Chapter 20 Friendship in Your Circle

For some, reputation, or more narrowly, face, is everything.

I would rather die than lose face.

The blond old man is obviously such a person.

As the guardian of a pure-blooded family, he is like an overlord. It would be a shame to condescend to observe it for himself. If he is fried by a stinky melon until it smells like feces from the inside out, that would be too much. What's the matter, let alone being disfigured, imagining the situation with a stinky face, it is definitely an eternal shame.

And the premise of all this is based on the fact that 'the ancient family never jokes about magic. '

This is also one of the proofs. If the stinky leaf melon is really what the warning sign says, it can basically prove that there is indeed an old guy here.

With the change of atmosphere, the younger generation seldom treat magic with prudence and reverence, and only the old guys are still clinging to some dogmas, such as: magic is never 100% safe.

This is also the reason why the blond old man asked Marco Travers, who has been worse than a lost dog in the past few years, to test the water. It's okay to be arrogant in the discussion, but you must be careful in your actions.

Ma Ke can be regarded as a veteran who has stepped into the ranks of veterans with one leg. He knows that this matter is quite dangerous, and even murderous intentions are hidden, but he can only gamble.

If the person behind the scenes here is Voldemort, then there is nothing to say. Although Voldemort has a surly temper and a ruthless style, he still needs servants. For him, it is a good umbrella.

If you are lucky enough to finish testing the waters and get out of it, that's not bad, and you will get a lot of money. And as long as he has money, he can get a hiding place, so he really needs to rest for a while.

The worst-case scenario is that Catherine has secretly joined the Order of the Phoenix as described by a certain theory, and if he is caught, he will have to pay the price for killing the McKinnon family.

Of course, this is the worst situation that Marco himself thinks, and the actual situation is even worse, but the root cause of this situation is too bizarre for Dumbledore to guess.

On this holiday full of warm flavors, the old bee is enjoying a big glass of lemon flavored ice cream in his office.

And in his head, what was thinking was how to deal with the resurgent Shafiq family.

Catherine, he remembered, was not a Slytherin, but was sorted into Ravenclaw by the Sorting Hat. She had brains but no ambition.

In the first half of the wizarding war, Catherine was still a child, and in the second half, she had to stand in line to join in a half-ignorant state, and then it was a nightmarish escape journey.

You can know by counting the age. The Wizarding War lasted for eleven years and ended in the winter of 1981. Now it will be 87 years, and Catherine is 27 years old. That is to say, when the Wizarding War first started, Catherine Ten years old is not enough to get into Hogwarts.

Dumbledore clearly remembered that Catherine entered school one year later than Stanley and left school two years later. When she was involved in the wizarding war, the war had already been going on for the sixth year, and Voldemort's line gradually showed victory, and the largest-scale standing in line began.

But on the other hand, precisely because of these impressions, he felt that there must be a powerful person standing behind the Shafiq family.

protector? Or a forefather?

I don't know the details, but he thinks that everything about Shafiq's family is beyond Catherine's ability. She doesn't have that kind of ability and structure.

He preferred that Catherine, in a lonely and helpless situation, accepted the cooperation conditions of a powerful wizard walking in the dark, willing to be his endorsement, and even took her son into it.

"Or it's because of little Kane. The child spent time in homelessness and death threats when he was young. He is suffering from chronic diseases. It is said that it is difficult for him to live to the age of nine."

If Dumbledore knew what Kane was doing, he probably wouldn't lament his innocence, but would try his best to kill him.

In the dark basement, Kane, who had already healed Marko's injuries, stared at Marko,

No words.

There is no light from the lighting, and you can't see your fingers, but Marco can see Kane's eyes, because the eyes are glowing, the sapphire crystals are like glowing ice flakes at this time, and the pupils are dark golden, as if the years are in them Cohesion.

Marko bets that these are definitely not a pair of human eyes. Compared with Voldemort's Shushu cat pupil, it is easy for people to guess the roots, and it seems too shallow.

If every peculiar pupil has a theme, Voldemort's non-human fear. But the one in front of him is endlessly mysterious and profound.

