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It was different in this world when he first proposed to Severus.At that time, I could confidently tell my ancestors that I planned to have pure-blooded offspring with Severus using the potion-curse birth method.Of course, he will omit the part that he actually intends to give birth to himself.But now, he was going to be a Muggle who had dropped the Malfoy name and played the runaway game he despised most.

——Is the nearly 2000-year inheritance of the Malfoy family really going to be ruined in my hands?

[HP/Awake][LM/SS] selection - 14-2

Thinking of this, the wand in Lucius' hand trembled a little.The devil flame wall trembled accordingly.

Severus yelled, "Lucius, what are you thinking?—fuck me!"

A half-meter-long three-headed rune snake with orange and black stripes intertwined on its body jumped out of the gap between the devil's flames.Behind it, more jumping snakes seemed to be jumping out, but most of them collided with the devil's flame and were instantly burned to ashes.

Severus cut the three-headed snake's body in two with a random cutting spell, and hastily cast the last spell on the black wall of flames.

At this moment, the snake with only half of its body jumped up and threw itself at Severus with all its might.

Lucius stopped the devil flame in his hand, and threw his new husband aside.

"Lucius, you idiot!" Severus was cursing when he saw the bloody writhing body of the rune hanging on Lucius' left arm.

Severus felt his body cool down: Merlin, isn't the rune snake biting Lucius?They are more poisonous than Nagini!

Severus hurriedly pulled Lucius' hand to examine it, only to find that what he was grasping was not a "hand", but a paw covered in platinum scales.

Lucius smiled as if he had done something bad and was caught by his parents: "Honey, don't worry, the snake didn't bite in at all."

Severus used a spell to cut open Lucius's sleeve, which seemed to be stretched open by something, and found that one of the rune snake's heads was trying to bite Lucius'... scales on the tip of the wings, but there was nothing to bite into. signs.

Severus hastily smashed the rune snake's head off Lucius' wing with the Crushing Charm, and then threw the remains into the black flames with a Throwing Charm.

Lucius shyly avoided Severus' eyes and said, "Okay, I'll turn the front of the arm into a wyvern's claw and wingtips, and then I... probably have to try a lot to turn it back into a human hand."

Severus breathed a sigh of relief, got himself and Lucius up off the ground, and started gnashing his teeth again: Old idiot, don't know how to be careful!What if you just couldn't transform in time?

Instead, Severus became angry again: After all these years and now married, the old bastard Lucius never told me?

Facing his furious lover, Lucius tried to divert his attention: "Severus, should we explore what's in the Dark Lord's laboratory?"

How could Severus have been fooled by such a trick.He stared at Lucius like a snake and hissed, "Oh, what a pity. If someone could transform completely, he wouldn't have to be afraid of most snakes and could go into the Dark Lord's laboratory. "

Some Animagus desperately wish at this point to fully transform themselves into wyverns, at the absolute top of the reptilian food chain.In this case, he probably doesn't have to be afraid of being eaten alive by a certain head of the snake courtyard.

Just thinking about this, Lucius suddenly found that his angle of view had become higher, and his field of vision had become wider - he found that he could see things behind him when he rolled his eyes.

This literally startled Lucius.He looked down at his body and found that he had turned into a wyvern.Animagus twisted his slender neck unaccustomedly, flapped his wings a few times, and then realized that he actually had a tail.

Lucius said to the stunned lover in front of him, "Severus, I think I should go out and get used to my body..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Lucius realized that he was speaking the language of reptiles. ——Oh, also, the tongue is actually forked, which is really unaccustomed.

The two portraits of the Malfoys were almost speechless with excitement: By gods, this is definitely a sign of revival for the Malfoys!

The two immediately transformed into portraits and praised Lucius in Reptilian.

Lucius looked down at Severus and saw that his new husband seemed suspicious.Even in the slow-minded wyvern state, Lucius could guess that his lover was able to fully transform before he doubted himself, but he never told him.

——I was wronged on this point!How can I convince Severus?By the way, I have a tail!

So, when Harry Apparated back with a can of gasoline, he saw a pale gold wyvern wagging its tail at Severus with large blinking gray eyes.

