Chapter 012: The Malfoys

After listening to Snape's words, the other party immediately looked at Catherine, who was sitting opposite Snape, with his green eyes, which were very prominent as tennis balls, and then said in a sharp and hoarse voice with a stern crying voice:

"Dobby actually asked a little lady to make her own breakfast!"

His words made Catherine feel for the first time that it was a sin to make breakfast.

"Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! He yelled and slammed the plate into his head, the breakfast on the plate spilled everywhere, and his already dirty and tattered pillowcases were made worse by his behavior.

“STOP!” Snape snorted, "Pack up and go back!" ”

"Yes! Mr. Snape! He snapped his fingers, and the broken dishes and spilled breakfast disappeared instantly, then he bowed to them, and with another "crackle", disappeared.

The kitchen was quiet again, as if he had never been there.

"He's ......," Catherine cut the bread with a knife.

"House-elf, a neurotic monster who takes pride in serving wizards and desperately punishes himself whenever something goes wrong." Snape said with a look of disgust, "He's been sent by Lucius to help me clean the house and prepare three meals. ”

"That means I robbed him of his job." Catherine dug up a little butter and began to spread the bread.

“Yes！” Snape answered, and said no more.

Catherine put the bread in her mouth, but it suddenly occurred to her mind that this breakfast might not end so easily.

Soon after, a green flame burst into the fireplace, and a long, arrogant voice came out of it.

"Severus! I heard that you moved all the food in my kitchen to your house in the middle of the night last night to entertain a girl! ”

Catherine immediately looked at Snape, but found that he was not blushing or breathless, and went on eating his breakfast very calmly, until Lucius Malfoy, dressed simply but with dignity, came out of the flames, and he asked coldly.

"What are you doing here?" Snape's hand movements didn't pause.

"Breakfast, of course!" Lucius flicked the ashes on his clothes, then looked at the girl across from Snape, "Does Miss Catherine mind?" ”

"Of course not, it's just—" Catherine said with a smile, "the owner here is Professor Snape." ”

Lucius raised an eyebrow, then looked up at Snape and said, "With him, if you don't do it yourself, then wait to starve to death!" ”

"Then do it yourself!" Snape slouched back.

Lucius snorted, and then really did as Snape had said, taking the dishes himself.

"Miss Catherine, have you really auctioned off all your property?" Lucius asked directly as soon as he sat down.

“Yes！” Catherine put down the cutlery and replied politely.

"So you don't have a place to live now?"

“Yes！”

"Do I have the pleasure of inviting you to Malfoy Manor for a while?" Lucius held out his hand to Catherine, and there was more sincerity in his arrogant tone.

This surprised Catherine, so Snape preemptively answered Lucius's question.

"No way!" Snape vetoed firmly.

"Why?" Lucius looked at Snape, but his hand didn't take it back.

"She'll be staying with me before school starts!" Snape finally looked up at Lucius.

"Oh, you do have a spare room here, but what about the matching furniture?"

"I'll take her to buy it later." Snape glared at him.

"And what about the girls' change of clothes?"

Snape was speechless.

"So, Miss Catherine, please stay at Malfoy Manor!" Lucius looked at the girl proudly like a victorious peacock.

But before Catherine could reply, a green flame suddenly burst forth in the fireplace, and from it came a long and arrogant voice, but this one was much more immature.

"Godfather! I heard your daughter came over last night! ”

Snape and Catherine looked at each other, then at Lucius, who spread his hands to indicate that the rumor had nothing to do with him, and finally all three looked at Draco Malfoy, who had just escaped from the flames.

"Father! Godfather! Draco saluted the two elders very politely before looking at the only lady present, and when he saw the other person's face, he exclaimed, "It's you!" Catherine! You're the godfather's daughter! ”

Lucius glared at his screaming son, but Draco, who was obviously shocked, did not receive a message from his father, and still shouted, "I remember your family name is Prince!" ”

"Young Master Draco," Catherine smiled faintly, "first of all I have to tell you one thing, I am an orphan, and 'Princes' is only the surname of my adoptive parents; ”

Draco looked at her with her mouth wide open in shock, while Snape warned the girl sternly with his eyes, and as for Lucius, Catherine had already burst out laughing as soon as he finished speaking.

