Hogwarts Asylum

In the conference room on the top floor, when Eurolin sat down by the window, Lucius first took out a bottle of wine without a label from the light-proof wine rack on the side, and then held out a beige bottle with black color as if to offer a treasure. The box has texture, but you can’t tell where the opening is at all.

Putting the box on the table, Lucius took out his wand and pointed it on the box, and whispered softly: "Glory shines."

After the curse, there was only a sudden click sound in the box. Then the side of the box facing the ceiling cracked in the middle and bounced to both sides. As the click sound continued, another one slowly rose from the box. Snow white box.

Lucius held the snow-white box in his palm, and lightly brushed his hand over the surface of the box. Another click sounded, and the snow-white box opened.

In the cigar box made of hollowed out ivory, ten cigars wrapped in velvet tubes lay quietly. When the velvet tube was removed, a cigar with a gold foil pattern was revealed. One end of the cigar was covered with a There was a label. In the center of the label was a black outline of a human figure holding a cigar in his mouth. Below the pattern was written a line of small, fuzzy words. Eurolin could only make out that one of the words was "eternal".

"How is it?" Lucius was a little proud. He had bid for this box of cigars in the presence of a group of pure-blood family members. Although the price of a box of nearly seven thousand galleons was a bit painful, judging from the appearance, , it is indeed worth the money, not to mention that he has hooked up with the King of Brazilian Tobacco, Kim Guevara, and added a profitable business to the Malfoy family.

"It's worth the money." Although Olorin had a new understanding of Lucius's luxury, he could only comment briefly.

"Try it." As he said, Lucius put the cigar box on the table, pushed it in the direction of Eurolin, and then took out two long white boxes from the big box and put one of the boxes in it. After pushing it to Eurolin, he opened another box, took out a pair of golden cigar scissors, and cut the cigars on his own.

Olorin picked up a cigar, took off the outer velvet tube, and pressed it gently. Although there were gold foil lines on the cigar, there were no strange lumps or softness after pressing. It can be said that there is no problem with the craftsmanship.

Taking another sniff, it was a pure natural tobacco aroma, but Ouluo Lin had no research on tobacco and could not distinguish between good and bad tobacco.

Opening the long box, there were cigar cutters and a row of long red-headed wooden matches.

O'Loughlin picked up the cigar scissors, cut off the foot, lit a match, and began to heat the cigar.

On the other side, when Eurolin was lighting a cigar, Lucius was already pouring alcohol for Eurolin with a cigar in his mouth.

……

On the second floor, after Catherine calmed down for a while, she rejected Narcissa's suggestion to rest in the garden, and instead proposed the idea of ​​going to the rooftop to see the scenery.

Narcissa naturally did not refuse, as long as she stopped staying in Draco's toy room.

However, Narcissa did not take Catherine to the nearest stairs, but took a long way around to take the stairs at the other end of the manor, because she knew that Lucius was taking Eurolin in the top floor conference room, so she went up the nearest stairs. , will disturb them.

As they passed the doors along the corridor, Catherine made no further request to go in for a visit, which made Narcissa secretly relieved. However, when she was about to reach the stairs, Catherine suddenly stopped again and pointed at the wall. One of the portraits asked: "Hey, who is this? He seems to be in the restaurant too."

Narcissa looked along Catherine's hand and saw in the portrait hanging on the wall, a smiling boy with black hair and deep eyes. Although his face was a little pale, he was very handsome and beautiful, and he looked a little shy. .

"That's..." Narcissa didn't know how to explain the figure in the painting to Catherine. After all, no one dared to call him by his name, "That's... a friend of the Malfoy family."

Narcissa put a heavy emphasis on the word "friend."

"Friend? Is he also a noble?" Catherine asked curiously.

"He has a noble status." Narcissa said ambiguously. In fact, the pure-blood families do not think that the Dark Lord is one of them because he is just a mixed-blood, but it is not suitable to say this kind of thing. After all, The Dark Lord is just missing, not dead, otherwise the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts wouldn't have to be replaced every year.

