"No, Mr. Greengrass." Ryan gently placed the teacup on the coffee table inlaid with lapis lazuli, then straightened up and looked at the somewhat tired head of the Greengrass family.
"The reasons you just mentioned should be true, but they do not represent all the reasons. At least in my opinion, everyone who is on the side of the mysterious man now has the reasons you just mentioned, but only if you make
You have made your current choice. This shows that you must have some more important reasons that are unique to you."
"At least for a pure-blood wizard like you, these two reasons alone are not enough." Ryan stopped Mr. Greengrass who wanted to defend himself. "Everyone is afraid of death, but after seeing what I said about Mal,
You should know the attitude of the Fu family. The people I protect must openly surrender to me. This also means that if I choose, I will be hunted down by mysterious people. From a certain perspective, this is no safer than now.
"
"And if your contact with me is discovered by a mysterious person, your whole family will definitely be killed. And in the previous battle, even if I killed the Death Eaters, I spared their relatives. From a certain point of view,
He said that if you want to protect your family, it would be safer for you to follow the mysterious talent now. So it’s hard for me to believe the reason you gave me."
"You're right." Greengrass sighed softly and gave up his defense. He originally looked at Ryan's youth and tried to conceal his current unfavorable situation to see what he could get from Ryan using his family as a bargaining chip.
What, but now it seems that this clever approach is of no use.
So in order not to backfire, Greengrass simply admitted the part he had deliberately omitted: "Well, I think you should know what happened before the Crabbe family and the Gower family."
"Of course I know." Hermione nodded. "In the battle a while ago, we killed the heads of these two families, and then we heard that the mysterious people assigned their wives and families to two people who came here from Eastern Europe.
The leader of the dark wizards."
"Yes, that's it." Mr. Greengrass smiled bitterly and nodded. "I did not tell the truth just now, that is, for us, the survival of the family is far more important than personal life and death, so I did not tell the truth.
Not afraid of death. But now, the Dark Lord's orders are destroying my family."
"I have already hinted in the children's literature left in Hogsmeade that the Dark Lord has found the legendary Hopping Pot and intends to reverse the magic on the Hopping Pot and use the properties of this treasure to pollute it all at once.
A large number of Muggles are used to make the Inferi. And I will be the executor of this operation and carry out this dangerous task."
"If you are dead in this way, I don't think you can escape our pursuit." Ryan said aloud, "You should have discovered that the wizards we killed before were all people who killed innocent people indiscriminately, and you
What we want to do this time just fits this point.”
"Yes, of course I know this," Greengrass nodded, "and the reason why I reported to you is because when assigning the task, the Dark Lord appointed husbands from Eastern Europe to my two daughters and asked them to
I got married within the last two months. In this way, after I die, my two daughters will marry others, and the Greengrass family will disappear from this world forever."
"Just like the Crabbe and Goyle families - no, it should be worse." This time Ryan could understand why Greengrass came to find him in such a hurry. Once he died, the two designated sons-in-law
It will definitely devour everything of the Greengrass family. Then this ancient family, listed as a tribute to the 28 holy families, will disappear from history.
This reminded Ryan of why in the original text, after the war, Malfoy married his family's youngest daughter, Astoria. It is estimated that Daphne, the eldest daughter of the Greengrass family at that time, may have chosen to recruit a son-in-law during the marriage to maintain the family.
existence.
"It's really scary," Hermione whispered through the Phoenix Brand. She had dealt with the eldest daughter of the Greengrass family during the second-year study tour. After all, the war had not yet broken out at that time, and there were no pure-blood wizards who had experienced the war.
There was no such tense situation with the hemp wizard now. "At that time, Daphne told me that she had a good father, but I didn't expect him to be so cold-blooded."
"Regardless of whether they have magic or not, nobility's marriages will not take emotion as the main consideration like ours. Their core is interests." Ryan also answered silently through the Phoenix Brand, "Think about how he died just a few months ago.
Princess Diana, for them, the weight of love in marriage can even be ignored."
After answering Hermione's inner question, Ryan looked at Mr. Greengrass and said: "Now that I know about this attack, I will definitely stop it. Since you tipped us off, we will naturally let you go and
I promise not to tell anyone what happened tonight, not even Professor Dumbledore."
"But, but -" Mr. Greengrass opened his eyes wide. What Lane was doing now was completely beyond his expectation. Originally, he wanted to ask Lane to provide him with some protection by providing information this time, but he didn't expect that only
Got a promise not to be hunted.
Such a promise is completely meaningless to William Greengrass. After all, he is not the only one involved in ritual magic. When Ryan kills everyone else, he will be the only one left. Even if the mysterious man's soul is now sliced, he is no better than before.
You should be able to see the problem here.
Previously, Greengrass felt that as one of the 28 Holy Families standing at the top of the British magic world, his surrender should be very important. In theory, Ryan would try to ensure his safety. But he did not expect that Ryan and the others would treat him like a broken shoe.
He didn't care at all whether they were dead or alive.
"Don't get excited, sir." Looking at Greengrass who put his hand into his pocket, Ryan waved his right hand slightly. In an instant, several magic circles appeared on the wall of the room and pointed at Greengrass.
"You can only get this for what you pay. As I just said, the people I protect must openly surrender to me. If you are not willing to surrender, I will not force anyone to do so, but how much I do depends entirely on
How much they paid."
Greengrass made a mistake. Ryan did not take it as his mission to defeat Voldemort with all his strength like Dumbledore. Instead, he hoped to permanently destroy the dominance of these pure-blood families in the British wizarding world through this war.
.Under such circumstances, the pure-blood families can be said to be their enemies. Why would Ryan spend a lot of money to win over them?
"Okay, okay." Greengrass slowly took out his empty palm from his pocket, and then slowly placed it on his knees. The whole person looked much older all of a sudden, and Ryan took control of it in an instant.
When all the defensive magic in the entire house was pointed at him, Mr. Greengrass knew that everything he had done today had been miscalculated.
He originally thought that Ryan was a hero with a strong sense of justice and a hatred of evil, or a somewhat nerdy researcher, which was normal for a young man. But to his surprise, Ryan was completely different from what he imagined.
"You have to know that I have two daughters, and one of them, Daphne, once went to Brazil with you -" Mr. Greengrass said in a pleading tone, but was interrupted by Ryan's plain words.
"I'm sorry to hear such a thing, but as a member of a pure-blood family, while enjoying the benefits, you also have to pay a price. But for the sake of your classmates, if they really encounter misfortune because of you, I promise that every year
They will all wear black dresses and white carnations to see them."