So Much for No Strings Attached

Chapter 5 A Meeting in Hogsmeade

'I hope so,' muttered Harry darkly.

'Do tell,' Lucius encouraged.

'I had told Ron and Hermione that I was going to be working on the egg today to explain why I wasn't joining them on the Hogsmeade weekend,' Harry began.

'So the details of our sordid affair,' smirked Lucius. 'I wonder what Arthur's son would say to know what his best friend was up to with a Malfoy,' pondered Lucius.

'Considering he's getting my money for being my friend I don't think it would matter,' Harry snapped out glaring.

Lucius blinked a few times absorbing what he was being told. Lucius had fought it was some childish feud about the fact that Harry would not be spending the time with Weasley. He hadn't expected anything like this. The idea that a once Noble family who generations ago was blackmailed out of their title, seats, and money by his Mudblood whore.

In fact that was where the Malfoy-Weasley feud had started. Lucius' great aunt had been due to marry Arthur Weasley's great grandfather when the man lost everything to the Mudblood he was having an affair with. It all came out later. Both the Weasleys and the House of Malfoy were disgraced by what had happened so much so that the Weasleys became known as blood traitors and Lucius' great aunt was unable to marry by association.

It didn't surprise him that the blood traitors were now thieving from the Ancient and Noble House of Potter although it disgusted him. If Dumbledore was involved in this then it could sway his little lover from the so called Light. Harry had always been a Slytherin in denial. It wouldn't take much a push from Lucius to bring Harry over to their side and save his life should the Dark Lord find out about their affair.

All Lucius would have to say was he wanted to seduce the Light's golden boy over to the Dark side and all would be forgiven. And with the Dark Mark growing stronger every day Lucius needed something to offer his Master in return for losing the diary and deserting the Dark Lord in the time of need. If Lucius showed the Dark Lord that the prophecy child was no longer a threat to him and would be a great ally with all that unsculpted power that Lucius could feel brimming under the surface of Harry's alabaster skin that would be the perfect bargaining chip.

'I was invisible,' Harry continued.

Harry wasn't sure whether or not to reveal the details about the Invisibility Cloak to Lucius considering how rare it was even for an Invisibility Cloak. Harry had read a lot about Invisibility Cloaks when he had inherited it from his father because it was a tie to the father he had never know. Harry had been shocked to know that a cloak like his had never been heard of apart from folk lore.

'You have mastered disillusionment at the age of fourteen?' questioned Lucius.

Lucius knew many Death Eaters and Aurors who had yet to master that particular skill. And here was a fourteen year old boy who had yet to even sit his OWLs casually admitting he could Disillusion himself. Lucius had known the boy was powerful but had been under the impression that the boy had not done anything with all that luscious power that oozed out of every orifice.