Chapter 245 Predicted Ending

"Draco? Your hand—"

The couple stood up from the sofa at once. Narcissa rushed to her son's side, bent down and cast a spell to pull out the leeches:

"Why are you here?"

But facing his mother's question, Draco ignored it. Instead, he showed a stubborn expression and said in a trembling voice:

"Cannot return to the Dark Lord - he will be defeated - I already know that -"

Lucius pressed his hand down in the air, as if striking his nonexistent cane, and frowned.

"Draco, this is not a topic you should be involved in."

Snape, who was watching the family of three silently, suddenly spoke up and added fuel to the fire:

"I suggest you listen more to Mr. Malfoy's ideas. After all, his performance this semester is not ordinary—"

This interruption brought the couple back to their senses. Narcissa put her hands on Draco's shoulders and pushed him down on the sofa, asking anxiously:

"I haven't asked yet—how is Draco doing? Why is he in detention here? What happened?"

They received a forced smile from Snape and an answer that was beyond their expectations:

"Of course it's because of his astonishing performance - I'm afraid none of you could do something so amazing as to shock three schools when you were in school."

Draco was put in detention but ran into his parents and became the defendant. He was so ashamed and angry that he lowered his head heavily.

Snape glanced at him, with a sarcastic smile on his face:

"Mr. Malfoy, before the ball, there was a big fight between you and students from three colleges over your good partner, Jade Jane."

Draco gasped helplessly, but Snape continued to complain:

"He also kidnapped and knocked out Mr. Zabini from the same dormitory, and used Polyjuice Potion to impersonate him. I had to prepare a school year of detention for him."

The couple breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't think it was a big deal and were even secretly proud of their son.

"Oh, is that true, Draco?" Narcissa said in a reproachful tone. "You have to behave like a gentleman. How can you fight?"

Lucius also apologized to Snape with a fake smile:

"Oh - sorry to bother you, Severus - at this age, you are impulsive and naughty -"

Snape struggled to control the urge to roll his eyes at the couple with whom he had a good relationship and kick them out.

Draco breathed a sigh of relief after being let off so easily. He noticed that his parents had no intention of blaming him, so he puffed out his chest proudly:

"After all, it's jade - Mom and Dad, you will understand - I am protecting the honor of Slytherin -"

The office was extremely quiet for a while, with only Draco talking. He talked about how he was turned into a ferret by Moody and Jian Yu intervened, and how she hit him hard in class, and then emphasized how he easily tamed dragons and mermen and won the championship in the competition:

"She protected all of Slytherin—she defended the honor of Hogwarts from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang—"

"Her magical ability is so strong that it is said that she can memorize the entire library and can easily cast the Imperius Curse-"

"It is rumored that she has the power of prophecy - of course, she has read divinations for Blaise and many other people in the academy, and all of them are completely accurate -"

"Moreover, she can also make animals submit to her. Fire dragons and mermaids can only listen to her commands obediently—"

The three adults present looked at Draco, who had transformed into Jian Yuchui, with strange eyes.

For some reason, when Narcissa looked at her son like this, she suddenly felt the power of blood.

She thought of the crazy people in the Black family - Bellatrix who followed Voldemort so persistently... her sister Andromeda who wanted to marry a Muggle-born even if she was expelled from the family... her cousin Sirius who risked everything to betray the family...

She shook her head to get rid of the inexplicable thoughts in her mind, but she keenly caught a word -

prophecy.

This made her eyes widen and she made a puzzled sound.

"Mom, although it's a rumor, we all know it's true!" Draco said hastily, "She knows everything that will happen, and she can always solve those dangers in advance, so the Dark Lord - have you played that game - he won't succeed -"

"Okay, Draco." Lucius stood up, his forehead shining with sweat from anxiety, "It seems that your safety is guaranteed, then we are relieved. Severus, today's meeting has been very fruitful, and I look forward to seeing you next time-"

He winked at Narcissa, and the couple quickly said goodbye to Snape and left.

They must confirm immediately the hints she gave them!

"Draco, this kid, why did you tell me such important news only now?"

Seeing her husband hastily taking out the game console, Narcissa couldn't help but sound a little reproachful:

"It's the game 'Save the Magic World'. Since she is the protagonist of that game, there must be something mysterious about it!"

The couple looked at the game console as if they were looking at a rich prophecy ball.

They put in their lifelong efforts in research and carefully and repeatedly savored the meaning of it.

"A powerful dark wizard has descended upon the magical world, and he wants to turn all those who disobey him into Muggles—"

"You need to play the role of a little black-haired witch named Jade, collect various magic props, and save the magic world—"

Lucius took a breath, grabbed his wife's arm tightly, and whispered:

"I see, this is her prophecy - the Dark Lord will be defeated by her, and his true intention is to turn everyone into Squibs!"

