Chapter 67
When a photograph of a handsome young man appeared on the fourth page of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief jumped up again with his hands and feet. He put the manuscript back in the envelope, and carefully placed the envelope containing the manuscript in his arms using the secret spell that had been passed down in several families. After grabbing a handful of Floo powder from the delicate jar next to the fireplace, he didn't even have time to put on his coat, but after the flames turned green, he stepped into it, and the destination was the mansion of his own master.
As Gale had originally thought, there was no coverage of the incident for the next week, and there was no news of the editor-in-chief's illness or unusual behavior. The manuscript was like a drop of water falling into the sea, and it quickly disappeared without even causing a ripple of meaning.
"Well, judging by the current situation, it seems that what you said is right." Gail and Seaver were in their bedroom, and said to Grindelwald through the two-way mirror, "But on the bright side, the Iversons are secretly checking the information from the manuscript." That's a good thing. ”
[Gail felt that if he wanted to fight Voldemort's power, it was only right to start from his own background, and Grindelwald agreed.] But the two disagreed on how to use this weapon. Gale leans towards public opinion attacks, letting everyone know that Voldemort is actually a scumbag and murderer that even his parents don't want to admit. Grindelwald pointed out that no media in Britain would be willing to report on this matter.
"Do you think they're really loyal to Voldemort himself? No. Grindelwald patiently explained to Gale, "Maybe the younger generation of family heirs will support Voldemort because of his strength, worship him, and follow him, but from the older generation of rulers, they are more focused on their own interests." Pure-bloods can maximize their interests, which is why they are so fanatical. It's not so much that they're obsessed with Voldemort himself, but that they're obsessed with the growth of their family business. ”】
Gale accepted Grindelwald's suggestion and instead of continuing with his own idea of "replacing the day's headlines", Gale sent the manuscript to the editor-in-chief. And what the Iversons did afterwards proved Grindelwald's point of view.
"Gail, in fact, most of these current family heads are actually Voldemort's classmates when he was a student, don't they have any idea what this classmate is like? The descendants of Slytherin were just an excuse. Severus agrees with Grindelwald and pulls out a piece of parchment with the names of pure-blood families from the same time as Voldemort when he was studying at Hogwarts.
"Is it my delusion?" Gale looked at the parchment in his hand and held up the two-way mirror so that Grindelwald's perspective could see the contents of it, "I always feel that it seems that many of these family owners have died recently, and there are a few ...... I'll see, Iverson, Malfoy, Black, Bock, ......"
"Uh-huh," Grindelwald looked at the time and cause of the deaths of the other dead homeowners, and lengthened his tone meaningfully, "very smart, bold and sharp." If he still had his senses, it would have been different. At least it won't cause panic among half-blood wizards and wizards from ordinary backgrounds, after all, they are the majority of the wizarding world. ”
Gale didn't like to refer to ordinary people who couldn't use magic as Muggles, and he always felt that there was a contempt in the word, so he preferred to use "ordinary people" to refer to people who couldn't use magic rather than "Muggles". Grindelwald noticed this, and showed a slightly realized expression, and then began to call them "normal people" like Gail.
"From this point, you have gone further than Al and me. Grindelwald said at the time, "Even Al inevitably used the words 'Muggle' or 'Hemp'. It's what we've been taught since childhood, and although Al has tried hard to change that, it hasn't worked much. ”
The meaning and lexical origin of "Muggle" is no longer known, no one knows whether it comes from Old English or Latin, in short, it is widely used by wizards, and even wizards from ordinary backgrounds will occasionally say "those stupid Muggles" or "Muggles are always so stubborn and blind to magic" after graduation, this sense of superiority has no reason, but it does exist. Grindelwald was receptive to Gail's act of embodying ideas in the trivial, and was happy to see it happen. 】
"You think something is wrong, too, do you?" Seaver pointed to the parchment he had summed up and said, "Remember the connection between life and magic?" The book says that the more powerful the wizard, the slower the aging rate, and even some wizards will maintain their youthful or middle-aged appearance until they die. Moreover, most wizards will live to about one hundred and twenty years after they grow up, because their magic power is also accumulating and increasing as they age. And these ......"