Severus was very embarrassed by Harry's stare, so he gritted his teeth at Lucius and said, "I'll put a disillusionment spell on you, now you go out and fly around for me, and I'll see how you fly."

Lucius obediently walked towards the door, only to find that it was impossible for the wyvern's huge body to get out of the narrow door of the Gaunt hut.He turned his head and looked at Severus innocently.

Grinding his teeth, Severus used space magic to temporarily widen the door, allowing Lucius to squeeze out.

The Wyvern flapped its wings, ran a few steps on the flat ground, and flew up against the wind.Unfortunately, he lost his balance and fell down before he was far from the ground.Fortunately, the powerful body of the wyvern was not afraid of such a small bump at all, and flew into the sky again in a blink of an eye.

The Seeker of Slytherin 20 years ago was the first to fly in the air on his own strength, and seemed to have regained the carefree feeling of his youth.Facing the cold wind, following his own feeling, he made a 360-degree roll in the air.He was having fun when he suddenly found a black figure appearing in his field of vision.

The wyvern approached the black-clothed wizard, and found that the other party was displeased: "Lucius, even in your reptilian brain, you should realize that this is your first time flying!"

— Yay, Severus is caring about me!

The Wyvern let out a happy cry.

Severus thought Lucius might really be going crazy.

Lucius made an even crazier move: he motioned for Severus to ride on his back.

Severus wanted to express his disdain, but he soon realized that he was going crazy too - he couldn't resist the temptation, and it wasn't long before he grabbed the bone spur on Lucius' back and rode on the wyvern.

The wyvern circled a few times, then swooped down to the ground, causing Severus to scream in shock.At a distance of three to five meters from the ground, the wyvern tried to turn and rush towards the sky again, but as expected...failed.

Severus, who was thrown into the dust, glared at the nonchalant Wyvern with its good physical resistance, wondering whether he should use Shenfeng Wuying to test the magic resistance of the wyvern's scales.

Wyvern hissed, "I'm going to explore the Dark Lord's laboratory now!"

After Harry translated, Severus hesitated, and said, "I'll go down with you."

Wyvern retorted: "I'm not afraid of snake bites, but you are!"

After translating, Severus had to admit that Lucius had a point.However, he was worried that Animagus, who couldn't use magic, would go down alone. ——If Riddle kept a snake as big as a basilisk down there, Lucius' scales wouldn't be of much use, would they?

While hesitating, Dumbledore's portrait shouted joyfully: "Ah, children, look what I brought you?"

Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawks, appeared in the air.

"The headmasters agreed that since it's Riddle's laboratory below, not a different space, then Fawks must be able to help. —— I believe that Fawks can accompany Lucius down." Dumbledore looked at Severus with a look on his face. The "I understand your concern" look.

Severus angrily admitted that Dumbledore had a point.

A few minutes later, Lucius and Fawks, who drank the potion, passed through the black flames, passed through the entrance and exit of the laboratory enlarged by Harry again, and flew into a roughly rectangular space with high shelves.

The flames on Fawks illuminated the otherwise dark space, allowing Lucius to see its arrangement.As a result, the wyvern almost fell down laughing: Merlin, isn't this a Muggle Roman Catholic church? ——The interior is a vault, with semicircular structures at the front and rear ends, and a towering altar at one end, and the place I flew in is equivalent to a bell tower, right?

Lucius looked down, laughing again and almost cramping: the ground was equivalent to rows of benches for believers, and there were rows of cages.Come to think of it, the Dark Lord once stood on the altar and preached to the snakes in the cage below in the language of snakes, right?Needless to say, Riddle placed his Horcrux in a well-divided space above this "church", presumably to symbolize that the Son of Man preached among the "earthly" of this "church", but would eventually return to the "Kingdom of Heaven" Where is his eternal Father? ——Of course, in reality, that "heaven" is the basement of Riddle's psychotic grandfather's family.Perhaps, subconsciously, Tom Riddle preferred his grandfather's family to the Muggle-Catholic orphanage.