"It turned into a squib. How...how is this possible?" Narcissa shook her hand back in panic. "What should I do?"

Lucius's brain worked quickly, and he said softly:

"The Dark Lord's proposal to eliminate Muggle-born wizards may be just the first step. The second step is for us pure-bloods—"

"He took my wand, perhaps not just to test my loyalty - to render me unable to cast spells -"

He quickly spoke of his own guesses, and explained the movements of the Death Eaters one by one:

"Crouch - a pure-blood family. After Barty Jr. failed in his mission, he went to St. Mungo's. He became crazy and stupid, and could no longer recite spells."

"And old Goyle and old Crabbe, they could not have been split apart by Apparition, it must have been caused by the Dark Lord - he was punishing them and wanted their flesh and blood to cast some kind of curse. Once they had rebellious intentions, he would deprive them of their magic -"

"In those years, how many pure-blood families lost their last descendants... He did not show any leniency just because they were pure-bloods..."

Narcissa sat on the sofa, carefully placing the game console on the small table, as if it was as fragile as glass:

"What should I do... Maybe it was wrong from the beginning... But if we don't obey, we will either die or become Muggles..."

Lucius also fell silent. He knew that he could not go back, even if he knew the final outcome would be failure.

As for Dumbledore - he had already offended him too deeply before, and the two sides had very different ideas, so there was no chance for communication at all.

"Maybe her predictions are wrong?" He tried to comfort his wife, "The Dark Lord... a child of this age... how can she defeat him?"

But Narcissa was not comforted. She looked at her husband with tears in her eyes:

"Harry Potter defeated it once when he was a baby... and Jade is the one who can tame the dragon, and she has Dumbledore behind her..."

Lucius, who felt that the future was bleak, sighed. He had never been so grateful for his previous investment in Jian Yu.

"It's not the worst yet. We still have Draco." His hand slid over his wife's and held it tightly. "He's with Jade Jane. She's Dumbledore's child. They'll be safe at Hogwarts."

"Really?" Narcissa asked blankly, "If the Dark Lord punishes us... can Draco really escape...?"

Lucius was silent, but Narcissa suddenly slapped his hand and stood up, with something burning in her eyes:

"No, I have to go to Hogwarts again, I have to find her!"

"Since she can predict what will happen, Dumbledore trusts her, and we are partners...she must have a way!"

"We have to be careful." Lucius pulled his wife out of the fireplace in time. "Repeated visits to Hogwarts might be noticed... It's best to let Draco pass the message."

......

Faced with the couple's invitation letter, Jian Yu felt it was like a heavy hot potato.

Although she had established a good business partnership with the Malfoys in the past, and the cooperation was pleasant——

But she feels that this does not mean that when it comes to taking sides, they will willingly give up their past sunk costs.

After all, once you serve Voldemort, you serve him for life, and the Malfoy family would never dare to gamble their lives and property on it.

But Jian Yu was the same, facing such an invitation letter that she didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse -

She didn't dare to bet on herself.

What if Voldemort puts a sack in my hand as soon as I enter the manor gate?

But when she opened the invitation, she found something else.

In addition to informing her about the distribution of the game console and various data sheets, there was a small bright red card attached. There was no writing on it, but it exuded the smell of invisible ink.

Confused, she cast a revelation spell, only to find that the revealed sentence was upside down and written in a different language.

So she had to meet again the ghost of Bridget Wenlock, a famous arithmetician and fortuneteller who died in 1286.

"It's too bad that we meet again so soon." Wenlock said with a gloomy face, frustrated, "What's the matter with you? I really don't want to do your homework for you anymore. Why should I suffer this pain even if I die?"

Jian Yu placed the card in front of her and asked her to help interpret it.

With just a glance, Wenlock read out the above sentence:

"We cordially invite you and your guardian to visit us."

This was undoubtedly a signal of goodwill towards Dumbledore, which surprised Jian Yu a little.

"Thank you for your help." She thanked Wenlock. "I look forward to the next time--"

"No, no, I just hope I can die again, and die as hard as I can," Wenlock interrupted quickly, "and never see you again."

It seems that you can't just grab the wool of one sheep.

Jian Yu sighed.

The letter soon appeared in front of Dumbledore.

Her guardian obviously did not expect this.

"A very interesting invitation." He crossed his fingers and thought. "Malfoy... has been trying very hard to remove me from the position of Headmaster over the past few years."

He held the invitation and thought about it for a while, then smiled slightly.

"Perhaps this is not a trap. We can make an appointment for tomorrow, in Hogsmeade village—"

"But I have already prepared your reward, the key to Gringotts. Perhaps we can arrange this meeting after you have deposited the money?"

Jian Yu smiled with satisfaction after getting the key.