Hogwarts: Oops, I'm Voldemort - Chapter 233

c233 Draco is still a Malfoy kid with an evil nature

Chapter 233 Draco is still the evil Malfoy kid!

The American magic world.

Since leaving Britain, Lucius has realized what life is.

Here, he entered the Magic Congress and re-experienced the joy that power and strength brought him!

In Britain, because of his former identity as a Death Eater, Lucius could not get in touch with the center of power. Every time he wanted to do something, he had to use his money ability.

Fortunately, Fudge is a profit-seeking person, otherwise his influence would be even less.

But now, everything is different.

Under Cyrus’s arrangement, Lucius became a key member of the American Magic Congress to manage finances. Not only to maintain the balance of revenue and expenditure of the Congress, but more importantly, to completely control the economic lifeline of the American wizarding world.

Unlike the tiny Britain, the influence of the American Magic Congress is also very huge because Ilvermorny recruits students from all over North America. In comparison, the magic world in Canada and Mexico is not only chaotic, but the magic regime is also weak.

In addition, many wizards from these two places are likely to stay in the United States after graduating from Ilvermorny. Therefore, such a huge economic system is more regular than the British wizarding world.

Controlling the gold galleons means controlling the circulation of magic materials, the production and types of potions, and the rest, such as magic plants, magical animals and animals… are naturally under control.

Of course, there is another more important aspect for Lucius.

That is, he and his family are much safer after leaving Voldemort’s control.

In the past, when he was with Voldemort, he was like a tiger with a king. Even if the mysterious man fell, Lucius did not dare to move his butt easily, fearing that the Dark Lord would come back one day, but now, there is no need to worry about these.

Moreover, Muggle things don’t seem to be so bad.

After Cyrus secretly let those who followed him control the Magic Congress, he naturally did not intend to strictly abide by the Statute of Secrecy as before.

In fact, he has been unilaterally promoting the integration of Muggle technology and magic.

The Statute of Secrecy may not be broken for the time being, but wizards cannot rest on their laurels. The biggest advantage of wizards now is that they can use the knowledge and technology of Muggles, while Muggles know nothing about wizards.

Before, magic guns were just a simple attempt. Now, the Magic Congress has set up a special department to understand the Muggle world and study what kind of technology is useful for wizards.

The modified Golden Snitch, that is, the magic drone, used in this competition is to integrate drone technology and projection broadcasting technology with magic.

At the beginning, this proposal was not favored by people.

Wizards have always been rejecting the products of the Muggle world. The UK is even stricter and does not allow the use of flying carpets because the Ministry of Magic believes that carpets are the product of Muggles.

The laws of the Magic Congress are not so outrageous.

Although the “Rappaport Act” strictly separated the wizard and Muggle worlds for a long time, the Magic Congress was much more relaxed about the modification and use of Muggle items, especially after the law was abolished in 1965, the Magic Congress and Muggles became closer.

“Lucius, last time I mentioned to you that the transformation of the Floo Network and the Muggle telephone communication network may require another round of funding.”

Lucius was still counting money in the office when a wizard in a suit strode in. He looked excited and spoke a lot of professional terms:

“I feel that there has been great progress. If it succeeds, wizards will no longer need owls and post offices in the future!”

Lucius didn’t even raise his head.

He has seen too many people like this during this period. In fact, there is still a long way to go before the research results appear, but this group of people always talk as if they can immediately come up with something with another sum of money.

“This research is not a high priority, Mr. Paris.” Lucius mercilessly pressed a red stamp of disapproval on the application Paris handed to him. “If wizards want to contact each other, why don’t they just call directly? Muggles have already started using mobile phones in 1973. You should keep up with the times.”

“But Muggles’ mobile phones have great limitations…”

“Two gold Galleons can achieve text communication, and only a Transmutation Spell is needed, or you have never heard of a two-way mirror?” Lucius asked coldly, “As for the Floo Network, I think you should wait until you realize the portal before coming to me! Ah, I forgot, guess what? It turns out that wizards can Apparate, what do you think?”

