Train to Another World.

Chapter 497 Banquet
Just after Christmas, Li Zhuoguang received a letter from Malfoy, inviting him to a dinner at Malfoy Manor. Li Zhuoguang thought, what a coincidence.

Both his plan and William's werewolf rescue foundation needed a starting point. Malfoy's invitation came at the right time. It would be a waste if he didn't use the sucker.

Li Zhuoguang directly replied to the letter to accept the invitation, and soon after, Malfoy's reply came, saying that he would come to Li Zhuoguang's residence to pick him up this afternoon.

After seeing the letter, Li Zhuoguang contacted William who was getting drunk in Hogsmeade Village and asked him to bring back a bottle of the most expensive wine.

Soon, it was afternoon, and a luxuriously decorated carriage pulled by two pure black horses drove into Hogsmeade. Although Li Zhuoguang didn't know much about horses, just by looking at the horse's body shape, he knew that the breeder must have put a lot of effort into it.

The carriage looked ordinary, except for the Malfoy family crest printed on the door. However, the appearance of this carriage attracted the attention of many wizards in the village.

An older wizard recognized it: "This is the Malfoy family's carriage. They have rarely used it since Abraxas' death. The last time they used it was probably to welcome..."

"Shut up. Didn't you see whose door that carriage was parked in front of?"

"No wonder it's so formal. It looks like Malfoy is getting anxious too."

"Humph, there were many families who chose the wrong side back then. Most of them have fallen into decline. Even those that have not fallen into decline have been ostracized. The Malfoy family is no exception. Now that there is a rare outsider, they must of course work hard to win over."

Seeing the carriage parked outside his house, Li Zhuoguang took the wrapped gift and got on the carriage. The driver was a house elf, who was wearing tattered clothes but was the face of a pure-blood family.

For pure-blood families, using house-elves is much more prestigious than hiring wizards. After all, hiring wizards only requires gold galleons. But owning house-elves is not something that can be done by just having money. You have to be rich from a long time ago.

The carriage was cast under a spell, and it ran at an extremely fast speed. Anything that blocked the carriage's path seemed to be separated by a pair of invisible hands, making way for it on both sides.

Li Zhuoguang guessed that this carriage might have been cast with a magic similar to that on the Knight Bus. However, Li Zhuoguang did not feel any vibration while sitting in the carriage, and the riding experience was much better than that of the Knight Bus.

After a while, the carriage arrived at the gate of a manor. The iron gate of the manor opened automatically, and the carriage drove directly in, passed through the garden in front of the mansion, and stopped in front of the gate of the mansion.

Li Zhuoguang got off the carriage and found that the Malfoy family of three were waiting for him at the gate. He raised his eyebrows. This posture did not seem like the attitude of welcoming his son's classmates.

When you treat others with courtesy, you must ask for something.

This is exactly what Li Zhuoguang wants, but he is afraid that he has no desires, which would be difficult to deal with.

Li Zhuoguang handed the wine to Lucius Malfoy at the right time, and the Malfoys led Li Zhuoguang into the banquet hall. Li Zhuoguang looked at the family of three living in the manor and the large and empty banquet hall.

Suddenly I wanted to ask Lucius if he would be willing to donate half of his property in exchange for the Weasley family's fertility.

After sitting down in the banquet hall, Lucius started asking about Li Zhuoguang's life and studies at school as if he was Draco's classmate. He also started to ask about Li Zhuoguang's family indirectly.

However, Li Zhuoguang was vague about this. After all, he himself didn't know what his identity was in this world. Although he had chosen a world identity when accepting this task, this identity came especially late, and there was no prompt yet.

Since Snape started working for him, he also told him the truth about his and Dumbledore's investigation of his family. Li Zhuoguang said that he wanted to avoid revealing any flaws and let Snape continue the investigation.

In fact, I also want to know what my character's background is this time.

When Lucius asked about Li Zhuoguang's hometown again, Li Zhuoguang looked at him with amusement: "So Uncle Lucius doesn't know yet?" Li Zhuoguang knew that the only way for Snape to investigate his family was to write to Lucius and ask him to help investigate. After all, he had a bad temper. Even though he was a potion master, he still had very few friends. It was unknown how Lucius, such an arrogant person, could get along with him.

Lucius heard Li Zhuoguang's question and knew that he knew he was investigating him. It would be rude to pretend to be stupid. He glanced at Narcissa, who was pulling Draco to leave the banquet hall.

"Your presents were delivered this afternoon. Let's go see what you received this year."

Draco was not a child who knew nothing, but he still obediently let his mother lead the hand and left the banquet hall. He just looked back with some worry when leaving.

He was not worried about Li Zhuoguang, but his own father. He knew very well that his father could only use simple silent spells, but Li Zhuoguang could perform dark magic silently and without a wand. If they really disagreed, his father would be in great danger.

So after leaving the banquet hall, Draco called the house elf at home: "Dobby, go to the banquet hall and hide in the dark to observe. If there is anything wrong, take Dad to a safe place and come back to pick me up."

Narcissa looked at Draco in surprise.

Draco explained, "There's one thing I didn't tell you. He formed a club at school. I'm in it, and I've seen him perform powerful dark magic without a wand and silently.

Although he said it was not black magic, its power was stronger than many black magics."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"

"I thought you really just wanted to get on good terms with his family, so you invited him to dinner."

Narcissa explained, "That was our original plan. But if he has this kind of power, we can't just treat him like a child from an allied family.

Let me think about it. I'll go to the storeroom and find a precious magical item as a Christmas gift for him, and remind Lu by the way."

Narcissa asked Malfoy to go back to his room and went into the family storeroom. But she was troubled by the storeroom full of dark magic items. Although these things were good, giving away dark magic items when the relationship between the two parties was not so close would undoubtedly give away her power.

Narcissa waved her wand and kept searching in the storeroom. Finally, she saw a notebook in a corner. There was no trace of black magic on the notebook. But it must not be an ordinary notebook. Narcissa waved her wand to clean the dust on it and unfolded the notebook.

It was empty, with no signs of having been used.

She thought about it, walked to Lucius's study, and wrote some words on the notebook to try. As expected, the words written on it disappeared, and then a line of words appeared on it: Hello, I am happy to serve you.

Narcissa immediately wrote: Do you know how to use the Unlocking Charm?

The notebook immediately responded: The spell is "Alaho Opening", and the key to casting the spell is...

Narcissa closed the notebook, thinking that this was a sure thing. She didn't know which ancestor's learning tool it was, but it would be perfect to give it to a student. It was a pity that she didn't find it earlier, otherwise she would have given it to Xiaolong first, and maybe his grades would have improved a little.

Back in the banquet hall, after learning that Li Zhuoguang was now in charge of everything for his family in England, Lucius began to take Li Zhuoguang seriously and decided to have a frank talk with him.

(End of this chapter)