Chapter 1631: War Without Victors (Eighty-One)
"I told you, it was bait, a trap! Why wouldn't they listen?!"
Mr. Parkinson paced back and forth across the living room with a dark expression, muttering curses under his breath.
Watching her anxious husband, Mrs. Parkinson tried to soothe him. "Calm down, dear. Things aren't as bad as you think."
"I'll arrange for you all to leave Britain soon."
Mr. Parkinson stopped pacing and turned to his wife.
"Dad, is it really so bad that we have to leave Britain to seek refuge?" Pansy Malfoy came downstairs with her child in her arms.
"It's very bad. I can't take any more risks!"
Mr. Parkinson no longer held any expectations for his allies.
They could originally have landed safely, but after the werewolf attack, Mr. Parkinson realized there was no longer any room for reconciliation between the two sides.
After all, when you wanted someone dead, could you really expect them to sit down and have a nice talk with you?
Even delusions had to have their limits.
Pansy handed the child in her arms to her mother and looked at Mr. Parkinson. "Could the werewolf attack really have been..."
"Who exactly did it is still under investigation," Parkinson cut her off. "No Death Eater is willing to admit it, but it was probably some people acting on their own initiative. Even if someone else framed us, don't expect anyone to believe it."
However, the recent Azkaban prison break had made Mr. Parkinson fully aware of the many problems within their group, and it had given him other ideas.
They had all clearly realized it was a trap, yet they had still resolutely gone ahead with the prison break, hoping to use it to undermine Kingsley's wavering reputation.
And what happened? Not only had