Without those three items, even after wiping out the direct lineage, one could only act as a proxy and never truly control the Longbottom family. Moreover, the fruits of decades of effort could ultimately be handed over to someone else.

Back then, a young boy from the Longbottoms’ direct bloodline escaped with a nanny. The acting head sent people searching everywhere and eventually identified Laurence, the adopted son of Jane, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Johnsons in Annenburg.

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