Chapter 229: Ch 250 - Scaring Flirty Luna ~Yandere~
A few minutes later, Bill, Charlie, and Percy all came strolling out of the forest towards them.
"Just Apparated, Dad," Percy said proudly and loudly, "Ah, excellent, lunch!"
They were halfway through their plates of eggs and sausages when Arthur jumped to his feet, waving and grinning at a man who was striding towards them.
"Aha!" He said in excitement, "The man of the moment! Ludo Bagman!"
Lucifer looked and saw a man who walked with confidence and dressed nicely, but definitely looked far from his heyday.
He wore long Quidditch Robes in thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and black.
An enormous picture of a wasp was splashed across his chest.
His nose was squashed, but his round blue eyes, short blonde hair, and rosy complexion made him look like a very overgrown schoolboy.
"Ahoy there!" Bagman called happily.
He was walking as though he had springs attached to the balls of his feet and was plainly in a state of wild excitement.
"Arthur, old man," he puffed as he reached the campfire, "what a day, eh? What a day! Could we have asked for more perfect weather? A cloudless night coming... and hardly a hiccough in the arrangements... Not much for me to do!"
Behind him, Lucifer saw a group of haggard-looking Ministry wizards rushing past, pointing at the distant evidence of some sort of magical fire that was sending violet sparks twenty feet into the air.
Percy hurried forward with his hand outstretched.
Lucifer had heard that Percy disagreed with how Bagman ran his department, but he figured that wouldn't stop him from trying to make a good impression.
"Ah - yes," Arthur said, grinning, "this is my son Percy. He's just started at the Ministry - and this is Fred - no, George, sorry - that's Fred - Bill, Charlie, Ron - my daughter, Ginny - and Ron's friends, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter."
Lucifer saw Bagman do the smallest of double takes when he realized it was Harry, his eyes flicking up to the boy's forehead, "Oh, and this is Lucifer Morningstar," Arthur said almost hesitantly.
Bagman turned and saw the boy still sitting in his seat, focusing on his food.
Hermione had been eyeing Bagman the whole time, and the look on his face was far from flattering.
She actually sneered at the man for the way he was looking at Lucifer, like he was something to be gawked at.
"Everyone, this is Ludo Bagman, you know who he is, it's thanks to him we've all got such good tickets, save for Lucifer who bought his own," Arthur said with a nervous laugh at the end.
Bagman beamed and waved his hand as though to say it had been nothing at all for him to do so.
"Fancy a flutter on the match, Arthur?" Bagman asked eagerly, jingling what seemed to be a large amount of gold in the pockets of his yellow-and-black robes.
"I've already got Roddy Pontner betting me Bulgaria will score first - I offered him nice odds, considering Ireland's front three are the strongest I've seen in years - and little Agatha Timms has put up half shares in her eel farm on a week-long match."
"She should probably be retracting that bet of hers," Lucifer said without looking up.
"Oh, you say otherwise?" Hermione saw Bagman get a glint in his eyes.
He had to know that the Ambrosius Dynasty was incredibly wealthy, so upon hearing Lucifer say what he did, he must figure that he will also make a wager.
"They're all a bit young to be gambling," Arthur said, "Molly wouldn't like-"
"I do, I say the match won't see the sunlight," Lucifer still refused to look at Bagman as he finished his last Sausage.
"Really? How much is the last remaining member of the Ambrosius Bloodline willing to put up on that wager?" Bagman asked in a cocky tone.
Since he was on Lucifer's left, he didn't see the murdering glare in his eyes, "I don't gamble with people like you"
"Oh, come now! Surely, you have plenty of money to spare on a little-" Bagman was talking, but stopped when Lucifer slowly stood up.
He walked up to Bagman, stood two feet away from him, and looked down at him, "Don't you fucking dare bring my wealth into this."
Hermione was watching them carefully.
She glanced around at everyone else and they all had shocked expressions on their faces, but no one was as shocked as Percy; he looked like someone had just struck down his Letter about Cauldrons without giving it a second glance.
Bagman recanted his talks with Lucifer quickly and looked around.
"A-Any other takers?"
Lucifer sat back down, ignoring the man the rest of the time he was there.
"We'll bet thirty-seven Galleons, fifteen Sickles, three Knuts," Fred was talking as he and George pooled their money together, "that Ireland wins - but Viktor Krum gets the Snitch. Oh and we'll throw in a fake wand."
Percy looked like he wanted to say something, but he still hadn't recovered from his mild shock over what Lucifer said, and he had lost his voice.
When Bagman had taken the wand from Fred, the wand suddenly gave a loud squawk and turned into a rubber chicken.