"Can that be..." Catherine looked at the boy in the portrait and whispered.

"What?" Narcissa looked at Catherine.

"Nothing, hahaha, let's go up." In the end, Catherine did not express the idea of ​​making a copy of the portrait, although she did think that the boy in the portrait was very good-looking, and her lounge was not decorated enough.

After Narcissa took Catherine away, a sneer suddenly sounded in the empty corridor: "Friends? Hahaha."

……

The gate of Avery Manor.

Bingbing, a house elf with a pair of big aqua eyes, was hiding behind a stone pillar, secretly observing the back of his master standing at the door in the night.

Hydra has been waiting here since the sun has not set. At first, many people from the Avery family followed her to welcome her, but as night fell, a vassal of the Malfoy family came to visit and asked After pretending to accidentally mention that the Malfoy family was entertaining a guest named Orolin, Hydra was left waiting alone.

"Ugh--"

In the night, Hydra sighed silently. Although she had expected it, she was still a little disappointed that Orolin did not come to Avery Manor for the banquet first.

Fortunately, it was just after seven o'clock and it was still early, so Hydra decided to continue waiting.

But... Hydra turned to look to the right and back: "Bingbing, what are you still doing here?"

Hydra sighed again. Just as Lucius felt that Dobby's presence was not low enough, the Avery family's house elf Bingbing also had a strong sense of presence. It didn't know how to hide it at all. She had asked her to He was not allowed to make a sound, so he didn't even dare to breathe in the corner until he suffocated and fainted. Now he is secretly hiding behind a pillar, but most of his body is exposed.

"Master...Master..." Bingbing made a small, trembling voice and pulled out a chair from behind the pillar, "Sit down..."

Looking at the chair Bingbing pulled out, Hydera was silent for a while, and finally reached out to move the chair to her side.

"Go back to your room, don't stay here anymore."

"Master...I..." Bingbing shook, but didn't move at all, "I'll go and tie that person up..."

In the Avery family, Bingbing's favorite is the mistress, because others always like to hit themselves with things, and sometimes poke themselves with lighted sticks, but the mistress has never done anything rough. , and even blocked other people's proposal to expel him from Avery Manor, so for the mistress, Bingbing was willing to go through fire and water.

"Stop talking nonsense, Bingbing, you will die."

Some people may not believe it. Although Bingbing has a big head, small body, big eyes, and big ears, and does not look like a human at all, among the Avery family, it is Bingbing who makes Hydra feel like family the most.

Hydra's feelings towards creatures like house elves are somewhat complicated, because she was born in a real aristocratic family. Although she was a little downcast, she also received an orthodox aristocratic education. Therefore, creatures like house elves, who have functions similar to house elves, It is difficult for Hydra to be malicious. After all, housekeepers are sometimes even more important to nobles than family members.

"Bingbing is not afraid of death, Bingbing is only afraid of his master being sad." Bingbing said with wide eyes.

"Go back to your room! This is an order!" Facing Bingbing like this, Hydera could only order in a tougher tone. She was afraid that if Bingbing really took the initiative to kidnap Ou Luolin, let alone her relationship with Ou Luolin. With Luo Lin cooperating, there is no telling whether the Avery family, which they currently rely on, can still exist.

"Yes, Master." Bingbing was a little disappointed.

After Bingbing left, Hydera looked up at the crescent moon hanging high in the sky and continued to wait.

At this moment, Hydera saw a fire rising in the distance, turning the sky red, followed by an explosion, followed by three "pop, pop, pop, pop" sounds, and three figures in black uniforms suddenly appeared in Avery The gate of the manor.

"Are you a member of the Everly family?" The leading man with a beard looked at Hydera, who was dressed in a costume, and his tone was somewhat respectful.

Looking at the three men who accurately stepped outside the alarm line set by Avery Manor, Hydra frowned and asked: "I am Hydra Avery, you are Aurors? What are you doing in Avery Manor?" ?”

