HP in the name of Slytherin

Since today's banquet is also attended by people from the Ministry of Magic, I don't dare to ask the Death Eaters. I can always ask the family members from the Ministry of Magic, right? The friend Regulus was talking about was Barty Crouch Jr., and his father Barty Crouch was a senior official in the Ministry of Magic. If something happened to the British wizarding community, his family would definitely be the first to know.

What's even better is that Barty Crouch Jr. is not yet 11 years old and was not invited to the party. Regulus also received a message from him in the afternoon, asking him if he wanted to go to their house to play in the evening. His parents We all went to the Malfoy's party in the evening.

"His mother is not a Death Eater, nor is she from the Ministry of Magic. She might have come back," Regulus said.

Even if Narcissa went to find someone to inquire about it herself, it would not be better than what Regulus said about Little Barty's house, so they immediately agreed.

"Are you okay?" Narcissa glanced at her sister with some disgust.

Andromeda smiled, "I feel better after drinking the potion you brought."

Narcissa pursed her lips and snorted, "Just don't hold me back."

Andromeda replied in a long voice: "Yes, yes, I won't hold you back. If anything goes wrong, I will immediately disapparate and run away."

The innocent Regulus thought that Andromeda was unhappy and looked at her several times.

Andromeda smiled at him, "We, Sissi, are always duplicitous. I don't know who we learned this from."

"Shut up," Narcissa scolded somewhat angrily, glaring at Regulus who was snickering, "We're here, go ask your friends."

Regulus coughed lightly and obediently approached the rather solemn villa of Barty's family. Alphard, Narcissa and Andromeda were left waiting eagerly outside the flower garden.

Alphard patted Narcissa and said, "Don't worry, it should be fine. Lucius is a Malfoy and won't put himself in danger."

Narcissa pursed her lips and said "Yeah", forcing herself to calm down, and tried to recall the recent abnormalities regarding Malfoy, Death Eaters, Voldemort and Miss Slytherin in her mind.

It really reminded her of something.

Lucius seemed to have softened his attitude toward Miss Slytherin from a certain period of time, and no longer paid attention to her actions as a first-year Slytherin.

Theoretically, Lucius should be keeping an eye on her for the sake of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. If the Malfoys still stand firmly against Voldemort...

So, what agreement was reached between Lucius and Catherine that violated Voldemort's interests?

With Abraxas here, how could Lucius skip his father and contact Catherine on his own, with the father and son taking sides to ensure that no matter who loses or wins, the honor of the Malfoy family is protected...?

Other families and other things are possible, but Death Eaters are not a place where you can join if you want to join and leave if you want to leave. Neither Voldemort nor the Death Eaters are so easy to fool. If they dare to betray them, even the son of Abraxas, they Neither father nor son can get any benefits.

Unless... Abraxas also secretly supported Catherine?

Or, he was no longer able to manage the Malfoy family, so he asked Lucius to step in for him?

In short, what happened today, the father and son were definitely at the center of the storm. With her parents' "shrewdness", if something happened to the Malfoy family, they would probably immediately ask her to draw a clear line with the Malfoy family and change her marriage partner immediately...

Narcissa was not a puppet left to their mercy.

Lucius was the one she chose... the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.

"Why did they come here together?" Alphard's doubt interrupted Narcissa's thoughts.

The two shorter girls stepped forward and looked around, and saw a boy with light blond hair striding towards this side, leaving Regulus behind.

"We..." Do you want to avoid it?

Andromeda and Narcissa looked at each other, and the latter rolled her eyes and turned away.

The boy's expression looked so familiar that Alphard scratched his head and consciously raised his hand to wave.

The blond boy's already clear goal became clearer because of this, and his steps were so fast that he was almost running.

In order to catch up with him, Regulus ran straight away and got closer. He heard him panting and saying to the boy: "Barty, wait a minute, this matter..."

Little Barty stopped suddenly, turned around, covered Regulus' mouth with one hand at lightning speed, hugged him affectionately with the other hand, and said to the three Narcissas outside the flower garden: "You guys Do you want to run away from home? Take me with you!"

Narcissa: ...?

Alphard: "Huh?"

Fortunately, Andromeda was very gentle in most things. She squatted down and asked very patiently: "Barty, can I call you that? Why do you want to follow us?"

After making sure that Regulus had no time to talk nonsense, little Barty let go of him and straightened his clothes very reservedly: "My dad is sick, and I don't want to live with him anymore."

Even Andromeda didn't know how to answer this.

Narcissa frowned and realized something was wrong: "Mr. Crouch, what happened to him?"

When Narcissa wanted to talk properly, there was no trace of her cold and arrogant attitude in the past. Barty Crouch, who was not familiar with her, even thought that the young lady who spoke after her was smiling more than the second one. One young lady is pretty.

He scratched his cheek in embarrassment and said honestly: "I suspect that my dad is out of his mind. My mom doesn't believe me. I'm too lazy to continue telling them. I want to go out and live by myself."

"For example?" Narcissa asked as she lowered her head slightly weakly, lowered her eyes and said, "Our family also has some problems. I want to see if your family has the same problem."

As expected, little Barty seemed to have found a soulmate, and started talking about the abnormalities in their family like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

"My dad hated Lord Voldemort so much that he didn't even allow me to go to the parade with Ray. I don't know why he went crazy recently, but he suddenly supported Lord Voldemort. My mother said that Lord Voldemort was too extreme in some ways, and my father was even mean to my mother. , I think he is really ill." Little Barty put his hands on his waist and scolded his dear old father twice in a short sentence.

Apparently, the relationship between father and son was not good.

Narcissa looked at Regulus, who was also amazed. It seemed that when he came to "play" with Barty Jr., he was often attacked by Old Crouch's eyes.

The adult Alphard also knew the elder Crouch's position. "He was indeed the main official in the Ministry of Magic who opposed the Death Eaters' behavior."

At this point, Narcissa, who was preparing to become a little Mrs. Malfoy and therefore learned about the general power situation in the wizarding world with Lucius, also knew it.

"Isn't he back yet? Where is your mother?" she asked little Barty.

Little Barty snorted: "Who knows why he went there? My mother took a rest when she came back. She didn't believe me at all."

"Maybe it's because you always contradict your father, and your mother thinks you're having a bad temper again..." Regulus gave his friend a gentle analysis.

The grumpy friend said that he did not want to hear such words and snorted with disdain: "He is already stupid and as cold as a lizard."

Andromeda looked at the time, worried that Old Mrs. Crouch was back, and the Black family might be back, and then they found her running away and chased after her.

She was not an idiot. The extremes of Bella and her family, Narcissa's nervousness, coupled with her words and Little Barty's description, made her vaguely feel that the Death Eaters seemed to be becoming more dangerous. If her parents really planned to send her to the Ministry of Magic for trial, which originally sounded ridiculous, it might actually hurt her.

She must return to Hogwarts quickly. It is probably the safest place in the wizarding world right now.