"The youngest of these people was only in their fifties when they died, and the older ones were only seventy years old, which is too young." Gale responded to Severus's words, "When things go wrong, there must be demons." ”
"I heard that Abraxas, the head of the Malfoy family, seems to be in poor health lately." Seaver added a sentence that made Gail's face darken.
He thought he would be able to prevent death, but he didn't realize that the killing had already begun. It was a terrible feeling for Gail! Gail was silent, during which neither Grindelwald nor Severus spoke. Grindelwald is looking forward to Gail's growth, and at the same time feels good about having someone like Severus by his side.
Being able to attract such a person to his side is one of Gael's strengths. Including the Potter and Black boys mentioned in the information that his subordinates asked him, there seems to be a little werewolf. Gail's attraction can make up for all kinds of deficiencies in his character.
Well, he's also very short-guarded, just like this kid named Severus did to him, and his short-range dù is not far behind. For the sake of a young wizard from an ordinary person named Lily and the friend she had just introduced to herself, she offended the heirs of the Potter and Black families on the first day of school, and fought back mercilessly. I don't know how they turned enemies into friends, youth, it's really beautiful!
While Gale was silent, Grindelwald thought for a rare moment on the other side of the two-way mirror, waiting for the outcome of Gail's thoughts.
"Do you think Malfoy can be trusted?" Gail's eyes lit up and he said, "'Malfoy always gets what he wants,' 'Malfoy's blood is the most important thing,' right?" ”
Grindelwald nodded: "Most people's understanding of the latter sentence is that the Malfoy family values the purity of blood, but in fact, this is a misreading. The Malfoys don't bother to explain it to everyone who thinks so. ”
"Malfoy, your name is Tsundere." Gail muttered. Grindelwald didn't understand the meaning of the word "tsundere" at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was still a good word to describe the Malfoy family. Even most pure-blooded families, as well as those that still retain the glory of their titles, can be described by this word.
Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy woke up to find himself lying on the floor of an empty classroom, surrounded by an envelope not much different from the one he had once sent to Editor-in-Chief Iverson. The first thing he did after regaining consciousness was not to pick up the envelope or look at the surroundings, but to quickly jump up and tidy up his appearance.
Lucius breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that his body was not undecently covered with dust or other stains. He was glad that the recent cleaning of Hogwarts had left the empty classroom spotless, and that it had not caused irreparable contamination to his robes, which looked the same as the school uniform, but were made of expensive materials.
After Lucius stood still, he suddenly remembered what his father had taught him: "If you are knocked unconscious in danger, you must temporarily control your breathing and muscles after regaining consciousness, and pretend that you are still unconscious, so that caution can allow him to obtain more information in his favor." This made Lucius's body, which had just regained his grace, stiffen a little.
Lucius comforted himself that it was nothing, that there would inevitably be mistakes in his growth, and that he had finally made himself a little better. Only then did he surrender his gaze to the envelope at his feet.
This time, he cautiously drew his wand and, as Abrazus had taught him, threw a stack of detection spells at the envelope, the glow of the spell when it hit the envelope, and he was finally sure that it was a safe, mundane letter free of curses and mischiefs.
So who would give him such a letter? Malfoy didn't even bend down, but tapped the letter lightly with his wand, and the letter flew to half an arm's length of Malfoy's chest. With one more wave of his wand and a whispered incantation, the envelope opened on its own, and the letter flew out and floated before Malfoy's eyes.
After only a few words, he almost jumped up like Iverson once was. Lucius had already pulled through the letter floating in mid-air and flipped through it quickly. When he saw the last piece of paper, because of his excitement and excessive force, the joints of the letter he held turned blue and white.
The letter to Lucius was different from the manuscript to Iverson, except for the last piece of paper, which was exactly what Severus summed up about the death of the heads of the pure-blood families in the past two years.
Just taking out this piece of paper, no one will have too many ideas, at most, they will feel that the talents in the wizarding world are withering. But if it is linked to Voldemort's life experience before, as long as he is not a fool, he will feel that this is a premeditated plot and killing! Death is caused only by sealing the mouth!
"Lucius, Lucius, you have to calm down!" In the empty classroom, young Malfoy took a few deep breaths and said to himself. He felt that he had almost calmed down, and began to fold the letter again and stuff it back into the envelope. But because his hands trembled so much, he tried several times before he succeeded, and even accidentally broke the envelope. The magical life of Gail Green
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Chapter 67.