Chapter 347

Early Sunday morning, Harry and Sirius arrived in Gilneas, and together with Tonks and Lupin, they drilled into the TARDIS and searched for a long time. Except for clearing out some household garbage left by previous doctors, they didn't find any so-called "weapon."

At mealtime, they ate something together. Tonks promised that "I will keep an eye on the weapon matter for you later," while Harry and Sirius tidied up their appearance, preparing to go to Malfoy Manor to attend the Death Eater meeting.

"Welcome to the meeting, Hofa," Lu Xiusi hid a trace of intimacy in his words. "You haven't been here for a while, what have you been busy with?"

"I'm looking for a weapon," Harry said as soon as he opened his mouth. He was preparing to test whether the Death Eaters knew anything. "Even Tang Mu once said that if there is an opportunity, he wants to obtain that weapon. I think if I have this weapon, I will be more confident in sneaking into the Phoenix Society to steal the ring."

"Oh, I seem to have some impression, that should be a wand," Lu Xiusi opened his mouth, and Harry knew he had no clue about this either.

"No, not a wand... forget it," Harry stopped the topic at the right time. "Regulus told me that there is an important matter to say today?"

"That's right, let's wait for Severus," Sirius cooperated.

Bella's face suddenly became very ugly.

"Important matter?" William was also at the long table, he revealed a curious look.

Sineipu didn't let them wait for long. After a while, he pushed the door and came in.

After everyone was seated, Lu Xiusi still said a few scene words pretentiously, then threw the topic to Sineipu.

"Alright, then I will tell you what Sirius's secret mission actually is, why Regulus disappeared for fourteen years, and why I insisted on continuing to pretend to be a decent person after the old bee died," Sineipu began to speak slowly. "All of this stems from that night fifteen years ago. That prophecy revealed the Dark Lord's fate, he was not afraid, but he also left a backup..."

Sineipu began to tell that ghost story, and Sirius echoed as 'Regulus' from time to time. Harry tried hard to cooperate with them, making a thoughtful look, while Lu Xiusi seemed to have forgotten to blink. Only William, his brows were tightly locked, and he took notes from time to time, looking like he had a lot of opinions.

"I'm not saying I doubt or anything, I'm just a bit curious," after Sineipu finished, William said. "Perhaps you don't mind answering a few questions for me?"

"First of all, what makes me feel strange is, the Dark Lord is such a person who is obsessed with magical research, does he really have an illegitimate child?" William said. "Madam Bella should have doubts about this, because in the relationship between you and the Dark Lord, it can be clearly noticed that he... is not very active, right?"

"Yes," Bella's eyes suddenly lit up. She said decisively, "I find it very hard to imagine that the Dark Lord would leave offspring outside. He almost doesn't care about women."

"Well, it's not impossible," Harry, who was playing Hofa, spoke up. "Or maybe he just doesn't care about you. You might not believe it if I say it, Tang Mu once had a childhood sweetheart."

The eyes of the whole table were cast on Harry instantly.

"When he was in the orphanage, there was a little girl who admired him, and Tang Mu was also very happy to respond to her. It's just that, after he awakened magic, the two seemed to have drifted apart... perhaps it was at that time that Tang Mu realized that as a wizard born noble, he should have more lofty pursuits," Harry said lightly about the setting he had prepared long ago. "Later, an Oriental couple adopted her, and I never heard from her again."

"It's just far-fetched," Bellatrix supported herself. "And it's not necessarily her."

"Severus, in Wormtail's memory, did you read that woman's name?" Sirius said. "Did the Dark Lord mention anything?"

"That's meaningless, the Dark Lord might not tell Wormtail the truth," Sineipu deliberately didn't say, pretending to shake his head indifferently.

"But at that time, Wormtail was a dying person, the Dark Lord wouldn't lie to a dead person, right?" Sirius turned to Harry again. "Hofa, what is that girl's name?"

"Cassandra," Harry said the name that had carried countless black pots. Now she was about to carry an even bigger, unprecedented pot.

"Really?" Sineipu revealed a surprised, unbelievable expression very naturally, and then slowly turned into sudden realization. "No wonder, no wonder..."

"But that's a dirty Muggle-born!" Bella roared.

"No, let's analyze it rationally. Cassandra shouldn't be a Muggle," William raised a hand. "If she really were a Muggle, the Dark Lord would definitely have killed her himself."

"But if she is not a Muggle, why didn't the Dark Lord openly show us her existence?" Bella stared at him.

"This is a kind of protection, right?" William had already begun to fill in the blanks. "The Dark Lord is clear about your feelings for him. If it is said that this Cassandra doesn't have strong magic power, or her family background is relatively ordinary, he wouldn't dare let her appear in front of you. He is worried that you would kill her out of jealousy."

