Chapter 48 Father Malfoy

On the other hand, right after Snape and Lockhart left, Draco took advantage of his father's good mood and had a rare chat with his father outside for a while.

"Draco, what do you think of today's events?" Lucius began to answer the exam questions. Draco Malfoy swallowed. "Uh...it looks like they want the support of our pureblood family, Dad. "

Lucius sneered: "Don't tell me you've been on the sidelines for so long, and you only came to this conclusion. We knew this before he came to us. If you are only five years old this year, maybe I will praise you, but You have already gone to school..."

Draco was anxious: "Of course... Lockhart is trying to please me, and our family, and he wants to use us for his own purposes... Maybe grab the properties of those in Azkaban? Maybe... Buy people's hearts?"

Lucius gently shook the bottle that Lockhart left behind, in a good mood - or prostituting other people's things for free always makes people feel good: "Sit down, Draco.oo can think of these already. It's nice, but it's not worth thinking about."

Seeing that his father wasn't angry, Draco finally relaxed a bit and acted like he was listening - he knew that his father had something to say for leaving him alone.

Sure enough, after putting down the glass, Lucius took out a cigar and raised Erlang's legs - a sign of his relaxed state of mind.

"You can't just watch a man by what he says, Draco. He's showing us his investment pipeline, of course. But you have to think about it... There are so many rich people in the world, why would he want to? find us."

Draco was stopped, but fortunately Lucius didn't expect him to answer the question.

"...I've been thinking about what kind of uniqueness do we have to him so that he can take the initiative to share his means of making money. Although everyone loves money and power, you can see that his attitude is always the same. A very egalitarian attitude is speaking to us, and it has no intention of obtaining this through us at all..."

"So he had other plans." Draco finally understood.

Lucius was very satisfied to see his son get on the road like this: "I didn't understand it at all, but it wasn't until he encouraged us to visit prison that I was sure that this was what he wanted, not money."

Draco seemed to understand. "So what should we do, Dad? Say no? Or... just take that and ask for more?"

Wu also expected that we would not refuse. "He's never publicly denied the rumors that he's making a lot of money," Lucius said. "It's definitely for us as a family, and he must really want us to extort his money."

So in this case, it's not a good idea to play it - because the more we play it, the higher the responsibility or the price we have to pay. "

"The price? What's the price?" Draco asked sensitively.

"It's interesting to ask good questions and to be interesting here - we don't know what we're going to pay because we don't even know what they want.

While I'm pretty sure they're willing to pay more for it, sometimes, 'not the best gain is good luck' so why take the risk to get more when we can get a lot without bothering? Don't forget, the Malfoys never fail."

Draco could only nod and say yes: "Yes, Dad."

"Just figure it out... Draco, you've done a good job this time, and you should continue to maintain a close relationship with the school professor. In addition, this semester you have to be very disciplined and don't show any more limelight, just in case something happens. No one will suspect you at the time of the incident. If even the 7th Bamboo Light Wheel 2001 can't make you calm down, I will

They can be taken back.

"No, Dad, it takes me a lot of time every day just training." Draco said quickly

"Very good, so there's even an alibi. Also, you need to spend a little more time on your homework... Are you still that Mudblood first in your grade? Don't you know what shame is?"

Draco Malfoy was speechless, but when he thought about Hermione Granger's performance in his homework, it was difficult for him to have the determination to compete with him in this regard.

Fortunately, Lucius is in a very good mood now, and he doesn't really want to force him to spend 17 hours a day studying.

So Draco drank the butter beer cautiously, and said something appropriate to his father's mood, and sure enough, Lucius didn't mention his study problems again.

But before he left, Draco finally couldn't help being curious and asked the question he had been wanting to ask.

"Uh, Dad, does our family… really have investments on the Muggle side?" he asked cautiously.

Lucius glanced at him.

"Don't ask such stupid questions, Draco, the source of Malfoy's power is wealth, and who dictates where we should get our wealth."

Draco's long-standing question was finally answered, but he didn't feel relieved.

The theory of "sending blood first", and the spirit of pragmatism that the Malfoy family has always inherited, these two things have been swaying in the balance of his mind, and he can't tell the priority. At this moment, his father finally takes the side Put down a heavy weight and do not go to the yards.

