Chapter 10

Fudge was really satisfied, especially since the ministry would just ward the land against muggles and not pay them a single coin for it.

Lucius was almost exploding with anger, watching his son throw gold away.

With great effort, Lucius managed to hold it in until they reached home.

„You idiot! Why are you throwing so much money away? Are you crazy? What do you even want with all that worthless land?"

Lucius yelled.

„I want to develop Hogmeade into the greatest Wizarding City of the world."

Draco calmly told his father of his plan.

„What?! Ridiculous! I don't know what kind of potion you are on and who is whispering in your ear, but you really have lost your mind. This ends here!"

Lucius had enough.

„No."

Draco ignored his father's anger, and turned into the direction of his wing of the manor, intending to leave his father there and walk away.

The hairs on Draco's neck suddenly stood up.

Draco felt magic gathering behind him and reacted instinctively.

Lucius had really had enough and he wanted to teach his foolish and disrespectful son a lesson.

Lucius had never raised his wand against his son before, but he knew from his own experiences that pain was the best teacher.

If Draco didn't learn his lesson now, what would become of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Black, and even more important, what would become of the Noble House of Malfoy?

But Draco was still his dear and only child, so Lucius only planned to hit him with a strong stinging hex, painful but otherwise harmless.

Before Lucius managed to complete the simple wand movement, his son suddenly moved as fast as a nundu, turning around and firing a silent spell at him.

The dark cutting curse missed Lucius neck by a hair's breadth, and cut a head-wide slit into the wall behind him.

If Draco hadn't caught himself at the last moment and adjusted his aim, his father could have joined the Headless Hunt as a ghost.

„Don't try that again. That almost got tragic."

Draco advised coldly and left.

Even a minute after Draco had left, Lucius still hadn't moved a muscle, his wand still half raised.

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His expensive robe was soaked with cold sweat.

Lucius recognized the spell that had almost decapitated him.

Sectumsempra, the dark cutting curse Severus had invented during his school years.

How did Draco learn to cast this spell so well?

He didn't even know his son could cast silently already, at all.

And Draco even knew how to cast such an advanced spell silently.

There had to be someone guiding him.

Was Severus the one behind all of this?

It made sense, who else had the intelligence and the means?

So, what was Severus' end game here?

And was Severus working for his own benefit or was he working for someone else?

For Dumbledore?

Or, Salazar forbid, for the Dark Lord?

Lucius had to be even more careful how to deal with this now.

...

The next morning, Draco went to order a lot of building materials to be delivered to Hogsmeade.

Tons of granite, wood, steel, glass, copper for drainage, a lot of rune stones and ward stones, and the first shipment of bismuth, to be delivered the next day.

Luckily, magic was unbeatable in delivery speed.

In the afternoon, he still followed the established training routine with Greg and Vince.

They still dueled with magic at the end of the training, but now Draco also added a physical fight.

Even though Greg and Vince were both bigger and stronger than Draco, they stood no chance against someone with a lifetime of fighting experience.

Especially someone, who had extensively learnt chinese martial arts, and not only the normal version, but also the magical one.

Of course against Greg and Vince, Draco didn't even have to empower his body with magic.

The two boys were really impressed, when Draco easily subdued and threw them on the mat.

Now, they respected and looked up to Draco even more, if that was even possible.

In the evening, Draco finished drawing the wizard tower blueprint.

The next day, Draco apparated to Hogsmeade.

The place he had chosen for his wizard tower, from all the land he had bought around Hogsmeade, lay on the north-east side of the village, not far from the Shrieking Shack.

He started by digging a wide cylindrical shape deep into the ground.

Working his magic, Draco soon had a large hole that went down 50 meters.

It was good that he had thought to bring his Nimbus 2001, flying made things much easier.

Not much later, the first of his building materials arrived.

Luckily, it was the granite he needed to use first.

Draco used transfiguration to change the granite's shape, and let it flow to its intended place.

He took care to leave the stone's composition and its mass unchanged, so that the transfiguration of its form would be permanent at the end.

50 meters down in the earth, Draco created a massive bunker with three floors.

When he was done with the bunkers shape and came back to the earth's surface, the rest of the ordered materials had already arrived, stacked high up next to his hole.

So with the rest of the materials there, Draco could finish everything in the bunker before he moved on with the construction.

Half of all the ordered ward stones went into the bunker.

The ward he would create for this bunker and for the whole tower was going to be a masterpiece, but now he was only laying the foundations, casting the ward would come at the end when the whole tower was finished.

When the bunker was finished, Draco built a single chute only a snake would fit through, and refilled the rest of the hole with earth again until it was only 6 meters deep.

There Draco created two underground tower floors, before he built the tower up, one floor after another, already integrating the pipes, the glass, the ward stones, the stairs and the shafts for four magical elevators in the center.

Draco's experienced hand guided his magic exquisitely and precisely, like a conductor his orchestra.

Because Draco's wisdom and maturity had not completely erased his vanity, he got a kick out of making his tower rise even higher into the air than the Astronomy Tower, the highest tower of Hogwarts.

The granite Draco was using was colored from dark-blue to black, and gave the tower the look of the night sky.

It looked like the whole tower was made from one mold, impressive and glorious.

And the tower reached so high into the sky that it also looked intimidating.

Draco made the top of the tower flat, so one could stand there, and look down on the entire surroundings.

Around the spire, he created a great balustrade that looked like a crown.