From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 162 Lucius's surrender
Lucius's body slid out of the chair like a boneless mollusk. He collapsed on the ground, gasped for a few breaths, then climbed up and grabbed Ivy's trouser legs.

"I am willing to give everything!" Lucius said eagerly, "As long as you can spare our family of three..."

Lucius Malfoy always regarded himself as the aristocrat among wizards and discriminated against those of Muggle origin. Ivy thought he was a man of integrity. It seems that wizards are just like Muggles. Once they kneel down, their knees will never be strong again.

Ivy lifted him up again with the mage's hand and pressed him back into the chair.

"We are friends, Lucius." Ivy poured him a glass of red wine. "I won't take anything from you. You can keep it for yourself."

"Voldemort is a threat to us all." Ivy shook the red wine glass, and the mellow crimson liquid swirled around the wall of the glass like a blooming rose. "I am just offering you a chance to resist, a possibility to get rid of the past."

Lucius took a big sip of red wine with a shiver and nodded silently. It seemed that Voldemort's terrifying style had undoubtedly left a deep impression on him.

"I've been thinking about you, Lucius." Ivy smiled. "Draco took good care of me at school, and you recommended big clients like Devlin Whitehorn to me. And didn't we work together to change Hogwarts? Many wizard families are very interested in this, right?"

"I am different from Voldemort. I have no interest in changing the world according to my will. I am only interested in magic itself." Ivy tapped the red wine glass in his hand with his fingernails. Along with the sound of tinkling, colorful streams of light presented a gorgeous picture in the air.

The magnificent floating castle, the fire dragons and Pegasus flying in the air, the huge waterfall hanging upside down in the sky... countless scenes that only exist in fantasy are displayed one by one by Ivy's magic.

"I'm just a scholar, eager to study the most profound and interesting magic." Ivy's voice penetrated the illusion and entered Lucius' mind, "But if someone interferes with my research, he should be careful... You don't want to know what I did to Voldemort..."

Lucius shuddered violently, and the magical illusion in the air disappeared like bubbles. He drank the last bit of red wine and said with a flushed face: "The Malfoy family will always be your ally!"

"Very good, very good, Lucius." Ivy had a satisfied smile on his face. "I am very happy to see that we have reached a consensus. I was going to give you a small gift to remove the small mark left on your arm by Voldemort. But then I thought that it might still be of some use, so let's leave it there harmlessly for the time being."

"Your will, Lord Doom," Lucius said respectfully, bowing his head. "What should I do next?"

"Just continue what you are doing, deepen the relationship with pure-blood wizard families, and start accepting half-blood wizard families, and even Muggle-borns." Ivy answered his question without much thought. At present, Lucius has completely joined him, but now people are not sure about their hearts, so it is not suitable to order him to do some tasks that are too risky. He just needs to stay in the position of Hogwarts Board of Directors and play to his strengths. "I know about the past of the Malfoy family. This is not difficult for you, right?" Ivy stared into Lucius' eyes, and the latter lowered his eyes humbly.

The Malfoy family initially relied on the reward from the Muggle King to build their own estate in Wiltshire, England, and then used their wealth and power to enter the Muggle upper class, constantly annexing the surrounding land, and finally accumulated wealth beyond people's imagination. It can be said that before the promulgation of the Statute of Secrecy, the Malfoy family was the family with the closest connection with Muggles in the wizarding society. They understood all the intrigues of the Muggle upper class, and fully imitated and preserved them, which later became a major reliance for them to claim to be pure-blood aristocrats.

"The Malfoy family has always been committed to maintaining the independence of Hogwarts, making it an academic research and educational institution free from interference from the Ministry of Magic." Lucius' voice was full of responsibility, as if he was really a good man who cared about education. "The Hogwarts Board of Directors will ensure that this thousand-year-old school treats every little wizard equally, no matter which college they come from, especially those..."

"Those little wizards with excellent grades." Ivy interjected.

Fair and reasonable channels for advancement are necessary for the continued existence of every society or organization. Ivy believes that Hogwarts should continue to exist, no matter what the reason.

Especially since he might establish a Hogwarts university department in the future. Wizards' magic holds great potential, and Ivy believes the world should provide a place for those who aspire to pursue a career in magic to connect and learn from one another. Only through debate can profound ideas emerge, and the collision and integration of new perspectives is crucial.

Although it is too early, it does not prevent Ive from treating it as a casual move.

Lucius Malfoy was very talented in guessing his superiors' motives, and coupled with the Malfoy family's habit of adapting to changing circumstances, he would be a good helper. At least those wizards who stood firm in their positions couldn't change their minds and get into character just because of a conversation like him.

Seeing Ivy nod with satisfaction, Lucius secretly breathed a sigh of relief. What Voldemort wanted was simple: to escape death and shape the world into the way he wanted.

But Lucius thought he couldn't understand the young man sitting opposite him. Ivy Doom was very powerful, there was no doubt about that, but he was not as radical as Voldemort, nor as weak as Dumbledore. He always seemed to have a plan and a countermeasure.

Lucius didn't believe that such a person would call himself a scholar and would have no interest in changing the laws of the world according to his own wishes. It was obvious that when he was still in the first grade, he had already started to think about how to transform Hogwarts, which had not changed in a thousand years.

But Lucius knew what he had to do. Before Voldemort suddenly lost power, Lucius had always been the leader among the Death Eaters, otherwise Voldemort would not have entrusted one of the Horcruxes to him. He knew exactly what his master wanted and could make appropriate suggestions. Although Ivy's actions were still unclear at the moment, Lucius was still very confident that he could do what he had been ordered to do well. It was just a matter of deepening the interest ties with the wizard family. The Malfoy family had been doing this for the past 10 centuries.

(End of this chapter)