"I..."
Edward asked, "You will tell me when Little Barty informs you of the time, right?"
Lucius gnashed his teeth, staring at Edward angrily, his hand holding the wand shaking.
"Hey, if you had told me earlier that you were here to surrender tonight, why would we do this? Mr. Malfoy, I'm sorry, it's my fault!"
Edward picked up a glass of juice and said, "I brought this glass. It's all in the wine. I want to apologize. Please forgive me!"
"…"
He looked at Narcissa again, "Mrs. Malfoy, please help persuade your husband. After all, you don't want to...right?"
Narcissa gently pressed down her husband's hand holding the wand, then gently held his palm: "Forget it, Lucius."
"call--"
Lucius took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and lowered his head: "Tonight's dinner party ends here, both of you... please go back."
"Excuse me, Mr. Malfoy, ma'am."
Edward took Audrey's hand and waved to the two little ones, "Lilith, Susie."
They ran back immediately, one jumped onto Edward's shoulders, and the other clung tightly to Audrey.
Crack!
Two people, a cat and a dog twisted and disappeared.
Only Lucius Malfoy was left, still furious, being comforted by his wife:
"Damn it, bastard. Sooner or later, I will...sooner or later..."
Before he could finish, Edward reappeared: "I suddenly remembered that the Dark Mark over Hogwarts two days ago, is it related to you?"
The anger on Lucius's face froze. "...I asked Draco to do this just to remind you. But you didn't seem to take it seriously. That's why I had to confront you in person today."
Narcissa was shocked again: "Lucius, you are crazy! You...how could you do such a thing?!"
Edward was also stunned: "You let your son do such a thing? Aren't you afraid that he will be caught and thrown into Azkaban?"
Lucius said coldly: "I am helping you deal with the Death Eaters and the You-Know-Who. Draco will only have the credit, not the blame!"
This logic is really... amazing.
The two figures twisted and disappeared again, leaving only Narcissa angrily questioning her husband and Lucius' cold rebuttal.
"Da da da."
Until, the sound of crisp footsteps was heard, and a light figure appeared on the second floor.
The Malfoys recovered from their emotions almost instantly, bowed to the people upstairs and said:
"Master, we have completed the task you assigned us."
Chapter 239 The Hidden Person
The place where Edward and the other man Apparated was a small snow-covered grove a few hundred meters away from Malfoy Manor. As the two landed, a small tent appeared out of thin air, and Dumbledore walked out with his head lowered.
Since no one knew what Lucius was up to, they were of course fully prepared for the banquet. Dumbledore stayed there from beginning to end, ready to help at any time.
Hogwarts was being watched by the Phoenix Fawkes, who would Apparate over immediately if anything went wrong to prevent the Death Eaters from taking advantage of the opportunity to steal the house.
After all the trouble, they ended up with such a result, which really surprised them.
"Do you think Lucius's words are credible?"
Edward frowned and added, "Although Legilimency, the Imperius Curse, and Divination all confirm Lucius's words, I still think this matter..."
"unexpected."
Dumbledore said with concentration.
"That's right! It's just abrupt."
Edward stroked his hand in agreement, "Whether Lucius wants to hedge his bets or get rid of Voldemort, he has countless better ways..."
"Indeed, Audrey and I have a very good relationship with you, but outsiders don't know how close we are. Apart from anything else, we are just underage students after all. Isn't he worried that we won't do a good job and the information will be leaked?"
Susie suddenly said, "Could it be... that person originally said that for you to hear."
"?"
Edward was startled, puzzled: "Why?"
"have no idea."
She shook her head. "But I just saw that the man seemed to be acting. His fear, anger, surprise... were not his real emotions."
Lilith widened her eyes: Miss Lilith, why didn't you see it just now?
Audrey was shocked: "Huh? I didn't notice any of this."
Susie hesitated and said, "Maybe... the audience should see something different from a bystander's perspective?"
Oh no, Susie, you don't have to make excuses for me, you are a natural audience celestial being!
No wonder Edward always says you are a dreamy dog!
I'm sorry, I've embarrassed the Beyonder again.
