a certain scientific harry potter

This kid, Harry, simply devoured Sirius to death, even stronger than James back then~

Chapter 440 The relationship between Sirius and Kreacher is very complicated

In other words, of course Harry wanted to dissuade Sirius.

The bottom of the lake is full of ghost corpses, the number of them is not even known to be a few hundred or a thousand, so if you kill them in such a hurry, are you sure you are not giving away their heads for nothing?

But to persuade people, there must be a way of persuading them. Sirius is the kind of person who is bold and careful, but never lacks the spirit of adventure. If Harry insists on blocking him when he is on the offensive, he will only make trouble in the end. And scattered.

So Harry might as well pretend to be pitiful, and let Sirius actually realize what kind of trouble he would cause Harry if he was impulsive. Out of concern for his godson, he naturally gave up.

Of course, Sirius could actually see through Harry's trick, but if he thought about it calmly, he would eventually accept Harry's opinion and stop acting impulsively.

His younger brother Regulus is very important, yes, but Harry and Lupine are not important?

From now until the summer vacation, just to take the dead Regulus home three months in advance, he wants the living people around him to take impulsive adventures with him... Sirius asked himself, maybe his thinking is too selfish.

In short, the matter of Regulus came to an end, and Harry also managed to get the intact Slytherin locket... Of course, this ending is not really a happy ending.

Because of this locket, Kreacher and Harry have completely become enemies.

As I said before, Kreacher is the most typical house-elf who accepts death, and he has always been meticulous about orders.

Regulus' last order to Kreacher was to destroy the locket, and at the same time not let everyone, including the Black family, know about the locket... But now because of Harry, Kreacher's two orders are Totally impossible to follow.

The elf was forced to tell the secret he had been keeping all along, and at the same time he couldn't keep the locket. This was an unprecedented blow to Kreacher.

However, these people in the room couldn't explain the whole story to him clearly.

Kreacher is just a house elf, he doesn't know about Horcruxes and soul fragments, let alone extend Regulus' order.

The order given by the dead owner was to destroy that thing. Now, instead of destroying the thing, it was taken away by Harry. In Kreacher's eyes, Harry is a bastard bastard who deserves to be cut to pieces .

Even if Sirius used orders to force Kreacher to believe Harry and insisted on explaining Regulus' true intentions, Kreacher would not listen at all, nor would he have any sincere affection for Harry.

This little elf could bow to Harry more than ninety degrees, and at the same time never mention the locket... But in his heart, he might be cursing Harry right now.

But it doesn't matter, he likes to scold, so let him scold enough in his heart, he is not Harry's house-elf anyway.

Moreover, maintaining such a bad relationship between Harry and Kreacher is actually not entirely a bad thing. It just allows a girl who has always had a lot of sympathy for the house elves to witness with her own eyes that "what I give honey, others give arsenic back" , exactly what it feels like.

Unlike Hermione, Harry never thought for a moment of 'saving' all the house-elves... because he knew very well that not all house-elves wanted freedom like Dobby.

For a guy like Kreacher, if you give him freedom, it is tantamount to insulting him, and he will even give his life to fight against you!

So, during these few days at the Black house, the only thing Harry warned Sirius was...

Try not to quarrel with Kreacher as much as possible, and at the same time, be sure to treat him well.

And his proposal was naturally appreciated by Lupine.

"Fortunately, Padfoot is willing to listen to you. His attitude is indeed a little too much. After all, Kreacher has served his family for so long. Even a house elf can't beat and scold at will."

When he found out that Sirius would humbly admit his mistakes to Harry, Lupine once said so in relief.

However, regarding his opinion, Harry shook his head noncommittally.

"Uncle Lupine, you still don't know my godfather well enough, and of course it's the same for Kreacher."

Sirius Black is a person who can be friends with werewolves, lend a motorcycle to Hagrid, a half-blood giant, without hesitation, and even play and laugh with various magical animals.

He rarely felt superior to others, and even when he was a student at Hogwarts, he didn't talk about bossing around the house-elves in the kitchen.

But why did Sirius treat Kreacher so harshly, even cruelly?

Because Kreacher is the only remaining epitome of the Black family today, and he gathers all the qualities that Sirius loathes.

Pure blood glory, family supremacy, self-proclaimed nobility, rejecting ordinary people and wizards of ordinary origin like beware of pests... All of these are things that Sirius has always hated from before to now.

But maybe it was because of the painting in the corridor on the first floor, but Sirius had to live here, and endured the so-called glory of the Black family, which was incompatible with him, constantly tormenting his eardrums every day.

