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Chapter 193 House Elves

The house elves in the world of Harry Potter are a race conquered by wizards in ancient wars. They are differentiated into the category of magical creatures. They must receive servile training from birth and must serve their masters from generation to generation.

They undertake all housework and are bound by their masters. They cannot disobey their master's orders casually, and must punish themselves if they disobey.

For house elves, their highest right is to obey the orders of their masters. They must work hard all their lives without wages or holidays. They are proud of their labor and ashamed of wandering freely.

Under such training, the house elves regard serving their masters as their greatest honor, just like Kreacher in the plot.

His dream is to be like his ancestors. After he is too old to work, his master will cut off his head and hang it side by side with his ancestors' heads on the wall as a decoration.

House-elves are regulated in the UK by the Department of Magical Creatures Regulation and Control at the Ministry of Magic.

The Ministry of Magic does not allow idle house-elves, and they believe that if they are idle they can do more harm than many other magical animals.

Although house-elves have been arranged this way for centuries, wizards have not let their guard down.

After all, house elves have full intelligence and can learn magic. Many house elves are even more talented than wizards.

This way of dealing with house elves may seem inhumane to some people, but Locke can understand it, because house elves are really likely to overthrow the entire wizarding world.

However, in Locke's view, the way wizards in this world treat house elves is too rigid, wasting great resources.

Obviously they are magical social animals with great potential, but in the end they can only do the work of ordinary servants for the rest of their lives.

According to the current model, even if the house elves do not need wages, the corresponding cost of domesticating and managing them will also increase linearly, and the benefits of the work will be limited.

Of course, these are still thoughts in Locke's mind. At this moment, he must follow the rules to adopt house elves and pay an expensive deposit.

A house-elf was five thousand Galleons as a deposit, no wonder many wizards found it expensive.

For the vast majority of wizards, adopting a house elf is not cost-effective. It is more for the purpose of highlighting their status. Only a few wizards with big dogs can afford it, and it is more like some kind of luxury.

In fact, Locke can be regarded as a big dog. When he came to the Ministry of Magic, he was led by the staff to the control room for the management of magical animals on the fourth basement floor.

This is the second largest department in the Ministry of Magic, the largest being the Department of Law Enforcement, which is where the so-called Aurors belong.

The wizards established the Ministry of Magic to maintain the stability of the wizarding world. The current main job is to suppress dark wizards and prevent turmoil from magical creatures.

As early as a few days ago, Locke had already filled out the form for adopting house elves, expressing that he wanted to adopt two house elves, and also paid a deposit of [-] Galleons.

The employees of the Ministry of Magic were very polite to Locke. After all, in the magic world, most wizards who can adopt house elves are either rich or expensive.

This time, they signed a contract to bring back the two house-elves, which means they have the ownership of the two house-elves, Will and Isaac.

After signing the contract, the staff also gave Locke a book full of prohibited items, the first of which is to prohibit house elves from touching wands, and there are a bunch of other taboos below.

Locke knew that this was to prevent the house elves from rebelling, which also made Locke discover that the contract magic against house elves in this world lacks coercive effect.

Otherwise, where so many precautions are needed, a direct soul contract will be more practical than memorizing a bunch of prohibited items.

So after returning, Locke directly drew up an extremely strict soul contract, and after Will and Isaac signed it, he was going to arrange for them to learn attack magic.

When Locke asked if they would attack magic, the protruding green eyes of the two house elves suddenly flashed panic, and they said in a trembling voice: "Master, the elves will never attack the master."

"I know, and once you violate the soul contract just now, or even just have this idea, then you will be punished by the contract."

Locke waved his hand: "I let you learn attack magic so that you can do things for me. You can only use it with my permission. Do you understand that?"

In any case, Locke made the two house elves start to learn attack magic through some oblique means.

Next, through observation, Locke found that the house elves were indeed worthy of being magical creatures, and their talent in magic was better than many so-called pure-blood wizards.

Even without touching a wand, house elves can quickly master various types of magic. No wonder the Ministry of Magic is strictly guarding against house elves.

Locke also didn't prepare wands for the house elves from the beginning, or prepare them with beautiful clothes to improve their treatment, but tried to set a 'merit point' for them.

To put it simply, it is 'work points'. If you work for Locke, the master, you can get corresponding merit points. Generally, the merits brought by daily work will be issued on a weekly basis. If you complete any special tasks, you will also have additional merit points.

These merit points can be exchanged for rewards from the master, such as more delicious food than usual meals, gorgeous clothes, or the Lord of the Rings.

Different rewards require different merit points.

Of course, if things go wrong, the corresponding merit points will be deducted, or the master Locke will personally arrange the punishment, and self-harm is strictly prohibited.

Because the house elves are the property of the owner, and after self-injury, they need to be treated by Locke Flower Gallon, which is to bring losses to the owner without permission, so it must be put an end to it.

Being used to being a capitalist in the world of American dramas, Locke still prefers this way of driving labor rather than being like a slave owner.

In Locke's view, the slave owner's method is too contrary to human nature. Even though intelligent creatures like house elves have been enslaved for hundreds of years, once there is a problem with their thinking, it may bring extremely serious consequences. .

In fact, over the past few hundred years, there has never been a lack of examples of house elves having problems. There are no related descriptions in the plot and novels, but Locke has seen many cases in the taboo manual issued to him by the Ministry of Magic.

The set of capital can replace the set of slave owners. To put it bluntly, it is not costly, more efficient, and more practical.

What's more, there is a soul contract that has already been signed as a guarantee, so Locke will rest assured that the house elves will learn magic with attack methods.

However, the house elves that Locke has come into contact with now are too servile. As long as they are a little gentle, they will treat you wholeheartedly.

When Will and Isaac heard that merit points could be exchanged for rewards and completed the work arranged by Locke, their enthusiasm burst out several times.

(End of this chapter)