[HP] Born Noble

Slytherin Conduct Fifteen: Surrender or Work on Change

"Oh no!" Draco pleaded almost desperately into the cauldron.After spending almost an entire semester and countless hours of effort, he could not bear the blow of watching the last most likely successful recipe end up in a pot of immiscible and cloudy liquid.

This is the last dose before Christmas.

"There is no failure in potion research, Draco! It's just that we have verified another road that doesn't work." Although Professor Snape couldn't help being disappointed, but this road is so difficult, a potion master His life is doomed to experience countless setbacks in loneliness and persistence.Professor Snape picked up the list of potions that had almost been memorized, and fell into deep thought.

Draco knew that he wasn't so vulnerable now that he was a mature man, but he... this was his only chance to kill the Dark Lord.Why……

Is it really necessary to let the tragedy happen again?

Is it because he is Malfoy, because he is not the Boy Who Lived, so no matter how hard he tries, he can't kill the Dark Lord and change his future?

Draco stood before the cauldron, his face pale.

"Draco!" The potion master picked up his godson who was particularly devastated, and said in a stern tone, "The most important thing in the face of setbacks is to find the cause and avoid mistakes. The most useless thing is to wail and cry! If you can't calm down and start analyzing the gains and losses now, then You don't need to participate in the subsequent experiments!"

"No!" Draco retorted subconsciously, his pale face slowly revealed firmness, he took a deep breath, and made sure to suppress all the pain in his heart that could not be poured out, and that after failure, he would face the Dark Lord for four years Post resurrected fear, "Godfather, I promise I won't ever again!"

Professor Snape saw it, and in the end he just said in a business-like manner, "Very well, let's re-analyze." The potion master raised his wand and began to analyze the reasons for their failure layer by layer using the principle of spectrum.

But even with the participation of potion masters, the progress of potion development inevitably fell into a bottleneck. They couldn't figure out what caused the failure. They had tried all the combinations of materials, and this potion was the closest. A successful formula, everything went smoothly until the last step, but once the phoenix's tears were added at the end, the potion began to go wrong.

Regarding the last sentence of the recipe, "The compassion of eternal life, tears achieve immortal protection." ' The meaning is very clear, there will be nothing but the tears of the phoenix.

So, which link in the middle is the problem?

Days passed by without any results, which made Draco start to become anxious, and now he began to think about whether to plan another feasible plan in case the potion was not successfully developed in time, but no matter what If he doesn't change his plan, he doesn't have much time left, and there is only one semester left.

As Christmas approached, Slytherin began to count the list of those who stayed at school. Draco was conflicted. Going home meant that he would spend a traditional Malfoy Christmas - spending a lot of time on clothes, jewelry, Sarcasm and showing off at the boring banquet, while staying in school, to be honest, he didn't know if he could find any breakthrough in such a short period of time, and the godfather would not give him to sign the restricted area pass order.

Draco was hesitating, and a letter from his parents for a Christmas trip completely helped him make up his mind. They planned to go skiing in Switzerland—that meant their nth honeymoon trip—and he didn’t know when it would start. He found out that his father His mother seemed to be a couple in love. She loved too much, and even asked him cryptically if he wanted to have a younger sister.

Merlin!

In the past two years, he has unfortunately traveled with them to the Aegean Sea to bask in the sun, and to the ancient city of Babylon to see the temple, but it turned out that his existence was unnecessary.So, Draco Malfoy finally signed his name on the retention list.

There were only two Slytherins left for Christmas, and the other was Harry.The Slytherins of Nuo Da are just the two of them now, which sounds great, but apart from playing chess and reading books, the two of them really can't do much.But when Christmas morning came, there was a pretty spectacular pile of presents under the huge silver Christmas tree in the common room.

Harry never looked forward to Christmas presents, come to think of it, he was used to all the old socks and old ballpoint pens he could not write on for the past 11 years.But this year, before going to bed yesterday, Harry did wonder what Draco was going to give him.

In the early morning of Christmas, Harry got up and put on his clothes indiscriminately and ran to the common room impatiently. The presents under the huge silver Christmas tree were clearly stacked into two piles. It was hard to say which one should be bigger, and Draco was sitting cross-legged On the carpet under the tree, he waved lazily to Harry, "Don't just stand there stupidly, hurry up and open the presents, or you won't be able to catch up with the Christmas luncheon."

"A bunch of mine?" Harry's eyes widened.

Draco snorted through his nose.He had unwrapped quite a few presents, half of which were odd things Harry didn't recognize, and the other half were shiny jewelry or something.Harry took a look at what Draco was wearing, no wonder they gave him jewelry.

Because it was a holiday, Draco dressed himself more luxuriously on the basis of his usual meticulousness, his hair was meticulously tucked into his ears, and today he even wore a silver diamond hairpin on it, and on his chest was the Malfoy family crest that will always be with him The patterned necklace and the Chinese dragon image ivory bracelet on the right wrist have not been changed, but it now has a layer of silver metallic luster on the edge, probably because of some kind of magic spell.Draco's right little finger and left middle finger had two extra rings with simple and complex patterns, so that four of his ten fingers were wearing rings, and Harry couldn't help but want to roll his eyes.

The light blue wizard robe on Draco's body had a faint silver luster with patterns under the light, and it looked like a high-end thing. The redbud vine was embroidered on the neckline, which was the pattern of the Malfoy family. The pin on it was another new type of pin. It is particularly complicated and shiny, it is a proud bald eagle, and the embroidery on the cuffs is a circle of Slytherin silver and green snakes. The unicorn on the cufflinks keeps using its horns to fiddle with the animals swimming around in front of them. little snake.

