Conquest knights from Hogwarts

Chapter 97

The three of them who still need to review their homework and learn ancient runes naturally can't run to Hagrid every day, but Lukexi has a lot of time, and Luxie, who rides the Hedwig hawk every day, has to go to Hagrid every few hours. Take a look at Hagrid, who is extremely interested in the unborn baby dragon.

But apart from studying, Ron and the others didn't do nothing. On the contrary, they were very busy these days.

A letter addressed to Bill was delivered to him after crossing half of Europe. Although the wizard's travel is very convenient, the use of owls to deliver letters is a bit outdated to be honest. It is acceptable to send things, but sending letters is not comparable It is convenient to get on the phone or even telegram.

"Charlie said yes, there were three accidents in one year at the dragon training ground. Although he dealt with two of them by himself, there was another one that happened before he went to work. The Ministry of Magic in Romania was like a vampire. They have cut a fortune from the financial allocation, and there is no adult dragon to be slaughtered, and they have recently tried to find a way to start a side business, such as drawing blood to sell on the black market, pulling some dragon scales to make souvenirs for sale, and so on.”

Ron waved the letter in his hand, then shrugged helplessly at Harry and Hermione.

"Charlie also asked me in the letter when the dragon training ground at Hogwarts will open. He plans to change jobs so that he is closer to home. He is almost a savage there, and he has to be in the forest 28 days a month. to deal with those wild dragons that have entered estrus."

"However, Romania really dares to speak up. The annual feeding fee plus various expenses is as high as eight thousand galleons, but it can guarantee the best environment and food. Charlie will also be transferred back to the base to take care of it."

"The cost of raising a dragon is so high?"

"Food should be cheap."

Harry asked in disbelief, how much does the Dragon Training Farm cost?
"It's okay, if you feed them meat, it's very cheap. The standard feeding of the dragon training farm is like this. Throwing two cows or seven or eight sheep every day is enough for the fire dragon to eat, but if you want to make the fire dragon happy grow If it is too big, then you have to add wine to the feed, brandy or whiskey, the older the better, the stronger the better."

"However, the big ones raised in this way will be particularly fierce, and ordinary wild dragons can't even beat this kind of domesticated ones."

"Spirit is the catalyst for fire dragons. To a large extent, fire dragons attack wizards and Muggle villages not for food, but for a few barrels of messy wine to moisten their throats."

"A year's extravagant spending is about three thousand and four thousand galleons. It's a shame to directly double the profit."

"Harry," Ron said suddenly, looking up.

"what happened?"

"Why doesn't Sirius and his family have a dragon training ground? I think the noble and great Black family can have one."

"This" Harry scratched his hair, "I don't know about that, I haven't seen Sirius yet"

A moment of anxiety flashed across Harry's face. Although he received that frighteningly rich Christmas gift, Harry really didn't know much about his godfather. What kind of person would his father's best friend be? What about people?
"Forget it, [-] is [-]. Charlie said that the price can't be lowered. Raising a fire dragon for a private agent is just a matter of sidelines. If it wasn't for the recent economic problems in their dragon training farm, it probably wouldn't be too low." Will take this order."

"If there is no accident, the Dragon Training Center is a place where money is like a landslide. Even if there is an accident, the compensation and fines are like a landslide. It is fierce and ruthless."

While the three of them were chatting, Percy, panting and trotting, was the last to enter the Room of Requirement.

"Sorry, sorry!" Percy said loudly: "Professor McGonagall asked me to help him with some things, so it was delayed for a while, there is no way, I am a prefect, these are all things that must be done."

"What are you doing today, Ron?"

The Sun Knights who were busy with their own affairs in twos and threes put down their work and sat around on the soft carpet, which was much more comfortable than sitting on a chair.

"About Gu Gong's matter, you are also aware of the recent skyrocketing orders. Although I have no problems with the processing of the cards, the delivery is still a bit troublesome. The shop that Sirius half-delivered and half-rented to us has not yet Opened, and mail delivery is still our main purchase and delivery method.”

"I asked Toby to help me find some house elves who had lost their jobs for various reasons, and at Christmas time I drew up an employment contract."

