Luke and the others entered the last carriage. Before they started looking for Leif, they saw three boys blocking the door of a box in the middle of the carriage. It looks menacing.
The leader had blond hair like cornrows. There was a proud and provocative smile on his lips. And the two followers beside him are tall and fat, and the other is short and fat. They all look like they have some fighting ability.
When Hermione saw the boy's expression, she almost instinctively felt displeased with the leader. Although he is also very handsome, compared to Luke, he is still a notch behind, not to mention things like demeanor and temperament.
"My name is Malfoy! Draco Malfoy!"
They heard the boy say his name in a haughty tone from a distance. As if waiting for someone's praise.
But Hermione frowned after hearing his name, with a look of disgust on her face.
"Draco (Dragon)? Didn't his parents feel embarrassed when they chose this name? And it's also named Malfoy. (Note 1)"
Hermione asked softly.
"I don't know, but the reputation of the Malfoy family in the aristocratic circle is really average."
Luke said lightly with a smile on his lips. This is not nonsense. One of the three things he did before school started was to collect all the dark history between the nobles who stayed in his family.
Much of the dark history of the Malfoy family is almost out in the open. This is also related to the family's show-off nature. Among them, the story of Lucius Malfoy I pursuing Queen Elizabeth I is the main object of ridicule.
As for other things, such as controlling the Ministry of Magic and killing his own Muggle tenants on the pretext of the Black Death, they cannot be regarded as unique black history. It's something that most pure-blood families have.
Of course, the reason why everyone looks down on the Malfoy family is because their family's history of fortune is indeed a bit short. One of the first Malfoys achieved status by following Emperor William the Great around the eleventh century.
Families such as the Gaunt family are often older than the Malfoy family. For example, one of the direct ancestors of the Gaunt family is Salazar Slytherin. Hogwarts was probably founded around the tenth century AD. Slytherin's reputation in the wizarding world only goes back further.
"...If I were you, Potter, I would be very careful. You should be more polite, otherwise you will go down the same path as your parents, who don't know what to do. If you think about the Weasleys or Hagrid, Such unreasonable people will be together, and you will be affected."
When Luke and Hermione came to their senses, they heard Malfoy's slow, provocative, arrogant, and warning voice again.
"It's time to fight."
Luke's mouth twitched. This is different from the plot of the movie in his impression. However, it is not difficult to guess that this should be the plot in the original work. From the looks of it, if Harry and Draco can go to school together peacefully for seven years, they should feel that the rule of law in wizarding society has been relatively perfect.
Sure enough, as soon as Luke finished speaking, Hermione heard a high-pitched and angry voice: "Say it again!"
Malfoy had a sneer on his face.
"Oh, you want to fight, don't you?"
"Unless you get out of here right now."
A voice that sounded less confident also reached Luke's ears.
Luke twitched the corner of his mouth. Sure enough, where Ron was, Harry would be there.
The younger brother beside Malfoy was already ready to take action. Luke, on the other hand, threw out the elegant wand directly from his armhole.
"Incendio! (Fire is blazing!)"
A ball of flame surged out from the tip of Luke's staff, targeting the fat boy who was about to take action.
The Hermiones on the other side were dumbfounded. She had seen this spell in a book, but because she was afraid that something might happen if she practiced the spell at home, she never really practiced the spell. After all, this spell was not a first-grade course.
They just want to fight. You are killing them!
Hermione looked at Luke with a shocked look.
Luke was relatively calm, he had no intention of killing anyone. Regardless of whether it was Goyle or Crabbe who did it, they are not hopeless bad guys. Including Malfoy, they are all the targets of Luke's transformation.
And the first stage of transformation... let them recognize who has the bigger fist.
The speed of the flames was not very fast, and there was even a scream.
And Luke himself did not lower his voice, or use the silent spell he spent nearly a month practicing. So the boy who took action and Malfoy beside him all saw the fire spell coming towards them.
As a result, Malfoy's already pale face instantly turned even whiter, like a corpse.
Fortunately, their instinct was to avoid this easily dodgeable fire spell.
The short and fat one squatted directly on the ground, Malfoy leaned sideways against the wall away from the trajectory of the fire spell, and the tall and fat one sat on the ground with one leg weak.
When it reached the position above their heads, the flame spell exploded like a small firework, scattering into countless sparks and extinguished in the air.
The movement was not small, and several students who did not close the box door also saw all this.
Including Harry and Ron of course.
When everyone's eyes gathered together, Hermione tried her best to hold her chest up and raise her head to make herself look more imposing. Luke, on the other hand, calmly stuffed his wand back into the miniature wand sheath that had been cast with the Traceless Extension Charm.
He walked towards where Malfoy and the others were. He even smiled politely at those who looked at him along the way.
His performance gave many seniors who witnessed it a toothache.
Even among their senior students, few students could control such a precise fire spell. There aren't really many students in Hogwarts, so they don't have any impression in their minds. Naturally, they are the new students this year.
A new student, a new student who looks like he can beat the old students violently.
I don't know why, but they vaguely felt that something was not good.
"Luke!"
Harry recognized Luke the first time he saw him. Then he greeted Luke warmly.
Ron looked at the smile on Harry's face and realized that this was the first wizard friend Harry mentioned.
Ron looked at Luke carefully, and then saw the emerald eyes and the snake emblem on his chest. He recognized Luke's origins.
Hermione looked at the two boys who stuck their heads out and couldn't help but frown again. One wore cracked glasses, and the other was dressed cleanly but with a somewhat stale air, and there was a patch of dirt on his face.
As she walked along, she felt that Luke was the only one who fit her image of a wizard. Everyone else is more or less bad.
Luke didn't know that at this time, one of the three people in his impression was disgusting with the other two, and the other two were focusing on him.
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ps. Note 1: I found out the meaning of Malfoy’s name from somewhere. It can be roughly translated as Draco (Dragon/Draco) Malfoy (mal foy, the French meaning is 'malicious, dishonest, disloyal'). How to say it? To understand it, it is probably: "Hello, My name is Xie Long." Or, "Hello, I am Draco Xie." This name gives me a middle-class and evil feeling. If someone said that they had such a name in a serious manner, I think it would be difficult for me to hold back.
