The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 377 House Elf Rights Promotion

The Quidditch World Cup was supposed to be a major event in the wizarding world, and the Irish team's celebration and carnival should have just begun, but everything came to an abrupt end because of the parade of suspected Death Eaters.

There was chaos on the field, with burned tents everywhere and people screaming in panic.Aside from a couple of kittens, the Ministry of Magic hadn't caught anyone important to the Death Eater parade, although anyone who might have been in that procession was well known.

The Dark Mark reappeared in the skies over England after more than ten years. Not only the Ministry of Magic and ordinary people were afraid, but even the Death Eaters who participated in the parade were also panicked. They ran away as soon as the Dark Mark appeared. Yes, faster than anyone else.

The Ministry of Magic also failed to catch the person who cast the Dark Mark, but they found the person responsible.No, it should be the house elf who is responsible for the blame. Ada doesn't know what kind of punishment Winky will receive, but a "clothes" should be indispensable.

Barty Crouch, the former director of the Ministry of Magic's Law Enforcement Department, who once killed his relatives, left a very bad impression on Ada.

To Ada, Cornelius Fudge was no different than Barty Crouch.Fudge, a politician with his mind full of political battles, and Crouch, a paranoid radical, would be a disaster for either of them to sit in the Ministry of Magic post.

The manual blowing flower incident on the World Cup venue was "properly" resolved, and the "bad guys" were punished as they should be, but Ada felt a bone-chilling chill.She always felt that the Dark Mark was just the beginning, everything was far from over, and this time it might be even darker.

On the way back to the tent, everyone was depressed because of what happened just now, and it was hard for anyone to be happy after being washed by twenty stunning spells.

Hermione reacted the most in the group. The kind girl was very angry at what happened to the house-elf Winky.

"How could they treat her like that!" said Hermione angrily. "Mr. Diggory keeps calling her a 'goblin'... and Mr. Crouch! He knows she didn't do it and wants to fire her He doesn't care how scared and sad she is—he doesn't treat her like a human being at all!"

"Hey, she's not human at all." Ron answered yawningly, and then he replaced Barty Crouch to bear Hermione's gunfire.

Sometimes Ada wondered, did Ron eat his EQ while he was cooking?In the entire Weasley family, the two people with the lowest EQ are Percy and Ron. Ada guessed that their EQ should be negative.

Mr. Weasley and Lupine agreed with Hermione's opinion that the wizarding world was indeed too unfair to the house-elves and squeezed too much, but the issue of the rights and interests of the house-elves was a joke, and the house-elves themselves didn't care .

"Mr. Weasley, I don't understand! House elves obviously have feelings and can live like humans, but Mr. Diggory and Mr. Crouch...why would they do...so disgusting... "Hermione couldn't continue, she stopped for a while before continuing, "Aren't they sympathetic!"

"Good girl, let me tell you why." Sirius picked up the conversation and said, "Because the house-elves were conquered by wizards, and they have been instilled in the concept of serving their masters for generations, and they cannot defy their masters." Command. Now, slavishness is in their blood and cannot be changed."

It was difficult for Hermione, who grew up in Muggle society and was born in a happy family, to understand this kind of thinking. She continued to retort: ​​"But shouldn't we improve their conditions? Let them no longer be so humble, at least not let them suffer This treatment today!"

Hermione's stubbornness came up, and no one could convince her for a while.After returning to the tent, Hermione quarreled with Percy about it, because Percy didn't think there was anything wrong with Crouch's way of treating Winky, which is what people in the wizarding world do.

"Is what everyone thinks right is right?" Hermione retorted loudly to Percy, "We used to think that taking a bath was a dangerous thing that would make people sick, but what happened?"

Hermione is talking about the most famous black history of Europa, that is, the whole people do not take a bath.People in the Middle Ages believed that bathing would expand the pores and make people sick. In order to avoid getting sick, people simply stopped taking baths.

Up to the princes and nobles, the church, down to the common people, the whole people do not take a bath.It sounds like a man silent and a woman crying now, but people at that time did it like this, and they were even more proud of not taking a bath.

It is precisely because of this situation that perfumes are so popular.

"Hermione, it's good to have sympathy, but don't use your sympathy indiscriminately." Said Ada who was sitting in the corner.

This somewhat accusatory sentence made Hermione stop her blizzard, and she continued, "The House Elf Welfare Promotion Association" will be born tonight.

"Ada, don't house elves deserve sympathy?" Hermione asked, she couldn't understand Ada's thoughts, obviously everyone entered the wizarding world from the Muggle world, why could Ada respond to such exploitation and oppression? Turn a blind eye.

"It's worthy of sympathy, but it's not worthy of sympathy." Ada's answer was ambiguous, and she continued, "There used to be people who were as whimsical as you, and wanted to improve the status of house-elves and let them get more rights, but you know that house-elves What did the elf say?"

Ada didn't wait for Hermione to answer her own question, but said to herself: "Let me tell you, the house elves think that the person who wants to give them benefits, who wants to give them freedom, who wants to liberate them , the biggest villain in the world! A complete lunatic!"

"Why, he's helping them!" said Hermione, "but, but Dobby..."

"Dobby is just an example. Besides Dobby, which house-elf have you ever seen longing for freedom?" Ada continued, "If I give my house-elf a 'clothes', Agnès will wear it at night. If her head is cut off, she will feel that she is a heinous bad elf."

Sirius Black interrupted suddenly, and he asked with great interest: "I always thought that only the house-elves of the Black family had this hobby, so it turns out that the Rozier family is also like this?"

"No, Sirius." Ada said helplessly, "I'm just giving an example, an analogy."

Hermione reorganized her words and tried to struggle for the last time. She said, "It's because of the concepts instilled in them by wizards that made them become like this. If you can...if you can get rid of their servility..."

"Stop making trouble, Hermione, you can't do this, and no one else can." Ada said with a smile, "God helps those who help themselves, only they can do it, and only they can save themselves."

Ada sympathized with what happened to the house-elves, but she wouldn't bother to help them because they didn't deserve it.If Ada really did this, she would only be regarded as a scourge by the house-elves, not the one who led them out of the darkness.

Even without a wand, house-elves can still cast spells, and even their magic is better than many wizards.They have always been able to resist and have the ability to resist, but they have never thought about resisting.

The help from the outside is regarded as a scourge by them, and the house elves do not choose to resist, so they can only continue to be the servants of the wizard, beat and scolded, bound by their masters, and give everything they have, even their lives.

Just like Winky tonight, she was obviously not the Dark Mark cast by her, but she was thrown out by her master Barty Crouch like a chamber pot, and became a scapegoat.

The only ones who can help the house-elves are themselves.Only when they awaken themselves and choose to fight, can they get rid of their current status and breathe freely.

(End of this chapter)