"Just a few days ago, the elves revised the clauses they thought needed to be improved, and then sent them to me."

"Let's take a look."

Ron handed over the employment contract to other people. House elves are generally only hired by traditional wizard families. Although they are the best servants, the channels to contact them are not accessible to ordinary wizards.

It is very convenient for the elves to communicate with each other, but those elves who are unemployed will not take the initiative to go to the wizard to ask for a job. When they are unemployed, they feel a sense of guilt in their hearts.

And when they themselves are in the family they are serving, as long as they are not called, it is best that no one can see them, such as the elves at Hogwarts, many little wizards don't even realize that Hogwarts are not there after graduation. There is such a thing as a house-elf in the garden.

Everyone's expressions are a little different, like Fred, George, Percy, and Seid, the little wizards who were born and raised in England, they have no objection to the changes made by the elves, because of the family education Qiu received. There are some differences, which are somewhat strange, but understandable.

Only when it comes to Harry and Hermione.

Harry, who didn't understand much, and didn't have any special thoughts, just glanced at it and skipped it, but Hermione established the house elf rights promotion association in the original book, which was wishful thinking.

"Why do I feel that something is wrong?"

Hermione pointed to the puzzled opening of a clause that had been carefully revised by the elf.

"What you wrote earlier was: work eighteen hours a day, no overtime, no less than three Sickles a day for food, three galleons a month, one day off every two weeks."

Hermione stared at Ron with devil-like eyes, and then she said tremblingly: "But! Why did this kind of clause that has been exploited to the extreme become: working 24 hours a day, and the daily food expenses are no more than three Nat, no monthly salary, no vacation?"

"Are they out of their minds?"

"Why?" Hermione, whose face was completely overwhelmed by confusion and bewilderment, showed unprecedented shock and doubts. Her outlook on life and values ​​were slightly collapsed at this moment.

"This, this, this, this, this is worse than a slave, right? Three nuts? Three nuts are not enough to buy a chocolate frog."

"But you can buy a piece of black bread, without sand or stones. The kind of high-end goods made of wood chips."

Fred raised his brows, and added something jokingly.

"Who would eat that?"

"You don't know the sufferings of the world, Hermione. The goblins of Gringotts are loyal consumers of brown bread. They can eat three pounds of brown bread for three days."

"How is that possible? Aren't the goblins at Gringotts very rich?"

"What does having money have to do with eating black bread? Goblins love galleons, but they only put them in their pockets. They hate anything that costs money, whether it's food or other aspects. If it weren't for not wearing clothes, it would affect the ancient The appearance of the Ling Pavilion makes the wizards not want to be scolded and don't go there, they wish they didn't have any clothes, just wrapped in rags or leaf grass skirts or something."

Fred's science popularization really refreshed Hermione's three views, and it was the first time that other people heard of such a thing. Has the goblin's stinginess reached this level?
"But that's a goblin, it's a house-elf!"

Hermione emphasized reluctantly.

"But elves are goblins. It's just that in the war a long time ago, they were paid to wizards by the defeated goblins as compensation, as slaves and servants."

"They themselves are wizarding trophies."

"But this is too barbaric!"

"There is no such thing as savagery or savagery in wars between races. If the goblins had won in the first place, maybe some of us would be serving tea and water to those greedy little things now, eating fermented pig food and dying miserably." day."

"You know, according to the goblin's greedy personality, they can definitely do this kind of thing. It's not your turn to eat the unfermented pig food, so they will wrap it up themselves."

There was an embarrassing silence in the air. No wizard would be willing to face this unacceptable situation. It was so terrifying that even the imagination was heavy.

"But we're human, we shouldn't at least not be able to"

Hermione sniffed aggrievedly, she hugged her knee feeling a little depressed.

"Now is not the era of hundreds of years ago, at least things like slaves, we should not support, nor should we take it for granted, goblins are goblins, we are wizards, we are human, we should have our own the minimum moral standard, otherwise what is the difference between us and the savages?"

"So I initially gave them wages, vacations, and limited their working hours. Although the conditions may not look good to you, in fact, for elves, this is already an extremely extravagant practice."