He said sarcastically, making Paris blush.

Then Lucius stood up from his chair without caring about the other person’s thoughts and pushed him away: “I have to get off work, sir. Come to me for money next time when you have a good idea!”

In fact, in Lucius’s opinion, the magic phone is not completely useless, but isn’t it a big problem to combine the Floo Network with the phone?

Do you have to sprinkle a handful of powder every time you use it?

What’s more, some things don’t need to be modified, and it’s unnecessary to modify them forcibly.

While thinking about it, Lucius planned to go home and find Narcissa to go to the No-Maj movie theater to watch a movie.

Less than half a year since he came to MACHA, under the guidance of Cyrus, he has already become interested in many things in the Muggle world. Looking back now, he didn’t know how he spent those decades of boring life.

However, Lucius stopped before he took a few steps out of the gate of Magical Congress.

At this moment, his whole body was shaking, as if he was shrouded in death again.

And at the end of his sight, stood a person he knew all too well – Barty Crouch Jr.

“It seems that you are doing well here, Lucius.” Little Barty smiled from a distance, “Come with me, the master is waiting to meet you!”

Lucius’s mind had gone through thousands of times in a flash, and the thoughts in his brain were ever-changing.

Of course he knew that Voldemort was resurrected again, and no one paid more attention to the tournament than him. But he didn’t expect that Barty Jr. asked him to come to Cyrus as an undercover agent, and he would find him again so quickly.

And from Barty’s tone, it seemed that Voldemort had come to see him in person?

At this moment, Lucius thought of thousands of possibilities in his mind, but he still tried to remain calm.

At least, Lucius felt that Voldemort would never let him assassinate Cyrus, right?

——

“I want your son, Draco Malfoy, to assassinate Cyrus!”

In a secluded cabin, Voldemort sat on a chair and said to Lucius, who was kneeling at his feet.

“This…” Lucius was sweating profusely. He didn’t understand, but he also knew that even if Draco was really asked to assassinate Cyrus, it would be impossible to succeed. Voldemort’s request made Lucius wonder if his identity as a double agent had been exposed, so that Voldemort deliberately used this method to kill his family.

But even so, Lucius had to find a way to plead for his son.

“Master, Draco is too useless…”

“Only he is the most suitable!” Voldemort said with red eyes, unable to refuse.

“You don’t understand, Lucius, Cyrus is pretty good to Draco. I guess he wants to repay Draco for the little help he gave him in the past, so he trusts Draco.” Voldemort explained slowly road.

In fact, he didn’t suspect Lucius’ betrayal at all.

“You have done very well during this period, Lucius. Cyrus trusts you very much, even though he asked you to do some–I don’t know what to do!”

Voldemort described Cyrus’s plan to “learn” from Muggles and use the economy to control the wizarding world as ignorance.

Now it’s not that he can’t understand Cyrus’s thoughts, but he feels that it’s completely unnecessary. As long as there is strength, money and power will follow.

In a sense, he was right.

Magic is power!

“But it’s impossible for Draco to succeed.” Lucius lay on the ground and said tremblingly.

But Voldemort crossed his hands, and his fingers were very long, like slender wands.

“Ah, Lucius, my good friend, I don’t really want Draco to kill him. We all know that is impossible. Even if I want to defeat Cyrus, it is not that easy. I just need Draco to kill him. Come work for me and do something simple – cast a spell on him, any spell, as long as it succeeds…”

The Voldemort who came back from time knew the Elder Wand better than the original Voldemort.

He now knew that to change the owner of the Elder Wand, one did not need to kill the man, only defeat him.

There are many ways to defeat someone, such as——

“Draco could ask him to teach him a little magic. How about a disarming spell? It’s a good spell and he can always use it.”

