"But it's very satisfying!" Rudolphus laughed heartily. The wound at the corner of his mouth was pulled and he stopped laughing. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes. Gradually, his smile disappeared. After a moment of silence, Rudolphus said in a murmur, "I know that look in your eyes. I've seen it many times for more than a year. Just now, those filthy idiots were looking at me with the same look. They all looked down on me."
"I never looked down on you, Rudolphus!" Rudolphus. "Lucius snorted." That's why I have to get you a new arm … "
"Do you know what they call me?" Rudolphus frowned as if he was in a nightmare. He said in a painful, depressed, and heavy voice, "Broken arm, trash, wife pregnant with other people's child …"
"You're not trash!" Lucius couldn't say more to Bella. He could only comfort her from another angle. "They have forgotten your great achievements … What right do they have to say that?"
"What if even your wife looks down on you?" Rudolphus tilted his head to one side in pain. "She forced me to make one oath after another. Obey my master, protect my master, obey my master … I hurt others and the mentally handicapped. I killed a lot of people just to be with her … Of course, I was happy to burn those bastards …"
"You know, our era is different from now … Qianqian and I were lucky to love each other …" Lucius, who knew the inside story, couldn't help but speak up for Bellatrix. "Qianqian told me that their marriage was forced by her parents … For the marriage between Lestrange and the Blake family, and to keep the bloodline pure, her father agreed to some of her demands before she agreed … She was forced to marry Lestrange. You know, when she was in school … Uh, sorry …"
"It's okay, Lucius. She didn't like me, but I love her …" Rudolphus opened his eyes suddenly. "I'll do everything I can to be with her … It's okay …"
Lucius let out a long, painful gasp and comforted her, "You don't have to care about what those idiots said. They don't know the inside story at all."
However, Rudolphus acted as if he did not hear anything. He leaned against the wall again, closed his eyes, and tilted his head slightly. He murmured painfully, "Sooner or later, I will burn them to death … Burn them to death …"
Lucius sat up straight and looked at Rudolphus. He saw that Rudolphus's head was hanging down as if he had fallen into some kind of predicament. His cheeks were pale, and his hair, which had not been trimmed for a long time, covered most of his face. "Burn them to death …" Rudolphus's tone became more and more agitated. His head shook uneasily, and the veins on his neck bulged. "Burn them to death … Burn them to death …"
"Today... can you tell me why you're so fond of saying 'burn them to death'?" Lucius leaned against the wall like Rudolphus did. "You've been saying this since you were a child. Even when I asked you, you wouldn't tell me why."
Under his messy hair and beard, his inner conflicts turned into worries that crawled all over his thin and haggard face. There seemed to be more wrinkles on his face, and his eyes seemed to be deeply sunken. After a long time, he loosened his clenched fists and casually wiped the sweat on his forehead. "Since I can remember, this sentence has been in my head from time to time."
"Whose voice is it? Do you know … "Lucius thought about what might happen to Rudolphus. This was not the Soul Seizing Spell, and it had lasted for so long. It did not seem to be an illusion. It was more like a curse or a prophecy.
"There are many voices, young, old, male, female … all kinds of different timbre and tone, but they all say the same thing — 'burn them to death.' However, as long as I see something burning, the symptoms of the auditory hallucination will be relieved. " Rudolphus took out his magic wand and shook it. A pile of newspapers piled in the corner burst into flames. "Burn them to death … I want to burn them all. Burn them, burn them at home, burn them in their sleep …"
"If it weren't for the current situation, perhaps I would recommend you to go to the Temple of Ravenclaw. They are very good at solving these problems. Many patients in St. Mungo's Magic Hospital have been cured there." Lucius pointed to his ear, a look of regret in his eyes.
Rudolphus ignored him. Lucius looked at his friend who was immersed in his fantasy. He suddenly understood why Rudolphus refused to answer him when he was a child. There was such a strange inside story.
After a while, Rudolphus raised his head and looked at his friend. After a moment of silence, he asked, "I also want to ask you something. You were in Hogwarts at that time. Did Ravenclaw really show her power?"
Lucius was slightly startled. He pursed his lips into a line and then said, "Rudolphus, I just answered the same question to Master. You were there and should have heard my answer."
"Is that what you really think?" Rudolphus lowered his voice. "Is what you told Master the truth?"
"What …" Lucius's gaze froze, and his pupils suddenly shrank. He took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the nonexistent sweat on his forehead. He calmed himself down and replied in a serious tone, "Rudolphus, this is not something you can joke about! Believe me, I did see Ravenclaw's shadow. The pressure she brought, the special power contained in the shadow, is not something that can be found in the mortal world. "
"The girl from the Gringlass family is really brave. She rushed into Harris's blue circle of fire almost without hesitation." Rudolphus looked directly at Lucius. His tone was full of sarcasm. "But I think even if it was the real thing … if you had tried to go through it, you probably wouldn't have been hurt at all."
Lucius's heart twitched as if a cold snake had crawled up his back. He maintained his composure and laughed dryly. "What kind of joke is this? It's not real or fake. It's just an illusion. It doesn't matter who stands in it!"
"The one released by Harris at the Ministry of Magic last year was real." Rudolphus's gaze was intense and he spoke faster.
Lucius stopped smiling and looked at Rudolphus in surprise. What did Rudolphus say have anything to do with him? But his tone and attitude were really strange. Lucius, who was nervous, could not figure out Rudolphus's intention. He braced himself and looked into Rudolphus's deep eyes.
Lucius's stiff mouth twitched. "I don't understand what you mean … Rudolphus, that was a long time ago. Although many Death Eaters died then, what does it have to do with now?"
"Back then at the Ministry of Magic, my right hand was cut off by a curse. You squatted down and used your wand to stop the bleeding. Master and Harris made the pit fiend explode. You didn't notice at that time …" Rudolphus looked at Lucius who was deep in thought and continued in a low voice. His gaze lingered on Lucius's face. "This caused the blue wall of fire beside us to overflow with flames. The flames had already reached your legs and burned your back … but you were unharmed …"
Lucius was shocked when he heard Rudolphus's words. He never knew that he had been burned by Allen's flames … Thinking back, Lucius could not remember when the flames touched him. In his panic, his heart felt like it was weighed down by a piece of lead. His hand subconsciously reached for his wand …
"Lucius, you coward …" Before Rudolphus could finish his sentence, he saw Lucius's hand reaching for the wand at his waist. Rudolphus quickly pulled out the wand with his only remaining left hand and pointed it at Lucius, who was shocked by his speed.
"Remove your weapon."
Lucius only had time to grab the wand in his hand before a strong force knocked it out of his hand. He staggered as the wand flew backward.
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