Chapter 324: There Must Be a Dark Lord

"I have always known you have small thoughts, but you can't lay them out." Sirius took his feet off the table. "If we keep meeting and discussing 'resurrecting the Dark Lord,' we can just turn a blind eye. But if you want to make your banner clear and form an organization, then I say, there must be a Dark Lord."

"Very reasonable." Lu Xiusi first nodded slightly, and then sneered. "Because your subordinates are also all loyal to you in the name of the Dark Lord!"

"One thing is one thing, I think Regulus is right." Bellatrix agreed.

"We don't need a Dark Lord; pureblood families uniting is enough." Lu Xiusi seemed to want to say a few more words, but considering the other two heavyweights didn't agree, he wisely turned the topic back. "However, we also need a symbol; we need to hide behind the scenes and push all the evil to the Dark Lord."

At this moment, Harry realized the topic that Neville had argued with him several times in the first year: even if Voldemort was eliminated, a new spokesperson would appear.

"Very good, then who will be this Dark Lord?" Sirius said deliberately. "Snape?"

"We all know that Snape's strength is very strong, but the candidate for the Dark Lord still needs multi-faceted consideration." Lu Xiusi seemed to start to be moved. "For example, bloodline..."

"Right, bloodline is quite important." Bellatrix suddenly became fanatical. "Delphini has pure black magic blood flowing in her body; she should have inherited the position of the Dark Lord."

"But we can't completely not consider ability." Lu Xiusi frowned and said. "And Delphini is only a few years old? What use can she be as the Dark Lord?"

"Good plan." Sirius sneered. "Delphini of course has no governing ability, so you just want to use her to seize power."

"But Delphini's bloodline..." Facing Sirius's gaze, Bellatrix suddenly retreated; she changed her words. "Let's wait until next time, wait until Snape comes and discuss this matter together."

"Indeed, we need to wait until Snape comes and say it together." Lu Xiusi agreed with this point of view. "Then let's stop here for today."

When the meeting was held, people seemed to be a bit awkward and didn't talk much to Hoffa, but after the meeting, Bellatrix suddenly said she wanted to see Hoffa.

Under Sirius's arrangement, "Hoffa" would meet Lu Xiusi secretly on Thursday afternoon, and after the meeting, he prepared to have a private talk with Bellatrix first.

"Mr. Bach, I must sincerely tell you that I am indeed sincerely wanting to resurrect Tang Mu." Bellatrix expressed very sincerely. "No girl doesn't want to resurrect her lover, if there is a chance."

"I don't doubt that you love Tang Mu," Harry pondered Bellatrix's performance. "But does Tang Mu love you? And, if you want to push Delphini to be the Dark Lord, wouldn't it be better for you if Tang Mu doesn't come back?"

"Mr. Bach, you don't have to be so defensive toward me." Bellatrix said seriously. "You have to notice that, from the perspective of interests, whether Tang Mu returns or not, I can accept it, so as a single mother, isn't it very normal to want to resurrect the child's father?"

"That may be so, but when Lu Xiusi said you didn't want to resurrect Tang Mu, why didn't you refute it?" Harry felt the situation was really a bit tricky; he wasn't convenient to express his opinion, so he could only continue to probe.

"He himself is a careerist, so he sees everyone as a careerist." Bellatrix revealed a contemptuous look. "I admit I miss the old days, but more importantly, those days were brought to us by Tang Mu, otherwise it would be meaningless."

"Then what are you planning to say by finding me? Want me to support Delphini?" Harry said hesitantly.

"Yes, I thought about it carefully, and I think Regulus is right." Bellatrix sat up straight and began to organize her language. "If we want to stand on the stage, then a clear banner is undoubtedly what we need very much."

Harry suddenly remembered that they had used the excuse of "the second Dark Lord" to win over a group of die-hard saints. If they abandoned the Dark Lord, these crazy saints really didn't know what they would do.

However, if they recognized the inheritance method from Grindelwald to Voldemort, it meant that the Dark Lord should be a position for the capable; Bellatrix wanting to push Delphini to the top solely by bloodline had great difficulty.

"Do you think the standard for choosing a Dark Lord is ability or bloodline?" Harry asked.

"I think Delphini's ability is not necessarily bad; she has ancient and noble blood flowing in her body, and in time she will definitely become a great wizard." Bellatrix obviously lacked confidence when she said this.