If "pure blood supremacy" is also only part of pragmatism, so what?

Is it unusable?

After being taught a lesson, Draco Malfoy returned to school in despair, accompanied by his father.

He originally wanted to take the opportunity to visit Hogsmeade in advance, but it failed because of his father's relationship.

However, this did not prevent him from showing off his "hands and eyes" in the lower grades with the candy he bought from Honey Duke, and that "as long as I want, there are professors willing to take me to Hogsmeade to buy things at any time, Ban is nothing to me"

As for Lucius' admonition to "don't be in the limelight", he had long since ignored it. "Keep a low profile" is too difficult for a 12-year-old boy

Hermione finally used this to find out what she wanted to find out.

"It's solved, it's not a big deal at all, Professor Lockhart just took him to Hogsmeade to buy candy," she said to Harry and Ron.

Ron was disappointed: "Why only take him...I mean, he went out on purpose

, just to do such a boring thing? "

Hermione gave him a warning look: "It's definitely not just this, and Malfoy came back with his dad - I bet the professor met Lucius Malfoy."

She didn't say it, but the other two became more vigilant after saying that.

"Well, Snape first, now Malfoy and his dad...Professor Lockhart seems determined to hook up with the guys over there," Ron said.

"Don't talk nonsense." Hermione stood firmly on Lockhart's side. "He has fought more dark wizards than all the students combined, and he is also a mixed race himself."

Ron disapproved: "You just protect him! Tell you, no matter what others do

Say, I will never…”

Just then, someone climbed into the Gryffindor lounge.

The visitor swept around, and then saw Ron Weasley, who was drooling over there.

"Ron!" Neville Longbottom called to the three by the fireplace, "Professor Lockhart asked me to tell you that you should go to him tomorrow morning, and he will take you to Diagon Alley to buy a new one. Wand, he says he can't stand your wand continuing to cause accidents in class."

Ron turned around quickly, knelt on his chair, and looked at Neville from the armrest, at a speed that made Harry wonder if his neck would be twisted.

"I heard it, Neville!" Ron yelled, "but I don't have any money."

"He said he could lend it to you first, but you have to join the security team from the next month and go to maintain order in the dueling club at night, which is considered a work-study program."

"No problem, it's a small matter, I'll definitely go."

Ron turned around, and continued chatting with Hermione's condemning gaze:

"...What did you say. Ah, yes, we need to find out how Snape and Lucius confuse the professor..."

Hermione looked contemptuous: "I didn't expect you to think about him so much."

Chapter 49 The Bank's Process

The next morning, Lockhart took Ron and Neville to Ollivander and bought them a new wand.

The material of the wands of the two men was somewhat beyond Lockhart's expectations. Neville was only made of cherry wood, but Ron's new wand was actually made of willow wood, which did not match Lockhart's impression of Ron. .

According to Ollivander, willow wands are usually used by "magic wizards", but Lockhart has no idea what "big ambitions" this kid could have.

If he remembered correctly, he was the only one in the trio who gave up his job at the Ministry of Magic and returned to Diagon Alley to help his brother's trick shop. What kind of "big ambition" was that?

Maybe in Lockhart's eyes, as long as he is not a politician or a scholar, it is not "big ambition", right?

Ron couldn't put it down when he got the new wand, probably the first time in his life that he had used something new, not something his brothers had eliminated. Neville was a little timid, and didn't seem to think he was entitled to a wand of his own.

As a typical person whose mind follows his senses, Ron has neither Harry's emotional intelligence nor Hermione's scheming. When he has doubts in his heart, he just speaks straight.

Professor, I heard you've been very close to the Malfoys recently? They weren't good people, my dad said that when the You-Know-Who was in power, it was their family that provided the money. "

"I've heard about that too," Lockhart admitted, "but you should know that too.

Dow, one of the important sources of funding for the Ministry of Magic is also a donation from the Malfoy family.

Ron curled his lips: "Yeah, then his family used that money to change the law

, the laws he doesn't want to pass can only be put on hold indefinitely... You don't want them too, do you? "

"Who can get rid of the influence of the Malfoy family if you are interested in politics?" Lockhart said with emotion, "After teaching you this year, I will also go to the Ministry of Magic to work with your father as a colleague, to I." Only deal with them more often than now. If it weren't for Professor Snape, I wouldn't even be able to see him in my current position. "

"Only teach for a year?" Ron's focus was obviously not on the latter sentence.

