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Chapter 296 Hermione's Giving Up

But Hermione was definitely interested in Dobby.

"Since when did you start to feel that you don't necessarily have to obey the master's words absolutely, and you should also make decisions for your own life sometimes?"

Dobby was a little strange to Hermione, but because she was Harry's friend, he didn't refuse to communicate.

"Dobby's old master treated Dobby very badly. Whenever he was unhappy, he would let Dobby punish him." When he said this, Dobby's eyes were full of fear, "Sometimes Dobby is clearly right. , but you still have to punish yourself, because only in this way will the old master be happy."

"At that time, Dobby was thinking, why Dobby still did this when he was clearly innocent. The master Dobby served, he, he... is an evil bad wizard!"

He seemed to have exhausted all the strength in his body before he could say these words. Then, as if he couldn't control himself, he crazily hit the table with his big head.

"Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!"

Fortunately, Hermione held him directly, preventing his self-harm.

"Thank you, Harry's friend." Dobby panted. "Dobby needs practice, he needs practice."

After hearing his words, Winky immediately screamed, she was extremely angry.

"You should be ashamed of yourself! Not practice! Dobby! You say that about your Master!"

"He's not my master anymore!" Dobby said unconvinced, "Dobby has no master now, he's just working for Dumbledore!"

"You're a bad elf." Winky whimpered, and she shed tears. "I can't imagine how Mr. Crouch would live without me. The mistress has passed away long ago, and he has no one to take care of him. Alone at home alone, woo woo woo"

Hermione looked thoughtful at Winky's current state, she didn't say anything bad about Crouch in front of her, but asked tentatively.

"Can I know, how did you live when you were young? Did you receive education?"

But Winky had already fallen into deep sorrow, she didn't answer Hermione's question, but Dobby who was on the side spoke.

"Elves don't have their own schools. We are generally educated by our parents after birth. We don't need to learn the magic of elves. Basically, we will learn it naturally when we reach the age."

In front of Dobby, Hermione didn't have to be so careful.

"So what did your parents teach you?"

Dobby recalled.

"They will teach me how to better serve the owner's family. My mother taught me her cooking skills, and my father taught me how to better trim the garden. Then they will tell me how to To make the master happy, what are the taboos of elves?"

"They just taught you this?" There was pity hidden in Hermione's eyes, but she didn't show it.

"Otherwise, what else can there be?" Dobby didn't feel that he was so pitiful about it. "Their own ideal in life is that after they die, their masters will chop off their heads and hang them on the wall for display. The highest glory of the elves, in the end they did get their wish, compared to Duobi, they are elves who are very popular with their masters."

"If in the future, Dobby, if you have your own child, will you still educate him like this?" Hermione asked cautiously.

Dobby didn't seem to have thought about such a profound thing before, but after Hermione asked, he hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his big head.

"Dobby will tell his children the benefits of being free! There's no need for elves to be slaves to some wizard! We like to work, but get paid too! It's...it's"

He struggled for a long time, but he didn't say what the reason was, but Hermione added this sentence for him with a serious face.

"This is the power of every intelligent life!"

Dobby looked delighted.

"You are right, I remember your name, Hermione, this is the power of intelligent life!"

Dobby chatted with them a lot later, talking excitedly about how he planned to spend the wages he earned.

He puffed out his bald chest and said he would buy himself a jumper.

Although Ron was not interested in Hermione's previous so-called House-Elf Front, he liked Dobby very much.

He offered to give Dobby the sweater his mother had knitted for him, and Mrs Weasley would knit a new one for her children every Christmas.

Dobby was quite happy, and he said that he could make Ron's sweater smaller in time so that it would fit his body shape.

They chatted for two hours, and finally Harry and the three of them prepared to leave from the kitchen.

The house elves enthusiastically filled their pockets with all kinds of snacks, and curtseyed respectfully to send them away.

Before leaving, Hermione took one last deep look at these elves, and Dobby who returned to work in a happy mood.

"I don't need to think about how to free these house-elves anymore."

Both Ron and Harry looked at her in shock.

"You figured it out?"

"You finally see that these elves love to work?"

Hermione shook her head, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Because they don't need me. I am a wizard and I am also a vested interest served by them. From the wizard level to help them obtain equal status, even if they succeed in the end, it is not solid."

"To gain true respect and equality, they need their own internal efforts. Only the freedom obtained from the bottom up is true freedom. Some of them have already had such an idea."

"Dobby, he is the first, but definitely not the last. His awakened thoughts will affect his descendants, and his descendants will affect more elves. It is better for elves like him to appear. The existence of wizards like me is much more important."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, and Hermione had a long speech, but they didn't understand it.

However, neither of them went into the meaning of these words. Anyway, as long as Hermione didn't insist on bringing the elves to rebel, such a ridiculous idea, it would be a good thing for them.

The three of them walked to the corridor of the castle, and when they were returning to the Gryffindor lounge, they suddenly discovered that it was snowing heavily outside the castle.

"Hey, it's almost Christmas!" Ron said excitedly.

Harry shrugged.

"I'm curious how we will spend Christmas this year."

(End of this chapter)