Explanation: Dragon Pox, Bloodline Atavism, Lucius's Philosophy, Cameos (24/06/21)

1. Reader "Just Saying Goodnight": I've always wanted to ask, what exactly is Dragon Pox? In another book, I saw it described as dragon syphilis. Was Abraxas a dragon rider?

Dragon Pox was inspired by the Muggle disease smallpox. Its symptoms included a face covered in pockmarks and skin permanently turning green; severe cases could result in death. Milder symptoms included green and purple spots appearing between the toes, with sparks shooting from the nostrils when sneezing.

This was a disease unique to wizards, and Muggles were immune to it. Whether Squibs were immune was unclear, so it was unknown whether the cause was magic or genetics.

It was not an incurable disease. Gunhilda, back in the seventeenth century—the woman depicted by the one-eyed hunchback witch statue on the fourth floor—had already invented a cure. Of course, its success rate was not one hundred percent; the younger the patient, the higher the success rate.

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2. Several readers believed: Don't the major families intermarry? Their descendants should possess the bloodline abilities of all their ancestors!

Theoretically, all descendants of pure-blood families should possess the bloodlines of all their ancestors. That was correct.

However, this book's setting was that bloodline atavism was an extremely difficult, rare phenomenon with a high threshold. Bloodlines from too far back had become too diluted, so even if one underwent atavism, one could only trace back to the more concentrated bloodlines of close relatives.

The protagonist was able to awaken the House of Malfoy bloodline because transmigration had innately activated the Magic Eye. He was able to awaken the House of Black bloodline because he had reached the state of three-in-one.

To undergo atavism, one had to encounter an extraordinary opportunity. This explained why so few people in the original work awakened bloodline talents.

Therefore, awakening one to four bloodlines was the protagonist's limit. (Author: Don't keep repeating the bloodline plot either, or people will say I'm padding the word count.)

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3. Reader "South Water North Drop": This reader criticized the portrayal of the Malfoy family in this book as being inconsistent with their characterization in the original work—House of Malfoy only appeared to place pure-bloods above all else; in reality, they were not that prejudiced. The novels also mentioned that before the Muggle Protection Act, they were the family with the most contact with Muggles.

The latter part was actually not wrong. House of Malfoy was not truly extreme about pure-blood supremacy, because there had indeed been ancestors who associated with Muggles, such as Lucius I. However, there was a flaw in the logic: Lucius II was merely one member of House of Malfoy; he could not represent the entire family.

Lucius II and Draco, when he was young, truly did believe strongly in pure-blood supremacy. That was not something the author made up.

First, Draco was a character who constantly had "Mudblood" on his lips. During the Chamber of Secrets incident, he even cursed Hermione to die. Remember, die—not be Petrified or injured. Could a child be that vicious without being influenced by his parents?

Second, Pottermore's article on Draco also mentioned that after the end of the seventh original book, Draco turned over a new leaf and abandoned his pure-blood beliefs. This showed that he was not truly a bad person and could still be saved. In the end, he married Astoria, who was as mild-tempered as he was. Lucius strongly opposed their union, and from then on, every family gathering was filled with tense, oppressive atmosphere.

Third, even more obviously, Lucius and Narcissa explicitly opposed Draco and Astoria teaching their son to treat Muggles kindly. Tell me, if that was not pure-blood prejudice, what was it?

The author's setting was this: House of Malfoy's ancestral teachings were "survival above all" and "profit above all," but Lucius II had been too deeply influenced by his father, Abraxas, and had consequently forgotten the family's ancestral teachings.

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4. Regarding the cameos

Actually, you have no idea how bitter the author's situation has been. The author had been writing for nearly four months and had already written over four hundred thousand words, yet the number of bookmarks had remained stuck between 2,900 and 3,000. Many HP fanfics published later than mine had already surpassed it.

The author thought that no one was reading anyway, so I started letting loose, throwing in some memes and amusing myself.

There were two reasons to write a book: one was to see whether I could find readers who truly understood it, and the other was to make myself happy while writing it, right?

Since the first was impossible, of course I let loose!

Then, starting this very week—I still remembered it was 21/06/21—bookmarks and comments suddenly surged.

At the time, the author was both delighted and frustrated, regretting having gone wild in the later parts.

The grave mistake had already been made, so the author could only apologize. However, the author could guarantee that the later chapters would return to a more rigorous style, without randomly playing with memes anymore.