Bagman roared with laughter, cutting the previous tension completely, "Excellent! I haven't seen one that convincing in years! I'd pay five Galleons for that!"
"Boys," Arthur said under his breath, "I don't want you betting... That's all your savings... Your mother-"
"Don't be a spoilsport, Arthur!" Bagman said in a booming voice, rattling his pockets excitedly.
"They're old enough to know what they want! You reckon Ireland will win but Krum'll get the Snitch? Not a chance, boys, not a chance... I'll give you excellent odds on that one... We'll add five Galleons for the funny wand, then, shall we?"
Arthur looked on helplessly as Ludo Bagman whipped out a notebook and quill and began jotting down the twins' names.
"Cheers!" George said when Bagman handed over the slip of Parchment and tucked it away carefully.
Bagman turned most cheerfully back to Arthur, "Couldn't do me a brew, I suppose? I'm keeping an eye out for Barty Crouch. My Bulgarian opposite number's making difficulties, and I can't understand a word he's saying. Barty'll be able to sort it out. He speaks about a hundred and fifty languages."
"Mr. Crouch?" Percy asked, suddenly abandoning his shock and positively writhing with excitement, "He speaks over two hundred! Mermish, Gobbledegook, Troll-"
"You know, I am not sure if Percy was dating Clearwater the other year?" Lucifer whispered to Hermione, feeling slightly odd. "Think it might have been Crouch."
"He's been like this all summer," Ginny, who was nearby just made a dark face, "It'd be funny if it wasn't so creepy."
"Anyone can speak Troll," Fred said dismissively, "all you have to do is point and grunt."
"And break Hermione's toilet," Lucifer said, not even caring about her face.
"They're very good at that to-" earning him a smack from Hermione, a disapproving glare from Percy and laughter from everyone else.
Percy stoked the fire vigorously to bring the kettle back to the boil.
Lucifer tuned out the rest of the conversation until he heard Barty Crouch mentioned, "-talk of the devil! Barty!"
A Wizard had just apparated at their fireside, and he could not have made more of a contrast to Ludo Bagman, sprawled on the grass in his old Wasp robes.
Barty Crouch was a stiff, upright, elderly man, dressed in an impeccably crisp suit and tie.
The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule.
His shoes were very highly polished.
Lucifer looked at the man and saw immediately why Percy idolized him.
Percy was a stickler for following every single rule to ever be made, and Crouch had complied with the rule about Muggle dressing so thoroughly, Lucifer would've thought him a bank manager had he not met him in a Wizard convention.
"Pull up a bit of grass, Barty," Bagman said brightly, patting the ground beside him.
"No thank you, Ludo," Crouch said with a bit of impatience in his voice, "I've been looking everywhere for you. The Bulgarians are insisting we add another twelve seats to the Top Box."
"Oh is that what they're after?" Bagman said in understanding, "I thought the chap was asking to borrow a pair of tweezers. Bit of a strong accent."
"Mr. Crouch!" Percy said breathlessly, sunk into a kind of half-bow that made him look like a hunchback.
"Would you like a cup of tea?"
Lucifer began rubbing his face in annoyance, but it was never that hard for Percy to annoy him, even without acting like that.
"Oh," Crouch said, looking over at Percy in mild surprise, "Yes - thank you, Weatherby."
Fred and George choked into their own cups of tea, but Lucifer wasn't able to stop his own laughter, having to cover his mouth as he did.
Percy, very pink around the ears, busied himself with the kettle.
"Oh, and I've been wanting a word with you too, Arthur," Crouch said as his sharp eyes fell upon Arthur.
While they were talking, Lucifer noticed off to the side a someone with long, blonde hair that he recognized
"Excuse me," he said and stood up to go talk to them.
As he approached, Luna immediately noticed or even sensed his arrival.
"Hello, Lucifer!" She exclaimed cheerfully, very unusual to her dream-like stance, "It's always wonderful to see you."
"Likewise," he smiled, while noticing her eyes going past his back, as if she is trying to look for something.
But, then only made a worried face which slightly confused Lucifer.
"Um, is there anything wrong?"
"....Ah, hello, Hermione."
Hermione came up on her boyfriend's right, and looked over at Luna with a terribly excited face.
"Hello to you too, Luna," she smiled very sweetly, at the now 3rd year girl which might have creeped out the small girls passing nearby.
Luna's eyes squinted even more backwards, and saw Ginny.
"Oh, excuse me, I have something to tell Ginny," she said and walked over to the campfire where Bagman and Crouch were talking about something, but Lucifer couldn't tell what, neither did he care.
"I think you scared her away...."
"Don't care, let's go back!"
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