Since it is such a building structure, it is clear where important materials are placed: the place where the Bible should have been placed on the pulpit.

The wyvern flew to the pulpit with the phoenix, and found that the snakes crawling everywhere were far away from here, presumably some protective magic was still in effect.

—Aha, separate the believer from the Bible?This is really more and more like the Catholic Church[①]!

However, Lucius didn't take it lightly.He circled around the altar a few times, but he didn't feel any force hindering him. ——Damn it, not being able to use a wand is trouble!

Wyvern called out to Phoenix for help, indicating that the key items were on the pulpit, but he dared not go in.

Fawks, all on fire, gave Lucius a disdainful look, then disappeared, then appeared on the pulpit.Fenghuang flipped through the thick black-covered book on the pulpit with his paws a few times, signaling for the wyvern to identify it.

The Wyvern stretched its neck, and found that the part of the book that had been opened revealed words twisted like snakes.He reckons this is it.So, he called out affirmatively.

Phoenix closed the thick book, grabbed it and was about to fly out, the Wyvern hurriedly fled towards the entrance of the cave - he had heard about the encounter between the Savior and Dumbledore in the Dark Lord's cave.As long as the key thing is passive, some mechanism will be activated.

Sure enough, as soon as the book left the pulpit, green flames burned from the altar, and spread in all directions with an astonishing momentum amidst the dark wind.Wherever it passed, the writhing snakes didn't even have time to shout, and they turned into dry corpses.

Lucius tried to flap his wings to stay out of the range of the flames, praying that the Dark Lord would not put on more protection.He reckoned that if anyone had tried to get the book, it would have been a dried corpse by now.However, Phoenix...

The cheerful chirping of Fawks has come from outside the cave.

The wyvern suddenly became jealous of the phoenix's teleportation skill.

Then, before Lucius knew what was going on, he felt dizzy, and then he was facing an anxious Severus outside the cave. When Lucius turned his head, he found that the Phoenix was standing on his back, with his tail raised to show his success!

The wyvern shook its tail at the phoenix, and gave a few grateful shouts.

Fawks patted Lucius on the back with his wings, signaling that he was doing a good job too.

Severus looked at the two birds wagging their tails at each other, and felt that these two low-intelligence animals were hopeless: Is this a place for you two to praise each other?What's the situation below, will the danger spread, and you don't say anything? !

Facing such a situation, Dumbledore in the portrait said happily: "It seems that the flying creatures really have a common language! Severus, Harry, look how lively Lucius and Fawks are chatting!"

Lucius turned his head and glared at Dumbledore, wanting to change back into human form.However, just before he was determined to transform, he thought of a key problem: the wizard robe he wore was broken during the transformation.

So, Lucius could only awkwardly say to Harry, "Tell Severus for me that we should go back to the principal's office now."

After Harry finished translating, Lucius felt dizzy again.Opening his eyes, he found that he was already in the Hogwarts headmaster's office.Soon, Severus was grabbing Harry, and the house-elf returned to the headmaster's office with the portraits.

Lucius yelled at Severus, squeezed his huge body into the bedroom attached to the headmaster's office, and closed the door.

After a while, Blinky, the house-elf of the Malfoy family, appeared in the headmaster's room and took away the portraits of Julius Malfoy and Aurelius Malfoy who were acting as translators for the thick book of Parseltongue they had brought.

When Severus, who couldn't let go of his mind, entered the bedroom to check on Lucius' situation, he saw a Lucius with a big tail that couldn't change back, and scales on his thighs and back.

The author has something to say: Accidentally, my RP hit the wall again...

Note: The setting of this article is somewhat different from that in "Half of the Truth", that is, the magic in the HP world in this article is weaker than that in "Half of the Truth".In Half the Truth, transforming into a magical creature like a wyvern is not uncommon, but not impossible; in this case, it's a very rare thing.

