Side Effects of Baruffio's Brain Elixir

"So Wizet was playing a long game... I was kept in the dark." Dumbledore laughed, a hearty laugh, with tears welling in his eyes.

The owner of this memory— Dobby —took a deep breath and collapsed at the study doorway, looking as if he were terrified.

Tears welled in his eyes, but they were tears of fear; he was terrified that Voldemort had returned.

The contents of his memory changed, and after Lucius left, Dobby went into the empty study without permission.

He moved cautiously around the study, seemingly searching for something.

After quite a while, he finally found something in a cabinet.

It was a notebook with a white Dragon Hide cover, and the name of Lucius's father Abraxas Malfoy, was also on it.

Snape glanced at Dobby, who was peeking into the notebook, and his tone became subtle. "Peeping into his master's secrets... in the Malfoy Family, that's enough to sentence this House-elf to death."

Dumbledore remarked, "To do so much for Harry... Dobby... is probably the most special House-elf I've ever met."

Snape sneered, "To see Wizet faint from fright is certainly quite unusual."

As Dobby flipped through the Dragon Hide Notebook, the two of them also learned about its contents.

Through the contents of the notebook, Dumbledore and Snape finally understood why Lucius mistook Wizet for Voldemort.

Dobby, who also peeked into the notebook's contents, clearly shared Lucius's idea, using the notebook's contents as evidence to see Wizet as a reborn Voldemort.

Dobby was terrified of Voldemort, which is why he behaved so poorly when facing Wizet, fainting on several occasions after encountering Wizet.

Lucius could somewhat understand why Snape would make that connection.

After all, the Dark Mark had actually appeared, and Lucius's feelings toward the Dark Lord were extremely complex.

In his early years, he followed Abraxas Malfoy's last wish and, like other Death Eater, held the Dark Lord in high esteem.

However, as the struggle unfolded, Voldemort's true nature was revealed more and more. In Lucius's heart, his admiration for Voldemort gradually disappeared and turned into fear.

It was this fear that led Lucius to become one of the first Death Eater to defect after news of the Dark Lord's downfall broke.

After Lucius betrayed Voldemort, revealed the other Death Eater' whereabouts, and subsequently escaped trial, things began to stabilize and improve, but he began to feel uneasy again.

He both hoped that the Dark Lord would die so that he could seize the opportunity to revitalize his family, and worried that the Dark Lord would make a comeback, in which case he would definitely face suppression and retaliation.

For a long time, Lucius was unable to sleep or think properly, so he had to take Dreamless Sleep Potion and Baruffio's Brain Elixir to help him expand his family's power.

When the Dreamless Sleep Potion and the Baruffio's Brain Elixir lost their effects, he still needed to ask Snape for help to break free from his dependence on the Baruffio's Brain Elixir.

Nevertheless, side effects are inevitable...

As Snape described it, he had taken too many Potions and his head was covered in herbs.

Thus, as the Dark Mark burned, his anxiety and fear reached their peak, and the side effects of overdosing on Baruffio's Brain Elixir manifested, Lucius conceived an extreme idea—

Let Draco approach Wizet and offer his goodwill in an attempt to beg for the Dark Lord's forgiveness.

Of course, Snape could understand some of Lucius's ideas, but some of Lucius's actions were truly baffling to Snape.

What Snape found most incomprehensible was that Lucius dared to confront Dumbledore directly;

He even dared to use his position School Governor to secretly resort to underhanded tactics, attempting to remove Dumbledore from his position as headmaster.

For example, there's a story in a fairy tale book, I think it's called something like "The Fountain of Fair Fortune";

According to Lucius, Good Luck distorts the relationship between wizards and Muggle, which will have a negative impact on the magical world and taint the purity of Pure-blood.

He was terrified of Voldemort, but not of "the only person Voldemort feared," and even dared to confront "the only person Voldemort feared"...

Considering all of the above, Snape can only conclude that linking Wizet to Voldemort was something Lucius was capable of doing.

Besides Lucius, Snape also found some of Dumbledore's actions difficult to understand.

A man hailed as "the greatest wizard of our time" and the one who ended the Wizarding World War was actually willing to write a letter to Lucius explaining his intentions in the name of a fairy tale.

In Snape's view, there were too many ways to solve this kind of problem, but Dumbledore chose the most laborious and least intimidating one.

It was as if Dumbledore was bound by some kind of Magic Contract, forcing him to do this.

But what kind of Magic Contract could possess such a powerful binding force? Snape simply couldn't imagine.

"The Dark Mark is more effective than any unsubstantiated rumors..." Dumbledore smiled. "Besides, there are indeed rumors that Voldemort is roaming the Black Forest of Albania."

"Voldemort's influence still exists, otherwise wizards wouldn't continue using the pseudonym. I think... Mr. Malfoy has always been very afraid..."

"They might even be so afraid they can't sleep at night... especially this time, with even the Dark Mark appearing... that fear from Voldemort must have reached its peak."

Seeing Dumbledore's expression, Snape frowned. "What do you intend to do to Lucius?"

Dumbledore stroked his beard. "Perhaps... we can... bring Mr. Malfoy to our side?"

Snape raised an eyebrow. "Through Wizet?"

"Going with the flow through Wizet..." Dumbledore. "Isn't this a bright path for Mr. Malfoy? Everything is as he wishes..."

"Ultimately, in the eyes of a sufficiently flexible Pure-blood wizard family, profit is the fundamental thing they pursue. As for those liquids hidden beneath the skin... they are nothing but slogans."

"Yes...flexible enough." Snape agreed with Dumbledore's words.

As soon as news of Voldemort's downfall began to spread, Lucius proactively approached the Ministry of Magic, claiming that he was under the control of the Imperius Curse, which can indeed be described as quite agile.

"Voldemort will definitely return... that's a certainty now," Dumbledore said. "And imagine what Lucius will face when he rejoins the Death Eater."

"While other Pure-blood wizard families were recuperating, the Malfoy Family's wealth was expanding..."

"Instead of letting this wealth become Voldemort's asset, we could have chosen someone else..."

"Severus, you actually know very well what kind of person Voldemort really is..."

"Our Mr. Draco Malfoy, perhaps when Voldemort returns, will suffer some undeserved misfortune because of what his father did..."