"Actually, we could have been friends." After knocking the other man senseless with a stick, Murphy decided to offer him a carrot.
"Didn't we work together quite well at first? I bought so many materials from Slug & Jiggers Apothecary. You must have made quite a few Galleons off me, right?"
"Later, you wanted to make even more, wanted a share in my business. That wasn't impossible, either."
"I had channels in the Muggle world. I knew what they wanted, while you had resources among the wizards. We could have worked together perfectly..."
"I sent Papede to talk to you precisely to discuss this, but you refused..." Lucius Malfoy said.
"Was that a discussion about cooperation? You had him follow my people, then tried to seize my leverage and threaten me from the start! That was robbery, Mr. Malfoy!"
Lucius Malfoy had no rebuttal for a moment. Back then, he had thought he had Murphy's weakness in hand and had indeed planned to force his way into a profit share.
"But you could have politely made your proposal..."
"Heh." Murphy sneered. "Who do you think you are? You've got it backwards, Mr. Malfoy. You're the one asking me to cooperate, not the other way around!"
That was it!
That attitude!
Far too arrogant!
When had the Malfoy family ever been treated with such contempt?!
And by some whelp from the fallen Darkholme family, no less!
That fury surged up again.
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have money!" Lucius Malfoy did not find anything strange about saying that. "Do not underestimate the power of the Malfoy family! I can still take you out, boy! Your dead father..."
"Ah, a powerless threat..." Murphy feigned a yawn. "Boring!"
"You!" Furious, Lucius Malfoy abruptly drew his wand and