"Miss Catherine!" Lucius finally stopped laughing and said, "I can assure you that Severus's private life is very clean, and he has never touched a woman and is not married. After saying that, he deliberately blinked his eyes.

Catherine looked at Lucius with a puzzled face, not understanding why the other party was suing her.

And at this moment, a green flame broke out in the fireplace again, and once again an arrogant long note came from inside, only this time in a female version.

"Severus! I heard you finally brought a woman back last night for the night! ”

The three men sitting at the table immediately looked at Draco at the same time, and the boy hurriedly shook his head vigorously when he saw the three sights that shot at him, and saw that the three of them looked at the blonde witch who had just walked out of the flames, and as soon as he saw Catherine, he went to the chair beside her and sat down, and looked at her with great excitement, as if he didn't notice that she seemed to be too young.

"Hello, I'm Narcissa, Lucius's wife. Are you Severus' girlfriend? Narcissa Malfoy's expression was very arrogant, but her tone was very enthusiastic.

"Hello, Lady Malfoy, my name is Catherine, I'm 11 years old, I'm a first-year Hogwarts student, and because I'm an orphan and I've just sold all my property, Professor Snape has allowed me to stay with him for the time being before school starts." Catherine replied in a very calm tone, with a faint smile.

"That means I got it wrong!" Narcissa blinked her gray-blue eyes and glanced at the other three men.

Snape continued to eat breakfast, while Lucius winked at his wife with a faint smile, but did not answer, only Draco couldn't help but say, "Mom, of course you're mistaken!" Narcissa squeezed her arm hard.

"Why are you pinching me?" Draco grumbled softly, but the three elders collectively ignored it.

Snape continued to eat, Lucius earnestly asked his wife if she had breakfast, Narcissa smiled and shook her head, and Draco was sent to get the dishes.

Faced with such a strange atmosphere, Catherine decided to finish her breakfast first, but as soon as she picked up the dishes again, she heard Lucius introducing herself to his wife.

"Severus does have a spare room here for Catherine to stay in, but there is no furniture to match, let alone a change of clothes."

"How can this be!" Narcissa's voice suddenly raised an octave, "How can a girl not even have a change of clothes!" ”

"Mrs. Malfoy!" Catherine hurriedly interjected, "I have my own clothes. ”

"Dear Catherine, you can throw away those clothes from before, because here they are—" Narcissa proclaimed proudly, tilting her head, "the wizarding world! ”

"I think—" Catherine was interrupted by Narcissa as she began her sentence, and she grabbed her hand.

"Rest assured, child, I assure you in the name of Lady Malfoy that the clothes I have chosen for you are definitely the most popular styles of the season." Narcissa patted Catherine's hand and said.

"This—" Catherine looked at Snape pleadingly, only to find that it was not just him, but Lucius and Draco were all eating breakfast with their heads bowed neatly, and the girl was unquestionably booked by Narcissa for the rest of the week.

Cress Street is known as the aristocratic street in the British wizarding world, because the price here is definitely the most expensive in the whole of the United Kingdom, even in the era of the Great Depression, any item here needs an ordinary wizard to go bankrupt to afford it.

So later, ordinary wizards stopped hanging out here, so as not to be sad to watch. Later, an unwritten rule was formed that goods on the Straße de Kress were sold only to the nobility.

However, after hundreds of years of historical changes, more and more new magnates began to appear, the power of the old nobles began to decline, and wealth began to transfer to the hands of new magnates.

In this environment, Kress Street did not stick to the old rules, but promptly joined all the shops to create a Kress Club.

The club accepted both the old nobles and the new magnates as members, and issued a rule: only need to get the recommendation of the old members to become new members.

Therefore, the first thing Narcissa did when she brought Catherine to Cress Street was to take her to the Cress Club, and then someone sent them the latest product information for September on Cress Street for them to choose from.

Faced with the foot-thick "latest product information" that opened up to the size of a round table, and Narcissa's incomparably high spirits, Catherine finally understood why the other three had "died and not saved" her at breakfast.

So in order to avoid spending the next week here, Catherine went through the "latest product information" from beginning to end, and then quickly selected ten of each of all types of products according to her preferences.