"It's Mrs. Avery."

Bearded is actually a scout of the Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team, but he has not denied that he is an Auror. This is also a default unspoken rule in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. All scouts and strikers who are away from home can default to themselves. It is an Auror, which makes it more convenient when working outside, because in the eyes of wizards, the status of Aurors is much higher than that of members of the reconnaissance team.

"Mrs. Avery, we have received reports that dark wizards are preparing to attack Muggles in Birmingham in order to break the secrecy law. You have also seen the current situation." The beard pointed at the burning fire on the horizon, " Thanks to our efforts, although there have been no Muggle casualties for the time being and a few suspects have been caught, there are still many things that have slipped through the net."

"So? The Ministry of Magic is planning to recruit members of the Everly family to help you arrest people?"

Hydera frowned. Most of the dark wizards in the UK were related to pure-blood families, but there was a dark wizard who was preparing to break the secrecy law. Moreover, the operation was actually launched in Birmingham, the headquarters of the Avery family. How come she didn't get any news about it? arrive?Isn't it going to be an action against the Everly family this time?

The bearded man shook his head and said: "We have enough manpower. Thank you Mrs. Avery for your concern. However, due to the sudden incident, we did not have time to set up an interrogation venue, so we want to borrow the Avery family's place for use. We only need one A small room is fine.”

"Borrow the venue?" Hydera thought, and a few more "papa" sounds were heard, and there were several more men beside her, all members of the Avery family.

"Hydra, what happened?" asked an old man, the elder of the Avery family who was alarmed by the explosion.

"In order to break the law of secrecy, someone launched an attack on Muggles nearby..." Hydra described it briefly and comprehensively, and then added, "The Auror of the Ministry of Magic wanted to use a room in Avery Manor as an interrogation venue."

"Interrogation venue?" The old man looked at Bearded and the others. His voice was hoarse, like there was a hole in his throat. "Which family are you from?"

"Department of Magical Law Enforcement." The bearded man replied with a smile, not intending to reveal his family origin.

"Huh." The old man snorted coldly, looked at Hydera and said, "You make up your mind."

With that said, the old man disapparated and left with the people.

"So, Mrs. Avery, what do you think?" Bearded asked softly, "I think you don't want chaos in Birmingham, where the Avery family is located, right?"

Under the moonlight, Hydra thought quietly. Although Avery Manor did not have any ulterior secrets on the surface, those things related to black magic had been put away when the Ministry of Magic announced that it was going to conduct a major search. I went to other places, but the preservation is incomplete and some are missing.

Moreover, although O'Loughlin went to the Malfoy family first, he might also go to Avery Manor for a banquet after finishing his trip to the Malfoy family.

So Hydra wanted to refuse, but after all, Birmingham is the headquarters of the Everly family. Under such circumstances, she did not receive any news about the attack. There must be something wrong with it, and lending a room to an Auror Interrogating captured suspects is undoubtedly the best way to obtain first-hand intelligence.

After a long silence, Hydra finally looked up at Bearded and said, "Okay, I'll lend you the conference room on the first floor. I'll ask the house elf to prepare dinner for you. If you need anything else, just give it instructions."

With that said, Hydra shouted into the deserted corner: "Bingbing."

"I'm here." Bingbing's figure appeared silently.

"If that's the case, that would be great. It just so happens that none of our team members have eaten yet." Bearded Beard glanced at Bingbing and said calmly, "But, I don't know what conditions you have?"

"I will send someone to assist you. The Avery family does not want chaos in Birmingham, so we must get first-hand information to deal with the possible dark wizards next."

"This..." Beard hesitated. Although asking the Everly family to borrow the venue had the intention of testing it, it was still not acceptable for the Everly family to watch the interrogation. After all, in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement There has been a saying that pure-blood families are equal to dark wizards. Who knows whether the Everly family will turn around and inform the dark wizards.

At this time, a young man behind the beard came close to whisper a few words in his ear, and then the beard returned to smiling and said: "No problem, thank you for your cooperation."