HP: White Lord of Slytherin
Chapter 44: Portraits of the Eight Trigrams
Gloria stayed in school for three more days, and finally it was time to leave. After saying goodbye to her friends one by one, she got on the carriage and left.
Harry and the others watched her leave before going to the abandoned bathroom. The Polyjuice Potion would be almost ready in the next two days.
"Things are much easier now that Gloria is not in school." Harry sighed.
Ron's face was almost wrinkled as he stared at the potion in the crucible. "What will I ask then?"
Hermione thought for a moment and said, "First of all, let's talk about what Malfoy said to me last time. Although I'm not the next one to get into trouble, I should ask him about his intentions at the time, and what he said about making the snake obedient..."
"It was Gloria who could make the snake obey." Harry said, "That day in the Great Hall, Gloria caught the snake directly, and Malfoy lied with his eyes open!"
When it comes to Gloria, Hermione hesitated, "But...except for the time when Gloria found Colin, the other two times had nothing to do with her."
As friends, they didn't want to suspect Gloria, but the matter of the secret room was too important.
"It's best if there's no relationship. I can feel that she's not a bad person." Harry explained.
Ron looked back and forth at them, and finally spread his hands, "Just asking, maybe we can get some more useful information from Malfoy."
Finally, the three of them agreed to ask Malfoy questions, but they forgot to scout the location of the Slytherin dormitory in advance.
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The carriage pulled by twelve thestrals passed through the guardrails. Gloria looked out the window and saw the magnificent manor covered in the snow of winter.
Home
Coco had been waiting at the gate of the manor. She saw her beloved lady get off the carriage and run towards her quickly, stumbling a bit.
"Dear Miss Gloria, Coco finally saw Miss Gloria coming back from vacation. Do you want Coco to prepare dinner? It's all Miss Gloria's favorite food!"
In winter, the house-elves' clothing changes from clean embroidered pillowcases to plump and warm pillowcases.
"Thank you Coco, I'll go to the portrait studio and put dinner there."
Coco clasped her hands together, and was so excited that tears came to her eyes when she heard her master's order, "Okay Miss Gloria, Coco will set it up right away."
The portrait studio, which had been closed for several months, was opened, and the originally dull room immediately became lively.
"Look who's back."
"Gloria, how was school, did anyone offend you, did you use any dark magic on those stupid students."
"I'm doing fine." Gloria took the opportunity to answer, "Someone offended me but I dealt with them on the spot, and I must not use dark magic in school."
"Who offended you!" The woman, who was still beautiful even with an exaggerated feather crown, asked angrily, "Who offended the Slytherin family!"
If she had not become a portrait, Gloria would not have dared to say Pansy's name. This lady was the owner of the travel book that Draco was reading - Bernice.
"A girl from the Parkinson family. Now she doesn't dare to mess with me."
“Parkinson’s?”
"While I was alive, were there any families with any strength left that had not died out?"
Bernice was still furious. "You should have tortured her severely with the spell I invented—and then killed her!"
"Please, Bernice." Gloria said helplessly: "I'm still in school, not an adult wizard walking around. And I said that every wizard is precious and cannot be killed at will."
The beautiful Bernice lost control of her expression and rolled her eyes at her. "How can you lead the family back to the wizarding world like this? The Slytherin family will be looked down upon!"
"How could that be? I am destined to leave a mark in the history of the wizarding world."
Looking at Gloria's cheerful expression, Bernice didn't bother to pay attention to her and turned to other picture frames.
"Tell us, you must have been sorted into Slytherin house?" the haughty male portrait asked her.
"Of course." Gloria answered confidently, "I even became good friends with the Malfoy children. I didn't like the others in the same grade."
"Malfoy? Nicholas Malfoy's family?"
Gloria nodded vigorously. She knew the history of the Malfoy family.
The arrogant male portrait said: "I remember him, a very cunning guy who used the Black Death to kill many mudbloods and escaped the punishment of the wizard meeting. No wonder this family still exists now."
"The boy Aurora met more than ten years ago has a cousin who married into the Malfoy family. Gloria, how is the Malfoy family now?"
Gloria replied, "Not bad. You also know that after the incident with the descendant of the side branch, the strength of many pure-blood families was greatly weakened. The Malfoy family escaped punishment and only paid a large donation. Their status is still not low now."
The picky portraits were not satisfied, but Gloria didn't care and continued to share excitedly: "I became friends with Harry Potter, the boy who defeated the descendant of the side branch, and Ron from the Weasley family. But I am familiar with him because of Harry and Hermione. Oh, and Hermione, she is a very smart wizard. Although she is born a Muggle, she is quite capable and a very lovely girl."
The portraits did not have an extreme aversion to Muggle-born wizards, they just looked disgusted and wanted to see who she would mention next, but they fell silent.
"that's it?"
Seeing Gloria nod obediently, the portraits became furious.
"You're a Slytherin, and you've been out for a few months and you've become friends with these few guys, and they're not even your followers!"
Gloria retorted, "I am indeed a Slytherin, but my identity is currently hidden. The secrecy spell has not completely worn off on me yet. It will take until the end of the school year at the earliest."
The portraits were speechless, as they all knew the power of the magic of secrecy.
In the beginning, each of them had rebelled and wanted to reveal their surnames, but they were all stopped by the secrecy magic and learned a lesson from magic.
"Well... seeing you like this I know that the situation of those pure-blood families is getting worse and worse. Who on earth married into the Gaunt family? Those crazy lunatics actually gave birth to such a cowardly half-blood kid!"
"Voldemort... He chose this name because he was afraid that others would not know how much he fears death. He has talent but he doesn't use it in the right way. How stupid!"
Without Voldemort, many pure-blood families would not have been liquidated so badly, with a lack of young members, and their wealth and political status greatly reduced. Although still much better than many half-bloods and Muggles, compared with their glorious days, they are now in a semi-declined state.
More than ten years ago, half-blood and Muggle-born wizards took advantage of that opportunity to fill the positions vacated by pure-blood families, and their voice in the wizarding world was slightly strengthened, but the mainstream still respected pure-bloods.
If there is another reckoning like this, the pure-blood family will be demoted again.
Gloria, like before, held her chin in her hand and watched them accuse each other. The Gaunt family was indeed crazy. In order to retain half of the Slytherin bloodline, they had chosen close relatives for many years, and even married close relatives. As a result, their offspring had mental differences and their appearance gradually became ugly and strange.
It's no wonder that Voldemort could be so crazy.
But Gloria didn't have much patience to watch the portraits quarreling, she had more important things to do.
After watching the show and finishing my meal, I picked up the magic camera I had bought in advance and left the portrait studio to pick a few places to take pictures.
Coco followed Gloria with the camera in hand, taking pictures, trying hard to avoid appearing in the portrait.
Start writing letters to Draco in the evening.
Dear Draco:
I returned to the manor safely. The family portrait asked many questions. I mentioned you and they were very satisfied with you. The Christmas gift has been chosen and I feel you will like it. I look forward to the Christmas gift you give me.
I also took a lot of photos and will look at them slowly.
——Missing you Lori
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