Chapter 069 Family and Family Affairs

"Arrogance!" Snape snorted coldly, but his mood couldn't help but return to pleasure.

"Where's my discharge gift?" Catherine walked up to him and held out her hand to Snape with a smile.

"Childish!" Snape cursed, but threw out a small black gift box.

"Thank you!" Catherine opened it curiously and found a necklace in the shape of a red rose, and she couldn't help but look at Snape in surprise.

"Don't like it?" Snape glared immediately.

"Nope! Like! Catherine hurriedly shook her head, "Can you put it on for me?" ”

Snape snorted, picked up the necklace, and placed it around Catherine's smooth neck, and she immediately smelled the familiar scent of moonlight.

"Professor, this ......" Catherine looked at Snape in shock, not knowing what to say.

"You've just healed, and you have to wear it all the time." Snape's mouth was a stern order, but the movements of his hands were unusually gentle, "Remember, you have to come and change every seven days." ”

"Yes!" Catherine suddenly put her arms around his neck and trembled gently against his shoulders.

Snape sighed silently, pulled the girl into his arms, and hugged her tightly.

After Valentine's Day, Catherine returned to her busy days, busy with homework, busy sorting out materials, and busy practicing Occlumency. Since her injury, there was one more thing she didn't want Snape to know, and it was the last thing she wanted to remember, and she had become very haggard for it, but everyone thought she was just too busy.

Draco wanted to help, but the only thing he could meddle in was the privacy of the Potter family; Harry could help, but he was already too busy to take care of himself, and he had no room to help; Hermione wanted to help, but Catherine was reluctant to expose her to the dark side of the wizarding world too early, deliberately disrupting her vision with Occlumency.

So on the Hogsmeade weekend after Ron's birthday, Hermione decided to have a meeting with Draco and Harry, Pansy and Blaise joined out out of curiosity, and Ron was worried about the two friends, so the Slytherin Triangle and the Gryffindor Triangle reunited.

Because during the Christmas holidays, they often went in and out of her dormitory in order to care for the injured Catherine, and soon developed the habit of borrowing her living room for meetings, and although the other Slytherins returned to school after school started, they still thought of a way to "stow away" - the Slytherin Triangle opened the way, and the Gryffindor Triangle hid among them in an invisibility cloak.

This method has not been noticed by anyone, because a Gryffindor triangle has Catherine's invitation, and "SC" will not block their entry; Second, they don't get together often, and after Catherine was discharged from the hospital, she gave up directly.

If it weren't for Hermione's concern for Catherine's situation, she wouldn't have mentioned it again, but no one thought that they would be discovered when they infiltrated this time, and the people who found them decided to try it themselves after noticing that the Slytherins were not overreacting.

"You've all seen Catherine's situation!" Hermione stood in the center of the living room and "presided over the meeting", "Let's think about what a good way to do it?" ”

Draco and Harry were the only ones who were serious about what to do, Pansy yawned and leaned back in her chair to recuperate, Blaise was drawing something with a piece of paper, and Ron was cursing with his head down and cursing someone who had made him have to show up.

"We don't have to interfere with the schoolwork," said Harry, with envy on his face, "Catherine's brilliant memory is perfectly capable of being solved. ”

"Occlumency is impossible for anyone else to help," Draco said helplessly, "and it's all Catherine's own." ”

"Then all we can help with is family affairs!" Hermione slapped her palm hard, and suddenly asked with a blank face, "What are the family affairs?" ”

"Let me explain to you what a family is, shall I?" Draco said in a rare voice, "The foundation of a family is blood and marriage, so there must first be a certain population, such as several generations of the same bloodline. Ron looked up immediately.

"But a large population doesn't make a family," Draco gave him a cold glance before continuing, "The important thing for a family is that it has a certain amount of influence, and if it doesn't have influence, it doesn't count as a family, it can only be said to be a big family." ”

"Influence?" Hermione immediately asked.

"Yes, e.g. politics, economy, literature, fashion...... No matter what aspect it is, as long as it has a certain influence, it can basically be regarded as a family. Draco gestured to the two Slytherins next to him, "Like Pansy's family is mainly economic, the Brace family is mainly fashion, and the Malfoy family is political. ”

"According to you, Professor Dumbledore's family can be considered a good one, he can influence the entire wizarding world." Harry spoke suddenly.

"No, Dumbledore isn't, it has to involve the most crucial point of a family - history," Draco sneered and waved his hand, "You can't be a family without a certain history, which is why even if the Weasleys don't have much influence right now, they are sometimes called the Weasleys." ”

Ron immediately lifted his head and puffed up his chest.