"It's not that we don't have Hermione."

Ron reached out and rubbed Hermione's little head. This upright and kind-hearted little girl may have some extreme ideas that can't be understood by others, even by the party 'helped by her', but the starting point is good , but only her own unilateral goodwill.

"Elves are not wizards, nor are they humans. Although they have wisdom, we belong to different races, and the way we think about problems is definitely different."

"We can't understand the goblin's greed and stubborn pursuit of money, just like we can't understand Celina's special behavior habits."

"Who is Celina? From the name, she seems to be a very cute girl!"

George, who was still single but did not pretend to be Fred and ran naked, looked at Ron with bright eyes. It was not that Fred was weak, but that the girls introduced by Angelina and George were not on the same channel. .

"In the Forbidden Forest, let the horsemen find out."

"Oh, forget it, I'm afraid they will lay down their hoofs." George pursed his lips in disinterest, and then sat back in his seat.

"We can only respect and not intervene. Is that understandable, Hermione?"

"Although the elves are different from the goblins, they are essentially a race. It's just that the 'greed' of the elves is not on themselves. They dedicate everything to the wizard. The reason for this is also Because of this 'greed'."

"We can think that after receiving the compensation from these goblins, the victorious wizards at that time used contracts and oath magic to turn the object of 'greed' rooted in the goblins from themselves to the ones served by the goblins. In wizarding families, it turns into 'giving'."

"So they will serve the wizard at all costs, and consider everything for the wizard, regardless of themselves. Isn't this extreme idea the opposite of the goblin's extreme, but it leads to the same goal?"

"After thousands of years, this reversed nature has completely replaced the greed that originally belonged to goblins in their bodies, so they are called elves, not goblins."

"Respect their habits and don't interfere too much. This dedication and labor has become their everything. This is not something we can change. Unless everyone in the wizarding world is now a saint, otherwise this unilateral contribution It’s definitely not going to be reversed.”

"As wizards and human beings, we can accept their contributions, and we can also provide them with some better living and working environments if they are willing to accept it. This is what we should do and the way we can promote it to the outside world. "

"After all, the elves lack food and drink, and work for us with yellow and thin faces, so the efficiency must not be as high as that of being full of energy."

"Well, let the elf speak for himself."

Ron got up, then opened the door, and said to the door, "Toby."

After a loud bang, Toby appeared outside the door. Although the elf can teleport away from the Room of Requirement, he cannot enter the locked room on his own initiative. This is a restriction imposed by the magic of the Room of Requirement. .

"Good evening, gentlemen and ladies."

Toby, who followed Ron in, bowed to the little wizards, and saluted everyone with a smile on his face.

"We're talking about this contract."

"Is there any problem with this?"

"Are our demands too high? If Sannat"

"No, listen to Toby."

Ron let Toby sit opposite him, he flicked the parchment, and then spoke very seriously:
"Help us work, are you happy?"

"Of course sir! You saved them. Without this job, those homeless elves don't know what to do. You gave them hope. We are very very very grateful to you, thank you Companions!"

"But three nats a day, how can you work for us if you can't eat enough?"

"Three Sickles a day, this one can't move, only when they are full will they have the strength to work, so that they eat about the same as you, right? Hogwarts never skips food, so our righteous Sun Knights will definitely be there too. I need them to be like you, to go to work neatly and energetic."

"So it is, sir!"

Toby jumped up happily on the spot.

"This is indeed something we didn't expect, but three sickles is really too much, we eat very little, and one sickle is already a luxury, really don't want too much, it's not good, very bad."

"That's right, you are small and eat little, so you can have something."

"The working hours don't need to be 24 hours. You are not busy all day at Hogwarts, right? If you don't take a break, then it won't work. Summer vacation is also your vacation time. Two days a month, one day There are only 24 days in a year, which is shorter than your holidays."

"It seems to be right." Toby nodded: "However, during the holidays, we will clean the castle. There are nearly [-] rooms. There are too many vacant places here, and we can't take care of them all in normal times. , so it can only be put on summer vacation, but it only takes one month for us to clean everything, wipe every corner, and there is absolutely no dust."

