"Then it's settled as we discussed. After enrollment, Pansy will be in charge of intelligence gathering, while Daphne will handle financial management affairs—Harley, since you've joined my circle, I hope you can leverage your strengths and proactively contribute to our great cause on that basis."
In no time at all, Harley had gone from 'Miss Snape' to being 'Harley' the good sister. At this moment, Harley found it difficult to brush off Alexandra's pride. She could only offer an awkward smile and comply on the surface while secretly looking for an opportunity to take her leave.
Unfortunately, Alexandra didn't give her that chance. This ambitious Malfoy scion directly announced that she would follow the examples of Lord Voldemort and Dumbledore by establishing her own organization.
She even named the organization the Snake Heart Society, with Alexandra herself serving as the president, while Harley, Pansy, and Daphne were all elders of the organization.
Harley had absolutely not expected that she, having just come for a visit, some tea, and a bit of gossip, would somehow mysteriously become an elder of the Snake Heart Society.
If it were any other student from the Wizarding World who received such high regard from Alexandra, they would probably be moved enough to offer their heart and soul.
But for Harley, things like loyalty didn't exist. Moreover, this 'Snake Heart Society' sounded quite dangerous just from its name. She didn't want to get herself into such a big mess in her first year, so she immediately intended to stand up and politely decline the position.
However, it was already too late. Just as Alexandra finished announcing the establishment of the organization, she immediately launched into an inaugural speech that lasted over thirty minutes.
To make matters worse, Alexandra used a large amount of complex, obscure slang and long, tedious sentence structures in her speech. It made Harley feel as if she were in the exam hall for the Postgraduate English Entrance Exam; the words coming out of Alexandra's mouth were like an absurd and outrageous reading comprehension passage that hard-CC'd Harley for over half an hour.
Harley felt a wave of headache coming on. She hadn't expected that someone would actually use long, difficult sentences so frequently in daily life!
When Alexandra finished her impassioned speech, Pansy and Daphne both clapped excitedly, expressing their support and admiration—after all, these two were from the sacred twenty-eight. They had heard plenty of such long-winded speeches since childhood and had already built up a resistance.
Pansy and Daphne's excitement made Harley hallucinate about some videos she had seen online in her previous life. Compared to Lord Voldemort, Alexandra seemed more like a certain young general whose subordinates could strike six times in a second, while Pansy and Daphne were like that young general's right and left hands... This, this situation didn't seem quite right. After all, that young general's ending wasn't very good.
"I forgot to ask, Harley. Are you interested in Potions like Professor Snape, or do you have other projects you're particularly good at?"
Before Harley could recover from the long-winded speech, Alexandra threw an even more headache-inducing question at her.
"Me, me?"
Harley pointed at herself with a look of bewilderment—if she had to talk about her area of expertise, it would probably be lying down and counting money, right? After all, the pocket money her parents, James, and Sirius had given her over the years was so much that she had opened an individual VIP vault at Gringotts.
But Alexandra, backed by the Malfoy Family, shouldn't be short on money. Moreover, Harley felt that Alexandra didn't have much worth investing in. Her Galleons would be better saved to buy a shop in Diagon Alley in a few years to rent to the Weasley Twins, or even to invest and make those two little inventive geniuses work for her, creating novel gadgets to pocket the Hogwarts students' pocket money.
(Weasley Twins: Interesting, truly a genius idea. Are you the new generation of capitalist in the British Wizarding World?)
"Actually, I don't have many merits. My level in all aspects is about the same; strictly speaking, I'm probably a bit smarter and my athletic ability is a bit stronger than the average person... Oh, right, I also know how to cook."
Alexandra frowned slightly upon hearing this. In pure-blood families, meals were generally prepared by House-elves. Pure-blood Wizards, regardless of gender, rarely went near the kitchen. What did Harley mean by suddenly mentioning she could cook?
Pansy and Daphne also fell into deep thought, and the three of them exchanged glances—Harley definitely had a hidden meaning; it wasn't as simple as just cooking.
In reality, Harley only said that because Dumbledore strictly forbade the Snape Family from teaching Harley about magic before she started school. Her grades in Muggle school weren't something she could show off to Alexandra and the others. After thinking for a long time, besides being a slacker, it seemed her only merit was knowing how to cook.
Having Harley learn to cook was also Dumbledore's suggestion. At a gathering, he had subtly expressed that training Harley to cook might improve her control over magic and her future proficiency in Potion-making. Severus, James, and Sirius immediately agreed with Dumbledore's suggestion and stated they would be responsible for tasting the food produced.
Alexandra paused for a few seconds to organize her words and said, "Harley, by 'cooking' you mean—"
Harley adjusted her bangs somewhat sheepishly. She didn't know if Severus had promoted her 'poisonous' cooking as a talent for Potions. She could only say vaguely, "It's just that I learned some recipes from my mother and occasionally give them to my father and his friends to eat. It's just that there are some small problems with the food I make... But every time, my father makes a Neutralizing Potion based on the strength of the magic residue in the food. So far, no serious backlash has occurred."
This was where the advantage of a Potions Master became apparent. Every time, Severus would personally adjust and brew a Neutralizing Potion based on the strength of the magic in Harley's food, then give it to the two Gryffindor brutes lying paralyzed on the sofa waiting to be fed, ensuring they always escaped danger after being invaded by magic.
Harley spoke very honestly, but when these words reached the ears of Alexandra, Pansy, and Daphne, it was a different story.
They remembered that Harley's mother, Lily, although a Muggle-born witch, was highly proficient in Potions and had even been specially recruited as an Unspeakable by the British Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries.
Alexandra's eyes lit up. Connecting the 'recipes' Harley mentioned learning from her mother with her father making Neutralizing Potions, it was clear that Harley was actually referring to her ability to use Potions to poison people.
Wonderful! Their Snake Heart Society was just missing a talent like Harley who knew how to use poison!
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