Chapter 40: Meaningless

The Malfoy family is an ancient pure-blood wizard bloodline, and the ancestor of their family, Armand Malfoy, who arrived in England as part of the Norman invasion of the Norman army, is now known to have provided covert magical services to William I. Wait until after William ruled England. Malfoy has been granted an excellent grant in Wiltshire.

So, shortly after 1066, the Malfoy family built the Malfoy Manor.

The Malfoys are notoriously opportunistic, and although they have expressed their support for pure-bloods among wizards, they have always been happy to cater to non-magical groups for the sake of wealth. This made them one of the wealthiest families, and for hundreds of years they managed to expand their own lands in Wiltshire by annexing the lands of neighboring Muggles, flattering the royal family to increase their Muggle treasures and works of art, and expanding their collections.

The Malfoys quickly gained an excellent reputation for the pure magical bloodline. By currying favor with the rich and powerful, the upper class soon became one of them. According to rumors, one of their ancestors, Lucius Malfoy I, once pursued Queen Elizabeth, but of course the result was a failure. So some conspiracy theorists believe that Queen Elizabeth never married because of the curse of the loser Lucius Malfoy I.

By around 1692, the Malfoys had fully integrated into English Muggle high society, and were successful in Muggle money market trading and asset trading. However, after the International Wizarding Secrecy Act was forced, public opinion and trends shifted, causing the Malfoys to quickly sever all ties with them, and strenuously denied their friendliness to Muggle society. Once again, on the side of pure-blood wizards.

In the years that followed, the Malfoys used their wealth from the Muggle world to overwhelm the newly established British Ministry of Magic.

However, with the industrial revolution in the Muggle world and the rapid development of sanitation and other conditions, the population base of Muggles has grown at an extremely rapid rate. This has led to a significant increase in the number of wizards born into Muggle families. And Hogwarts, an advanced school of witchcraft and wizardry, allowed this part of the Muggle family wizards who lacked common sense and had no foundation in the wizarding world to successfully graduate and enter the wizarding world, and over time, this part of the wizards greatly squeezed the living space of pure-blood wizards.

The power of pure-blood wizards has been impacted, and these Muggle wizards, because they have no roots in the wizarding world and no relatives, they naturally huddle together with the academy and the school. So they can be called Hogwarts forces, and among them, Gryffindor is the most united.

As a result, the power of pure-blood wizards, mainly Slytherin, was greatly damaged, and in this case, the Malfoys once again speculated, and they sided with Voldemort. Needless to say, the ending is not too much. Voldemort met Harry Potter and was attacked by a spell he didn't understand, killing himself, and now only a few soul fragments remained, lingering.

Although it is generally believed that the Malfoy family paid a lot of price to clear their names after Voldemort's defeat, Li Ning looked at the Malfoy Manor in London in front of him, whether it was the exaggerated area, the splendid decoration and the extravagance of Kancun, Li Lin felt that the damage was still a bit exaggerated, and at most a lot of blood was lost.

Therefore, these pure-blood families with a long heritage are too deep-rooted, whether it is from the connections, power, or from the economy.

This Malfoy Manor in London covers a large area, but it is sparsely populated, which is a bit unreasonable, after all, it is also the capital of a country, and every inch of land is valuable. Therefore, the Malfoy family should be shameless and use the expulsion spell and confusion spell on the surroundings, clearing a large area of land.

Li Lin stood nearby for a while, there were already several wizards coming and going, more of them were riding in carriages, they were able to fly in the sky, and their shapes were more exaggerated, such as pumpkin shapes, such as crystals. It was supposed to have been confusing and the Muggles couldn't see it.

One or two of the few rode broomsticks, and the least apparitions.

Knowing the attitude of these so-called pure-blood wizards towards house-elves, Li Lin asked Godot to step down first. He walked into the manor by himself.

Standing in the doorway was Draco Malfoy. He greeted every wizard who came in. And very politely call them by their last name, and even say a joke or two when they have free time.

This is completely different from his performance in school, which can be described as personable.

When Li Lin walked over, Draco had been chatting with the wizarding family in front of him for a while, both of them laughing, and then Draco respectfully invited the wizarding family to the manor's banquet hall.

Then Draco looked away, he saw Li Lin, and then his smiling expression suddenly froze. Apparently too unexpected.

"Oh, Lovegood, how are you?"

Li Lin shrugged his shoulders, and he took out the invitation to the banquet.

"Maybe you should ask your father if the pure-blood family is not enough to make up the numbers, and has to pick a few of us to make up the numbers."

Draco didn't speak ill of Li Lin's taunts, whether it was being beaten up before, or Li Lin's self-proclaimed prophetic ability, it was not easy to provoke.

"Well, Lovegood is also a pure-blood family name with a long heritage, I hope you have fun."

