Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 525 My Mr. Townley!
"The honorable Mr. McTownley has something to say to us?"

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

Hermione immediately became excited when she saw this, and she waved the "Quieter" in her hand vigorously and shouted:
"That's right! He wrote everything he had to say here!"

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

Maybe she realized that the house-elves were still afraid of her, so Hermione immediately stopped her movements, carefully placed the "The Quibbler" on the floor, stepped back slowly and said:

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

Hermione's method was obviously effective, and as she retreated, the house elves became more courageous.

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 with a cane, and opened the book of "The Quibbler" under the watchful eyes of all the house-elves.

Harry originally thought that he would read the contents to everyone, but what he didn't expect was that the old elf showed embarrassment after flipping through it for a while.

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

But he couldn't be blamed for that, after all, wizards valued their own knowledge and power more than anything else, which could be seen from the fact that they didn't allow any other race to use magic wands.

House-elves are obviously also within the scope of the knowledge prohibition, so no one even in Hogwarts will teach them wizard's script at all.

The old elf looked at the pairs of eyes full of longing around him, hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Hermione in the distance, and said with some confusion:
"Ma...uh...little girl, can you read it for us?"

"Of course!"

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

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

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

This scene made Hermione a little jealous.

You must know that you really care about these house elves, but even so, the other party treats you as a devil and avoids them.

She asked herself that she spent more time on the house elf than Mike, but the house elf's 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 her embarrassing thoughts out of her mind, Hermione quickly returned to normal, and under the expectant eyes of all the house-elves, she recited the words that Mike published on the 107th issue of "The Quibbler" An article "House-Elves - A Tragic Creature Ending Under the Oppression of Wizards".

Harry also read this article, which revealed all kinds of cruel methods that wizards have done to house elves for thousands of years. Cruel acts like on the wall also include the fact that wizards xn house elves, and the fact that wizards breed them as dogs and even force inbreeding in order to breed excellent house elves.

The content in it is not only supported by accurate and exact data, but also uses a lot of lyrical writing, which made Mike cry at that time.

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

However, what Hermione told these house elves now seems to be slightly different from the original article! ?
Harry looked at Hermione who was reading articles to the house-elves with a strange expression on his face.

He could hear clearly from the side that Hermione had mixed a lot of his own personal stuff into Mike's article, which made this almost perfect article have a lot of loopholes and logical loopholes.

It's just that the house-elves obviously didn't notice that something was wrong, in fact they were already crying when Hermione was halfway through reading it.

After Hermione finished reading the whole article, the Hogwarts kitchen was already filled with cries. Not only were the house-elves crying, but even Hermione herself was moved. began to cry.

Seriously, house elves don't look good when they cry, their nostrils and eyes are too big, and when they cry, the snot and tears will become very profuse, which makes them have to wipe themselves all the time snot tears.

Over time, they will paint themselves into a big painted face.

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

The old elf at the head said with a sob.

Perhaps because of his excitement, his fingers wiping his snot and tears kept trembling violently when he was talking. Harry was horrified to find that during this process, he threw a lot of crystal clear liquid into the boiling soup pot next to him!

Harry felt like he was going to throw up, but in order not to spoil the atmosphere of the scene, he still covered his mouth to suppress the nausea in his chest.

But for dinner tonight, he won't eat anything!

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

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

"He'll be a good master, too. I'd love to be his house-elf and serve him all my life! It would be nice if he could chop off my head and hang it on the wall when I'm old!"

"Yes! Yes! I wish I could follow Mr. McTownley forever! It's a pity that he already has four house-elves, so he probably doesn't need us, does he?"

"What a pity! What a pity!"

……

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

I spent so much time reading articles for them, and even included a lot of private goods in it, but the result is that these house elves want to follow Mike even more?

This made Hermione a little unacceptable. What she wanted to see was that the group of house-elves quit after hearing these words and began to fight for their own rights!

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

Hermione gritted her teeth and said, now she is really angry to the extreme.