Bella's face was pale, her lips trembling, unable to speak.

"And it can also be understood as a kind of political..." Sirius flicked his hand. "The Dark Lord chose you, to a large extent because he wanted to consolidate the support of the three major families."

"Another point is, if the child of the Dark Lord and Cassandra happens to be that Harry who exists now," William continued. "Everyone knows that Harry performs very powerfully. This powerful magic power and talent can be inherited from the Dark Lord himself, but it also requires his mother's bloodline not to hold him back."

"If you believe that magic power and talent are passed down through bloodline, then I must guess that Cassandra is also a wizard, and it is even possible that she is a descendant of some legendary wizard," William said.

"You used the word 'you believe,' does that mean that things can actually not be like this?" Bella was already a bit panicked. She almost forgot that the cornerstone of pure-blood supremacy lies in their belief that Muggle bloodline will weaken the spellcasting ability of wizard descendants.

"Hard to say, anyway I believe it too," William shrugged. "It's just that there is no sufficient evidence to convince the world for the time being."

Just when everyone thought William also believed this story, his tone changed again. "But that's just Cassandra's matter. In fact, although this story is logically self-consistent and has various side-probing proofs, in the final analysis, we don't have direct evidence to prove it. The only witness, Wormtail, he has already gone crazy, and if we want to conduct a paternity test, the Dark Lord is also already gone."

"What is a paternity test?" Lu Xiusi asked curiously.

"Through genes... through Muggle technology," William explained. "We only need two hairs to determine whether two people have a blood relationship. Initially, this technology was used to help lost children and parents recognize each other. Later, uh, because many girls had relationships with more than one person, they needed to use this to identify who the father of the child actually is."

"Blood relationship? Siblings are also blood relationships, right?" Bella suddenly said. "Isn't Delphini still there? Isn't Delphini also his child?"

"Theoretically, it is indeed possible," William looked at Sineipu. "Ten thousand sentences of explanation are not as good as a powerful piece of evidence. Why don't we do a test."

"Why do you want to believe in Muggle methods?" Sineipu said calmly. "Harry can make the Dark Mark react, I think this is enough to explain the problem."

"No no, because there is still a suspicious point in the story," William stared at Sirius. "Where did Sirius end up in the end?"

"I locked him at home, locked for almost a year," Sirius explained. "He is after all my own brother, I didn't think about killing him... Later the Dark Lord was gone, so I didn't worry that he would cause any trouble."

"I left the Black family ancestral house to him, he might have gone to mix with the Phoenix Society people again? But last time Kreacher told me he was drinking at home," Sirius shrugged indifferently. "I won't care about him anymore, let him be whatever."

"You ignored him, and you also ignored one thing, that is Wormtail," William held up a finger. "James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, these three people were originally together, they were originally good friends, even the kind of good friends who entrusted life and death. What if, he never betrayed from beginning to end, but decided to use his life with James to realize Deng Buliduo's plan?"

"Harry can be the Dark Lord's backup, but why can't Saruman be Deng Buliduo's backup?" William supported the table and proposed a more novel point of view, or a ghost story more ghostly than the ghost story. "Assume that after they heard the prophecy, they had already prepared for sacrifice, then Severus, is what you read from Wormtail's brain really the Dark Lord's plan?"

"I am very confident in my Legilimency level," Sineipu looked at him.

"Alright, even if it's true, then who of us dares to say that Wormtail must have swapped the baby that night? If he quietly threw away Saruman, and instead held the real Harry out, how would we distinguish?" William tapped the table with his knuckles. "You all talk about the Dark Mark's reaction, but in my view, the Dark Mark is not something so profound that it cannot be forged. With Deng Buliduo's level, if he had the heart, he could of course crack it."

"The reason I proposed using Muggle methods is because the only place where we can surpass Deng Buliduo, the only place where even he cannot predict, is Muggle methods," William said firmly. "If Deng Buliduo deliberately left this backup, then he must have made sufficient preparations in every aspect, except for Muggle DNA technology. This is something he absolutely cannot expect, nor can he understand, and thus cannot forge."

"Actually, in the final analysis, you are still unwilling to believe and face this result," Sineipu shook his head lightly. "It's just that you suspected I was making up a story to deceive you before, and now you are starting to suspect Deng Buliduo made up a story to deceive me. Is it that if the Muggle method is finished, you still have to suspect the Ministry of Magic and Downing Street are deceiving everyone together?"

"No, let him do it," Harry, who was playing Hofa, suddenly spoke. "Do it once, let us be at ease, let him give up." ===== CHAPTER 348 =====