Chapter 540: Lucius Malfoy Missing
"Terrible weather, isn't it?" Michael complained, dripping wet as he entered the compartment. "I remember it was just like this when we encountered the Dementors."
He stood in the open space between the seats, his hair constantly dripping water, and the floor beneath his feet quickly became soaked. Even the luggage next to him was covered in rain and mud.
"Don't remind me, I never want to remember those monsters," Theo said, following behind.
Wade pulled out his wand and pointed it at Michael. "Warm Breeze."
A soft, warm breeze blew from the tip of the wand, swirling around Michael. His robes billowed, and fine mist rose from his body. In no time, he was completely dry, and his robes were perfectly smooth.
"Wow…" Michael spread his arms to look at himself, then shook his sleeves, repeating, "Wow~"
"What's so 'wow'?"
Ryan, who was at the very back, saw that they were causing a traffic jam. He reached out and pushed the two people in front into the compartment. Before the students behind could curiously peek inside, he had already closed the door and drawn the curtains.
"Look, my clothes are all dry!" Michael showed them the spell's effect. "My dad doesn't even know a spell like this!"
"What kind of spell is that?" Theo asked curiously. "Wade, did you create it yourself?"
"Yes, it's a modified version of the Fire Charm, mimicking a Muggle dryer," Wade said, then pointed his wand at Michael's trunk, drawing a small spiral. "Ventus Calidus! [Warm Breeze]"
A warm breeze swept over, and the trunk and the water stains on the floor quickly dried.
Michael reached out his hand, letting the warm breeze pass over his fingers, and said, "It feels a bit warmer than before."
"You can control the temperature and wind force, to avoid scalding or blowing away clothes," Wade explained.
Michael's eyes lit up. "So, that means the wind force can also be stronger…"
Before he could finish his sentence, Theo clapped a hand over his mouth, and the rest of his words were swallowed with a muffled gurgle.
Ryan shook his head and sighed. "Only a few days apart, Michael, and you seem to have become... sleazy."
Michael rolled his eyes hard. He pulled Theo's hand away and said, "I was just going to say that if the wind force becomes stronger, it could lift people off the ground like balloons. How is that sleazy?"
Ryan: "…Huh?"
Theo, believing him, said sheepishly, "Oh, so that's what you were going to say. I thought…"
"Hmm?" Michael feigned just realizing it, raising an eyebrow. "Did you guys think I was going to say it could blow up a girl's skirt? Tsk tsk tsk… Sleazy, that's truly too sleazy! To have such a thought shows how impure your minds really are!"
Theo and Ryan: "…"
They watched Michael, legs crossed, leaning against the window, clucking his tongue and criticizing them self-righteously. They couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
Wade couldn't help but burst out laughing.
After a bout of laughter and chatter, the group put away their trunks. Theo looked at the empty space on the luggage rack and asked curiously, "Wade, where's your trunk?"
"Why even ask?" Michael said. "It's definitely in his Wardrobe Space!"
As soon as he spoke, Wade smacked his own forehead with the book in his hand.
"What's wrong?" Ryan quickly asked.
"I forgot…" Wade muttered, annoyed. "When I was packing, I originally planned to put it in the Wardrobe Space this morning, but I was in such a hurry that…"
He had stayed up until midnight making the Magic Golem. Thinking he had to go to school in the morning, he conveniently turned the Wardrobe Space into a pen case and put it in his pocket, forgetting that his owl cage and trunk weren't inside yet.
In the morning, Wade woke up half an hour late. And because of the weather, Ferdinand, worried about traffic, urged everyone to leave quickly and had Dobby send everything to school. Wade had even thought it was more convenient this way.
Now that Michael brought it up, he realized he had been so muddled this morning that he'd forgotten he had a more convenient method.
Seeing that even Wade could make such a basic mistake, everyone burst into laughter, and the compartment was filled with a joyful atmosphere.
*Knock knock knock.*
There were a few knocks on the compartment door.
"The trolley witch is here," Theo said, opening the door and asking the others, "What do you guys want to eat?"
"Thanks, I'm not hungry yet," Harry said from outside the door.
"Huh?" Theo was momentarily stunned, then realized that Harry, Hermione, and several members of the Weasley Family were all crowded in the corridor outside.
"I've been looking for you guys for a while," Hermione said, stepping inside. "Luckily, a second-year Hufflepuff saw you in this compartment and heard your voices as they passed by in the corridor."
She gestured for Ryan to lean back and sat down, looking at Wade diagonally across from her. "Hi, Wade, do you know what's going to happen at school this year?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Fred said angrily, "Even people in our family who aren't in school know, but they kept it from us! Come on, aren't the things at school directly relevant to us?"
"That Malfoy even came to our compartment and mocked us for not knowing anything," Harry added glumly. "Sirius wouldn't tell me either."
Ron mimicked Draco Malfoy's voice in a strange, taunting way: "Your father and your brothers both work at the Ministry of Magic, and you mean to say you don't know… Their ranks are too low… My father deals with high-ranking Ministry officials… He told me ages ago…"
He snorted angrily, muttering a curse under his breath.
The expressions of the others were not good either.
Theo sighed, looking at them. "There's some news you might not have heard yet—Malfoy's father seems to be missing."
Except for Ryan, who already knew, everyone else looked over in surprise. Wade's expression also shifted slightly.
"Missing?" Harry asked. "What happened?"
Hermione frowned. "I didn't see anything about it in the Daily Prophet."
"The Malfoy family hasn't gone public with it, but my uncle says they're discreetly asking around about his whereabouts," Theo said.
"When did he go missing?" Wade asked.
"The night of the World Cup," Theo replied. "They say no one's seen him since the riot at the campsite."
"Something must have happened to him, right? Maybe he got snatched by a crazy Leprechaun and thrown off a mountain!" Ron said, clearly captivated by the idea. "What a shame, little Draco was always so proud of his dad…"
"Stop joking, Ron!" Hermione slapped him. "This is really strange. Something worse might have happened…"
"Worse than a Leprechaun attacking the campsite?" Ron said dismissively.
"Maybe he's secretly plotting some evil scheme," Harry said seriously. "Like… trying to bring the Death Eaters back into power…"
"Or maybe he was taken," George said meaningfully. "You know, there was another group of people there that night…"
"The Alliance?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah," Fred said. "Maybe they were nearby when the riot happened at the campsite and ran into a fleeing Malfoy… I mean Lucius Malfoy."
"Why would Malfoy be fleeing?" Ryan asked.
"Because if he got caught, he'd go to Azkaban!" Fred said with a grin.
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