Dumbledore's blue eyes flickered with thought: "Thinking back, Lucius Malfoy suddenly chose to abandon Voldemort and support me... Although he specifically found several reasons, in fact, after careful examination, it still doesn't make sense."
"Because if you help Voldemort, unless you are killed directly in battle, the worst result is that you will be sent to Azkaban. But Lucius has the experience of pretending to be crazy and escaping before, so he will definitely hope for the best."
"But if you betray Voldemort, you will really be found and executed! I know Lucius, he is more afraid of death than anyone else!"
At this point, there was a hint of surprise on his face. "Unless Lucius feels that Voldemort cannot kill him, or he is very confident in his own strength, which can be basically ruled out, or... he has found a new backer!"
Edward was surprised and said, "But... I am not the one who is praising you. How many people in the wizarding world have stronger backers than you and Voldemort?"
Dumbledore did not modestly admit his mistake, but nodded in agreement, looking towards the Malfoy manor in the distance:
"So, what secrets does Lucius have?"
"…I'll go back and take a look now!"
Edward was very decisive. He stuffed Lilith into O'Day's arms and took out the invisibility cloak and put it on.
"Be careful."
"clear!"
The [Hide] ability of the invisibility cloak was activated, and Edward disappeared silently.
Dumbledore smiled slightly and said, "Okay Audrey, come in with me. It's really cold outside."
"Yes, Professor."
...
Inside the Malfoy family manor, the house-elf Dobby was cleaning the table with a worried look on his face. Looking at the almost untouched food, he wanted to smash the table with his head several times, but was afraid of ruining his master's table.
Edward quietly walked through the living room and came to Lucius' study, where he found him holding his wand with a gloomy face, muttering something: something like that the humiliation suffered today would be returned double later.
He walked through the wall again and came to the next room, where Narcissa was speaking gently to Malfoy.
"Don't worry Draco, what happened just now was just an accident."
Malfoy said angrily: "But, they are going too far! We kindly invited them to dinner, why did they attack Dad?"
Narcissa patted his head and said, "Well, these things are not for you to think about. Go to bed."
Malfoy was a little panicked by his mother's attitude. He thought that since he was old enough to understand, it was always the Malfoy family that bullied others, but what happened today left him puzzled.
"Is it because of Audrey's family background?"
He asked quietly, "Is her family background something we can't afford to offend?"
"You don't understand baby, what you need to do now is to be obedient and have a good rest."
As she spoke, Narcissa kissed her son's forehead lightly, turned and walked out of the house, then went straight to the study and began to gently comfort her husband.
Everything seems so normal.
So normal...that Edward felt it was a little abnormal.
Apart from anything else, Edward walked around the manor villa and found that there was not even a servant in this huge Malfoy Manor - except for the house-elf Dobby.
So he has to cook, clean, tidy up the room, and do all kinds of messy chores. He is truly an all-rounder!
Edward followed Dobby all the way to the kitchen. As soon as he put down the cutlery, he turned around and banged his head against the wall:
"Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! The meal he cooked was so bad that his master didn't even eat any of it!"
"Useless Dobby! Damn Dobby! Terrible Dobby!"
Dobby didn't stop until his forehead was slightly swollen. He sat by the wall for a while, then suddenly took out the copper nut Edward had just given him from his pocket and examined it carefully, muttering, "That gentleman just thanked Dobby and gave him money. He is really a..."
I don't know what he was thinking of, but he suddenly started banging on the wall again.
"The soul is out of the body."
Edward waved his wand and cast the Imperius Curse. Dobby froze for a moment and turned his head to smile.
"Dobby, is there anyone else living in the villa besides you and your host and hostess?"
"No."
"Have you seen anyone else here recently?"
"Yes." Dobby replied, "The master's friend came a few days ago and talked with the master in the study for a long time, but Dobby doesn't know what they talked about."
"Besides those friends?"
"There was also a guy called Fudge, who was very annoying and kicked Dobby at the time."
"What else?"
Dobby shook his head: "No more."
"Do you know your master? Why doesn't he worry about Voldemort's revenge?"
Some fear suddenly appeared on his face: "I don't know."