After they had followed Mrs. Greengrass to the drawing-room and sat down, a skilful gentleman floated out and poured a cup of black tea for each of them, and after taking a sip of the teacup, the whole parlor fell into an awkward silence. In the end, it was Mrs. Greengrass who broke the embarrassment.

"Is there anything you have to do with me as soon as you come back to-day?" said Mrs. Greengrass calmly. "If it's about our contract, I'd like to say that my husband was killed, but I promise you that as long as there is one person left in our family alive, the contract we signed between us will always be honored. ”

"No, not this. Hermione looked a little confused, but finally said. "After all, Mr. Greengrass was killed because of us, so we think—"

"Is this mercy?" Lady Greengrass interrupted Hermione. "You are much kinder than I thought, and I know that if I admit what you said now, I will be very attractive. But what I need to tell you is that although my husband's death has something to do with you, it is actually doomed. ”

"Doomed, why is that?" said Ryan, frowning at Mrs. Greengrass's words. Because it seemed to him that Voldemort had chosen a certain way to harm the interests of the Greengrass family, and then Mr. Greengrass contacted him in order to resist. However, it fell short, and at the last moment, because of the lack of secrecy, the flaws were seen, which led to a series of things that happened later.

But now Mrs. Greengrass's words seemed to mean that the whole thing had been Voldemort's plan from the beginning, which aroused Ryan's curiosity, and he was curious to know what was going on behind this. Hermione at this time

"Here's how it looks—" Mrs. Greengrass slowly told her all about what had happened that day, as she watched Ryan and Hermione stare at her curiously.

After the original operation was scheduled, Voldemort sent several foreign hired wizards to Greengrass's house, on the grounds that for the sake of secrecy of the operation, Mr. Greengrass naturally had no reason to turn them away. These people did not live in the rooms of the manor after entering the manor, but wandered around the manor every day, and every three to five days they would change shifts with the new wizard.

"These are the three people we killed at the beginning. Hermione said to Ryan with the Phoenix brand, "It seems that those people don't know all of the Mysteries' plans, or that the Mysteries used their deaths to make sure we were fooled." ”

"You're right. Ryan replied by the same means, "It's a very simple thing to do, as long as these people don't respond within the allotted time, the mystery man knows we've gone there." For a dark wizard like the mysterious man, it is very worthwhile to be able to grasp certain important things with human life. ”

Mrs. Greengrass was unaware of the secret communication between Ryan and Hermione, and after telling the story of the previous events, she began to recount what had happened in the manor on the day of the incident.

Because that night was the time for Mr. Greengrass's mission, the Greengrasses family had finished lunch early and sat down in the living room to rest at noon that day. As a result, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, someone suddenly came to visit at the door.

"It was two o'clock in the afternoon and we found out that the Parkinsons' family had come to visit us out of the blue. Although we thought it was a little strange at the time, we welcomed them in as world friends. ”

At this point, Mrs. Greengrass became emotional. "Because of the relationship between the two families, we welcomed them into the living room as usual, and then asked the house-elves to serve them tea. Unexpectedly, Bellatrix, disguised as Pancy Parkinson, killed my husband directly with the Death Curse. Our house-elf Carrie tried to stop her, but was killed by another of his life-reeling spells. ”

"It's just horrible. Hermione sighed, feeling terrible to kill their father in front of an underage child, who had luckily never faced such a problem in their previous battles.

"yes, it's terrible. Mrs. Greengrass was doing her best to keep her emotions alive, but Ryan noticed that her eyes were red, and she was holding her head high and trying to stop the tears from falling.

After a few minutes passed, the handkerchief handed over by Hermione wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and Mrs. Greengrass finally controlled her emotions, and she said in a resentful tone: "I really didn't expect that the Parkinson's family, who have been friends for a hundred years, would actually provide cover for Bellatrix at this time and let that crazy woman kill my husband. ”

"So the Parkinsons were all real at the time?" Lane finally knew why Mrs. Greengrass was so angry, knowing that traitors are always more hateful than enemies, and that Mr. Greengrass was killed solely because of traitors.

With the magical defense of this ancient pure-blood family estate, it would take about seven or eight minutes for Voldemort himself to rush in, and that time was enough for them to raise the alarm to find reinforcements or escape through the secret passage.

"Yes, it was the Parkinsons who knocked us unconscious with the Unconscious Charm later. Mrs. Greengrass said, suppressing the anger in her heart. "It was only later when my daughters and I were put into that tent that we learned that this time everything for us had fallen into the Dark Lord's calculations. ”

"Could this be someone deceiving you?" asked Hermione. "It's creating some kind of false impression to mislead other people, for example, they want to send us some kind of wrong information through you to mislead me. ”

"No, absolutely not, that's what Bella told us at the time, and she seemed to think it was a great opportunity to spread the word about the Dark Lord's wisdom. It is absolutely impossible for Bella to lie in this regard. Mrs. Greengrass said categorically. And the news she said confirmed some things that I hadn't thought about before. ”

Hearing this, Ryan immediately made a gesture to continue. Madame Griglas paused and continued, "She first boasted about the Dark Lord's trust in her, and then said that the Dark Lord had always felt that we were likely to be traitors if we were not firm in our position, so this time she used this incident to test us. As a result, we became traitors as the Dark Lord had predicted. ”

"Why does the mystery man think you are unreliable and even come to test you?" Ryan asked.

"That's because there are so many people around us who have become slaves of the Dark Lord completely," Mrs. Greengrass said word for word. "Because of the Dark Lord's arrangements for my daughters' marriages, and his order that we usually go out on the streets and kill Muggles as much as possible. As we wanted to protect the integrity of the family, we were against this, and the complaints within the pure-blood family soon spread to the Dark Lord. ”

"Under the Dark Lord's targeted investigation, I think my husband was actually exposed when Hogsmeade sent his first letter to you. Mrs. Greengrass concluded, and then she looked at Ryan and said earnestly. "But I can swear that at no time will my daughters and I blame you both. ”

"Why is that?" Ryan asked, frowning. "Despite the trap set by the mysterious man, Mr. Greengrass's death does not strictly have a lot to do with us. It's hard for me to understand why you have so little resentment against us. Seriously, I can understand whether you are holding back or yelling at us at this time, but I can feel that you really don't have that kind of hatred. ”

"That's because it's one of the best-case scenarios we've anticipated. Mrs. Greengrass replied in an unexpected way.