The future is a strange thing to contemplate when you know you don't have much left of it.
"You, me, and Karkaroff," he says, somewhat inexplicably - but even if Lucius doesn't cotton on immediately, his train of thought soon becomes apparent. "You've got a diary I don't expect you'll want to give up to me, so I'll probably have to convince Narcissa. And then I have to go to Durmstrang, and after that I suspect that'll be the end of it." (For me.)
If he even lives that long. If he doesn't appear back in his office as if no time at all has passed, and Albus Dumbledore is bearing down the dungeon corridor, coming for him.
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"You, me, and Karkaroff," he says, somewhat inexplicably - but even if Lucius doesn't cotton on immediately, his train of thought soon becomes apparent. "You've got a diary I don't expect you'll want to give up to me, so I'll probably have to convince Narcissa. And then I have to go to Durmstrang, and after that I suspect that'll be the end of it." (For me.)
If he even lives that long. If he doesn't appear back in his office as if no time at all has passed, and Albus Dumbledore is bearing down the dungeon corridor, coming for him.