Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 382 House Elf Liberation Front

"Well, the house-elves found it for me in the Hogwarts kitchen," said McGuffin.

"No wonder that little thing looks better." Harry suddenly realized.

"No wonder, we couldn't find Scabbers." Ron was very surprised, "But how did you sneak into the kitchen... Harry's invisibility cloak should still be at the bottom of the box."

"Invisibility! I've learned the spell," whispered the MacGuffin.

"How did you learn... Forget it, it should be easy for you. But why did you feed Scabbers so many floating balloon lollipops that it can't land at all now..." Ron complained in a low voice.

"I'm afraid that guy ran away again, not to mention..."

"By the way, Harry! Dobby asked me to bring you a lot of magic candies, and I promised her that I will take you to the kitchen to see her next time."

Hearing what McGuffin said, Harry looked a little awkward and embarrassed. He had promised Dobby to visit her, but seeing Dobby made Harry very uncomfortable, and he always thought of Snape's secret potion.

Ron was rather interested in the magical candies that McGuffin said the house-elves provided.

The twins' crazy money-making activities in the past two days made him very jealous.

"How many? Forget it..."

"McGuffin! Next time, you must take me to the kitchen to see the magic candy... um, look at the house elves." Ron said.

"What house-elf?" Hermione came down from the podium and asked the three of them.

"nothing!"

Ron laughed, and was about to apologize to Hermione.

"Um... there's something I have to tell you, Hermione!"

"Don't be angry yet!" Harry added.

"McGuffin found Scabbers in the kitchen, and he's still alive." Ron said very vaguely and quickly with a guilty conscience, lowering his head and not daring to look directly at Hermione.

But Hermione didn't expect to be very angry. She didn't complain to Ron about Crookshanks, nor did she show off as usual that she knew all this.

She asked indifferently, "Where did you find it?"

"What, Banban is still alive." It took a long time for her to realize and asked again.

Hermione looked a little illogical and even insane, which frightened Ron a little.

"Hermione, are you okay?"

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't blame you and that cat for what happened to Scabbers."

"Scattered is too old, and it's a bit useless. Maybe I should learn from George and Fred, get some magic candies, sell them, and earn some money to buy an owl as a pet." Ron said hastily.

"What are you talking about!" Hermione reacted, "Oh, don't look at me, I'm fine! It's just that Professor McGonagall asked me to cancel a few courses. She thinks I won't be able to hold on if I continue like this."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, "Professor McGonagall is right, you are about to collapse. You want to do too many things. I saw that you also wanted to try to practice that [casting spell without trace] some time ago... You should learn from McGuffin and at least give up that Muggle studies class."

"No, I haven't, or I can persist for the time being. However, you are right, if this happens again, I will consider giving up that deceptive divination class first."

Hermione brushed the hair on her forehead stubbornly, she picked up her schoolbag and changed the subject, "Let's go, we are the only ones left here."

"Oh, by the way, what about house-elves?"

……

One night later, McGuffin took Hermione and the three of them into the kitchen to see Dobby and the house elves,

After seeing Harry, Dobby was very excited, she jumped over, 'Harry, Mr. Harry Potter is coming to see Dobby!Mr. Albert did it!Thank you, sir. '

Dobby kept saying hello to Harry repeatedly, and every word Harry said made her jump three feet high.

As soon as she saw them she came running at a trot, hugging McGuffin and Harry by the waist.

Although they looked small, these little guys were really strong, and McGuffin felt like he was about to be strangled.

Hermione was very interested in house-elves. In the Muggle studies class, the professors used house-elves as an analogy to little wizards born in wizarding families more than once, so that they could understand why Muggles invented so many things they used in their daily lives.

She didn't want to go to the kitchen at first, thinking it was something students shouldn't do.

However, in the end, out of curiosity about the house-elves and Scabbers' trail... and McGuffin's repeated persuasion, she followed them to the Hogwarts kitchen.

And Ron... he was for the magic candy, of course.

But he was a little disappointed. The Froomes didn't have much magic candy left over from Christmas, and the house-elves had brought all of them to McGuffin from the storage room.

