As the top figure in the British wizarding world, the Malfoy family undoubtedly has a very powerful influence.
Lucius not only used his family's huge wealth to bribe many Ministry of Magic officials, but also invested heavily in widely influential media such as the Daily Prophet and Wizards Weekly to achieve the purpose of indirectly manipulating public opinion.
Not to mention that he himself is a member of the Hogwarts School Board.
He can even semi-force other board members to sign outrageous orders like suspending Dumbledore.
Even if you are kicked out of the board of directors after failure, you can still exert influence through various means, of which the execution of Buckbeak the Hippogriff is the most typical example.
In addition, through the acquisition and operation of projects such as dragon farms and magical herbal plantations, the Malfoy family also controls amazing magical resources and channels.
Some of them are legal and some are illegal.
It can be said that if Lucius and the family under his leadership were placed in the Muggle world, 80% of them would eventually grow into a huge monopoly capital interest group, and even further influence national policies.
But unfortunately, this is a world of magic and a world of wizards.
For wizards, the most important thing is never wealth, but knowledge and strong personal strength.
Therefore, no matter how the Malfoy family develops and grows, as soon as Voldemort returns, his true colors will be revealed immediately.
Because this guy will not tell you any rules and laws. He will only raise his wand and shoot out a green light that symbolizes death, or use a cruel voice to say the phrase "Heart-breaking" that scares countless wizards.
In fact, most pure-blood families have very complicated attitudes towards Voldemort.
Not only do they want to use him to achieve the goal of suppressing or even eradicating mixed-blood and Muggle wizards, and continue to maintain the pure-blood family's absolute control over the magical world, but they are also afraid of his moody and murderous character.
Even among the Death Eaters, there are many members who obey Voldemort out of fear rather than worship.
Maybe they once worshiped him, but in the end they found that their idol was an extremely chaotic and evil madman.
Except for those lunatics with abnormal brains, such as Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange.
The rest of the people are just using the chaos created by Voldemort to vent their dissatisfaction with the current situation of the wizarding world, or to seek more benefits.
As for the lineage theory, it is just a fig leaf for fighting for power, wealth and resources.
Zuo Si has never had a good impression of the pure-blood families in this world, and has no intention of getting involved with them.
So he chose to make a deal with Lucius Malfoy alone to ensure Draco's safety in exchange for letting the Malfoy family come forward to help him get something that was not convenient for Dumbledore to know.
For example, there are several fire dragon eggs that are strictly prohibited from being raised by the Ministry of Magic of various countries, and there are also magical creatures such as thunderbirds, unicorns, and winged demons that can be used as raw materials for summoning creatures and making various magic items.
In addition, Lucius also helped to make connections to buy a house located deep in the mountains and forests that was protected by magic and would not be discovered by any outsider except the "Secret Keeper".
This house originally belonged to an ancient pure-blood family, but all of them died in the last wizarding war, and is currently in a state of ownerlessness without heirs.
Zuo Si only spent a few thousand gold galleons to successfully obtain the title deed to the house and the surrounding mountains and forests.
Of course, the legality of this land deed is only recognized by the magical community.
As for the Muggle world's government, they have no idea that a house here and a large area of ​​woodland around it belong to a certain family's private property.
Their rangers can't even get close to places that have been blessed with banishing spells.
But the price is that Zuo Si must deal with the protective magic that is blessed inside and outside the house, and there are two house elves that will madly attack all intruders.
There is no doubt that for most ordinary wizards, this is simply an impossible task, which is why the price of their land deeds is so cheap.
But these are obviously not big problems for Zuo Si.
As long as he waits for the end of the semester and spends a little time during the summer vacation, he can easily take care of the two house elves, bring the entire house and the surrounding land under his control, and start building an absolutely safe base and shelter.
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As the saying goes, "The cunning rabbit has three holes".
As a planeswalker who will travel through various dangerous worlds in the future, Zuo Si feels that he must prepare a few more safe houses to ensure that he can immediately carry out strategic retreat and transfer when encountering danger.
Especially Zendikar, which seals the Eldrazi Titan, is far more dangerous than most people and even gods imagine.
Even the top and most powerful planeswalkers have no good way to deal with them.
Because according to the research and speculation of a certain senior planeswalker, these twisted creatures that are so powerful that they make mortals and even gods despair are actually nothing more than the consciousness projections of some terrifying beings from the depths of the dark void. For this reason, a special proposal was made
A "horizontal plane hypothesis".