"My Mr. Townley! What have I heard!" The old elf at the head screamed in horror, and he even replaced Merlin with Mike's surname, "You devil! How dare you insult me ​​like that? us!"

The reactions of the other house-elves were similar to those of the old elves. The screams of hundreds of house-elves directly merged into a terrifying sound wave, causing Harry to cover his ears in pain.

And after the screams gradually subsided, the old elf said out of breath:
"For the sake of being Mr. Townley's friends, we won't throw you out! Now, please go out by yourself! You are not welcome here from now on!"

"Yes! You are not welcome!"

"Get out!"

Hearing the roar of the house-elves, Hermione's eyes began to turn red, she stomped the ground fiercely, turned her head and walked away quickly.

Seeing this, Harry hurriedly followed, but unexpectedly, Hermione, who had just walked up, turned her head around as if she suddenly remembered something, and almost bumped into Harry.

Rudely bypassing 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!" said the old elf, puffing out his thin chest, "We are willing to do anything for the great Mr. McTownley!"

"Would you even leave Hogwarts to help him?"

As soon as this remark 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, tugging at Harry's arm and would not turn back.

I don't know if it was an accident or on purpose, but Hermione didn't take away the "Quieter" she brought, and it was still lying quietly at the old elf's feet.

Seeing this, the old elf's face flashed a gleam of joy, and he quickly stuffed the book "The Quibbler" into his pillow case, and the loose pillow case was stretched instantly. The four corners of the book are clearly visible.

After that, he looked around as if he had done something bad, and he was relieved when he saw that no other wizards around him saw it.

And most of the house elves around him had the same reaction, some even more nervous than the old elves.

You must know that stealing is an extremely shameful thing for house-elves, even if they take something that no one wants for themselves. The house-elves can only rely on their master to give them everything, and the master does not give it to them. Even if they were starved to death and frozen to death, they would not be able to take it. It is conceivable how much psychological pressure the old elf endured in doing this!
But there is no way, this "Quiet" is too important to them!
Even if they can't understand the text inside, just looking at the cover is enough for them to be happy for a whole day!

The old elf has even decided that he will 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 face changed drastically as if he suddenly thought of something, he turned his head and roared at a group of house elves whose expressions were very similar to his just now:
"Dinner is about to start! What are you still doing here? Hurry up and go to work!"

The house elves returned to their posts in a panic. During this flurry of panic, the Hogwarts kitchen became busy again.

……

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

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

The reason is that the wizards have already arranged a large number of protective magic circles on this island early on. These powerful magic circles not only make all the ships passing by ignore its existence, but also All maps in this world cannot show its exact location.

Such a strict protection spell group 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 find here.

Not only that, a large number of protective spells on the island 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 has reached tens of degrees below zero. Stable at the standard of twenty degrees.

This is almost the favorite temperature for 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. Apart from the rich resources that can be produced in its own country, various countries have also transported a large amount of materials and stored them on this island, which will be used as capital for a last-minute counterattack.

Here is the headquarters of the International Federation of Magic - Mary Joya!
And at this moment, in the largest and only castle in Mary Gioia, a special meeting was being held.

The people who participated in the meeting were the ministers of the Ministry of Magic of China, France, Finland and other countries, as well as the president of the Magic Congress of the United States.

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

But different from the expected serious meeting scene, the atmosphere in the castle meeting hall at this moment is obviously extremely relaxed.

Except for Scrimgeour, who was the minister of the Ministry of Magic of the United States, sitting upright at the conference table, showing his military qualities, the attitudes of the other ministers were very relaxed, especially the minister of the Magic Congress of the United States, Catherine Pi. Qualley.

This middle-aged woman who still has a charm is sitting on a soft chair by the fireplace with her legs crossed, and while warming up, she is slowly smoking a long and slender pipe.

With the continuous spraying of smoke from his mouth, Scrimgeour in front of the conference table felt that he would soon be unable to suppress the anger in his heart.

(End of this chapter)