When leaving, he could only leave here with a lot of biscuits and cakes.

"Slave labor, I didn't expect that in the wizarding world, there is still slave labor in Hogwarts!"

Hermione said, breathing heavily.

They just came out of the kitchen.

Hermione was furious at the miserable treatment of the hundreds of house-elves who were disheveled, without allowances or sick leave, and whose only thoughts were work.

In particular, McGuffin asked Dobby to lead them into the house elves' lounge to see their living environment.

There is only one meter of habitat, and there are no personal items left at all.

Dobby happily showed Harry the scarf and sweater he was about to knit,

"After I said I like knitting shoes, Professor Dumbledore gave me two fur balls - Dobby always wanted to give the professor something, but he said that when he was old, he liked fluffy and warm socks, so Dobby would knit two for him..."

But Dobby's joy obviously couldn't reach Hermione's heart, she was about to explode with anger when she saw all this.

Especially after seeing that Ron didn't care about it, and said that her family had always wanted to have a house-elf, she was even more furious, accusing the wizarding world of crimes against house-elves all the way.

—Looks like the Hogwarts Society for the Advancement of House-Elf Rights, aka (SPEW) Vomit, is about to be born early.

Of course, this is also the main purpose of McGuffin driving them to the kitchen.

He is not as good as Hermione in terms of going to the library to find information and seek the truth of history.

As for the history of the house elves, which he felt was very taboo, maybe only good kids like Hermione, the professors would reveal a thing or two.

Of course, McGuffin's original purpose of exploring house elves was very bad.

—maybe he could control Brainwashed Wormtail through this spell that existed on the house-elf.

……

With Hermione's help, McGuffin's work on the history of the house elves started smoothly.

Harry and Ron scoffed at that.

However, what they couldn't figure out was why McGuffin went crazy with Hermione.

According to their understanding of their crazy-minded friend, this guy has never been an emotional and compassionate person.

Ron has been stubbornly thinking that the MacGuffin must be trying to squeeze some magic candy from the house-elves.

Since McGuffin and Harry gave Ron the two big bags of magic candies, this guy, like the twins, began to sell them privately among the little wizards of Hogwarts.

Soon, Ron fell into the plot of 'Golden Gallon and Magical Candy Mania', and he felt very strange that his two brothers had a steady stream of 'supply'.

In some intuition, he thought that McGuffin must know George and Fred's 'secret trick'.

'Is this where the twins' magic candies are purchased? ' he had repeatedly questioned the MacGuffin.

"No, no, and I don't lack these things, Ron!" McGuffin's repeated assurances could not dispel Ron's thoughts.

(Especially when Ron met McGuffin again and handed over two endless pockets to the twins, he even thought that there was some py deal between the three of them without telling him)

So he kept pestering McGuffin and Hermione.

—he thought the secret might well lie in the house-elves.

'Maybe it came from the kitchen!I know the elves are great cooks, maybe they learned a thing or two from Mr and Mrs Froome for Christmas! 'Harry told Hermione and him what Ron had said, which really made them dumbfounded.

But Hermione liked this free labor very much, and she was overjoyed at Ron's automatic delivery to the door.

Sure enough, at certain times, most of Xueba's hearts are black.

Seeing Hermione pressing Ron in the library to find the history books about the description of 'house elves', McGuffin felt a little bit unbearable.

He has persuaded Ron several times not to waste his time here, the secret of the twins is not here, he should ask his two brothers himself.

It's a pity that this guy who was fascinated by Jin Gallon couldn't listen at all.

He just hummed and agreed, and when he turned his head, he still followed behind the two of them. No matter what they did, this guy would interfere.

Forget it, it's hard to persuade a dead ghost!

On the other hand, in order to 'liberate' the house elves, Hermione began to search for a few words about the historical records of their ethnic group in the voluminous library.

(And McGuffin is looking for the secret reason why the house elf group has become what it is today, but the purpose of the two is surprisingly consistent for the time being.)
This is very difficult, because most histories of the wizarding world only focus on the perspective of a great wizard, or describe the glorious victorious wars of human wizards, and never record ordinary people, let alone house-elves as slaves.