As Draco said this, he tried to take his gaze away from the variegated color of Li Lin's blonde hair. In this way, he seems to be insincere.

Li Lin wanted to continue the conversation with the arrogant Draco, but Draco was not interested. So he had no choice but to walk to the banquet hall.

The banquet hall is not small, but the number of guests inside is sparse, and as far as the eye can see, it is full of children.

It seems that the adult wizards have left, leaving the feast for the children.

Considering the extremely large number of Death Eaters among pure-blood wizards, Li Lin maliciously thought that maybe they had gone to discuss the matter of their great master again.

Li Lin walked into the corner and looked at these children, there were some older boys, who were very graceful and sleek, chatting with some girls of similar age. The younger ones were in a heap, discussing something with each other.

The style of the banquet is more retro, there are no electric lights, but some candle flames, but the brightness is extremely high. Silver plates with food, and cups with drinks floated in the air, and they walked in a straight line, coming in from one end and going out from the other, one after the other.

Whoever wants to get it just has to wave and the wine or food they want will fly in front of them.

In the left corner of the hall, a bunch of musical instruments are pulling themselves, playing beautiful music, in which some familiar boys and girls are already holding hands and dancing. But more often than not, it's all about sitting on the sidelines and eating.

Li Lin had three plates of food in front of him, and he probably ate some of them, and felt that the level of the Malfoys was slightly stronger than that of Hogwarts.

After a few more moments, Draco at the door finished greeting him, and he ushered in the last guest, a girl slightly younger than him.

The girl is not accompanied by her family, which is obvious.

Li Lin took a closer look at this little girl, it seemed that she was also a student of Hogwarts, and her name should be Pansy. It's pretty cute. No wonder there was no impatience on Malfoy's face.

However, in terms of age, it is too young1.

Sure enough, these pure-blood families, systems, and concepts can't keep up with the times.

Li Lin hid in the corner, bored watching the children or showing off like a peacock opening the screen. But I have to say that the pure-blooded genes are still worth affirming, and most of the children here are very delicate in appearance.

However, Li Lin was observing others, and some of the more scheming children at the banquet were also observing the surroundings, and soon noticed Li Lin's relatively unfamiliar face.

"Hey, who's that guy?"

A thin, short boy poked the tall man next to him who was eating and drinking, and asked him.

The man looked up from the food and took a look. Then he hurriedly chewed it. Swallow the food in your mouth into your mouth. before he spoke.

"It's Lovegood!"

"Gower, Lovegood is here too." The tall man said to the boy behind him, who was also larger.

Li Lin took a sip of the red wine in the glass in front of him. As a minor, he really hasn't drunk yet. Therefore, this so-called fine red wine does not taste very pleasant in his feelings.

Li Lin put down the red wine, but felt that the vision in front of him was dark. He looked up, and it turned out to be two acquaintances.

Crabbe, Goyle, Draco's little henchmen. Their size and the IQ they usually show make Li Lin feel that the pure-blood family where these two people belong must have used close relatives to intermarry to keep their blood pure.

"Oh, isn't this the Squib of the Lovegood family? How do you qualify to come to this meeting? ”

"Hehe, yes, you should stay with Filch so you can take over his class after you graduate."

The two large people in front of them were sarcastic without mercy. I have to say that such words are beyond Li Lin's impression. This made Li Lin feel that he might have underestimated their IQ before.

However, Li Lin was not interested in arguing with them. In this way, it is easy for them to be pulled to a horizontal line, and Li Lin is experienced in competition, and Li Lin can't compete.

Crabbe and Goyle's words caught the attention of many people, and they all looked at them.

Some people recognized Li Lin and began to whisper.

"What two stupid people."

Looking at the surrounding situation, Li Lin sighed.

He reached out and poured the red wine from his glass on the ground, and in an instant, the red wine condensed into ice in the shadows on the ground.

"Draco, it looks like you need to teach your henchmen well, they don't have any eyesight."

Li Lin said this to Draco in the distance, and then turned to leave. There was no interest in hearing Draco's response at all. Such a party would only bore him, and he didn't want to go on any longer.

Looking at the back of Li Lin leaving, Crabbe and Goyle let out a laugh as if they were victorious.

But at this time, the ice on the ground also quickly swooped down, at the feet of Crabbe and Goyle.

Then, they tripped and fell to the ground, and then, in a panic, they were dragged back and forth on the floor like two large rags, cleaning the floor. The surrounding young wizards fled in panic, and some of them pulled out their wands and cast spells such as Instant Stop, but to no avail, until they called their parents.

By this time, however, the dragging had ceased, and the wine had returned to its original state, only by the time Crabbe and Goyle stood up, their clothes had been worn to shreds.