Chapter 1022 The History of the Ancient Pure-Blood Family
Cokeworth, Spider's End.
The tall chimneys stand quietly in the dark haze, like the ghosts of the previous era, and this abandoned industrial city is full of signs of decay.
Walking along a sewage-filled river to the second half, passing through a dilapidated railing, you can see a narrow path paved with soft cobblestones.
Both sides of the path are full of dilapidated houses, and almost no one wants to manage it here, and there are randomly built attics everywhere.
"Is it here?" Narcissa nervously pinched the fingers of her right hand with her left hand.
"Yeah." Lucius was leaning on a snake-headed cane, looking up at a house with a peak that resembled a crooked wizard's hat, his eyes full of nostalgia, "At that time, I was on summer vacation and I took Bella and Evan with me. Rozier came here to look for Severus, although he was very angry that we came to the door, he still treated us warmly."
Narcissa pursed her lips, looked around, and sighed slightly, "No one likes to show their embarrassed side in front of their friends."
"That's not true." Lucius smiled slightly, "Severus is very proud. He has such excellent magical talent, invented so many magics, and even corrected the mistakes in the textbooks. His embarrassing background made him even more so." Hair can set off his greatness."
"He just doesn't want us to get in touch with his Muggle father." Lucius' expression became weird, "That old man's temper is very weird, and Severus knows that we discriminate against Muggles, and he is worried that his father will be hurt. "
Narcissa suddenly became nervous, "You didn't hurt his father at that time, did you? After all, we are here to beg him now..."
"Heh~" Lucius sneered, with a look of helplessness on his face, "Mr. Snape is a very powerful old man, and I was filled with a whole bottle of inferior wine by him."
Time flies so fast, it seems that it only takes a blink of an eye, and the scene when a few of their little friends came to comfort Severus who had his girlfriend robbed was still vivid in front of his eyes.
Now, their children have grown up to what they were then.
"Let's go."
As Lucius knocked, the door opened and they finally met Severus Snape.
"You shouldn't be looking for me at this time, especially when you plan to completely move to America and choose to stand under the command of the Dark Lord..."
Snape's gaze was dim, and he just looked at the crack in the wall of the neighbor's house outside the window in some silence.
Gradually, he seldom came here. Today, through an owl appointment to meet here, Snape realized that the edge of this deserted city was becoming more and more dilapidated.
"Severus, you know, what I want has never changed, and that is the development of the family." Lucius rubbed the palm of the cane's copper snake head, very helplessly, "Is this Dumbledore or Ann?" I can’t even give you anything, but I see hope in the Dark Lord.”
Snape looked back at Lucius, "Then why are you looking for me?"
"My boy, Draco, I don't worry about him." Lucius sighed.
"Then take them there too!" Snape turned and sat on the single sofa, seemingly ignoring Lucius.
"Severus..."
"We all know what kind of person the Dark Lord is. He always likes to drag people into the water, making everyone as dirty as him, and has no choice."
Lucius called his wife Narcissa to sit down on the sofa next to him, and looked at Snape seriously, "I can almost guess what Draco will face when he goes to America with me."
"I don't want that, Draco is still young, he has more possible futures."
"Severus, I can only keep Draco here. Anthony Weasley will protect him, but it's only protection after all. I hope someone can take care of him."
"Severus, for the sake of our past..."
Snape raised his head to look at them, and sneered, "It's because of the past that I will meet with you and sit down to talk, otherwise I should kill you immediately."
Suddenly, everyone fell silent.
"Severus..." Lucius gripped his cane tightly, "I'm glad to see that you've finally come out of your old relationship and started to welcome..."
"Don't talk about that!" Snape growled.
But Lucius just said to himself, "You and Gillian Nicklaus will have children after all, right, you take care of my children, and Draco will take care of your children in the future."
"He is alone in Europe and has no one to rely on. The only ones who can get help are you and Anthony Weasley, and the only ones who will be close are the two of you."
Snape's expression was suddenly full of sarcasm, "Lucius, you are always so greedy, you want everything, and you are full of calculations."
Lucius just smiled and didn't mind Snape's words. He knew that this old friend looked bitter and mean, but he was the most tender person among all the people he knew, and his heart was extraordinarily soft.
He looked at Snape pleadingly, and said in a low voice, "Severus, for the sake of the past, help me take care of my child!"
He had never been so humble in front of this friend, not even when he was at his worst after the Dark Lord failed.
Lucius has this proud qualification. He grew up in the Malfoy family, one of the twenty-eight sacred families. The Dark Lord failed and retired unscathed, with great influence at the Ministry of Magic and at the School of Magic.
He never looked down.
In addition to facing Voldemort who can bestow more glory on his family, and... in front of Snape, the former younger brother.
Snape looked at Lucius with a gloomy expression, and then at Narcissa who was covering her mouth to keep herself from crying, but tears were already streaming down her face.
"good."
He spoke softly.
Lucius heaved a sigh of relief. He stood up slowly, saluted Snape with his wife behind him, and put the copper snake-headed cane that never left his body sideways on the side of Snape. on the table.
"What's this for?" Snape frowned and looked at Lucius. He didn't accept the deal, but only accepted the sustenance of emotional sacrifice.
But Lucius obviously didn't think so, he took a deep look at the cane, "There is a church in Godric's Hollow, behind the church is the cemetery, and beside the cemetery is an abandoned pointed house because the cemetery is haunted. "
"It's a private library used by the Malfoy family to store spare magical materials, and this cane is the key."
Snape didn't even look at it, just said coldly, "Take it, get out!"
Lucius ignored him and continued, "After entering this library, the third row of the shelf on the left contains all the materials that the Malfoy family produced for the Ministry of Magic in 1857, the magic item 'Knight Bus'."
"I heard the news that Anton is asking Minister Fudge to find a way to obtain it within the Ministry of Magic. But it is doomed to be useless. The information left by our Malfoy family to the Ministry of Magic is incomplete. Minister Fudge is trying to get around the contract. Magically obtaining the magic box that stores the data will not bring much use to Anton."
"In addition, walking along the left wall towards the innermost part, the last row of bookshelves are all research manuscripts collected by magic masters of different ages interpreting the book "Secrets of Cutting-Edge Black Magic"."
"In there, there is content about Horcruxes."
"Believe me, what the Ministry of Magic has, it's in that library, and what the Ministry of Magic doesn't have, it's in that library!"
This is the heritage of an ancient pure-blood family.
Oh no, it's the roots of two pure-blood families, the Malfoys and the Blacks.
Lucius' wife, Narcissa, brought a large number of magic books with her family when she married, and it was the time when the library was filled with the most abundant materials.
After all, the Black family at that time had no males at all (everyone thought Sirius would die in Azkaban Prison).
"Severus, keep it for me, and when Draco grows up, give it to him as you see fit."
Lucius' tone seemed to be explaining the funeral.