The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 732 Meeting with Mrs. Greengrass (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After Ryan and the others followed Mrs. Greengrass to the living room and sat down, a handy man floated out from the side and poured a cup of black tea for each of the three people. After they took a sip from the teacup, the whole living room fell into an awkward silence. In the end, it was Mrs. Greengrass who broke the awkwardness.

"What's the matter with you coming to me right after you got back today?" Mrs. Greengrass said calmly. "If it's about our contract, I want to say that my husband did die, but I promise you that as long as there is one person in our family alive, the contract we signed will continue to be fulfilled."

"No, that's not it." Hermione seemed a little entangled, but finally said, "After all, Mr. Greengrass died because of us, so we think--"

"Is this pity?" Mrs. Greengrass interrupted Hermione. "You are much kinder than I thought. I know that if I admit what you said now, I can gain a lot of benefits, which is indeed very attractive. But what I need to tell you is that although my husband's death has a certain relationship with you, it is actually destined."

"It's destined. Why?" Ryan frowned after hearing what Mrs. Greengrass said. Because in his opinion, it was obvious that Voldemort had chosen a way to infringe on the interests of the Greengrass family, and then Mr. Greengrass contacted him in order to resist. However, he failed at the last moment because he was not careful enough and was found out, which led to a series of events that followed.

But now Mrs. Greengrass's words seemed to be saying that the whole thing was planned by Voldemort from the beginning, which aroused Ryan's curiosity. He wanted to know what happened behind this.

"This is what happened—" Seeing Ryan and Hermione staring at her curiously, Mrs. Greengrass slowly told them everything that happened that day.

After the operation was scheduled, Voldemort sent several foreign hired wizards to the Greengrass family, on the grounds of keeping the operation secret, so Mr. Greengrass naturally had no reason to turn these people away. After these people entered the manor, they did not live in the manor's rooms, but wandered around the manor every day, and every three to five days these people would switch shifts with the new wizards.

"These should be the three people we killed at the beginning." Hermione said to Ryan using the Phoenix Mark, "It seems that those people don't know the full plan of the mysterious man, or the mysterious man is using their deaths to make sure we are fooled."

"You're right." Ryan replied in the same way, "It's a very simple method. As long as these people don't respond within the specified time, the mysterious man will know that we have been there. For a dark wizard like the mysterious man, it is very worthwhile to use human lives to control something important."

Mrs. Greengrass was unaware of the secret communication between Ryan and Hermione. After telling the previous stories, she began to narrate what happened in the manor on the day of the incident.

Because that night was the time when Mr. Greengrass was on a mission, the Greengrass family finished lunch early and sat in the living room to rest. As a result, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, someone suddenly came to visit the door.

"It was two o'clock in the afternoon when we found out that the Parkinson family came to visit us unexpectedly. Although we felt it was a bit strange at the time, as old friends, we still welcomed them in."

At this point, Mrs. Greengrass suddenly became emotional. "Because of the relationship between the two families, we welcomed them to the living room as usual and asked the house-elves to serve them tea. Unexpectedly, Bellatrix, disguised as Pansy Parkinson, directly killed my husband with the Killing Curse. Our house-elf Carrie tried to stop her, but was also killed by another Killing Curse."

"This is just horrible." Hermione sighed. She felt that it was terrible to kill a father in front of his underage children. Fortunately, they had never encountered such a problem in previous battles.

"Yes, it's really bad." Although Mrs. Greengrass tried her best to maintain her emotions, Ryan and the others found that her eyes were red and she was holding her head high to try to stop the tears from flowing. After a few minutes, Mrs. Greengrass finally controlled her emotions and said in a resentful tone, "I really didn't expect that the Parkinson family, who have a hundred-year friendship, would provide cover for Bellatrix at this time and let that crazy woman kill my husband."

"So what the Parkinsons did at that time was real?" Ryan finally understood why Mrs. Greengrass was so angry. You know, traitors are always more hateful than enemies, and Mr. Greengrass was killed entirely because of the traitor.

Given the magical defenses of this ancient pure-blood family manor, even if Voldemort himself came in person, it would take about seven or eight minutes to rush in. This time is enough for them to sound the alarm, call for reinforcements, or escape through the secret passage.

"Yes, it was the Parkinsons who used the Stunning Spell to knock us out," said Mrs. Greengrass, suppressing her anger. "It was only when my daughters and I were placed in that tent that we realized that everything we had done had fallen into the Dark Lord's calculations."

"Could it be that someone is deceiving you?" Hermione asked. "They are creating some kind of illusion to mislead others. For example, they hope to convey some wrong information to us through you to mislead me."

"No, absolutely not. This is what Bella told us at the time. She seemed to think this was a great opportunity to promote the Dark Lord's wisdom. Bella would never lie about this." Mrs. Greengrass said firmly. "And the information she told us just confirmed some things that I had not thought clearly before."

Hearing this, Ryan immediately made a gesture to continue. Madam Gregoras paused and continued, "She first boasted about the Dark Lord's trust in her, and then said that the Dark Lord always felt that we were not firm in our position and might be traitors, so this time he used this incident to test us. As a result, we really became traitors as the Dark Lord expected."

"Why does the mysterious man think you are unreliable and even wants to test you?" Ryan asked.

"That's because many people around us have become slaves of the Dark Lord," Mrs. Greengrass said word by word. "Because of the Dark Lord's arrangement of my daughters' marriages, and his order for us to kill Muggles on the streets as much as possible. As we want to protect the integrity of our family, we are against such practices, and the complaints from these pure-blood families soon reached the Dark Lord."

"Under the Dark Lord's targeted investigation, I think my husband was actually exposed when Hogsmeade sent the first letter to you." Mrs. Greengrass concluded, and then she looked at Ryan and the others and said seriously, "But I can swear that my daughters and I will never blame you two at any time."

"Why is that?" Ryan frowned and asked in confusion. "Although the mysterious man set a trap here, Mr. Greengrass's death is strictly speaking very much related to us. I find it hard to understand why you have almost no resentment towards us. To be honest, I can understand whether you are forbearing or cursing at us at this time, but I can feel that you really don't have that kind of hatred."

"That's because this is one of the best possible scenarios we anticipated." Mrs. Greengrass gave an unexpected answer.

(End of this chapter)