The-Error-They-Made (III) [Chapter 159]

After gaping at Harry for the next few seconds, Lucius finally shot up with his Wand in his hand and cast a Body Binding Curse at Harry. He didn’t miss the fact that the boy didn’t have a Wand in his hand, so he didn’t expect the boy to defend himself, but his eyes grew wide as saucers when the boy deflected the Spell away from him with his bare hand with a dismissive look on his face.

“Who are you?” Lucius asked dumbly as he subconsciously lowered his Wand a bit.

“That was rude” Harry dusted his robe with a frown before he hissed something and Lucius gasped in pain before looking down at his left arm, which was still covered by the sleeve of his robe. Moments later, his Wand cluttered on the floor as he clutched his left arm in pain. The man slowly dropped to his knees before a loud groan escaped his lips. The man looked up at Harry with clear terror in his eyes.

“Are you not going to try to attack me, Mrs Malfoy?” Harry asked as he turned his head toward the corner of the room where Narcissa was also staring at him in complete horror. She was no longer pointing her Wand at him.

“I would never dare, my Lord” Narcissa quickly denied the offer, looking completely pale.

Harry narrowed his eyes at her, making her flinch. “I am not the Dark Lord” Harry revealed firmly. He didn’t like being compared to Voldemort because he was much greater than his fated enemy. “I can understand why you would mistake me for him” Harry stated with an understanding look on his face.

Narcissa seemed to regain some of her bearings at that revelation, but she didn’t seem to drop her guard. She still decided to act carefully even though she stared at him with a disbelieving look on her face. “Then who are you? You can’t be Harry Potter” The woman declared carefully.

“Believe it or not, I am Harry Potter” Harry declared dismissively, making Narcissa frown at him before her hand immediately shot upward, but before she could cast anything, her Wand sailed out of her hand and her back slammed against the wall. “Though, that doesn’t make me any less dangerous than him… In fact, I am way more dangerous than him” Harry declared with a grin as he started to approach the woman, who was now staring at him in pure terror.

Narcissa believed that she had walked into a trap by giving in to her impulses. Usually, she was not an impulsive woman, but according to her womanly intuition, the boy was telling her the truth. Even though she was never a Death Eater or a follower of the Dark Lord, she had met him enough times during the war to get a rough grasp of his personality. The Dark Lord’s ego was so large that he would have never claimed that he was anyone but Lord Voldemort, even if the situation was disadvantageous for him.

Harry stopped right in front of her, and Narcissa would have backed away in fear if she wasn’t backed into a corner… The boy raised his hand and she ended up scrunching her eyes close in fear as she turned her head away from him. When the pain didn’t come for the next few seconds, she finally opened her eyes and fearfully turned toward Harry, only to find the boy holding out her Wand with the grip held out toward her.

To be honest, Narcissa was completely taken aback by this development and she didn’t know how to react. So, when Harry kept holding out her Wand to her with a soft smile on his face, she hesitantly raised her hand to take her Wand… She was even more surprised when he allowed her to take her Wand back. Now, she was almost sure that the boy wasn’t the Dark Lord in disguise. The Dark Lord would have punished her in some manner before returning her Wand.

“Please don’t try to Curse me again, or the next time I won’t be lenient” Harry wanted her with a polite smile and once again, Narcissa wasn’t sure if this was the Dark Lord in disguise or not. Either way, she was certain that she couldn’t win.

Harry turned around and hissed something and Lucius gasped in relief before he started to take deep breaths. “Lucius Malfoy, I would have liked to meet you under better circumstances, but you forced my hand” Harry said coldly as he raised Lucius Malfoy in the air with a simple gesture of his hand, once again surprising both Narcissa and Lucius. Both of them had seen the Dark Lord use Wandless Magic, but his Wandless Magic was extremely limited.

“Now, let’s see what is going on in that noggin of yours” Harry declared and Lucius screamed as he felt Harry tear into his Occlumency shields. His eyes bugged out when Harry started to rummage through his Mind… The Dark Lord and Severus were the only Legilimens he knew. He had tried to learn the Art when he was young, but he was never able to make much progress in this particular Art of Magic.

The Dark Lord regularly utilized Legilimency to see if any of his followers were lying to him or not, so Lucius was quite familiar with the sensation of being Legilimized. He desperately wanted to protect his Mind and memories from the boy, but he couldn’t even move and the throbbing inside his head was intensifying with each passing moment as his memories continued to flash in front of his eyes. He gritted his teeth in an attempt to bear the pain.

Harry rummaged through Lucius’ Mind, looking for any relevant information… He started with his most recent memories, so he saw how he was angry at Narcissa due to their most recent convection. He saw how Narcissa called his mother a Mudblood before admitting that the Potter Bloodline was sullied by her blood. He felt his anger bubble at that, but he decided to force his anger down for the time being. He wasn’t planning to punish her because she wasn’t a Death Eater, but he realized that he might need to rethink that.

Though the woman wanted to treat him nicely for the wrong reasons, she still wanted to treat him nicely and respectfully while Lucius wanted to slowly feed him addictive drugs to turn his brain into a mush before making him sign away everything he owned to the man, and then Lucius would have killed him to appease their Master just in case the man ever returned. Narcissa’s mindset earned her a few positive points in his books, so he decided to go somewhat easy on her.

Lucius was somewhat on the fence about the return of his Master… He no longer wanted to grovel at the feet of the man, but at the same time, he knew that only Voldemort could lead them to victory and complete domination. Then on the other hand, he wasn’t even sure if the man could really return in the first place or not while some of his associates fanatically believed that the man would eventually return and they believed that the proof was right in front of their eyes.

After all, their Dark Mark, which was barely visible after the end of the War, has recently started to become dark…

Then Harry decided to move on and see what sort of deal Lucius made with Cyrus Greengrass to get his support in Wizengamot. Apparently, the Greengrass Family had to pay a price to remain neutral in the last War. Cyrus Greengrass was forced to sign a Marriage Contract between his daughter and Draco Malfoy, but Cyrus Greengrass never mentioned which daughter, but only a year before Draco started his first year at Hogwarts, it was decided that Astoria Greengrass, the youngest daughter of Cyrus Greengrass would marry Draco Malfoy.

Lucius Malfoy had to nullify the Marriage Contract to get Cyrus Greengrass’ support for that little scheme of his…

The Minister and his Undersecretary were with him on the plan from the beginning. The two of them were going to pay along with the rest of his pardoned Death Eater buddies, but Harry started to wonder what to do with Cyrus Greengrass. A part of him still wanted to get back at the man for crossing him while another part of him wanted him to go easy on the man as Cyrus did what he did for the sake of his daughter. He realized that he didn’t need to make a decision right away so he simply decided to move on.

Then Harry finally stumbled on the memory of Lucius getting a new house elf after his old house elf, Dobby went missing during the Quidditch World Cup. Without wasting any time, Harry simply followed the trail of the memories and stumbled upon the memory of Lucius placing the Contract to get him assassinated after the Quidditch World Cup while he and some of his Death Eater buddies would be creating a distraction.

Harry grinned viciously as he stared at Lucius and it was at this moment that Lucius knew, he fucked up…