Chapter 491: Vanishing Cabinet
Afterwards, Draco, regardless of the fact that they were in someone else's shop, excitedly spilled all the information about the Vanishing Cabinet.
Lucius and Narcissa were stunned by what he said, and looked at Draco in disbelief.
They never expected that their son could actually do something.
Narcissa, who had come to her senses, hugged her son and cried again. She didn't really care how much Draco could achieve, she just wanted Draco to live in peace, and Draco's story just now, about how he was beaten and abused by Mike and others, made Narcissa feel very distressed.
While the mother and son were hugging and crying, Lucius beside them fell into deep thought, thinking about whether he should tell Voldemort about this news.
This is obviously a question worth thinking about in depth.
Because this will affect whether Voldemort can defeat Dumbledore and unify the wizarding world of Yingguo.
Voldemort's unification of the wizarding world was not good news for the Malfoy family, because by then the Malfoy family would have no use to Voldemort, and with Voldemort's brutality, his family would not have a good ending.
But on the other hand, Draco's discovery of the Vanishing Cabinet was obviously a great achievement, so would Voldemort let his family go for this?
Lucius was deeply entangled.
At this time, the door of the studio was opened, and Torres walked in with his head held high.
Narcissa immediately let go of Draco and wiped her tears silently, and Lucius also reacted and looked in the direction of Torres.
"Mr. Malfoy, I have recorded all the data, and you can receive the dress the day after tomorrow."
Torres said slowly as if he had seen nothing.
"Thank you, Torris." Lucius took out a check and handed it to Torris. "Then we'll take our leave." Lucius
left the second floor with Narcissa and Draco, who were crying, while Torris bowed to their backs expressionlessly.
The amount written on the check Lucius gave him was 100 gold galleons, which was obviously more than the cost of custom-making a dress.
But Torris did not point out the other party's mistake. The extra money was naturally his hush money.
Outside the Tufan Clothing Store, the sun was still bright, and there was still a long line in front of the door of the Genos Boutique Black Magic Armor Store next to it. From time to time, someone would run out of the store with shopping bags and excited faces.
Narcissa was not in a good mood. She held Draco's arm tightly, as if she was afraid that Draco would suddenly fly away.
Draco, on the other hand, was a little excited. He looked around for a while before whispering to Lucius:
"Father, should we go to Borgin and Burke's and buy the vanishing cabinet now? I'm afraid someone will get there first if time passes."
Looking at his son and wife, Lucius sighed deeply.
He finally figured it out. Voldemort is a master of Legilimency! It's a daydream for a fledgling like Draco to hide something from him!
He has no choice from the beginning!
Thinking of this, Lucius's eyes gradually became firm.
He forced a smile, stretched out his hand and stroked Draco's hair and said:
"Take your mother home first, and leave this matter to me."
Draco instinctively wanted to refute, but Lucius's serious eyes scared him so much that he couldn't speak.
After hesitating for a moment, he could only nod, and walked towards the Leaky Cauldron with Narcissa while saying to Lucius:
"Be careful, father."
Lucius watched the backs of the mother and son supporting each other slowly go away, and a feeling smile appeared on his face.
When the backs of Draco and Narcissa completely disappeared in the crowd, Lucius's expression immediately turned cold. He took a deep breath and walked in the opposite direction.
After walking around the street for a while with a cold face, Lucius came to a remote alley.
He took out his wand inserted in his cane and gently tapped it rhythmically on a dirty wall. After a while, the bricks on the wall flew to both sides as if they had life, revealing the equally dirty streets behind the wall.
Lucius put on his hood and walked in with his wand.
Unlike the sunny Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley seems to be always cloudy.
As we all know, the sun is the origin of all life on earth, and a place like Knockturn Alley without the care of the sun will naturally breed many problems.
For example, the stone floor is always damp, the black walls covered with mold, the lingering strange smell in the air, the black rats as big as cats flying through the streets, and the wizards who are very similar to those rats, covering their heads and faces and walking in a hurry.
These are all the signs of Knockturn Alley. This is the largest gathering place for dark wizards in the wizarding world of Yingguo!
Lucius attracted the attention of many people as soon as he appeared here. Their greedy eyes hidden under the dirty hoods looked at Lucius unscrupulously, as if they were thinking about how to dismantle and sell Lucius, a stranger.
This has been the norm in Knockturn Alley recently. Due to the bounty issued by Mike, the whole Knockturn Alley is now crazy. Countless bounty hunters gather here to hunt those Death Eaters, but because the levels of these hunters are uneven, they often kill the wrong people.
However, no one cared about this kind of thing. After all, this was Knockturn Alley, and it was normal for a few people to die. Besides, those who died were not good people.
These undisguised malice made Lucius frown. He did not intend to hide his identity, but deliberately revealed his long platinum hair and the wand with a snake head carved on the tail.
Lucius was one of Voldemort's most important subordinates. He did not believe that those hunters dared to really hunt him. That was courting death!
Lucius's guess was not wrong at all. After he revealed those characteristics that represented his identity, the number of black-robed people around him who were eyeing him covetously was indeed much less.
However, Lucius did not relax at all. Instead, he quickened his pace and walked towards Borgin and Burke's.
Because those hunters had not given up, they were just hiding in the dark, secretly watching Lucius, waiting for a chance to pick up a bargain that might never come.
And this was exactly why Lucius did not let Narcissa and Draco come here. He, the financial director under Voldemort, had suffered such treatment himself, let alone Narcissa and Draco. They would probably be hunted down as soon as they stepped into Knockturn Alley!