"In the final analysis, family affairs are to ensure that a family can continue to pass on and prosper more and more." Draco concluded.

"Is it hard?" Harry asked.

"It's not easy at all." Pansy opened her eyes and took the conversation, and she looked at the three Gryffindors with curious faces, and her tone was full of jealousy.

"Population is the basis of inheritance, but it doesn't mean that the more the population, the better, because it is not uncommon for multiple heirs to compete for family property and cause the family to fall apart, so many wizarding families today are passed down from one line, like the Malfoy family." She looked at Draco, "But then I'm afraid something will happen to the heirs, like the Potters." She looked at Harry again.

Draco and Harry didn't expect them to have this in common, and couldn't help but glance at each other, and hurriedly moved away.

"The most important thing is influence," Pansy continued, "and families without influence will soon fade into obscurity, and then begin to decline, and finally disappear into history." ”

Ron's head drooped again, and he couldn't help but shudder at the thought of what was going on at home.

"But it's so hard to guarantee influence, especially for big families." Pansy lowered her head and said helplessly, "The big family itself has a lot of assets, which requires a lot of people to operate, and some people have something, so there are definitely a lot of family affairs in a big family." ”

"So many things every day are enough for those in power to be upset, and you have to be careful of attacks from all sides, you must know that the rise of a family is indispensable to offend people, and the enemies of a big family are more, this is called 'wood shows in the forest, the wind will destroy it'!" Brace suddenly put down the paper and shook his head and sighed.

"So, to be a good family ruler, you must do the following," Draco said in a meaningful voice, as he looked into the distance,

"You have to learn all sorts of skills first, because you can't predict when you're going to use them;

Secondly, you must know how to deal with all kinds of interpersonal relationships, because a family will always have disputes looking for you;

Thirdly, you must have all the means to protect yourself, because your enemies will always come to you for trouble;

In the end, you must strictly control your own will, because you are the support of the family, and if you fall, the whole family will also collapse. ”

Draco's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he spoke, until he even had a sudden realization.

Everyone present was stunned by his words, and Pansy even felt that Draco's light was shining brighter than anyone else's.

"So are the Potter family's family affairs troublesome?" After a long time, Hermione finally remembered her original purpose, but all three Slytherins had strange expressions.

"It all depends on Catherine's attitude." Brace smiled wryly, "If she wants to be lazy, then she just needs to be as casual as her ancestors; But if she wants to make a difference, it's a super troublesome thing. ”

"What's the trouble?" Harry asked, puzzled.

"You should already have access to family history, right?" Brace saw Harry nod before continuing, "Your bloodline can be traced back to the Merlin period, and because of the single lineage, your family can be involved in the entire wizarding world, plus the nature of your clan, your ancestors' footprints are completely all over the world. ”

"That's an exaggeration!" Ron finally spoke.

"It can be said that why your family is willing to be mediocre, a large part of Cheng Dù is frightened by these messy and clueless things, knowing that there are many benefits hidden in it, but it takes ten years, twenty years or even a lifetime to sort it out first, which is really a very terrifying thing." Blaise shuddered hard, "I really, really admire Catherine's courage. ”

"Thankfully, she was already in charge of a large family before she came to Hogwarts!" Pansy's tone was full of admiration, "This should save her some time." ”

"If it weren't for that," Draco said with a sudden laugh, "she wouldn't be worthy of my father's evaluation." ”

Everyone couldn't help but wait curiously for his next step, but suddenly heard a series of explosions outside.

The six of them looked at each other, hurriedly got up and rushed out of the living room, they gently opened the "SC", and found that the common room was already in chaos, and the Slytherins, who had always been elegant and calm, were struggling to avoid the fireworks and tricks that were scurrying around, and the culprit of this qiē was -

"Fred!" "George!"

The Gryffindor Triangle exclaimed, and the Slytherin Triangle immediately added a disillusionment charm to them at the same time, and blocked the door of the "SC".

"So you're here!"

"Why we're looking so hard!"

The twins cried out plaintively, but a pile of thunderbolts was thrown in their hands without mercy.

Draco, Brace, and Pansy immediately cast armor charms to block the attacks, but they didn't dare to fight back, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione's wands were pointed at their backs.

"Close the door!" Draco simply decided to stay out of the way.

"No way!" Harry feared that the twins would be weak.

"Weasley!" Just as the two sides were arguing, an angry female voice suddenly resounded throughout the common room, and everyone looked over and found that the person who shouted was actually Daphne.