Even trolls, werewolves, giants and other dark monsters appear more than house elves.

This work was very heavy, and Hermione's too many homework and courses made her even more overwhelmed.

Even with the free labor of Ron, it can't offset the fundamental problem of too many things on her.

After McGuffin repeatedly advised her not to do this,
And after Hermione cut class again for oversleeping, she finally broke out in Professor Trelawney's Divination class.

(This time Hermione just slept for five hours, even with a time converter, it is difficult to recover
——She missed a spell class taught by Professor Flitwick, and this lesson taught the happy spell that she had been thinking about all the time. Professor Flitwick later hinted that Hermione might have it in the exam. )
All of this prompted her to break up with Professor Trelawney directly.

Especially for some reason, when it was the turn to divination the MacGuffin, Professor Trelawney would skip it with an unnatural expression.

As long as Harry was not around McGuffin, the divination professor used a vague, very gypsy tone, pretending to speak of something ominous about Harry.

This made Hermione even more convinced that the professor was a liar, and that the subject was a complete waste of time.

After a conflict, Professor Trelawney accused Hermione of being too Muggle-minded about the world. Of course, according to her original statement,
"I am sorry, my dear, that you obviously do not possess the qualities required for such a course in the high art. . . . I have never met a student with such a worldly mind . . . "

No one has ever dared to question Hermione's learning talent. Professor Trelawney simply pointed at Hermione's nose and called her hopeless.

This caused Hermione to explode immediately, she put her schoolbag on her back, said loudly that she had given up the class, and left the classroom.

After Hermione left, there was silence in the classroom and no words were spoken. Everyone was shocked by the little witch's audacity.

Professor Trelawney froze in place, looking embarrassed.

But when McGuffin saw this superb fortune teller secretly look at him, he always felt that this guy seemed to be regretting that he was not the one who left.

After the two looked into each other's eyes, she hurriedly took half a step back, avoiding McGuffin and Harry.

"—Oooohoo!"

It was Lavender's strange cry that startled everyone and broke the weird and bewildered atmosphere in the classroom.

"That's right! 'One of us will leave us for good around Easter!'—you're right, you've said it, Professor!" she cried, rising.

These words loosened the atmosphere in the classroom.

"Yes, my dear, I did know that Miss Granger would leave us..."

After Professor Trelawney finished speaking, she took the opportunity to hurry to the table beside Lavender and Parvati.

After leaving the MacGuffin, the professor seemed to let out a sigh of relief, and his expression suddenly became much more relaxed.

……

The Easter holiday isn't really lighthearted.

Compared with the desertedness of Christmas, almost all the little wizards stayed in Hogwarts Castle this time.

Not only because the eleven Death Eaters are still missing, but the wizarding world has been in turmoil and panic.

Also because the whole school started from the second grade, the after-school homework of the little wizards suddenly increased a lot, never before.

Everyone, without exception, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Of course, in addition to a bunch of homework, one of the reasons was to lock hundreds of little wizards in the castle and not be able to sneak out to play for almost a month.

(There was once a little wizard who wanted to go out to relax, but after he was almost roasted by a fire dragon, no one dared to do it)

Among the students, the most difficult ones can only be the fifth grade students of George and Fred.

All the professors seem to think that their grade has delayed too much class because of last year's incident,
And after the sixth-year students have passed the wizarding class (an exam held before Christmas), they finally turn their attention to the hapless fifth-year students.

After all, at the end of this semester, the fifth grade students will also face the adult wizard level exam.

The worst of them seemed to be the twins of the Weasley family. I don't know if they suspected that they were secretly selling magic candies, or because their grades were really not good. All the professors almost unanimously assigned a large number of homework papers to the two of them individually.

So much so that they had to supply Ron with magic candy for him to retail and sell to other little wizards.

McGuffin was completely speechless after knowing all this.

--supply chain?Also layer upon layer.

——They are pretty darn good at this.

Ron was very excited, but he was also more interested in the candy channel behind the twins.

(End of this chapter)