrassed under Slughorn's gaze. The words he wanted to apply for to reduce his workload were swirling in his throat, but he just couldn't say it.
After a while, he finally spoke.
"Professor Slughorn, here's the thing—"
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Speaking of which, during this period of time, both Harry and Maka had a very relaxed life, so that they all had time to get busy with some mundane things.
But some people are relaxed while others are tense. Compared with them, every day of Master Draco's life seems to have not left last year's cold winter.
Draco's mother disappeared, and there has been no news to this day. No one knows where she went. Even though Lucius had already mobilized all the connections at his disposal, he still had not found his wife.
Because he really had no intention of studying in school, Draco finally convinced his father to temporarily suspend school.
After the Malfoy family experienced Voldemort's reappearance, not only was their vitality severely damaged, but most of their former family relationships were also lost. At least half of the friendly families among them fell into decline as Voldemort failed again. You know, the vast majority of the original Death Eaters were members of pure-blood wizard families.
Now Lucius was shocked to find that he even lacked the manpower to find his wife.
In order to find clues as soon as possible, Draco volunteered to go home and join the emergency search and rescue team. Lucius couldn't help but secretly lament that his son had really grown up...but in the most poignant way.
This morning, although Lucius, who was the dispatcher, was always in the mansion and manor, he was actually the most tired one. Even though he had been sitting in the chair all the time, both physically and mentally, he was exhausted to the limit.
When did you last sleep? The day before yesterday? Or earlier
Lucius looked through the brief letters sent back by several search teams, as well as the suspicious information entrusted from various sources. Among the seemingly numerous notes and notes, not even one is actually useful. But he couldn't give up. He had to constantly search, compare, and analyze, and then arrange for a search and rescue team to go and investigate.
He felt that his head was swollen and throbbing, as if it would explode at any moment.
"Where's Draco?"
As if he suddenly remembered, he suddenly raised his head and looked out the window. It was already broad daylight, but my son, who had set out with the team all night last night, had not returned yet.
This doesn't work, I don't have to rest, but my precious son can't stay without sleep! Although he reluctantly agreed to let Draco go home and join in the search and rescue, that didn't mean he didn't care. After all, the children were the future of their Malfoy family.
Suddenly, a fluttering sound came from the front living room. Soon, an owl grabbed an envelope and walked through the living room and corridor, finding his exact location.
Another piece of news? Maybe it was passed down from my son? Could it be that the message I got last night was a correct clue
Lucius hurriedly reached out to grab the letter, but unexpectedly his head felt dizzy and he almost fell down on the messy table.
Fortunately, maybe it was just his body reminding him that he needed to rest, at least he wasn't at his limit yet.
With one hand he took the envelope handed over by the owl with its talon, and with the other hand he habitually went to the drawer under him to retrieve the potion bottle.
"Oh no… "
There seemed to be only empty bottles left in the drawer.
Lucius put the bottle aside casually, no longer thinking about anything, but planned to tear open the envelope without saying a word. However, just as he was about to tear it open, a mark on the envelope immediately caught his sight.
"Hogwarts?" He paused, then rubbed his temples vigorously to relieve the pain so that he could concentrate more, "Is it about Draco?"
He calmed down for a moment, then opened the envelope and took out a folded letter. But when he unfolded it and took a look, he suddenly realized that he had guessed wrong.
The letter wasn't about his son, and it wasn't even from Hogwarts. He was sure that this letter probably came from the mysterious wizarding organization founded by Dumbledore.
But the letter conveyed a simple message to him:
"Narcissa was seen in Berlin, Germany."
To say what the Order of the Phoenix is best at, some might say it is the ability to deal with dark wizards. Although this is true, they are actually better at finding things and people. In the Order of the Phoenix, there are various members with different origins and different roles in the magical world.
Ingredients like this allow the Order of the Phoenix to be tightly distributed to every corner of the magical world at all levels. With Maka and Kingsley supporting us in big things, and Mundungus and his ilk in small things, there is almost no path to miss.
Just like this time, the traces of Lucius's wife Narcissa Malfoy were accidentally heard by some of Mundungus' friends from a German when they were discussing a business related to the recycling of old broomsticks. .
Of course, Mundungus didn't care at first, but when he was chatting casually, he broke the news to Sirius.
Many people in the Malfoy family know about it, and the fact that they are sending more manpower to search cannot be done quietly. The incident of Narcissa's disappearance has long been spread among the families.
But when Sirius heard the news from Mundungus, his face seemed a little stiff.
After all, Narcissa Malfoy was also a member of the Black family before she got married, and in terms of seniority, she was his cousin just like Bellatrix. On weekdays, he hates these two cousins as much as he wants. One of them is a crazy woman and the other is an arrogant maniac. In short, they are not normal people.
But Narcissa suddenly disappeared, and this way of staying away from his sight was not something he could accept.
What's more, Narcissa is better than Bellatrix's cousin. At least she seems to be a "person" with some emotions.
But even so, Sirius still didn't say anything. The one who finally decided to deliver the news to Lucius was Lupine, who was quietly watching on the side.
He and Sirius had been friends since childhood, and he could see clearly what was going on in the other person's heart better than anyone else. Since Sirius found it difficult to speak, Lupine took over for him as the "good old guy" who ignored past grudges.
At this moment, Lucius was holding this letter, but he couldn't help but feel extremely heavy.
He had very direct friction with Dumbledore's organization. When Voldemort first gained power, he secretly participated in the battle. And this time, he was even forced to stand on the opposite side of a head-on confrontation with this organization.
But now that Voldemort was defeated, Lucius Malfoy was not only fished out of Azkaban by Maka, but now he also got the latest clues about his wife Narcissa, who had never been able to find him. It is naturally impossible to say that he does not feel ashamed in his heart.
Although in many situations, he, Lucius, was forced by the situation to make choices, the cause of these things was because he had always tried to profit from them. This is an indisputable fact.
"Hogwarts..."
He recited this word silently, and actually tasted a feeling from it that he had not had before. I was also a student of this school back then, but what was the power that made me become a person completely opposite to those guys
"After we find Narcissa, shouldn't we find a way for Draco to get along with those Gryffindors?"
While Lucius was stunned by this idea, he hurriedly stood up holding the letter and paced back and forth in the room.
Before he could think about those things, he had to find his wife first. Otherwise, even if he lets his son go back to Hogwarts again, how will the child have the heart to continue his studies
"Berlin, Germany...?" Lucius desperately searched for memories in his mind while wandering, "There should be several families over there who have had a history of good relations with my Malfoy family. We should ask them for help... No. , I think I should go to Germany myself..."
Thinking of this, he immediately used Disapparation and headed to the Owl Cottage in the manor.