Hermione glared at him and walked towards the house-elf closest to them in the room.

She kindly inquired about their current living conditions and encouraged them to ask for wages and holidays to defend their rights.

She is already experienced in this area and knows how to communicate with house-elves.

Evan was still wondering if this had something to do with Voldemort?

And, crucially, the treasures of Hufflepuff.

He speculated that the clues to the treasure were also related to house-elves, maybe there was some connection?

The Hufflepuff riddle mentions that "the key to unlocking the treasure is integrity and loyalty, and all you need to do is trust your humble friend", and Evan guesses that the humblest friend here is the house-elf.

Not only are Hogwarts kitchens home to a large number of house-elves, but they are also Hufflepuff's favorite place. Beneath the castle kitchen, Aven discovers the crypt filled with the heads of house-elves, as well as the demon altar in the depths of the crypt, and the demons summoned are also the images of house-elves......

House-elves, house-elves, all of them are related to house-elves.

Perhaps, he could find something in the house-elves of the London underworld.

Evan has such a hunch, but there are too few clues at present, and everything is still unknown.

He asks Fred about the house-elf territory and the London Underworld, but neither Fred nor George has ever been there, all they know is that the entrance to this underworld, located on the edge of the wizarding world, is deep in Tumbledown Alley, where werewolves, dark wizards, and other dark creatures are mixed in.

The so-called underworld is the dark side of the British wizarding world, and as for the specific situation inside, he is not clear.

"About a month ago, George and I went to Tumbledown Alley for a drink at the Murderer's Bar, which was a bit like Hogsmeade's Hogsmeade Pig's Head Bar, with a lot of interesting guys in it that you couldn't hear from the Leaky Cauldron Bar. "We've heard talk about the recent attacks by werewolves on house-elves in the underworld, and many of them have lost their territory and are in a miserable situation. George and I had an idea to hire these house-elves. Hermione always said this kind of thing, right, and we were very short of people, so we asked Dobby to come forward and ask. ”

"And then, they agreed?"

"Yes, not all, but there are quite a few house-elves who are willing to come out to work. Fred continued, "Anyway, they don't want to stay there and wait to be killed or starved to death by werewolves or dark wizards, but these house-elves don't agree to be loyal to a new wizard or be hired for wages, which they think is a great insult to them. How can a house-elf be paid for zero work, this is not the quality of a good house-elf. In fact, no wizard would hire house-elves. This was possible thanks to Dobby, and I don't know what he said, but they were willing to come over and help in the end, for free, and we provided food, but it didn't count as their payment, well, it could be said to be a kind of donation or aid......"

It's really a contradiction for a creature like a house-elf, and I don't know how those ancient wizards trained them to develop this distorted servile character, even if it has been so long, it hasn't changed.

"They don't need wages or holidays, they eat very little, they only need the cheapest coarse bread, but they are more capable than most wizards, and they have inexhaustible strength and energy, which is a great help to us. "We recruited more than a hundred house-elves and fired all the wizards we had hired. ”

Hermione snorted heavily, and Fred's words made them even more unhappy, it was pure exploitation.

She walked up to the house-elf who was packing magical items and tried to communicate with her.

The two of them communicated happily at first, the house-elf named Senia was loyal to an ancient wizarding family that had disappeared for more than five hundred years, the same wizarding family where her ancestors once belonged.

She knew little about the wizarding family's past deeds, and could only remember her master's last name.

It is a little-known wizard surname, and there have been no famous characters.

At least, Evan didn't know, and hadn't seen the family insignia in that heraldic book.

According to Senia, the last member of the family died on the battlefield, the famous Anglo-French war.

This battlefield, which originally began in Muggle states, was the longest war in the world, fought on and off for 116 years, and in the middle and late stages of the war, wizards from almost all of Western Europe were involved.

Many of the pure-blood wizard families that Evan knew had died out because of this battlefield. The number of pure-blood wizarding families that have been active in the British region recorded in that set of heraldic records is as high as hundreds of thousands, which can be called a terrifying number, and judging from the number of existing British wizards, it is impossible at all.

But it is true, and it can be seen that wizards have changed at a very rapid rate over the past thousand years.

How difficult it is to be able to inherit the pure-blood wizard family to this day.

After losing their master, Senia's master migrated here with house-elves from other circumstances.

Centuries have passed since then.

The world has changed, but the only constant is the humble loyalty of the house-elves to their masters, the long-vanished wizard surname, which has been passed down in an unexpected way, and for more than five years, the ancestors of Senia have been waiting for the return of their masters......

Although they all knew that this was impossible, their loyalty never changed.

Senia's parents, like her, were born in the underworld.

They were loyal to different wizards and passed on different wizarding surnames, with Senia and her brother inheriting the wizarding families to which their parents were loyal, and the house-elves of the underworld thrived in this unique way.

One can imagine how emotional Hermione was after listening to Senia's story.

The two of them communicated happily, but at the mention of wages, the meek-looking house-elf in front of her immediately widened his eyes and let out a scream, his head shaking like a rattle.

"She's working in vain. Fred said, "Alright, Aven, let her go talk to the house-elves, and I'll show you what we're really making a lot of money right now, and we're going to want you to give us some professional advice." ”

As he spoke, he led Evan deeper into the room.

"It's funny to say, you can't believe that so many people, not even those who work in the Ministry of Magic, can't recite a decent Iron Armor Spell, they can't do anything but wave their wands wildly......"

Yes, the quality and overall strength of wizards, this is really a surprising topic.