Harry was startled by the sudden sound,

Ivan was not surprised, he looked in the direction from which the voice came and saw a house-elf standing on the stairs.

It looked very old, with a wrinkled face and a dirty rag around its waist, and it looked like it hadn't bathed in days, so much so that it had grown a lot of white hair in its big bat-like ears, and it couldn't find a clean place on its body.

"Kreacher! Why don't you clean the house when no one is around? Sirius also saw the house-elf, his face flushed and angry, and he scolded it.

The house-elf named Kreacher didn't reply, but looked down at his toes and muttered to himself.

"Oh, poor old Kreacher, whose mistress is dead, and the noble Blakes are in prison, and old Kreacher thinks they will never come back... It will die with this house.

But why is this happening? A loser who was expelled from the family tree, after so many years, he still stepped into this place with cheeky little cubs... If the hostess's coffin is placed here, maybe it will come back to life..."

Before Kreacher could finish speaking, Sirius cursed angrily. "Enough! You shut up... Kreacher! I don't allow you to insult my friends! ”

"According to the rules, now that I am your new master, I order you to be respectful to my friends, and to use honorifics when you meet and greet me in the future! Other than that... Clean this house for me now! Before I go to bed today, I'm going to see three clean beds, or you're going to have to get out of the Black family!" ”

Sirius shouted almost like a roar.

Kreacher's body shuddered a little, especially when Sirius said that he was going to kick himself out of the Black family, and his face showed a look of panic.

"Yes, master... Kreacher's only purpose is to serve the noble Black family—" Kreacher hesitated, reluctantly, and then snapped his fingers and disappeared in front of the crowd.

But Kreacher could faintly hear the faint murmuring before leaving. "It's supposed to be the loser and his obnoxious friends who should get out..."

Sirius's face darkened, and he wanted to call Kreacher back and beat him up, but in the end he held back, he turned his head to look at Ivan and the others, and said helplessly.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh, I'll discipline it well in the future..."

"Don't be like that, Sirius, that house-elf looks old, maybe it's just a little confused, we shouldn't be so strict with it—" Harry thought of Kreacher's old and dirty appearance, and for a moment felt a little sympathetic.

"You don't understand, Harry, Kreacher was taught badly by my mother, and absorbed a lot of ugly pure-blood theories from her... Whatever it is, it will only go even further! ”

Sirius shook his head, he knew nothing more about the Blake family's pure-blood theory, and it was because of this that the current Black family's miserable situation was caused.

"Alright, let's clean up together, it's going to take days for Kreacher alone, I don't want to live in a place full of dust and cobwebs!" Lupin smiled and changed the subject.

"Well, let's start on the first floor." Sirius nodded, then patted Harry on the shoulder. “哈利你跟着我！”

After discussing it, several people went their separate ways, and Ivan also walked into the kitchen on the first floor.

It was even more filthy than he had imagined, the walls were covered in grease, the kitchen utensils were covered in dust, the garbage baskets had fallen to the floor, and the whole kitchen had a disgusting smell.

When I opened the door, the smell almost didn't kill Ivan...

"Clean up!" Ivan clutched his nose and uttered a spell as he swept away the stains on the walls, but they were so dirty that even the magic swept across the kitchen like a brush.

Instead, a large number of strange little things crawled out of the cracks in the cupboards and tables, and Ivan even saw a long creature like a silver snuffbox being squeezed into the ground from the cupboard, and then rolling and hiding in a hidden corner.

Of course, Ivan knew what these creatures were, they were as nasty as cockroaches and rats in the Muggle world, and they would often hide in all corners of the room to steal food and spread germs.

In the end, it took Ivan a full hour to catch all these nasty ghosts running around and burn them to ashes.

But according to the book, this alone is not enough. Spray the appropriate potion to destroy their nests in order to get rid of them once and for all.

Otherwise, in a few days, these annoying magical creatures will reappear.

Of course, Ivan can't do that much now, that's what Kreacher will do in the future, and he is only responsible for cleaning the kitchen.

Sirius's mansion was huge, and it took hours just to clean the first floor, and in the evening, everyone gathered for a hasty dinner.

Without the ingredients, Sirius had to ask Kreacher to buy some bread to fill his stomach.

Fortunately, such a bad situation will only last one night, and after cleaning the kitchen, you can buy the ingredients and have a good meal tomorrow.

So after dinner, everyone started cleaning the second floor with great enthusiasm.

Since it wasn't that hard to learn, after a few hours of studying, Harry was able to cast the spell initially, and was able to do some occasional small help to clean up any uncleaned corners.

Ivan walked into the room on the second floor, and while cleaning, he was also looking for the Slytherin locket, and he vaguely remembered that it had been placed in a certain room...

Perhaps he thought Ivan's appearance was suspicious, so the house-elf kept following him, not far away, and just stood outside the door, staring at Ivan's every move with eyes the size of a light bulb.

This hampered Ivan's search operations, and he had to pretend to be chasing away creature before he could open a nearby hanger or cabinet to see if the Horcrux was inside.

After casting the cleansing spell, Ivan couldn't take it anymore and turned around and asked.

"Kreacher! What do you always follow me for? Didn't Sirius tell you to clean the other rooms? ”