Chapter 263
Father and Son
Chapter 263 Father and Son
"boom!"
The door didn't actually close loudly, but Draco still shuddered involuntarily.
He didn't dare look up at his father's eyes.
His mother was left outside, as was the professor.
A slightly cold hand pressed on his shoulder, and Lucius softened slightly when he felt the child's body tense.
"You know what I'm going to say, Draco."
He said in a low voice.
"Yes."
Draco lowered his head: "I'm sorry, I know I was wrong."
"What's wrong?" Lucius asked.
Draco stared at the floor, stiffly repeating what the professor and the school doctor had repeated several times before -
"The Gut-pulling Curse is a very dangerous magic. I shouldn't have used it on my classmates... Even though Vincent is annoying, I don't want him to become like this..."
"Wrong, Draco."
Lucius patted his shoulders twice, neither too lightly nor too heavily, and said:
"Your biggest mistake was learning a magic that you didn't understand at all—"
Draco looked somewhat resistant.
He knew that his father had also learned a lot of black magic spells before entering school, and they were taught to him by his grandfather himself.
Even when Draco himself entered school, Lucius taught him some "little self-defense tips".
Then he heard his father say:
"——You only saw the harm he brought to Vincent, but have you ever thought about what if this spell worked on you?"
The boy looked up in horror and blurted out subconsciously: "Can it also work on the wizard himself?"
"of course."
Lucius said calmly, "There was a wizard from the Everly family who had a blocked intestine. He wanted to be lazy and used the Evisceral Spell to solve the problem directly, but ended up emptying half of his stomach."
Thinking of Vincent's miserable appearance, Draco shuddered violently.
"So can you understand? How worried your mother and I were when we received Severus' message... worried that something might happen to you." Lucius said.
For some unknown reason, Snape was vague in his message, intentionally misleading them into thinking that Draco was in trouble.
At that time, Lucius wanted to kill someone, and he had already thought about how to use the power of the twelve directors to drive out the incompetent headmaster Dumbledore.
As a result, when I arrived at the school, I ran into Crabbe and was almost beaten. Only then did I understand the whole story.
Lucius Malfoy's momentum suddenly disappeared like a punctured balloon, and he began to think calmly about how to calm the impact of this incident.
Facing his obviously terrified son, Lucius ultimately did not punish him severely as he had hoped. Instead, he warned Draco of the worst consequences in a relatively gentle manner, and repeatedly emphasized to him -
Don't learn dangerous magic, even the most common ones. Throughout history, there are many wizards who were killed by their own magic.
Dad can take care of this problem (26000 Galleons), but you must be careful next time and not be so impulsive. Spend more time studying or Quidditch.
You, a Slytherin student, must be like a snake... a snake is a carnivorous creature that stalks the shadows and is most dangerous when it exposes itself to the sun.
Don't worry that Vincent will take revenge on you when he returns to school. Dad will always be your support. Also, when facing conflicts with classmates, don't take revenge directly. You can handle it like this...
Lucius imparted a lot of his experience.
And in the process, Severus Snape's name was repeatedly brought up as an example, letting Draco know that his terrible head of house had also been bullied by his classmates when he was young, which made him laugh out loud from time to time.
So forty minutes later, Lucius walked out of the empty classroom, holding his son's shoulders.
Snape was somewhat surprised to see that Draco actually had a slightly relaxed smile on his lips, and his cheeks were a little rosy because of it. He didn't look like he had been scolded at all.
He raised an eyebrow and glanced at the elder Malfoy.
—Is this still the Lucius Malfoy he knew?
Seeing Snape's expressionless face, the mockery and even contempt that Draco had just felt in his heart disappeared instantly.
He realized that the tall man in front of him was not the poor little villain in the story (Lucius only told the part where Snape was bullied), but a mature, powerful, and bad-tempered dean of the college.
Draco's smile suddenly disappeared.
He watched his parents exchange a few words with the dean. Their address was intimate, but their attitude seemed strange.
Before leaving, Lucius said, "Then I'll leave Draco's detention to you, Severus."
Draco looked at his father in astonishment, who had just been patient and persuasive.
"No problem." Professor Snape raised a malicious smile: "It just so happens that I still have a lot of potion materials to deal with."
For example, bat wings, beetle eyes, cockroach antennae, etc.
Draco turned pale again.
How he wished his father could take him away with him!
But Draco didn't know that as soon as he walked out of the castle, Lucius's face darkened.
Narcissa walked up to him silently and asked, "How is it?"
"He didn't say."
Lucius said grimly, "Draco is unwilling...or unable to tell me who taught him the spell. They may have signed some kind of magical contract."
When Draco lied that he learned the magic by himself at home, Lucius knew he was lying, but he did not expose his son's lie in front of everyone.
But in fact, there are so many dangerous dark magic books in the Malfoy family, some of which are dangerous even if you just approach them. How could Lucius let Draco touch them casually?
The truly dangerous books were hidden where Draco couldn't reach them.
Although many of the books placed in the study also record black magic, they are not too dangerous, and there are corresponding warning cases.
The most Draco could see was a spell called "The Gut-Rippling Curse".
Malfoy originally thought that Draco had sneaked into the restricted area of the Hogwarts library. This ancient castle had so many secrets that it would not be surprising to find a magic notebook that was not allowed.
But when Draco denied it, Malfoy realized that the matter was more complicated than he thought.
"Then..." Narcissa frowned and said, "How did he..."
"Leave it to Dumbledore for now! Even if someone has done some sneaky tricks in the past, there are not many things in this school that can be hidden from his eyes... Even the Dark Lord..."
Lucius suddenly realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said and immediately shut his mouth.
(End of this chapter)