Therefore, Sirius and Kreacher are essentially people from two camps; the fundamental reason for the various abuses he inflicted on Kreacher is similar to the plan to kill Snape back then.

Of course, Harry didn't mean to excuse Sirius by saying this... In any case, it was extremely wrong to treat a house-elf harshly and scold him casually.

He was just analyzing the problem from the perspective of Sirius, so that he could better persuade his godfather.

After all, Kreacher was still an elf of the Black family. No matter how much Sirius hated the other party's outdated ideas and values, for Regulus's sake, he should be more or less lenient to this old elf.

...

Harry and Hermione lived at Black's house for about a week, during which time he took a trip to Godric's Hollow to visit Bathilda Bagshot who lived alone.

In fact, before this trip, Harry originally planned to let old Bathilda live temporarily at Black's house, so that a house elf could help take care of her body.

But when Harry really got in touch with Kreacher, he readily gave up this idea.

It was true that the Blakes were not very livable, and it might have been better for old Bathilda to live on her own during the period before the nursing home was completed.

When they were in Godric's Hollow, Harry gave old Bathilda a light dose of veritaserum, which somewhat relieved her current muddled state, at least she would not be as confused as before when talking to people.

It was also for this reason that while Harry got the other party's approval to rewrite the book "History of Magic", he also inquired about some news that he was quite interested in.

About Dumbledore's past with a certain Dark Lord, and...a powerful magic item called the Deathly Hallows.

And this also prompted him to stop mushrooms and decide to immediately visit Luna's father, Xenophilius Lovegood.

Chapter 440 The shape of Luna's house is very curious

Ottery St. Catchpole Village is a small village located in Devon, England. After the signing of the International Statute of Secrecy in the seventeenth century, it gradually became a well-known ordinary person-wizard hybrid in the wizarding world. Residence.

There are many famous wizarding families living here, such as Harry's classmate at Hogwarts, Cedric Diggory; there is also the Weasley family, who live in a house called The Burrow outside the village. .

The Lovegoods, whom Harry was visiting today, were also here, their almost instantly recognizable house on top of a hill near the Burrow.

"That must be the crazy girl's house. It looks like a chimney. No one lives in that kind of place but her."

It was definitely a very weird house, a huge black column poked alone on the top of the hill, which looked a lot like a chess rook and a round chimney at the same time.

Especially when the wind blows over the top of the mountain, the floating clouds seem to come out of that house.

"The chimney is a bit too much, but it looks like a castle tower," Harry said with a smile.

"Yes, there is a crazy princess living in that castle, eagerly waiting for you, a brave man, to rescue her~" Hermione was irritated by her own unreasonable associations for no reason, and in the end, Hermione still had a good time Puckered his mouth.

"No...this is all about it~" Harry shrugged dumbfoundedly when he saw this.

Hermione is so sour, it is estimated that she can smell vinegar ten meters away.

Fortunately, there was a raging scandal in the school before. It was rumored that Harry had adopted Ginny. If the rumored heroine was replaced by Luna, Hermione would definitely have trouble in private.

But after today, the situation seems to be similar.

All the expenses of the Lovegood family come from the income of the magazine "The Quibbler". Now that the magazine is shut down, Luna and her father are actually in a state of no food.

But once Harry injects funds, "The Quibbler" will basically become Harry's own property in the end, and it will be no different from him being the patron to support the Lovegood family...

After reaching the top of the mountain all the way, the two confirmed immediately that they definitely did not find the wrong place.

Outside the black round house, there is a small courtyard with three hand-painted doorplates nailed to the rather simple gate.

'The Quibbler: X. Lovegood', 'Pick Your Own Bunch of Mistletoe', 'Leave the Airship Lee'

The handwriting on the house number was a little mottled, and even the words 'quibbler' had obvious scratches, but it still helped Hahe and his two confirm their destination.

"Harry! Know it all!!"

However, when the two were about to open the door and enter, the weird blonde girl suddenly jumped out from the nursery in the yard.

"Ah! Crazy girl, what are you doing?" Hermione was taken aback by Luna, and complained, patting her chest with lingering fear.

"This is a welcome ceremony," Luna replied solemnly. "After I was bitten by the garden sappers, I got the wisdom they provided, so I decided to welcome you like this."

"Garden...what?" Hermione was speechless.

This crazy girl started to say something incomprehensible again.

"It should be a goblin." Harry immediately understood what Luna was saying.

Goblins are a kind of magical animals. They usually feed on the roots of plants. This kind of 'pest' can often be seen in ordinary wizard families, especially those who like to grow flowers and grass.

But, speaking of welcoming ceremonies...