The very personal history of the Malfoy family I set in "Half the Truth": The story begins with Maine Mal, the son of Fedlimid Fir Urglais, the leader of a Celtic clan, bringing his clan to the seaside to fish one day.However, for three consecutive days, the wind was strong, the sea was rough, and the distant shoreline was shining with golden light, so no one could go into the sea. MaineMal took the initiative to find out.He walked along the coast, and finally saw a fit pale golden wyvern entangled with a huge pale golden sea snake rolling on the beach. It was these two ancient behemoths that caused the turbulence in the sea. Mal asked the two animals to stop making waves, but the two animals asked the strong men to join them, so they would stop the wind and waves.After a day and a night, Maine Mal left contentedly and returned to his clan.A year later, when Maine Mal was leading the tribe to fish again, the wyvern found him and handed him a huge egg.Under the guidance of the clan's archdruid Nuada, Maine Mal put the eggs by the fire and roasted them for seven days and nights, and finally a baby Mata Muireach jumped out of them.The child hatched from the egg studied with the archdruid Nuada for 15 years and became a famous druid. He assisted his brother Tuathaló Hailill to establish the UiMail kingdom.

[①] Guess what is the most widely spread in history?

The correct answer is: the "Bible" translated into the native language without permission. ——Anyone who thinks of Mr. Alphabet like "Golden XX" will face the wall!

In other words, Tyndall, who was the first to print the English Bible, was hanged, and Rogers, who wrote the preface to the first official British Bible, was burned at the stake.

Also, never mind, as long as you and I can't read the Bible in Latin, Greek or Hebrew, all the Bibles you and I see will be translations without permission.Therefore, according to the standards of the Catholic Church in those days, every family of Catholics now has them!

[HP/Awake][LM/SS] selection - 15

15 (on).Awake

Awake

Lucius opened his eyes, and found that he was indeed lying on the Sleep Number bed that he and Severus had bought, which could adjust the firmness of the bed by remote control.

Lucius rubbed his eyes, thinking about the expenses he had listed before going to bed in this world after Severus's physical condition changed, and thought with a wry smile: It seems that my habit of buying expensive things for many years can still save money. money time.This kind of bed, where two people sleep on the bed, can adjust the firmness and angle of the bed independently, cost thousands of dollars when it was bought.Now, when Severus' condition meant that he might sleep in a hard bed for the rest of his life, the two of them didn't have to buy a new bed.

Lucius rubbed his face a few times, got up from the bed, and headed for the bathroom.To be honest, when I know that the three worlds are real, and I really have all the things that money can buy in my life, I am now recalculating the small money equivalent to hundreds of Galleons. When I was there, I really felt very...unaccustomed.

Sighing in his heart, Lucius planned today's itinerary while taking a bath: he would go to the mall in the morning to return the things he bought that were still within the return period, visit Severus at noon, and go to the hospital in the afternoon to accompany him, and he will have a heart surgery tomorrow. The father of stent surgery...

—Merlin, father...

Thinking of his father, Lucius worried again. Abraxas Malfoy died shortly after Lucius' seventeenth birthday.Although, in the next 17 years, Lucius could see his father's portrait every time he entered the study, and often discussed issues with his father's portrait.But after all, a real person is different from a portrait, and it is even more different to be a son who satisfies Abraxas and a son who runs away from home.Now, Detective Lucius Britten really doesn't know how to face his father.Indeed, LuciusBritten has to write a letter every month to report his situation to his father, and he will send gifts to his father every Christmas and his father's birthday.However, apart from that less than pleasant conversation two days ago, he hadn't spoken directly to his father for a long time.Of course Lucius couldn't be angry with his father before his father's surgery was about to happen; but equally, he couldn't agree to break up with Severus either.

The light blond man continued to hesitate about how to talk to his father as he dried his hair with a blow dryer.

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"Lucius, are you sure you don't want this dress? You must look great in it." The shopping guide lady asked.

Lucius smiled at the shopping guide who already knew him, and replied for an unknown number of times today: "I'm sure, I'm sorry to trouble you."

The girl with a few strands of hair highlighted in pink blinked. "Okay, Lucius." The girl clicked a button on the cash register and gossiped, "You know what? We've been praying that you'd take all Buy clothes once and return them. That way, we can see you twice for one dress."