The simple explanation is that the three Eldrazi Titans who are constantly devouring energy in various worlds of the multiverse are actually like people inserting their hands into the water.
What underwater creatures can see is just one or a few fingers.
The underwater creatures here refer to the indigenous residents in the world of Zendikar, as well as the planeswalkers who accidentally came to this world.
The finger is naturally the Eldrazi Titan itself.
Due to the obstruction of the dark void, no one can really figure out the terrible truth hidden behind these terrifying creatures that cannot be correctly recognized and understood.
Considering that rashly cutting off these "fingers" that are deep under the water, the owner may have some unpredictable violent reactions.
So several powerful planeswalkers joined forces to use Zendikar, a world filled with amazing energy, as bait and successfully sealed it.
In fact, when he got the Directed Teleportation - Zendikar card, Zuo Si wanted to see more than once what a world of "energy overflow" looked like, and what kind of powerful land cards could be made.
In addition, how amazing the top creatures born in this world full of energy and mana will be.
After seeing the powerful melee combat capabilities of "Olanli Hydra", he himself was full of expectations for the creatures that Zendikar could make into cards.
Once the preliminary preparations are completed, we will try to explore this extremely dangerous world.
But before that, Zuo Si still has a "little trouble" to solve, which is the remnant soul of Voldemort attached to Quirrell.
Since the end of several open classes, this guy's visits have become more and more frequent, and his words are full of all kinds of temptations and hints.
Although Voldemort himself did not show up for the time being out of caution, he could already feel the impatience.
Without a doubt!
Being under Dumbledore's nose all day gave him unimaginable pressure.
In addition, Quirinus Quirrell is not the kind of person who is strong-willed and can accomplish great things, so Voldemort needs to find a helper now more than ever.
This helper must not only be capable, but also young enough to be controlled by himself who is too weak to show his face.
Obviously, Zuo Si, a first-year student at Hogwarts, is just the most suitable candidate.
Especially after listening to several public classes, Voldemort became more and more convinced that this genius from Slytherin House was the subordinate he really needed.
He is countless times stronger than the previous Death Eaters who were either arrogant, stupid, or both.
In order to achieve his goal, he did not hesitate to spend money and used some profound black magic knowledge that had never been taught to anyone as bait.
Even Quirrell couldn't help but feel envious and jealous after seeing it.
When a few months passed and the weather began to warm up, he finally couldn't help but remind him: "Master, I think the time is almost ripe. It's time to close the net."
"Oh? Are you sure you can handle Soth?" Voldemort asked meaningfully.
"Of course! After all, he is only a first-year student. I only need to threaten him a little, and he will soon be obedient and steal the magic stone for you." Quirrell assured with confidence.<
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"In that case, then go ahead and give it a try. But remember, if you fail again this time, be prepared to bear the consequences."
After saying these warning words, Voldemort quickly fell into a terrible silence.
Obviously, he deliberately used Quirrell as a chess piece to test Zuo Si's reaction.
If the latter succeeds, then Voldemort can naturally continue to hide in the dark and plan his resurrection.
But if the former fails, he can also stand up and sacrifice this chess piece that has little use value in exchange for the loyalty of a new subordinate who is more capable and has unlimited potential.
It is this ruthless character and behavior that determines that not many of his Death Eaters are destined to be loyal.
Not many fools and lunatics will truly be loyal to a master who may abandon them at any time.
Especially since this "master" is moody, the entire organization doesn't even have a decent reward and punishment system, it all depends on one person's mood.
It is foreseeable that even if Voldemort really succeeded in defeating Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix, and succeeded in ruling the entire magical world in Britain and even Europe, he would eventually end up being betrayed and separated from his relatives.
Because whether it is the Muggle world or the magical world, what is needed is to maintain order in which most people can live normally.
And all he brought was chaos, killing and everyone being in danger.
When those pure-blood families get what they want and consolidate their power, they will definitely try their best to kill Voldemort.
It's a pity that he didn't understand this truth until the moment of his death.
In this way, with the master's mission, Quirinus Chilot found a time when curfew was about to come and found Zuo Si, and said in his ear with a polar voice: "Follow me, I have some things that I need to talk to you alone."
To be continued...