"How could it be that there are no house-elves with no masters?" Hermione asked, "were they all expelled from their original families, or were they on their own, like Dobby?"

She looked excited, and Evan knew why Hermione was so excited after hearing about the house-elves without their owners.

You know, although there is no progress,..。

Whenever she had the chance, Hermione wouldn't give up.

She campaigned for the rights and interests of house-elves, wrote newspaper articles to persuade wizards to be nicer to house-elves, and insisted on going to the kitchen every week to talk to the house-elves while at school.

Hermione did a lot of things, but it didn't work well.

With the exception of Dobby, almost no house-elf shares her philosophy.

House-elves don't need wages and holidays, all they need is work. The more work they do, the happier they become, and if they can't do it, punish them as much as they want, such as whipping them, burning their hands with an iron, or slashing them with a knife a few times, and then ordering them to hurry to work.

In the eyes of traditional house-elves, only those who treat their owners in this way are good hosts......

They regard lifelong service to their masters as the greatest honor, especially after the Black family created a perverted tradition, and many house-elves dream of having their masters cut off their heads and hang them side by side with their ancestors' heads on the wall as decoration, just like their ancestors, when they are too old to do anything.

Even the house-elves in France have followed suit and learned this custom, which is like a treasure.

So, for the house-elves, Hermione was outrageous in promoting things.

Over time, she became the least desirable person in the kitchen.

When the other students go to the kitchen, the house-elves will come around and stuff all kinds of food into his arms.

Hermione passed, and the house-elves were all hiding in the first place......

.. There has been no progress, but if there are a lot of house-elves without owners, maybe this situation can be changed, without the constraints of the masters, it will be much easier to help them fight for their rights, and then there will be many more examples for other house-elves to learn.

"Don't get excited, Hermione, I may not have made it clear, these house-elves still have owners in name, they are not house-elves who were expelled like Dobby, but their owners are actually gone. Fred explained, "Imagine that those old pure-blood wizard families have lost offspring for various reasons in the process of inheritance, and without family members, the family is destroyed, but the house-elves are still there, and these house-elves who have lost their owners will not be loyal to the new wizard, and they will ...... like that."

"A house-elf who has lost its owner?"

"yes, if you ask them in the past, they'll be willing to tell you about their masters, pure-blood wizard families that have long disappeared, and old surnames from hundreds of years ago. Fred pointed to the house-elves working in the room and said, "The house-elves you see now are the descendants of house-elves who have lost their owners, and they nominally belong to the wizarding families that have died out. ”

Bound by ancient contracts and magic, house-elves are slaves of an ancient and wealthy wizard family.

The same is true of their descendants, and although many of these wizarding families are no longer there, the effectiveness remains.

House-elves will not betray and turn to other wizards, even if their master is no longer there.

This was a common occurrence in the wizarding world, especially in the old days, when wars between wizards were frequent, duels were rife, and people died at the slightest disagreement, and the old families were extinct, and as the last members of these families, the house-elves may have multiplied for centuries.

After listening to Fred's explanation, it occurred to Evan that there was indeed such a possibility.

He had read books on the coat of arms of wizarding families in England, and in the past few hundred years, the number of families that had disappeared had been recorded in the hundreds of thousands, and even if not all families would have house-elves left, it was a very large number as long as one tenth.

"I don't know when these house-elves who have lost their owners have gathered in the underworld of London, the edge of the wizarding world, where they live in obscurity. "I've heard that the history of their life there goes back thousands of years." ”

"It's the first time I've heard of such a group of house-elves. ”

"I also learned about it not long ago, and only the house-elves know about their existence, but the house-elves regard this kind of thing as a taboo and will not say it easily. Fred said, "If it weren't for the werewolves and dark wizards who have been making a lot of trouble in the Underworld lately, George and I wouldn't have known about it." ”

"What are the werewolves going to do, why are they taking over the territory of the house-elves?" Evan asked.

"Maybe it's because of the treasures of the house-elves, many of whom are the last members of the old wizarding families, and they took the last of their possessions with them when they moved to the underworld. Fred said disapprovingly, "I've seen some of their so-called treasures, which don't have much value, the concept of house-elves is different from ours, the actual value of the items they value and collect as treasures is not very high, and the real treasures of those pure-blood wizard families are generally kept in Gringotts......"

That's true, but there's no denying that there's something to be gained from doing so.

However, this kind of thing sounds like only a wizard like Mundungus Fletch would do, and werewolves wouldn't do it.

Money-hungry werewolves?

They have lived in the underground world for many years, and have always been at peace with the house-elves there, and they may have a lot of friendly relations with each other, but they are not incapable of attacking them and occupying the elves' territory.

The house-elves just look weak, but the actual combat power is still very strong.

Evan didn't understand why the werewolves were doing this, and it occurred to him if it had something to do with Voldemort?

Assuming that the werewolves are now following Voldemort's orders, is there some secret in this?

"Did you and George pay these house-elves?" asked Hermione.

She was more concerned about this than an ethereal conspiracy or something.

"There is no pay, they are not willing to accept it, as long as we provide us with something to eat. Fred said, "Please, Hermione, don't mention vomiting again, it's not for house-elves at all......"