Actually, she was right; Voldemort's magical talent was beyond doubt, and he also had the blood of Slytherin and Peverell; Delphini's talent should be good.

But why did Bellatrix feel guilty every time she mentioned ability and bloodline? Harry felt this was a very strange phenomenon; if he thought about it deeply, he would suspect whether it was possible that Delphini was a Squib or an Obscurial?

This possibility was very low; Harry would put it aside for now and not think about it.

"I don't begrudge expressing some support; after all, compared to outsiders, I am also more willing to support an old friend's daughter." Harry felt it was time to end this nutritionless conversation. "But the problem is, even if I expressed my support for you to your face, I myself don't have any forces or energy worth mentioning, so I'm afraid it might not necessarily have much effect."

"And I don't have much time to worry about this; I must put finding Horcruxes and resurrecting Tang Mu first." He added.

Bellatrix looked a bit disappointed, but she had nothing more to say. Everything Harry said in this conversation was very consistent with the Hoffa persona he had always created; it could even be said that Bellatrix already had psychological preparation for this result before the conversation.

After watching Bellatrix leave, Sirius put a hand on Harry's shoulder and asked curiously: "What did she say to you?"

"She wanted me to support her, because of emotional factors." Harry recounted. "She felt that I would also be more inclined toward an old friend's daughter, if we really think Hoffa and Voldemort are good friends."

"Then what are you planning to do?"

"Just from the Hoffa persona, I should indeed support Bellatrix." Harry nodded. "But the problem is, according to our previous assumptions, it's best to let Lu Xiusi be the Dark Lord."

"And, I feel Bella is carrying some kind of worry." Harry recalled her guilty and evasive look. "Delphini might have some problems, bloodline-wise, a bit strange; we'd better find out what she is worried about."

"Ha!" Sirius suddenly laughed. "If Delphini isn't Voldemort's child at all, then things would be funny!"

"Not very likely." Harry shook his head. "We'd better find a way to investigate."

The investigation matter was naturally left to Sirius to worry about, while Harry himself returned to school and started to continue worrying about homework and club activities.

In the evening, Harry was eating snacks in Torchwood while listening to them talking about the old topic of spellcasting outside of school. Since the mock trial on Friday, the students had been discussing this. Just looking at the case of the mock trial, this regulation was indeed slightly harsh. But looking at it from another angle, harsh regulations always needed someone to execute them; Zhang Qiu had done so many absurd things outside of school and they all ended up with nothing in the end, which showed that the Ministry of Magic's investigation intensity and emphasis on spellcasting outside of school were actually not strong, and could even be said to be turning a blind eye.

And the students, especially those girls who mixed in SPEW, liked to preset scenarios the most, putting themselves into the shoes of victims, and then starting to empathize fiercely. Immediately after, they would set up a target in the void, such as a stupid and cruel extreme Muggle, discussing how to choke the other party with words, fantasizing about victory, and then being smug.

Unfortunately, they extended the unfinished discussion in SPEW to Torchwood. Harry was a bit glad that he brought his homework, which made the last night of the weekend not wasted.

On Monday, Snape was discharged. But he wasn't in a hurry to find Harry, but waited until Tuesday evening, when they had scheduled to conduct Occlumency practice, before Harry saw Snape, who seemed to be a bit listless.

"Things change in an instant, Potter." He said with his eyes half-narrowed. "You'd better learn Occlumency as soon as possible, because you'll soon need to stand in the spotlight."

"What?" Harry was a bit bewildered. "Are you saying Hoffa is going to... run for Dark Lord?"

"It has nothing to do with Hoffa; that's just some idiots' cleverness." Snape said disdainfully. "I'm talking about Harry Potter himself."

"Me?" Harry didn't understand Snape's train of thought at all. "What do I need to do?"

"I'll tell you first what the consequences of not learning Occlumency well are." Snape sneered. "Bellatrix... her worries and fears are like torches in the dark night, and her brain is almost completely undefended; guess what I discovered?"

"A ridiculous conjecture, I almost couldn't help but laugh out loud, but you have to admit that this conjecture is not impossible." Snape leaned over and stared at Harry's forehead, saying slowly. "You, the Savior Harry Potter, are one of the Dark Lord's illegitimate children." ===== CHAPTER 325 =====