Who: Lucius and Narcissa Where: DADA practice classroom. When: Wednesday, October 17, 11 am What: Lucius has a favor to ask.
Lucius had been running through this discussion in his head all morning. Several times he had almost thought to put it off, make some gesture rather than tell the truth. He was very good at misrepresenting that, rather better than telling it.
But he could not see a way eight--possibly nine people could escape the castle to slaughter the livestock without notice or suspicion. He would tell her as little as was needed what she would eventually discover on her own in any case. But Lucius Malfoy did not fancy being caught so early in the game, with so many of his colleagues in a state of dubious dishonor.
He stood, just inside the defence classroom he preferred like an office, waiting for Narcissa to join him. He might have felt bad, at one point, making such an unwitting accomplice, but she would never fall under the Dark Lord's influence if Lucius could control it--merely his own.