Standards

CHAPTER 22

"I don't know why we have to do a crowning ceremony for me." Lucius whined, sitting beside his parents who were staring at him blankly.

"Yes you do. You are going to be taking over the elves. Even if there is only a few of them. You need a crowning ceremony where all the kingdoms are to be present." Silvia said with a no nonsense tone in her voice.

"Well mother and father then, when is this ceremony gonna be?" Lucius asked with his eyes narrowed.

"Two weeks." His father mumbled and Lucius got up from his chair in shock.

"Two weeks. You are going to be sending out invitations and preparing everything in two weeks. How would you do it in such a short period of time?" Lucius asked and Alexei snorted.

"You would be the one doing half of those things and will also be preparing to take the position as high elf." Abraxas said, getting up from his chair with Silvia following suit. Alexei laughed, staring at his older brother who was stuck in place in shock as their parents left the kitchen table.

Lucius turned around to look at him and narrowed his eyes when the young alpha burst into laughter. Lucius grabbed his fork and threw it across the table at Alexei who barely dodged the fork that came at him. Alexei quickly got up and ran out of the room with Lucius running after him.

"Come back here you little shit. We will see who laughs at others misery." Lucius yelled, following after him.

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"What is that?" Draco asked, looking at the green sealed letter in Harry's hand. Remus Lupin was sat at their dinner table after having giving the letter to Harry who was yet to open the letter. He was just staring at the slytherin seal.

"Its an invite letter from the slytherin kingdom. I haven't read it but from the way it is designed, it is an invite." Remus said when Harry didn't reply.

"Just open it." Tom encouraged Harry, who finally picked up the letter in his hands.

He broke the seal on the envelope and took out the letter. His eyes skimmed over the words and he raised his eyebrows in wonder.

"It is an invite to the crowning ceremony of the Malfoy heir. He is taking the elf throne as his own. But instead of having written something like king or queen, it is written Empress." Harry said while looking down at the letter.

"I wanna go. Can we go? Please I wanna go." Draco rushed out, quickly standing up on his chair with Neville following his actions.

"Yes please. Can we go? We can even make allies with them." Neville suggested, his voice eager.

"What do you think? Should we go?" Harry asked his mates, who were sat beside the high chairs of James, Delphini and Lily. Severus and Tom glanced at each other and then at Draco and Neville then to Harry.

"We should go. I want to see how the slytherin kingdom works." Severus said and Tom nodded, agreeing with Severus.

"Then we would go." Harry said after awhile of careful consideration.

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"You think mama is the one being crowned?" Draco asked Neville who nodded.

"Its definitely him." Neville said, changing his red coloured pencil to a blue one. He looked down at his paper and giggled because the colour was not in the lines. It was everywhere it wasn't supposed to be. He never was good at colouring but he enjoyed enough to still try.

"I am so excited. We will get to meet mama again." Draco said jumping up and down with a grin on his face. Neville looked up from his colouring and smiled at the pure joy Draco was in.