Draco pointed to a pile of presents next to him and smirked, "Those are for you, my Slytherin babe!"

Surprisingly, Harry rushed over excitedly, not even paying attention to the teasing in Draco's mouth.The big box on top was a gift from Pansy, opened it, and there was a new set of emerald wizard robes, which matched Harry's eyes very well.

The bottom one was given by Blaise. It was also a set of wizard robes but it was black. The simple color looked very suitable for everyday wear, but the faint dark patterns on it indicated that this thing was also of great value.

The one below is a gift from Gore. Is it a set of jewelry?

And the following is...

Harry unwrapped the presents to the point of reluctance, fighting for half of it, but except for Hagrid who gave him a flute that he made himself that blew like an owl, the rest were all clothes and jewelry.

"Draco?" Harry tilted his head.

"Obviously, your completely ill-fitting and old Muggle clothes have offended the Slytherins." Draco smirked, pointing to the tapestry on the wall behind him, "Rule [-] of the Slytherin Code of Conduct, keep Dress neatly and behave gracefully at all times."

Harry started moaning loudly... he was too lazy to spend at least an hour and a half every morning doing those clothes, hair, etc. like Draco.

The content of the following gifts was almost unchanged, and the clothes still accounted for the majority, except that Captain Flint gave a set of miniature Quidditch toys, Monty gave a copy of "The Origin of Quidditch", and Hermione's big box Chocolate shells... a lot of people that even Harry didn't know very well had given very high-end gifts, although they might not have been expensive to the sender.

Another surprise is that Draco's mother actually gave Harry a gift. It is a very delicate box of snacks. It may not be expensive, but it is made by Mrs. Malfoy. Draco's father gave them each A set of hardcover "Curses and Anti-Curses", and hinted in the postscript that if the two of them are bullied by Gryffindor idiots for no reason, it will really dishonor their surname and family glory. black line!

But all of that outweighs the surprise of that last, unassuming, very light package.

A liquid-like silver-gray thing, piled up and shining brightly, but if you spread it out, you will find it is very light and thin. Harry didn't know what it was, but he saw Draco, who had always been calm, at this moment moved.

"Harry, this is a very, very precious, very, very rare item, so rare that I think it's the only one in the entire wizarding world." Draco shook it off, draped it on Harry and summoned a side Full-length mirror, "invisibility cloak."

Harry in the mirror only had his head left, and Harry himself felt weird, looking down at his lower body completely gone, but he could indeed feel their existence.If he pulls the cloak over his head, he disappears...

Draco picked up the note that fell from the invisibility cloak, and it was written in a thin circle-shaped font that was not unfamiliar: [Your father left this thing to me before he died.

It should be returned to you now.

Use it well.

Sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas. ]

Not signed, but it should be Dumbledore.

Peverell's descendants, sure enough!Draco thought.

Draco noticed the gleam in Harry's eyes when he saw the highly suggestive 'use well' in the note, and sighed inwardly that he was born a lion, bloodline is too powerful, then 56 The pervasive Slytherin rules of conduct seem to have been copied for nothing, but Professor Quirrell isn't in the castle, and Harry will never go into that restricted corridor again, and the Invisibility Cloak keeps Filch from that old Squib, if that's still the case. If there was an accident, he really didn't know what Harry's bad luck would be like.

Having received so many gifts in his life, especially a very precious invisibility cloak, Harry should feel that he is very beautiful, but...a corner of his heart is a little bit lost.

Inside he didn't see Draco's gift.

Of course, Draco wanted to prepare a decent gift that could be given as a gift in the name of Master Malfoy. He originally planned to take some of the holy light potion and make it into an amulet after the potion was successfully developed. With the powerful power of the Holy Light, he can almost expect the pure power of the amulet to resist a considerable degree of black magic curse.Unfortunately, the potion was not made, so he had to temporarily change his mind.

Draco couldn't hide his disappointment and resentment while carrying the one, with 'I want a gift!' written all over his face!I want a present! 'The green-eyed snake skin cub went straight back to the dormitory.

When we arrived at the dormitory, Draco pulled Harry to the side of his closet, only then did Harry realize that there was a very large, one-person-high object wrapped in brown paper, which he hadn't noticed just now.

"Hand over here," Draco ordered.

Harry stretched out his hand, and Draco cut a gash on his finger with a spell, and squeezed two drops of blood onto a carved metal frame protruding from the wrapping paper.

"Okay," Draco healed his wound after the recognition ceremony was completed, as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and criticized fiercely, "The blood of a wizard has important magical connections. I believe that in our The bibliography given to you has detailed that at least a hundred jinxes are invoked with wizard blood, if you don't want the Boy Who Lived to die of his own before dying of the Dark Lord's Ignorant, don't be an idiot in the future, just stick out your hand like an idiot without asking any blood!"

Harry nodded aggrievedly, but kept his eyes on the thing behind the brown paper.

Draco looked at Harry's ill-fitting old Muggle clothes, and a 'malicious' smile rose from the corner of his mouth.

Hiss - open the package...

"Oh, dear!" came a thin, but confident voice, "my dreadful master, what are you wearing? Have you stripped the toad alive? Oh, I dare not Believe me, this is definitely the most blatant disgrace to me as a wizard fashion vane! I have never seen such a bad match, what is in your head? You have a whole bag of slugs in your head? Oh, how I would allow my master to dress like this, a house-elf could dress neater than you - without opening your closet!"

Harry stood completely stupid in front of this gorgeous full-length mirror. On Christmas Day, he was scolded bloody by a mirror.