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Lucius eyes his old head of house with confusion, why has Professor Slughorn called him here for this meeting.
"Nasty business Lucius ... nasty business, so sorry. Poor boy, not only dealing with the antics of those pranksters ...
"Pranksters? Merlin after all this time the marauders are still in business? ... It's obvious who they are why doesn't Dumbledore do something?"
Slughorn rolls his eyes, "Innocent until proven guilty, it's obviously Gryffindor's yes but Dumbledore won't punish a whole house."
Lucius wryly thinks the whole house should be kicked out, troublemakers the lot of them. Excluding Cathy. Lucius sneers, don't think of her, don't think of her, don't think of her. Too late.
"The only place I got any peace in this place was the common room, I still can't believe it's just as bad."
Slughorn raises an eyebrow in disbelief and shakes his head, "Without your influence Lucius, its been worse. To this day I still don't understand why you weren't Head Boy."
Dumbledore. The man knows too much, Dumbledore must have found out that he is working for the Dark Lord. Lucius gets annoyed at himself, Lucius should not have been so obvious with his views at school. Lucius cringes thinking about how obnoxious he acted at school. Lucius tries to reason to himself that the mudbloods brought it on themselves. Their thoughts are just so irritating and primitive ... not as irritating as Mr Weasley though. Not to mention Lucius will never have sympathy for muggle and muggle lovers since muggles murdered his mother.
Lucius slightly shakes his head in a move to shake his thoughts out, "Sir, as much as I like catching up, I would prefer to know why you have summoned me."
"Nasty business ... yes nasty and sad. You've been asked here because you are placed as an emergency contact for Severus."
This was news to Lucius, wonder when that happened and why didn't Severus inform him of that.
"What has happened to Severus?"
"His parents ..."
Slughorn takes a moment to rubs his eyes in stress, "His parents are dead. The muggle policemen found them. Murder, suicide situation."
Lucius's eyes widen in horror, with morbid curiosity Lucius asks who did the murder then suicide.
"His mother ... I know this is a big ask but you are placed as an emergency contact. Severus isn't seventeen yet and Dumbledore has this foolish idea to place Severus with muggles. Perhaps if Severus was still friends with Miss Evans but sadly no that friendship has sailed."
Lucius walks angrily through Hogwarts. It's time for breakfast, Lucius wants to make an impact. If he is going to strike the Dark Lord Dumbledore hard, he will do it right.
Lucius dramatically pushes the doors open to the great hall, opening the doors in such a way that the students all turn to see. Lucius slightly grins in pleasure when his presence causes gasps. Lucius walks towards the Headmaster, slow and predator like.
When he reaches the head table Dumbledore stands with a dark look in place, "You're not welcome here Malfoy."
Lucius casts a privacy spell, "Neither are you, you heartless bastard. You should not be around children. How could you decide that for my little brother?!"
Dumbledore's face morphs into confusion by what Lucius has said, "Brother? To whom are you referring to?"
"Severus damn you?! Don't act innocent with me, it doesn't suit you."
"Ah most unfortunate but there seems to be no ..."
Lucius raises his hand to shut him up then reaches into his pockets and hands Dumbledore a copy of guardianship papers for Severus.
"He'll be staying with me and not some muggle place!"
Dumbledore quickly opens the document to read then his eyes widen in shock.
"You're not equipped to do this! You can't, he can't. The guests you entertain don't make it a safe environment."
Dumbledore knows the Dark Lord uses the Malfoy manor as a base and if Severus lives there! He's too young, much too young. Tom will manipulate him.
"If you care at all for your supposed little brother you won't let him near your manor."
"My manor is perfectly fine and meets better safety requirements than a muggle dwelling. We're in the middle of a war with muggles and each other, what safer place than an ancestral manor with countless protections? It's well protected and it has a potion lab, Severus can even start his masters. He is a Prince, the old alliances might not mean anything to you but the Malfoy and Prince lines have been allies for generations."
Dumbledore is furious and so disappointed in this boy, this boy had so much promise, "You're such a disappointment, what you've been doing lately. Helping him. Funding him."
Lucius raises an eyebrow, "Ah yes because doing what I must to survive disappoints. I'll repay the favour ... you're such a disappointment, sitting safety here and not caring about your students, treating them as soldiers for your war against him. You are no better?! The both of you treat us like we're your pawns in your chess game and I am tired of it."
Lucius looks to his snakes protectively then back to Dumbledore.
"You are giving them no choice but to go to him. If you didn't treat them with such scorn ..."
Lucius not wanting to continue this pity conversation anymore silently removes the privacy spell. The conversation didn't go to his liking, Lucius feels he gave too much information away.
"Excuse me, but I must speak to Severus then I'll be on my way."
After quite a long and hard conversation Lucius hands Severus a glass of whiskey, "It helps."
The glass surprisingly doesn't explode in indignation from Severus, the last time Lucius offered him a drink months ago it exploded and Severus hissed 'I am not my father'. Severus takes the drink and downs it in two gulps, Severus didn't even flinch at the taste.
... "The worst part ... the worst part is that my own mother thought so little of me that she couldn't even be bothered to stay alive for me."
Lucius looks down to his own glass in thought, "It's not like my own father thought much of me."
For his father also couldn't even be bothered to stay alive for Lucius, surely Lucius's father must have known going single handily against the Dark Lord is a death sentence.
... "Yes well ... you are a bastard, doesn't surprise me that he wanted to get away from you."
Lucius rolls his eyes, "Poor attempt, I give you a mark of troll."
"Shame, I was aiming for dreadful. For your information I orchestrated a break from ... Lily ... it was too easy actually, it was like she was begging for an excuse to stop our friendship."
"I am so sorry Severus."
Severus nods then sighs, "Like you said it's for the best. It already has worked out for the best. I am glad she won't find out about my parents and her obsession with Potter was annoying me."
Lucius laughs, "Alright you win, you get a dreadful for that one."
James's mirror buzzes, I am actually really happy about this because it has been a while from the last call because of his exams.
'James'.
I see my bro's smiling face in the mirror.
"Hi Sis, you won't believe it! Lily and Severus aren't friends anymore. Been almost three weeks and they still haven't spoken ...
James breaks the conversation to laugh, "It's the best feeling, I mean I haven't been this happy about something for ages."
James laughs again, I can't help but laugh along with him. Severus is no longer friends with Lily and I am so happy about this. He has been a complete thorn in my side for far too long.
"So why aren't they friends anymore?"
James stops smiling and looks serious now, "He called Lily a mudblood."
"WHAT! Severus said that to LILY. How dare he?!"
I'm mad but then I realise his mistake has cost him his friendship with my sister, something I have wanted for little over seven years or so ... I grin maliciously.
"I need to speak to Lily, walk me over to her."
James opens his mouth in shock, "Wait, you finally want to tell Lils that we're friends?"