Voldemort didn’t actually give Lucius the right to say no. Now besides Draco, he really didn’t have any suitable person to do this. It just so happened that Draco was taken to Hogwarts by Cyrus again…

“I understand…” Lucius could tell that Voldemort’s tone was beginning to sound a little displeased, and now he could only nod in agreement, “I will tell Draco.”

Voldemort left.

Lucius did not dare to delay for even a moment, and immediately returned to England through the Floo Network, and then went to Hogwarts, telling Cyrus everything truthfully.

“I don’t know what the mysterious man wants to do, sir…”

“Don’t worry, Lucius, I know very well.” Cyrus smiled, “Just do as he said. Don’t worry, Draco will be safe.”

It can be said that Voldemort’s plan was clearly guessed by Cyrus and Dumbledore. He had to find a way to regain control of the Elder Wand, otherwise he wouldn’t dare to show up again.

The only problem is how to deceive Voldemort.

Unlike Voldemort who never gained the power of the Elder Wand in the original book, this Voldemort clearly knows how powerful the Elder Wand is.

He could easily tell whether he had control of the Elder Wand or not. Just like in the Department of Mysteries, after the Elder Wand changed hands, he was immediately noticed.

This was key to the plan, but Cyrus and Dumbledore already had an idea.

Now, just let it happen and go with the flow.

“It’s a rare opportunity, Lucius. Just in time, I can teach Draco a lesson. The disarming spell is a bit too low-level. How about Occlumency? He still has a chance to cast a spell on me.”

So, in the following days, Draco became Cyrus’s student.

And all this was seen by little Barty, who transformed into Maxim.

Of course he didn’t know what happened in the carriage, but he couldn’t bear Draco showing off in front of Harry. On a certain morning, Maxim already knew about this.

Days passed one by one.

Almost in the blink of an eye, this school year is almost coming to an end.

The Ministry of Magic had completed its reconstruction not long ago, and there were fewer people in the school. Harry discovered that Hagrid was missing not long ago. In the past few months, the Care of Magical Creatures class was taught by an old man named Newt Scamander.

It must be said that Newt’s teaching is much better than Hagrid’s. Compared with Hagrid who always uses his rough and thick body to contact magical animals, Newt’s teaching method is more suitable for ordinary people.

And there are always many good things in his box that can’t be seen in Hogwarts.

For example, once, he used a bell to summon a crepe. It looked like a tiger and a lion. The tuft of golden hair around its neck could emit electric light, and its tail was red, like a long ribbon.

It flew fiercely, but in Newt’s hands, it was as cute as a cat.

Later, there were ocelots, horned poison beasts, horse-shaped water monsters… and even a unicorn!

Speaking of unicorns, the Chinese unicorn that Cyrus saw a long time ago finally had offspring.

This is also thanks to Hagrid.

Newt and Hagrid finally met after Cyrus introduced them in a letter. Hagrid, a breeding expert, immediately began to force the pairing and found several Japanese girls for the Chinese unicorn.

Now several of those Japanese unicorns are pregnant, but it is not certain whether they can give birth to a pure-blooded Chinese unicorn.

Of course, compared to these insignificant things, Harry is more concerned about why Cyrus suddenly came to him again.

He walked out of the castle, crossed the Quidditch field, and stepped onto the path leading to the carriage.

Today, the two dragons were not next to the carriage. In fact, most of the time, the two dragons lived freely in the Forbidden Forest. It is not a comfortable thing for dragons to be imprisoned in a small place.

Halfway through his walk, Harry saw Malfoy talking to Cyrus in the distance.

When he got closer, their conversation seemed to be over. Cyrus turned his back to Malfoy, and Malfoy actually picked up his wand and pointed it at Cyrus’ back.

He was going to attack Cyrus?

Harry was obviously stunned for a second.

He didn’t quite understand why things had turned out like this. Hadn’t the Malfoy family betrayed Voldemort and joined Cyrus?

Or was this just a conspiracy from the beginning to the end, and Malfoy had always been the evil Malfoy!