Lucius smiled bitterly in his heart, and continued to maintain his playboy style verbally: "My dear beauty, just like I confessed, if I didn't prefer the same sex, I would have invited you to elope with me."

The girl laughed wildly: "Oh, what a pity. Anyway, it's always good for us to appreciate beautiful men, right? —By the way, Timothy in the shop opposite has been waiting for you to change your mind from Severus Woolen cloth."

Lucius laughed harder in his heart: Even in my subconscious, I've been flirting around all the time!

Carrying ever-lighter shopping bags, the light-blonde detective makes his way to the last stop of the day's returns journey: the jewelry store.He took out the jewelry box containing the pearl necklace and the shopping receipt from the shopping bag, and said to the customer service lady, "Hi, I'll return it."

The shopping guide took the receipt, opened the jewelry box, looked at the light gold pearl necklace inlaid with silver wyvern and sea snake, and said to Lucius: "Lucius, are you sure you don't want it? You know, you are in We buy so much jewelry here and this one, we all agree, is just for you."

Lucius looked at the wyvern and sea snake on the necklace and knew in his heart that this was indeed the jewelry he wanted.However, paying off next month's mortgage and remodeling the house to accommodate Severus' physical needs were more pressing. Lucius didn't want to use his and Severus' small savings so quickly.

So Lucius replied, "Unfortunately, I don't want any more."

The shopping guide lady with brown red hair said regretfully: "Lucius, then I need to take the jewelry to the backstage and let the experts check for damage."

Lucius nodded, watching the shopping guide leave.At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw two people he didn't want to see very much at the moment: his sister Luciana and brother-in-law Odin Nott.

The gray-haired man carrying big and small bags also saw his brother-in-law carrying a lot of shopping bags.His eyes suddenly became a little dissatisfied: This kid still has the mood and spare money to buy jewelry?It seems that I really don't care about him.

Luciana took the initiative to greet her.She hugged her tall brother and asked with concern: "Lucius, how are you feeling?"

Lucius was stunned for a moment before he realized that his sister thought he was in a bad mood, so he went shopping to vent his anger.The conscience of heaven and earth, Lucius is not so ignorant to that point.However, he couldn't explain to his sister that he came to return the goods.In that case, my sister would understand her financial predicament, and it would make her sad.

While hesitating, the shopping guide came back with the necklace: "Lucius, our manager said that we can return it. But, do you really not want to think about it?"

Realizing that Lucius came to return the goods instead of shopping, the Notts were taken aback for a moment.

Odin Nott looked at Lucius with apologetic eyes at first, and then complained: You kid will not find a time when your sister is not around to return the goods?Why worry her?

Luciana became a little tearful: "My little Lucius, you..."

As she said that, Luciana realized that if she continued to speak, it might hurt her brother's self-esteem as a man, so she stopped talking.In order to find something to talk about for herself, she looked at the necklace.At first glance, she fell in love with the necklace: "Odin, this necklace is so beautiful! Those two little reptiles are so cute, and the color of the pearls is so suitable for my - me and Lucius's - The color of the hair..."

Luciana bit her lip again, unable to speak further.

The shopping guide took the opportunity to say: "Lucius, look, your sister also likes this necklace so much."

Lucius gritted his teeth at the salesman in his heart.He patted his elder sister, and was about to speak when she was interrupted by her elder sister: "Lucius, how much did you pay for this necklace, can I buy it from you?"

The platinum-haired detective looked at his sister who looked very similar to him, and for a moment didn't know how to answer.He was unwilling to accept financial assistance from his sister and brother-in-law if possible. Lucius knew that one of his sister's favorite activities was to dress up her brother and nephew as Christmas trees.He could almost bet that half of the clothes his brother-in-law Odin was holding now were bought by Luciana for her brother and nephew.If he sold the necklace to his sister now, nine out of ten Luciana would find a chance to give it to him again.

"Sister, if you really like this necklace, of course I can sell it to you—but there is one condition, you must keep it." Lucius said seriously.

Luciana was a little embarrassed to be seen through by her younger brother.However, she really felt that it was a great pity that such jewelry was bought by others.Now, she has made up her mind to give this necklace to her nephew Draco in the future. ——As for her son Theodore, anyway, that kid has been educated by Odin to stay away from jewelry, it's really puzzling!