"It's really hard for you."

"No sir, we'd be happy to do it, we'd be happy if we had a job, and we'd be at a loss if we couldn't do anything."

"This is our life, the life of our dreams. Thank you Hogwarts for giving us everything. We are very, very grateful. After all, we can't do anything else."

Toby's sincere speech made Hermione, who was listening quietly, fall into deep thought. Is this work the shackles and oppression given to them by wizards, or some kind of incomprehensible 'salvation'?
It was difficult for Hermione, who couldn't put herself into the elf's perspective, to understand, but she seemed to be able to understand something.

Isn't the most extravagant pursuit of a person's life a dream?But the elves are happier than people to have their own dreams, and they have been pursuing and fulfilling them.

Incomprehensible, yet seemingly understandable.

"There is also compensation, and I think wages are necessary."

"But this is really not needed, sir! Really not needed!"

Toby said anxiously: "We don't need wages, and we have no place to spend the money. Having a job already makes us very satisfied, but we really don't need wages. Thank you very much for your generosity, but this really unnecessary."

"I asked you to pay for our supper, why can't they be paid for doing things for us?"

"By the way, does the principal like the gift you gave Dumbledore?"

"Of course, Principal Dumbledore likes wool socks very much. We bought him a lot of them with the Gallon you gave, and he even came to the kitchen to chat with us. That's great!"

"So, you actually have wizards you respect and like?"

"Of course! Of course it is. We like Professor Dumbledore very much. He has helped us a lot."

"Then why not give him a little gift that he likes for the holidays? Like Christmas?"

"And one Sickle a month?"

Toby opened his mouth cautiously, clenched his fists nervously, and lowered his head in embarrassment.

"There is still not one Galleon in a year, so what gift can I choose?"

"One galleon a month, no less, you can send them a message for me, tell them that when they are in charge of delivering the goods, those wizards who are friendly to them and have a good attitude can be kept in mind, and when Christmas comes, They can send a small gift to those wizards who have a good attitude."

"Respect is mutual, if people treat elves well, then elves will treat them even better, right?"

"That's very much appreciated, thank you sir! Thank you very much! Thank you!"

Toby touched the tears in the corners of his eyes. After discovering that there are other ways to repay besides work, Toby shed tears excitedly.

Turns out they can do more than just work!
There is nothing like this surprise!

"Okay, then go back and talk to them with my words. When the time comes, I will ask Professor Flitwick to help, and we will sign the employment oath."

"Go Toby, it's a happy thing."

Wiping away tears, the little elf bowed deeply to everyone, and then disappeared into the Room of Requirement.

"Mutual respect, this is the way wizards and elves, or each different race, communicate and treat each other."

"They are very happy, Hermione. If they do more, they will be a little unacceptable."

"Touching your head will make you stupid, hum~"

Hermione patted Ron's pig's trotters away, but after a few thoughts, she nodded slowly.

"Maybe that's right, we're not elves after all, as long as they're happy."

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Everything about the elves ends here. In the original book, there is a problem with the concept of the elf rights promotion association, but Hermione in the original book is also very stubborn about it, and she still insists on it after graduation, so I want to make this idea reasonable I will write more when I come back.

This chapter is 5K7, but there will be an update in the afternoon, and I will finish writing about the fire dragon.

　As a three-good young man under the red flag, Xiao Han wakes up and becomes Xiao Yan's cousin and Xiao Zhan's nephew; he has worked hard to become a Dou Zhe, and even took the super cute little maid Qinglin home to warm his bed.

　　Unexpectedly, the system was awakened as soon as he broke through the Dou Zhe, and a pair of magic armor was released in the novice gift package. Since then, he has embarked on the story of summoning the armor to combine and hacking all over the Northwest Continent, known as the "King of Northwest Cutting"!
　　By the way, Xiao Han can go to other worlds from time to time to subdue demons and so on, but he is wearing a magic armor, so he is often misunderstood as a bad silver.

　　Regarding this, he just wanted to say: "Lun Jiajie is living in the dark, and his heart is for the light—"

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