Both are indifferent, but the source is different. Voldemort's condescension is condescending, while what is in front of him is the rationality that sees through everything.

Kane's body was already severely damaged, and the mana erosion spread like cancer, spreading from the trachea to the vocal cords, which made his voice hoarse, without the childish voice that an ordinary child should have.

In order to avoid coughing, his voice is habitually low. Hence some of Snape's speaking characteristics: the voice is only a little higher than a whisper, but it is so penetrating that people can hear it clearly.

"Marco, I know that in the face of life and death, everything else seems insignificant. But I still think it is necessary for you to understand something. The core essence of wizard wars is an adjustment of the distribution of rights and interests in the wizarding world. Including Voldemort Many of the people in it are just a footnote to it, a concrete manifestation. Whether they are dead or alive now."

Ma Ke frowned secretly, not understanding why the other party suddenly broke up with him, but it must be said that the other party's harmonious voice seemed to have the magical power of the legendary "speaking spirit", which gently knocked on his heart, but caused The shock is effective enough to make him want to listen and think involuntarily.

"Fang Li, Shafik, and Travers are all pure-blood families who have been smeared almost from the very beginning. The reason is simple. Losing power means losing dignity, but they occupy the interests and refuse to Give in."

"Hiss..." Ma Ke was touched. He subconsciously thought about the past, as well as the situation of himself and his family, and found that many things happened, which seemed to confirm what the other party said. It is difficult to explain all phenomena.

Marco fell asleep with his eyelids drooping.

As long as there is a little bit of recognition, Kane's mind-confusing hypnotism will work, and then continue to strengthen until hypnosis is achieved.

Different from ordinary hypnotism, this enhanced technique emphasizes the forward and reverse thinking of the target when being hypnotized. To put it simply, if the other party is deceived and believes your evil, then he is basically finished.

Whether it is Stanley or Catherine, they have been distorted from the beginning of belief, thus opening the road of "soul shaping", of course, being soul shaped.

This kind of fine magic operation can only be broken again through magic skills of the same or higher level, but even then, the consciousness is not the original one, but only conforms to most of the original temperament characteristics. So it is also appropriate to say that the person is dead.

Marco Travers' life like a dirty ruffian came to an early end, and then began a new life...

After this incident, the blond old man became more apprehensive.

He wasn't sure that the billowing black smoke that took off from Nozawa Castle and ended up back there was Voldemort, but he was at least sure that Catherine still had connections with the Death Eaters, and even that she was a deeply hidden Death Eater herself.

"I knew there was something behind this! I had warned them long ago, it was no accident that the Shafiq family was able to escape for four years!"

Yes, the blond old man has a deeper understanding than Dumbledore.

Not only because of "what kind of people, what kind of world they see", but also because those dark creatures, Muggle killers and mercenaries who hunted and killed Shafik's family were ordered and appointed by him and others.

He also once suspected that his judgment was wrong because of the smooth flow of a series of operations after Stanley surrendered.

But now...

Although he didn't want to see it, he admitted that the Shafiq family had another guardian.

"Who is it? Nathaniel, who is about the same age as Dumbledore, who was said to be mentally handicapped and wiped out, or the legendary Black Adam of the previous generation..."

The blond old man didn't get too entangled in this matter. Whether there is a guardian is an important point, who is not so important.

As long as there are guardians, anyone who wants to reach out has to weigh whether they can afford the heavy price.

It's not just caused by the guardians, but also by other families. If they show weakness, the former allies don't mind the minions facing each other, tearing the flesh and blood of the interests, and even pushing people off the cliff is not impossible.

Working together but being wary, this is the ecological relationship between pure-blood families.

So in many cases, words can be passionate, but actions need to be more cautious.

"Let yourself stand completely in the sun, and use the invaders to create a dark reputation. It's a good plan!" After silently calculating the previous actions against the Shafiq family, the blond old man thought with itchy teeth but helpless resentment.

"It's time to cut some threads. A blood baron, an alpha wolf, they can die." The blond old man had a sullen look on his face, and with a whirl of his body, he disappeared without a trace in the yellow sand that suddenly appeared...