Chapter 318 Logical Deviation
Della chose to leave Hogwarts with Maggie this time. On the one hand, she wanted to leave the campus temporarily to freshen up the atmosphere. It was the Christmas holiday anyway, so she could just treat it as a short trip. On the other hand, she had let Maggie be free for so long, so it was time for her to inspect the organization's situation.
In short, the leader is about to find fault, and the person who is about to be criticized is unexpectedly happy to see it happen.
"You should have come out with me earlier. School is so boring. Isn't it full of idiots?" Maggie carried her luggage and walked out of King's Cross Station with Della. "Want to see something with me? Let those people come to the meeting with the results, or go visit our current Muggle friends?"
"The people you called over? Specially prepared for me to see?" Della smiled. She observed the bustling station and felt the long-lost bustling atmosphere.
"The main thing is that the Abates' family is the only wizard family that can be visited in Country Y right now. Other wizards from other countries have to be called over. You can name them and I will arrange it." Maggie shrugged and said indifferently.
Della, who had already made up her mind, glanced at Maggie and read out a few names in a slow voice. They were all families related to the communications and media industries. Regardless of whether they already had related industries or squeezed in temporarily, they all made a lot of money this year. It also represented an increase in Della and Maggie's wealth. They now held shares and interests in many families.
"Just these money bags?" Maggie led Della to the other side. He had an apartment with a garage near the station. "Oh, I see," he shouted as if he had suddenly realized something. "The last time Leah came, she had already seen most of the people involved."
"I'm just a little curious about how they will choose to treat me after accepting your command for a period of time, even though they always obeyed my orders in the beginning." Especially those in the communications industry. Before Della went to Durmstrang, that is, before Maggie became an adult, they had always accepted Della's command respectfully. After Maggie became an adult, Della never spoke to them directly.
"Are you really coming for me?" Maggie hissed, and in her heart she prayed for her men. "You don't really care about the money, nor do you care if they pay me more. But whoever chooses to fool you will be doomed, right?"
"Finished? Not really. At most, some bones and flesh will be knocked off," Della said coldly. Following Maggie's gesture, she followed him around a corner. "How else can you reward Trevor? He is doing the job that is most likely to get him killed, but he gets the least because he had no money when he entered the scene. And although he listens to you, he doesn't want to be a high-ranking messenger forever, right?"
Trevor's behavior in the matter of Sadolin was somewhat obvious. People who want to use marriage relationships to achieve a leap in status will never be content.
"You're not in a hurry, are you?" Maggie rolled her eyes. "Do you think people won't die when Voldemort comes back? Wouldn't it make more sense to operate at that time?"
"Did Voldemort give it to you, or did you?" Della said bluntly, "Don't look down on Voldemort. His ability to confuse other people's minds is not much worse than yours."
"I don't doubt his ability. When facing us, he will definitely be very good at it," Maggie said as he finally reached the garage and entered the password. He stared at the rolled-up door curtain with a hint of irony in his words. "But for people like Trevor, to be honest, if he has been the boss who has the final say for a long time, I don't have the energy to deal with him carefully."
"I am the ladder he is holding on to climb up, but he is just one of the countless people who want to hold on to me." Maggie took out the car keys out of thin air and unlocked the car. The two flashes of the rear lights flashed across his and Della's deep black eyes. "He just got the opportunity, but in fact I have many people to choose from to do the same thing as he did."
"Voldemort won't put much effort into winning over Trevor," Maggie concluded.
"Trevor has already grabbed your ladder and is climbing up, and I'm sure he has reached a height where he can see more ladders. No one knows which ladder can reach a higher place, but he does have more ladders to choose from," Della retorted to Maggie calmly, "Don't you think it's funny that you think Voldemort will look down on him based on your own experience?"
"..." Maggie turned to look at Della, his eyes stayed on her for two seconds, and something in his heart turned around. He nodded and said in agreement, "You're right, I will pay more attention, Della."
When Maggie took over the power that Della delegated to him, he started out as the top leader. Without Della's experience of rising step by step, his concepts and vision were inevitably limited. Fortunately, he had not reached the point of Voldemort's almost hopeless arrogance, and he humbly accepted the criticism as soon as Della pointed it out.
"Wait a minute, I'll go drive the car out." Maggie walked over and drove the car in front of Della and rolled down the window. Della's hand was originally on the front door. She paused before opening it and looked at Maggie through the open window.
"How long did it take you to get your driver's license?" Della asked.
"Theoretically, it would take me several months." Maggie put his hands on the steering wheel. He looked at Della's ups and downs and smiled, not sure if it was proud or awkward. "With the help of magic, it could take a day."
"A few hours?" Della squinted at him and said disdainfully, "I want to sit in the back. It must be scary to sit in the front."
The little leather shoes clattered on the ground, and the car door opened and closed. Maggie turned to look at her and said unhappily, "You didn't complain when you rode in the car with the twins in second grade. I think they probably didn't practice driving properly for a whole day."
"There's no chance of another car hitting me." Della rolled her eyes at Maggie. The usually aloof beauty at Hogwarts now looked like a world-weary girl.
"Okay, okay," Maggie ended the topic that he was wrong about, and focused on turning the car half a circle and facing the lane. "Where are we going? The gang?"
"Go to your other home," Della raised her eyes and showed a cruel and evil smile, "Let me visit the doll that my brother kindly sponsored."
"..." Maggie's raised eyebrows were reflected in the front mirror, and the steering wheel she was holding turned slightly left and right. "I don't remember you having the bad habit of deliberately making things difficult for people of the same sex."
