Fourteen-year-old Nina Longbottom should be carefree.

Nina has a perfect family: the Longbottom family is an ancient pure-blood family in the wizarding world, very prestigious and quite wealthy, and the relationship between the family members is particularly harmonious.Nina's parents are respectable Aurors. The couple have been married for many years and still have a good relationship. She also has a brother who is 11 years older than her and loves her very much.

Nina is very beautiful, and has inherited the advantages of her parents' looks: she has a cute round baby face, sparkling eyes, and a pair of cute dimples appear on her apple-like face when she smiles.Nina is a very smart and talented little witch. She inherited the excellent and outstanding abilities of her Auror parents, and she is the best student in her grade.Nina has a lively and cheerful personality. She is not arrogant just because her brother is a professor of herbal medicine, or self-righteous because of her excellent grades. She has always been very popular and has many friends around her.

In short, Nina Longbottom is definitely the kind of girl you might meet at any school to make people jealous of injustice.

However, Nina is very troubled now.She looked at the "Daily Prophet" in front of her in distress, her cute little face wrinkled into a ball.The worst thing is that she has no way to confide her inner troubles to any classmates, friends, or relatives.

On the front page of the "Daily Prophet", a huge color photo was printed.The man in the middle of the photo looked haggard and thin, but he looked healthy. Beside him stood his young son and his wife.The expressions of the family of three are obviously restrained from excitement, but they are obviously arrogant and impatient with the reporter's shooting. The evidence is that the family in the photos are trying hard to turn their heads and raise their hands, so that no one can see their faces. The face, looks like it wants to disappear from the picture completely.

Above the photo, a prominent headline read: "Death Eater with Shortest Sentence Released Today."

Below is a brief introduction about the protagonist in the photo, the released Death Eater Lucius Malfoy, and the Malfoy family. At the same time, there is a note asking everyone to read the special reports on pages 2, 3, and 4.

Ten years have passed since Voldemort was wiped out by the savior Harry Potter. During these ten years, there have been many changes in the wizarding world. Changed to a color version.Of course, some things have changed, for example, although now Rita Skeeter is no longer waving her sharp quill to publish reports (no one knows what it is for, and no one particularly cares. For this matter, Rita Skeeter seems to know how to avoid being dug into her news), but there will still be new reporters in the wizarding world who will devote themselves to this exciting media industry and will also know that What is the content that readers most want to see.

On the tenth anniversary of the victory of the war, use Lucius Malfoy's release from prison to warm up the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the war. curious.

The cold rice that was heated up has aroused memories that many people will never forget. Among these many people, Nina was once involved in the war.

Since she was very young, Nina has been having a dream. In the dream, she encountered a big snake, and it was her brother and another boy with blond hair who saved her.She liked that blond-haired boy very much. He didn't like to laugh, and he always looked at her impatiently, but his movements of hugging her were as gentle as her brother's.She likes the boy's golden hair color, and likes his body temperature which seems to be slightly lower than that of ordinary people.His hands are a little cold, but they are slender—maybe this word is not suitable for boys, but Nina did feel this way when she was a child.

Because of this dream, Nina has always admired her brother, and because of this dream, she has always positioned Dede as a prince in her life.

Dede, she always called the boy Dede.She thought the image she was dreaming of was because her doll had a golden-haired elf prince in it—she had named the doll Dede, and couldn't even remember how she had come up with the name.

But today, the newspaper suddenly put the truth in front of her.It turned out that she had indeed seen that Dede, the boy, no, the man, not called Dede, but called - Draco.

Draco, Draco Malfoy.In her memory, Dede, who once filled her girl's heart with longing, is a real person, not her fantasy.

This was Draco Malfoy's first public appearance in the newspapers, and the Malfoy family had been keeping a low profile for a decade now that Lucius had been jailed.But look at how the newspapers praised Malfoy's current patriarch before!At such a young age, he brought the Malfoy family out of the decline after the imprisonment of the former patriarch Lucius, and restored the name and glory of the Malfoy name, but people still questioned his position. As cunning as he is on friendly terms with the heroes of the war.There are many people who hold this view, and one of them is Nina's grandmother Augusta, who has always maintained an antipathy attitude towards Malfoy.

Nina, who realized for the first time that her first love was not an illusion, sighed silently.She is a Gryffindor who dares to pursue her own feelings, and she is confident that she has the courage to pursue her own happiness, but... the object is Malfoy who is 11 years older than herself!It seems that the only thing that can comfort the little girl is that he is still single now, maybe he... still has a chance?