Harry took a closer look at Luna, and found that Luna really had carefully dressed up.

Luna wore a robe that looked like it was stitched together in different colors today. She also wore a butterbeer stopper necklace and carrot-shaped airship plum earrings. On her head was a garland of mistletoe woven with white beads.

Standing in her yard full of exotic plants, she really didn't feel any abruptness, like an elf who was in harmony with nature to the greatest extent.

Hmm... If Hermione was used to describe her, she would probably be considered a chameleon.

"Let me take you in, Dad is already waiting for you."

Luna stepped forward to take Hermione's hand, and led her through the two old crabapple trees and the big mistletoe at the door... and then forgot about Harry beautifully.

"This... oh~" Seeing this, Harry could only sigh helplessly, and followed them step by step like a little follower.

There's no way, Harry can't afford to offend any of these two girls.

After entering the house with the two women, Harry saw a strangely dressed man.

His eyes are a bit cross-eyed, and his white hair is fluffy on his shoulders, which looks like cotton candy; he is wearing an egg-yellow robe and a hat with tassels hanging down to the front of his nose. He even tied a tie around his neck.

This person should be Luna's father. It can be seen that he has made formal preparations to receive Harry and Hermione, but his appearance is indeed a bit nondescript.

At the same time, what attracted Harry the most was a gold chain he wore with his tie. Below that chain hung a strange pendant that looked like a triangular eye.

Harry knew now, after talking to old Bathilda, that it was the symbol for the Deathly Hallows.

It seemed that Luna's father did understand this.

"You must be Mr. Lovegood. If you excuse me today, I'm Harry Granger." After seeing the man, Harry immediately extended his hand politely.

"I'm Xenophilius Lovegood, Harry and Hermione Granger, I've heard Luna mention you all the time."

Luna's father hastily held Harry's hand with a very kind attitude.

After the guests and the host were seated, Mr. Lovegood poured some Goldigan tea for the two of Hahe... It is said that it is a drink that both he and Luna particularly like.

"It would be nice with a little sugar."

Mr. Lovegood seemed to be very confident in his drink. Harry took a sip, but felt that the lavender liquid was like the taste of squeezed green onions into juice, full of strong taste.

Recalling what Luna said earlier, when the magazine was just blocked, Mr. Lovegood also asked many people to invest, but most of them refused without even drinking a cup of tea... Maybe the culprit is this cup of tea Maybe.

But out of politeness, Harry didn't show any abnormality, but he didn't touch the cup anymore.

"Harry, I heard Luna say... you're going to buy The Quibbler and re-launch it?"

And after chatting nonsense, Xenophilius finally couldn't help asking.

Chapter 440 Harry and Xenophilius hit it off

In fact, ever since Harry entered the door, Xenophilius wanted to discuss the magazine with him straight to the point.

However, Harry kept going around in circles with him, either praising the unique decoration in his house, or mentioning interesting things related to Luna in school, anyway, he just kept talking about the topic.

In desperation, Xenophilius, who couldn't raise his energy well enough, could only take the initiative to ask.

The Quibbler was the Lovegood family's entire source of income in the past, and since it was shut down, Xenophilius has been able to say that he has been living on his laurels.

Luna actually couldn't spend much money at Hogwarts, but he, Xenophilius, was an adult, and his daily expenses were much higher than Luna, a student.

If it hadn't been for his daughter repeatedly saying that Harry could definitely believe it, he might be working on a part-time job right now.

Maybe it would be like Arthur Weasley, repairing some broken magic items for a small change, or some other similar work... But in any case, Xenophilius knew that it was definitely not It will be something you like to do.

"Mr. Lovegood, I have a question..." After realizing the urgency of the other party, Harry finally spoke slowly, "If we start "The Quibbler" again, what do you plan to publish on it this time? What about the content?"

"Um... what did you say?"

Harry's question made Xenophilius stunned for a moment. According to his thinking, if he sold the magazine to Harry, he would be a hard worker working for him in the future. How could he have the right to decide the content of the magazine?

"Mr. Lovegood, you misunderstood." Seeing the other party's puzzled expression, Harry shook his head slightly, "I intend to provide a sum of money to help you re-run the magazine, but I don't want to interfere too much with the freshman magazine. The operation of the club. So...you can treat me as a shareholder or a sponsor, and you can still publish whatever you want in the future, I am just curious about your idea of ​​​​starting the publication."

It is true that Harry now needs to support a media to confront the "Daily Prophet", and "The Quibbler" does meet his requirements, but Harry does not intend to let Xenophilius work for him... Even if Luna is right I don't mind this.