The Magic of Holowarts

Chapter 15 The Kitchen
The road has to be taken step by step, and the boxes have to be added little by little. We will strive to be on the market before Christmas, and we can also launch a limited edition of Quidditch!

Eight little Hufflepuff wizards ducked their heads out of the common room, and their target was the kitchen next to it.

"Carl, we won't be arrested at this time, will we?"

"Don't worry, the kitchen is very close. Filch basically patrols around the Gryffindor lounge and won't come to Hufflepuff."

After leaving the lounge, the 8 people came to an oil painting of fruits.

"The kitchen is behind here?"

Ragni asked Karl curiously.

"Of course, how far do you think it is?"

"Great! No need to go to the auditorium for breakfast in the future!"

Caddy was so excited, this was definitely the best news I heard today.

"You can't bother the house elves all the time. If you can't catch up with the meals in the auditorium, you can come. If the professors don't see you going to the auditorium, the consequences will be very serious. And, forget it for yourself."

A few little badgers have question marks on their foreheads, and what? ?

"Do house-elves tell tales?"

Musk is more worried. He is afraid of confinement. This guy is a little afraid of the dark. He covered himself in bed early last night.

"No, they respect wizards, no matter which house you are from."

Lia thought of her mother, who was so violent about housework, and her brother, who was always very quiet at home, and the house was never tidy.

"Mum would love to have a house-elf so she doesn't have to do the daily chores."

"Generally, only pure-blood families have them. House elves rarely change their masters on their own initiative."

Carl ruthlessly shatters Mama Leah's fantasies, even though her mother probably didn't expect them to.

He stretched out his finger and scratched the pear in the middle of the portrait, and the pear laughed, which echoed very loudly in the corridor.

That pear gradually turned into a handle.

Carl turned the handle, and the oil painting opened automatically, revealing the passage leading to the kitchen.

"Come in quickly, I didn't expect this pear to laugh so loudly."

Say hello to a few little badgers and tell them to move faster.

"Oh~ student!~"

The lady in the portrait opposite the kitchen door was obviously awakened, opened the window in the oil painting, and leaned forward to observe.

Carl saluted quickly.

"Sorry to bother you."

"Okay, little badger, don't apologize, go back to sleep after dinner."

After finishing speaking, he closed the window on the portrait and went back to sleep.

Carl knew that the kitchen was not so casually accessible.

Fortunately, the little badger in the past had a good relationship with the lady in the portrait. When he found out that she was a Hufflepuff student, he didn't intend to inform her.

When the kitchen door was closed, the eight little badgers breathed a sigh of relief, including Carl himself. The painting just now scared them.

"Tomorrow I'm going to ask the lady if she needs to clean the frame."

"I thought she'd tell the professor."

"It feels like she knows Hufflepuff very well."

"If it's a wizard with malicious intentions, she will definitely inform her. We don't have to worry about it. Keep the basic manners. She won't tell the professor."

"It's a good thing we have you, Carl."

Before everyone finished chatting, a piercing and shrill question rang out.

"Dear Mr. Wizard! The house elves are here to serve you wholeheartedly! What can I do for you?"

A house elf just frustrates her slender fingers, looking at the little badgers expectantly.

Before Karl and the others answered, there was a mess of noises from behind the house-elves, and then a large group of house-elves appeared, and they all looked at the little wizard eagerly.

"They're so enthusiastic."

Ragni whispered.

"The enthusiasm is scary."

Jody and others agreed that the little girls had never seen so many house-elves and looked at them with wide eyes.

Carl stepped forward and said to the house elf.

"We forgot our meal, can you prepare something to eat?"

The house elves are clearly excited!One by one scrambling to get busy.

"Of course! It's our honor to serve the little wizards of Horowwarts!"

"Please go inside."

After speaking, he bowed his head and curtseyed to let the little wizards in.

Walking into the porch, looking around, the kitchen is completely another auditorium, with four long tables exactly the same as those in the auditorium.

Carl led everyone to sit down nearby, and it didn't take long for a house elf to come over with a plate bigger than him. The plate contained steaming and fragrant food, and there were more house elves behind him, holding up the plate .

"We can't eat too much, can you tell your companions to prepare less?"

The house elf who had been by their side was obviously disappointed, and its long ears drooped listlessly.

Carl looked at the situation and said quickly.

"It will be a waste of food if you can't finish it. We will come here often in the future and have the opportunity to taste the food you cook."

"Okay sir, I will tell everyone, I hope that all the little wizards, ladies and gentlemen, can come to the kitchen often, we are willing to serve you."