Lockhart looked at him strangely: "Why... do you think I can fight the curse left by the mysterious man?"

"It's not... I mean, Harry and I thought this curse would be very

Tricky, but Hermione said you could get rid of that little bit if you wanted to.

play.

Ron was telling the truth.

"It's very surprising that Miss Erjie has such confidence in me, but it's a pity that this is not true." Lockhart could not laugh or cry.

Although his mouth was a bit stupid, it was not that Neville didn't know what to say at the right time with his grandmother's ears and eyes: "That's a pity, Fred and George both like you very much...and so do we."

"Don't be sorry, I'm going to the Ministry of Magic, I'm not unemployed... You wait here for me, I'm going to talk to a few acquaintances in Gringotts by the way."

After leaving Ron and Neville in the cold drink shop, Lockhart came to Gringotts.

When Griphook, the goblin on duty, saw him, he said the ugly word before him: Well, Mr. Lockhart. The general manager has already said that if you are here to talk about what was said in the last letter, we can only tell you with regret"

Lockhart interrupted him: "If the wizards write their own letters of authorization and have the keys to the vault, can they be considered to be there?"

Griphook was endured by him, but he was not angry.

"That depends on how authorized the authorization letter is."

"Full authority."

"Then we can only meet the needs of the client... But I must remind you that we goblins have a magical knack for distinguishing signatures that you humans don't know. Not only can we tell if it's an autograph, we can even Can tell whether it was signed voluntarily or not - not to mention coercion, even the Imperius Curse, Ecstasy and the like can't be concealed."

Lockhart knew this for the first time: "I didn't intend to use those things against prisoners, I just came to confirm your workflow, and now I know. oo thank you."

"You're welcome, in fact, if you can do it, we'd love to see that money re-enter the circulation, our bank has too many dead deposits, which is not conducive to the development of the bank." Griphook said.

"Oh? Did you realize it?" Lockhart was overjoyed.

"That's what your brother-in-law, Mr. William Russell, said. Mr. Ragnot admired him and had a lot of financial views with him."

"It's amazing, the times are still developing," Lockhart said.

Griphook glanced at him, made sure he wasn't sarcastic before shrugging, and continued to check the purity of the gem in front of him.

After hearing Ron's "Straight to win", Hermione almost wanted to shoot and beat him.

"How can you ask so directly?" she said angrily. "Now Professor Lockhart knows we're asking him."

Ron doesn't think it's a thing: "So what? At least we are now

Knowing that he does have a relationship with Malfoy, and the purpose is to enter the Ministry of Magic, saves us a lot of time to guess. "

Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, Harry hurriedly made a round.

"Anyway, Ron did find out something, and we now know that Professor Lockhart will only be around for a year."

Sure enough, Hermione was immediately distracted.

She lay on the table, frowning: "I thought he could break that curse."

Ron was sincere: "Isn't this normal? I've said it long ago that no one but Dumbledore can fight against You-Know-Who. If even Dumbledore can't break the curse, even Lockhart can't."

Hermione glared at him again: "They're just different in magic."

Harry had been cleaning his broom when he heard Hermione's words, he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Professor Lockhart is best at face-to-face magic?" he asked.

"Mental department." Hermione replied without hesitation.

"for example?"

Hermione counted as she snapped her fingers. "Confusion, Oblivion, Illusory, Sleeping Charm... I remember he used an Invigorating Charm on the first grade, Colin said it. Fred said it too. , Professor Lockhart instructed him to invent a "Daydream Charm"

Ah, yes, the fifth grader also said that Professor Lockhart used the Happy Charm very well, because they often feel a lot of pressure for review reasons... There may be other things, but I also know that not much. "

Both Harry and Ron looked at her dumbly.

"What's wrong."

It's been enough that you still remember it so clearly. "Ron complained

Hermione was furious: "You know, I've always had a good memory, and I can take notes, unlike you."

Harry saw that Ron seemed to want to say more, and quickly cut off the subject before they quarreled.