Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 525 My Mr. Townley!

"Dear Mr. Mike Townley actually has something to say to us?"

A house elf repeated it again. He carefully opened the lid of the pot and climbed out. His eyes were full of suspicion and longing. The other house elves in the kitchen had almost the same expression.

Hermione became excited when she saw this. She waved the Quibbler in her hand vigorously and shouted:

"That's right! He wrote everything he wanted to say here!"

Hermione's sudden movement startled the house elves, but Harry noticed that no matter how scared they appeared, their eyes were always following the Quibbler in Hermione's hand.

Perhaps she realized that the house elves were still afraid of her, so Hermione immediately stopped moving, carefully placed the book "The Quibbler" on the floor, slowly backed away and said:

"Don't worry, I'll just put it here and you can see for yourselves. I won't go there."

Hermione's method was obviously effective. As she retreated, the house elves became bolder.

Gradually, many house elves gathered around, curiously looking at the book "The Quibbler" on the ground.

Finally, an old elf wearing a Hufflepuff pillowcase came to the center of the crowd on crutches, and opened the book "The Quibbler" under the gaze of all the house elves.

Harry originally thought he would read the contents to everyone, but what he didn't expect was that the old elf looked embarrassed after reading it for a while.

This is really a shameful thing. As the most knowledgeable house elf in the entire Hogwarts, he can't understand the wizard's words.

But this can't be blamed on him. After all, wizards value their knowledge and power more than anything else. This can be seen from the fact that they do not allow any other race to use wands.

House elves are obviously also within the scope of the knowledge ban, so no one even in Hogwarts will teach them wizarding texts.

The old elf looked at the eyes full of longing around him, hesitated for a moment before turning to look at Hermione in the distance, and said with some tangle:

"Demon... uh... little girl, can you read it for us?"

"certainly!"

Hermione swooped out like a cheetah and picked up the Quibbler.

This sudden movement startled the house elves again, and many of them even hid back in their hiding places again.

But their curiosity and longing for Mike's information forced them to carefully gather around Hermione again.

This scene made Hermione feel a little jealous.

You must know that you really care about these house elves, but even so, they regard you as a devil and avoid them.

She asked herself that she definitely paid more attention to the house elves than Mike, but the house elves' attitude towards Mike was completely different from hers.

And now, these house elves are even willing to get close to themselves for Mike!

Shaking her head and getting rid of her embarrassing thoughts, Hermione quickly returned to normal. Under the expectant gazes of all the house elves, she read the words that Mike published in the 107th issue of "The Quibbler". An article titled "House Elves - A Tragic Creature that is Doomed Under the Oppression of Wizards".

Harry had also read this article, which revealed various cruel methods that wizards had used against house elves over thousands of years. Not only did pure-blood families cut off the heads of old house elves, but Cruel acts such as those on the wall also include the xn carried out by wizards on house elves, as well as the fact that wizards breed them like dogs and even force inbreeding in order to cultivate excellent house elves.

The content inside is not only supported by accurate and accurate data, but also uses a lot of lyrical writing. Mike cried when he read it.

It was because of reading this article that Hermione rekindled the idea of ​​helping house elves.

However, what Hermione is telling these house elves now seems to be slightly different from the original article! ?

Harry looked at Hermione who was reading an article to the house elves with a strange expression.

He heard very clearly from the side that Hermione had mixed a lot of her own personal information into Mike's article, which caused many flaws and logical loopholes in this almost perfect article.

It's just that the house elves obviously didn't hear anything wrong. In fact, they broke down in tears when Hermione was halfway through reading it.

By the time Hermione finished reading the entire article, the kitchen at Hogwarts was already filled with cries. Not only were the house elves crying, but even Hermione herself was moved. started crying.

To be honest, house elves don't look good when they cry. Their nostrils and eyes are too big, and when they cry, they shed a lot of snot and tears, which makes them have to wipe themselves all the time. snot and tears.

As time goes by, they will paint themselves into a big painted face.

"I didn't expect... Mr. McTownley to... actually care about us so much! He is such a good person!"

The old elf at the head said choked with sobs.

Perhaps because he was too excited, the fingers he was wiping away his nose and tears were trembling violently as he spoke. Harry was horrified to find that a lot of crystal liquid had been thrown into the boiling soup pot next to him in the process!

Harry felt like he was about to vomit, but in order not to ruin the atmosphere of the scene, he still covered his mouth to suppress the nausea in his chest.

But he won’t eat anything for dinner tonight!

At this time, the house elves on the side also reacted and echoed:

"Yes! Mr. Mike Townley is such a good man! Not only does he always praise us, he also solves a lot of big troubles for us!"

"He will definitely be a good master. I really want to be his house elf and serve him all my life! It would be even better if he could chop off my head and hang it on the wall when I get old!"

"Yes! Yes! I really wish I could follow Mr. McTownley forever! It's a pity that he seems to have four house elves already, so he doesn't need us anymore, right?"

"What a pity! What a pity!"

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Listening to the conversation between the house elves, Hermione felt like her lungs were about to explode.

I spent so much time reading articles to them, and even included a lot of personal information in them, but the result was that these house elves became more and more eager to follow Mike?

This was somewhat unacceptable to Hermione. The scene she wanted to see was that these house elves gave up their jobs after hearing these words and began to fight for their own rights!

"You! Don't you want freedom at all!?"