"Thank you~"

As soon as the little badgers thanked him, the house-elf's eyes began to well up with tears.

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Several people wondered each other, isn't it just a thank you?

"The house-elf must cook the most delicious food for the little wizard!"

After finishing speaking, I went to compete with other house elves for cooking food. I hope he didn't forget what Carl said just now, and cook less.

When the food was put on the table, the house elf didn't listen.

"This is richer than the auditorium!"

"Should we finish eating these?"

Dai Li swallowed, and carefully looked at the more than 100 house elves around. They were all expecting the little wizard to eat the food they made.

Carl hurriedly greeted the house elves around him.

"Thank you for the food you prepared for us. You go to your own affairs first, and trouble everyone if necessary."

"Mr. Wizard said thank you to the house-elf!!"

"No trouble at all! We are here to help you!"

Several people had to cover their ears from the noise of a large group of house-elves.

"I finally understand why the seniors don't come here to eat even though the kitchen is so close."

"They are so enthusiastic! Terribly enthusiastic!"

"So are you coming again?"

"Of course, it's better not to come here. Their enthusiasm makes me feel guilty."

"There is no need to feel guilty, it will make them uncomfortable. House-elves are a strange group. In ancient times, they were conquered by wizards and enslaved by wizards. Helga Hufflepuff brought them to Hufflepuff. Lovoz, I hope to give them a better life, but they have no way to adapt, they just want to work hard to repay Helga Hufflepuff, as you saw just now, they will only be happy if they work for wizards .”

"It's a weird state of mind."

"Don't they want to be free?"

"Freedom will make them uneasy. Leah, don't make plans for them. They belong to Horowwards, and they won't come to your house."

Leah stuck out her tongue embarrassingly.

"Respecting them and letting them do decent work is to thank them, and don't say thank you and sorry to them. You just saw that they will punish themselves for being too agitated and guilty."

Carl couldn't help giving a few people some science, and his scalp was numb by these enthusiastic house elves.

"Hurry up and eat. If you eat slowly, the house elves will think you don't like the food they prepared. Let's go back immediately after eating."

"But we can't eat so much."

"If you can't finish eating, you can pack it. We have breakfast tomorrow morning, and there must be students in the common room who are willing to help us share it."

"You always know everything."

"Sorry, this is not what I predicted, it's written in the book."

"Karl, you're definitely a Ravenclaw. No Hufflepuff goes to the library on the first day of school and knows so much."

"I am Hufflepuff now, and no one can change that."

Several little badgers spoke in unison.

"We're all Hufflepuffs!"

Horn, who had food stuffed in his mouth, was already moving. He was already starving.

Sometimes the best way to wish others well is to have effective feedback on their labors.

The way everyone gorges on the food clearly pleases the house-elves, and the kitchen elf's mouth is nearly cracked to the ear.

When everyone was full, surrounded by a group of house elves, each of them had a lot of packed food in their hands. The kind Hufflepuff could not see the disappointed eyes of the elves. The most, if it wasn't for Karl to stop them, they would have hung the food up to their necks.

Back in the common room, it was not too late, and there were still many Hufflepuff students.

"Did you go to the kitchen? That's amazing, very few new Hufflepuffs touch the kitchen on the first day of school."

Some senior seniors joked.

"Don't mention it, those house elves are so enthusiastic that we can't refuse, who needs food? We brought back a lot."

"It's normal. I used to go there often. How do you know the door?"

"Carl took us there, he knows everything."

Caddy put the packed food on the table.

"That's amazing! I didn't know about kitchen doors until second grade."

The senior was a little surprised, and he was not polite, rummaging through all kinds of food to find what he wanted.

"Stop bragging, if you hadn't followed me quietly, the third grade wouldn't even have found the kitchen door."

A senior sister expressed her gratitude to Karl and others, and ruthlessly revealed the truth that the senior had concealed.

"I'm afraid to go to the kitchen. There were too many people there once, and the food I brought back was eaten for a long time until it spoiled. I think the house elf who cleaned up the food must be very sad."

Another senior with long brown hair and glasses, after some searching, found the food she wanted to eat.

"Everyone take it by themselves, we brought back too much."

A group of little badgers came over one after another with a smile on their faces, apparently they were all used to it.

The prefects who were still chatting in the common room told a few little badgers to say hello before going, don't go too many people, it would be a waste, and be careful of Filch's cat, it often wanders around the kitchen.

This is Hufflepuff, interesting isn't it?

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(End of this chapter)