For his wife's small hobby of buying clothes or dressing up his brother and nephew, Odin usually pays obediently.Today, he was somewhat dissatisfied: Lucius, an idiot, why did he choose this time to return the product? Didn't Lucius know that every time Luciana returned to Boston, she would go on a shopping spree with the excuse that "Massachusetts doesn't pay taxes on buying cheap clothes, and if you pay taxes, the tax rate is lower than in California"? [①]

Grinding his teeth in his heart, Odin happily signed the check to Lucius, and proposed that the three of them find a place to have a cup of coffee.

After sitting down, not knowing what to say, Luciana showed Lucius the clothes she bought for him and Draco today. Lucius looked at the clothes and was so moved that he didn't know what to say.As far as Lucius Malfoy could remember, he had always chosen his own clothes, and the fact that others bought clothes for him almost dates back to when his mother was still alive before he was 12 years old.

Luciana looked at her younger brother's moved look, and thought that her younger brother, who likes to dress up, might not buy new clothes for a while, her eye circles turned red again. —oh, of course, and her sweetest nephew, Draco, who looked so much like Lucius when he was a kid!

So, the woman with platinum blonde hair glistening with tears made up her mind to dress up her younger brother and nephew twice as much.

Lucius smiled helplessly, and couldn't help but feel the absurdity of struggling again in one world for the stability of the world, and worrying about next month's mortgage and the money needed to renovate the house in another world.

Finally, Luciana decided to go to the bathroom to wash her face and touch up her makeup, Lucius was slightly relieved, and faced his brother-in-law who had something to say.

"Lucius, you're not going to follow Abraxas' advice and leave Dr. Snape, are you?" Odin looked at his brother-in-law inquiringly.

Without thinking, Lucius replied, "Of course I won't leave Severus."

Odin smiled wryly, and said: "You really look like Luciana, don't you? I can't imagine that Luciana would leave me for similar reasons." The gray-haired man sighed, and then said: "Then, Lucius, I It is recommended that you do not rush to remodel the house."

Lucius looked at his brother-in-law suspiciously.

Odin Nott said cautiously: "Lucius, you probably won't like hearing what I'm saying, but the annual mortgage, property taxes, homeowners association fees and insurance for your and Dr. Snape's house add up to about sixty to seventy thousand dollars a year, right? "

"Seventy-eight thousand dollars. Severus and I chose a 20-year mortgage." Lucius stared at his hands and said, "I know, my pre-tax income as a detective is only more than 8 dollars a year." . . . even if I add overtime hours, it’s probably only $[-].”

Intellectually speaking, Lucius knew that if he had only one income, he would lose his house sooner or later: property taxes of more than 3000 US dollars per year, plus [-] to [-] US dollars per year, which are still rising. It's enough to make them overwhelmed.However, emotionally speaking, selling their current house was as inconceivable to Lucius as selling Malfoy Manor.Although the current house did not have the history of Malfoy Manor, but in Malfoy Manor, Lucius never repaired the roof by himself, never took care of the garden himself, and never bought furniture and decorations one by one like a chicken pecking at rice.Thinking that Severus, Draco, and himself might have to leave the place they had called "home" all these years, Lucius' heart hurt like a knife.

Odin continued, "Dr. Snape's life insurance..."

"Only $100 million." Lucius said dejectedly. Lucius knew that the $100 million in insurance sounded like a lot, but in reality it might not last long.

If Hogwarts Teaching Hospital terminated its contract with Severus soon, he would either have to pay for medical insurance that the hospital now pays for, or join Lucius' state police system medical insurance.The insurance that was originally enrolled in the state police system, or the insurance that was purchased at its own expense is now covered by the hospital.Considering that Severus' total medical expenses were likely to exceed the lifetime limit of Lucius' insurance, they probably had to spend Severus' current insurance first.So, for the next eighteen months of being protected by the Labor Act, Severus may have to pay thousands of dollars a month for medical insurance on his own, until he no longer meets the conditions for protection.