Borgin and Burke's was not far from the entrance of Knockturn Alley. Lucius walked quickly for a while and then came to the store and pushed the door open.
As soon as he entered the store, Lucius felt that the malicious eyes that had been around him before had all disappeared. Lucius was not surprised by this. Those black rats did not dare to attack the customers who were trading in this store, because those who dared to do so in the past had all died without exception. But he did not relax at all. Instead, all his muscles were tensed up, and he looked vigilantly at the hunched figure behind the counter in the store.
Borgin and Burke, the man who had been hiding in this small shop for most of his life, was completely different from the black rats outside.
If there was anyone in the whole Knockturn Alley who dared to ignore Voldemort's existence and kill him directly to claim the bounty, it would probably be only him. After all, Voldemort had worked in his shop for a while when he was young. Judging from the fact that he was not killed afterwards, the relationship between the two of them should be quite good.
"Mr. Malfoy! What brings you here?"
At this moment, the man who was highly regarded by Lucius was smiling and walked out from behind the counter attentively, and walked towards Lucius.
The latter was startled by his action, and hurriedly raised his wand and took a step back and said:
"Stop there and don't come over!"
Borgin and Burke was also startled. He stood there at a loss, looking at Lucius with an innocent face.
"Raise your hands so I can see!"
Borgin and Burke raised his hands without hesitation.
Lucius was relieved to see that he really had no weapon in his hand, and he lowered his wand a little. However,
what Lucius didn't know was that at this moment, in the sleeve of Borgin and Burke's robe, there was an old but well-maintained wand slowly moving inside.
Borgin and Burke had been holding this wand in his hand just now, and he hurriedly stuffed it into his sleeve when he raised his hands.
Borgin and Burke looked at Lucius with a trace of regret in his eyes. If Lucius had relaxed his vigilance just now, he would probably have been cutting his skin to collect the bounty.
As for now, it was a little difficult to start with.
This was not to say that Borgin and Burke could not beat Lucius, but because this was his own store. If he broke something expensive during the battle, it would be a huge loss.
For a moment, Borgin and Burke was entangled.
At this moment, Lucius's slightly nervous thing came again.
"Old Burke, I want to buy something!"
"Oh!?" Borgin and Burke became alert at once, "What do you need?"
The situation was urgent, so Lucius didn't beat around the bush. He pointed to the dusty vanishing cabinet next to the counter with a gloomy face and said,
"I want that one!"
"That's not cheap..."
"Just tell me how much it costs!"
Borgin and Burke narrowed his eyes and held up two fingers, saying,
"Two thousand Galleons."
"What! Are you kidding?"
Lucius's face instantly became darker than the sky in Knockturn Alley. He stared at Borgin and Burke with his eyes wide open, and suddenly he had an urge to smash his black shop.
But soon, this urge in his heart was suppressed.
Because at this moment, Borgin and Burke had put down his raised hands, and in his right hand, a black wand was ready to go.
At the same time, Lucius also realized one thing.
That is, the price Borgin and Burke wanted was exactly the same as the amount on his bounty order.
The other party was asking him to pay for his life!
Lucius took a deep breath, and finally gritted his teeth and took out the checkbook from his arms. He wrote a string of numbers on it, tore off a piece of paper and threw it out.
"Okay!"
Borgin and Burke's was not in good sanitary conditions, or it was impossible to keep the floor clean at all times in a place like Knockturn Alley.
In addition, Borgin and Burke himself was lazy, so over time, the floor of Borgin and Burke's was covered with a layer of thick black stains, and people would feel sticky if they stepped on it.
But Borgin and Burke didn't care about the dirty floor at all. He plopped on the ground and caught the check in his hand before it fell to the ground.
Borgin and Burke looked at the numbers on the check greedily, and only after confirming that it was correct did he put the check to his nose, took a deep breath, and slowly got up from the ground.
At this time, the wand in his hand had disappeared. He grinned and wiped the dust off the vanishing cabinet for Lucius as if nothing had happened. As for what Lucius wanted to do with the only vanishing cabinet left, he did not ask at all. This was the rule of Knockturn Alley.
Five minutes later, Lucius's box passed through the fireplace in Borgin and Burke's.
Borgin and Burke looked at the green flame in the fireplace that had not yet been completely extinguished, took out the check and put it under his nose and took a deep breath.
The special aroma of the ink that never fades penetrated into his lungs through his trachea. Borgin and Burke closed his eyes intoxicatedly, and held his breath for ten seconds before he exhaled deeply.
"The Malfoy family's idiots are really easy to deceive. They got so much money just by being scared. Hehehe."
In Borgin and Burke's, the old Burke's sinister laughter kept echoing.
At this time, Lucius had already returned to Malfoy Manor. He carried the vanishing cabinet on his shoulder, coughed violently, and patted the dust off his body in disgust.
Originally, there wasn't so much dust in his fireplace. The house elves and his family members paid great attention to the hygiene of the house, but the Death Eaters who came later obviously didn't pay so much attention to it.
After cursing the Death Eaters in his heart, Lucius walked out of the fireplace.
As soon as he walked out, he saw a large group of Death Eaters gathered outside the fireplace, staring at him with eager eyes. Bellatrix, the leader, smiled and grinned, revealing her disgusting black and yellow teeth.
Lucius stood there in a daze. The scene in front of him made him a little confused about the current situation.
At this moment, a hoarse, chilling voice suddenly came from behind the crowd.
"Lucius, have you brought the vanishing cabinet back to me?"
Lucius shuddered and woke up the moment he heard this voice.
The crowd surrounding him also moved aside at this time, revealing Voldemort sitting at a long table behind him.
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