Hermione said through gritted teeth, now she was really angry to the extreme.

"My Mr. Townley! I heard something!" The old elf at the head screamed in horror. He even replaced Merlin with Mike's last name. "You devil! How dare you insult like this?" us!"

The other house elves' reactions were similar to the old elf's. The screams of hundreds of house elves directly merged into a terrifying sound wave, which made Harry cover his ears in pain.

After the screams gradually subsided, the old elf said breathlessly:

"For the sake of you being Mr. Townley's friend, we won't throw you out! Now, please go out on your own! You are not welcome here from now on!"

"Yes! You are not welcome!"

"Get out!"

Listening to the roars of the house elves, Hermione's eyes began to turn red, she stamped the ground hard, turned around and left quickly.

Seeing this, Harry hurriedly followed him, but he didn't expect that Hermione, who had just walked away, turned around again as if she suddenly remembered something, and almost bumped into Harry.

After roughly walking around Harry, Hermione stared at the house elves and said:

"If, I mean if Mike is in danger, are you willing to help him?"

"Of course!" the old elf puffed out his thin chest and said, "We are willing to do anything for the great Mr. McTownley!"

"Even if it means leaving Hogwarts to help him?"

As soon as these words came out, the expression on the old elf's face froze instantly.

He lowered his head and slowly glanced at the Hufflepuff emblem painted on the pillow on his chest. After a long time, he raised his head and said firmly:

"willing!"

"Hehehe! That's good!"

A smile also appeared on Hermione's face. She turned her head again and tugged on Harry's arm without looking back.

Whether by accident or on purpose, Hermione did not take away the Quibbler she had brought with her. At this moment, it was lying quietly at the old elf's feet.

Seeing this, a hint of joy flashed across the old elf's face. He quickly stuffed the "Quiet" into his pillowcase at lightning speed. The originally loose pillowcase was stretched out in an instant. The book is bulging, and the four corners of the book are clearly visible.

Then, he looked around as if he had done something bad, and was relieved when he saw that no other wizards were around to see him.

Most of the house elves around him had the same reaction, and some were even more nervous than the old elves.

You must know that stealing is an extremely shameful thing for house elves. Even if it is to take something that no one wants for yourself, it is the same. House elves can only rely on their masters to give them everything. If the master does not give it, Even if they starve to death and freeze to death, they can't get it. One can imagine how much psychological pressure the old elf endured in doing this!

But there is no way, this "The Quibbler" is too important to them!

Even if they can't understand the text inside, just looking at the cover is enough to make them happy all day long!

The old elf has even decided to sleep with this book on his pillow tonight.

Thinking of this, the old elf even showed an excited smile on his face.

But soon, his expression changed drastically as if he suddenly thought of something, he turned his head and roared at the house elves who had a very similar expression to his just now:

"Dinner is about to start! What are you doing here? Why don't you go to work!"

One by one, the house elves returned to their posts in panic. In this flurry of excitement, the Hogwarts kitchen became busy again.

…

In a piece of broken ice in the Arctic Ocean, a pure black island stands silently.

Although this island is astonishing in size, no smaller than Iceland, it has never appeared on Muggle maps since ancient times.

The reason is that the wizards have already deployed a large number of protective arrays on this island. These powerful arrays not only make all the ships passing around them ignore its existence, but also No map in the world can show its exact location.

Such a tight group of protective spells makes this island the most stable fortress in the world, because Muggles and even most wizards cannot observe the existence of this island unless Muggles use nuclear weapons to attack the entire Arctic Ocean. Carpet bombing, otherwise it would be impossible to discover this place.

Not only that, the large number of protective spells on the island not only protect the island from being discovered, but also completely isolate the cold outside the island. This makes the temperature on the island remain constant even though the outside temperature reaches dozens of degrees below zero. Stable at the standard of 20 degrees.

This is almost the favorite temperature of most plants, so the vegetation on the island is very rich, and some trees are even hundreds of years old.

At the same time, this is also the place with the richest reserves of magic resources in the world. In addition to the rich resources that can be produced locally, various countries have also transported a large amount of materials and stored them on this island to be used as capital for a last-minute counterattack.

Here is the headquarters of the International Federation of Magic - Marie Joa!

At this moment, in the largest and only castle in Mariejoia, a unique meeting was being held.

The people attending the meeting were the ministers of magic from China, France, Finland and other countries, as well as the president of the Magical Congress of the United States.

The purpose of their trip is to solve the problem of the Ministry of Magic of the Republic of China asking for help. Originally, it would be enough to send envoys to solve this problem, but unfortunately the envoys from various countries have been arguing for nearly half a month. Due to the increasingly urgent domestic situation, , Scrimgeour had to take the initiative to convene this summit meeting.

But unlike the expected serious meeting scene, the atmosphere in the castle conference hall at this moment was obviously extremely relaxed.

Except for Scrimgeour, who as the Minister of the Ministry of Magic of the United States sat upright at the conference table, showing his true military qualities, the postures of the other ministers were very relaxed, especially the Minister of the Magic Congress of the United States, Catherine Pi. quarry.

This middle-aged woman who still retains her charm is sitting relaxedly on a soft chair by the fireplace with her legs crossed, warming herself by the fire while holding a slender pipe and smoking slowly.

As smoke continued to spray from his mouth, Scrimgeour at the conference table felt that he would soon be unable to suppress the anger in his heart.