"I didn't," Della calmly accepted Maggie's barbed words, and the smile on her face deepened, "But we all know that sometimes some people are tortured just because they are unlucky enough to exploit someone else's weakness."
"Are you going to play the 'hurt in her body, hurt in my heart' trick with me?" Maggie also laughed. He turned the steering wheel and drove into the driveway. His expensive car scraped against the edge due to his not-so-skilled driving skills. "Honestly, after I realized what was happening, I wasn't worried at all. I was just curious about how you would hurt her. I'm always a kind-hearted sister."
"First ask her if she's willing to have a few more boyfriends to distract herself from her relationship," Della turned her head to look at the scenery receding outside the window, her eyes focused on her own cold expression reflected on the car window, "Then ask her how she would treat a boyfriend who has a few more girlfriends to distract herself from her relationship."
"Oh my god, these words sound fine in my head, but why do they sound so sinful when they come out of your mouth?" Maggie asked, hissing, "If an ordinary girl like Hina heard these words, she would definitely think I'm a pervert, right?"
"How can cheating not be a sin?" Della sighed helplessly. For the first time, she couldn't understand Maggie's thinking. She suspected that Maggie had some beastly values that she didn't understand. "If you get married - no, just fall in love, will you find other people to develop an intimate relationship with?"
"I won't do that if we make a promise and establish a contract," Maggie said as he looked at the red light and slowly braked the car. For the first time, he thought about intimacy from his own perspective. His voice rose slightly as he thought, "Because I don't want you, a woman, to be betrayed by your lover. That's disrespectful. Besides, promises and contracts should be effective."
No problem, Maggie's answer this time was fine, and she even had the feeling of being well-educated as someone from an aristocratic family. The Clingretton family did have some positive influence on him.
Della secretly evaluated Maggie's answer, and guided Maggie step by step to go deeper into the topic of intimate relationships that he had never considered deeply. "Yes, you deserve respect. If the lover who has sworn to love you betrays you——"
"I will kill that woman," Maggie said without hesitation. "There is a price to pay for breaking a promise, and the price I ask for will be high."
What he said was very clear at this point. Based on Maggie's two answers, if he was persuading Della to develop a relationship with Duoduo, he was inducing her to tear up the agreement, and in his opinion, this was seeking death.
Della turned the silver ring on her finger, and the corners of her lips curled up a little smile, as if she saw the dawn of successfully persuading Maggie, "Yes, you see, aren't you also very clear? Then now you know that your previous persuasion to me was actually making me break my promise, right? That was to persuade me to make a mistake, or what you think is a costly mistake."
"..." Maggie stared at the flashing red light and retorted, "There is no way we can have that kind of agreement, so it's a bit cunning for you to use my approach on this topic." The green light came on and he slowly stepped on the accelerator, "And I don't think there was anything wrong with my previous advice."
"You have the ability to make more choices, so why not give it a try?" Maggie sped up on the street where there were not many cars. "I believe that the strong have some privileges."
"Do you think you are not a strong person, so you choose to keep your promise even though you have the ability to make more choices? Or, if your future wife is a strong person, you can tolerate her infidelity?" Della frowned, and keenly discovered that there was a missing link in Maggie's logic. She began to ask him back using Maggie's words to fill in that link.
"No, I will kill anyone who breaks the promise at all costs," Maggie answered the second question honestly, and then slowly repeated her answer to the first question, "And I, who have more choices, don't want you, a woman like me, to be betrayed by your lover, so I kept my promise."
"Are you deliberately beating around the bush with me?" Della's brows furrowed even more as the conversation returned to the starting point. She carefully observed Maggie's frank expression without a trace of joking. Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and figured out why Maggie's self-consistent logic would deviate when applied to her.
Because it's her.
"No," Maggie said aggrievedly, "I'm telling the truth, and I really think you should try it."
Because it was her, Maggie's self-consistent logic specifically forked a path for her, discarding all agreements and punishments as unnecessary restrictions on her.
"..." Della, who had figured it out, was overwhelmed by a feeling of powerlessness. Knowing that she could not change Maggie's ideas, she sighed deeply and tilted her head back, indicating that she did not want to talk about this topic anymore.
"Are you going to give up this 'torture'?" Maggie, who was holding the steering wheel, had been paying attention to Della's movements with the help of the front mirror. He cooperated and ended the topic that had not been answered. "Have you thought of other plans for the 'hurt in her body, the pain in my heart' trick?"
"An Avada Kedavra." Della stared at the dark roof of the car and said weakly.
"To Sheena?" Maggie asked. She wasn't surprised, but she was a little surprised that Della suddenly wanted to cast a killing curse on a Muggle without any reason. This was something he might do, but not something Della would do.
"For myself," Della answered briefly.
"Ah!" Maggie exclaimed in surprise, "You have finally found the right way to play this trick!"
Della slowly straightened her neck, her slightly narrowed eyes, as if she was too lazy to open them completely, and looked at Maggie's smiling eyes through the front mirror. A smile gradually filled her eyes, and the originally unpleasant smile on her face turned into real happiness.
Although I didn't achieve my goal, it felt good to have some fun with the people in the world who have the most similar personalities and the most similar thoughts to me.
Moreover, everything she said reflected that Maggie valued her above all else.
A little twisted, but not annoying.
But Della was not moved at all, because this level was just normal between them.
Does that sound like a high standard? No problem, they can always meet each other's high standards.