"Ah!" Draco, who had just returned to Malfoy Manor, sneezed loudly and unmanneredly.Annoyed, he took out a neatly ironed handkerchief exuding a fresh fragrance from his robe and wiped his nose, feeling that he had become a child with a snot in front of his father—of course this was just a metaphor, Malfoy never sniffled!

"Draco, do you have a cold?" Narcissa finally shifted her attention from her husband to Draco, looking at her young son worriedly.

"I don't think so," Draco put away his handkerchief, resumed his grooming, and left the space for his parents with a smile. "I'm going to see if the lunch has been arranged. I hope my father will be satisfied with my arrangement today. I have sent the invitation letter as you said."

"I'm sure I'll be very satisfied," Lucius showed a fatherly smile, "I know you've always done a good job, and I've worked hard for you all these years, Draco, Narcissa."

"Oh, Lucius." Narcissa couldn't help but choked up in her husband's arms.

Looking at the little silver threads on his father's temples, and hearing such praise, Draco suddenly felt his nose ache, he kept smiling before his eye circles turned red, nodded slightly and left the room.The father had returned, the family was reunited, and he had nothing to worry about anymore.

During Lucius's ten years in prison, in the first few years, it was Narcissa who had the hard work.When Draco became an adult, the burden of the Malfoy family was transferred to his shoulders together with the position of the head of the Malfoy family.

Lucius was sentenced to prison, which was equivalent to depriving him of his status as a wizard and automatically losing his status as the head of the Malfoy family.When Draco was a minor, Narcissa acted as the guardian of his son, and when he became an adult, the magic automatically acquiesced that he became the new head of the Malfoy family.

This burden is too heavy for a boy who has just reached his full age, and it is also too heavy for a boy who has been doted on by his parents since he was a child.

But Draco gritted his teeth through that time, feeling guilty all the time.Reason told him that when Voldemort failed, it was difficult for the Malfoy family not to be involved.When he first visited the prison, Lucius had told him everything, including Abraxas' plan and the fact that he was killed after he could no longer control Voldemort.In any case, the Malfoy family is hard to get rid of the crime, and now is the best result.

However, Draco couldn't help thinking that if he hadn't been so stupid in school and noticed Snape and Jody's position earlier, then his father wouldn't have made the wrong choice at the last critical moment , their family can avoid being implicated by Voldemort, and they can still live happily together.

——Unfortunately, there are no ifs in life, and we cannot assume.

Perhaps the only thing he is thankful for is that he saved the youngest daughter of the Longbottom family, so that the reputation of the Malfoy family did not completely fall into dust, so that he could continue to insist that when Voldemort made a comeback, everything the Malfoy family did was just to be blamed. coercion.

That bold and clingy little Gryffindor was the only impression Draco had of Nina. He arranged for the house-elves to arrange everything and prepare to entertain his father who returned from prison and today's special guests. Unexpectedly, I was secretly envious of a 14-year-old girl.

"Mr. Snape and Mrs. Black and Mrs. Black -" Magic conveyed the identity of the visitors outside the door to Draco, who was the current owner of the manor.He put aside the sadness in his heart, straightened his robe, and greeted him as the master.

Jody held Snape's arm and stood outside the manor, looking at the manor which looked more secluded than before with great emotion.It's still gorgeous, but not as flashy as it was when the two of them first visited when they were students.The only thing that remains the same may be the white peacock walking leisurely on the grass. No, it is probably the offspring of that Hercule Bogo for countless generations.

Regulus' expression looked a little indifferent. He and Narcissa had always had a good relationship, but that didn't mean he liked Lucius Malfoy, his brother-in-law.Also a former Death Eater, he was well aware of the way Lucius earned his status among the Death Eaters.At this time, he was a little envious of Sirius, at least Sirius could refuse the invitation without a care.Anyway, everyone knew that the Malfoy family would invite Sirius today not because his surname was Black, but because he had the wife of the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Draco politely ushered the guests into the living room.It was once used by Voldemort as a meeting room for the Death Eaters, but now it has returned to its original appearance, no longer gloomy and terrifying, but allowing sunlight to shine on the marble floor through the white gauze curtain.

"My father is changing clothes, he will be here soon, please have some tea for a while. He must be very happy to meet you." Draco said formulaically, but he sneered disapprovingly in his heart.Lucius Malfoy's release from prison may have been the happiest event of the decade for his family, but it didn't matter at all to his guests.What he didn't understand was why his father had to invite these people over on the first day he was released from prison. In contrast, he hoped that only his father, mother and himself would be on the table that day.

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