Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Wandering House-Elf
On the penultimate Tuesday before the start of school, the Daily Prophet's sales reached another peak.
The day before, people were still immersed in the carnival of the Quidditch World Cup, and the drunks at the Leaky Cauldron were betting on the victory or defeat of the two top teams; But all the limelight has been robbed of the Death Eaters' comeback!
Last night, the Quidditch World Cup final had just ended, and everyone was still excited. An uninvited group of Death Eaters broke into the wizards' camp and attacked them, imposingly sending out a sign of Voldemort in the sky - the same thing Voldemort would have left behind after every crime he had committed in the past, just as Muggle terrorists had declared responsibility for the attack.
No one in the Ministry of Magic had the face to say anything in the Daily Prophet, because by the time they could react, the Death Eaters had already teleported away, and they couldn't even catch a single person who committed the crime.
Lucius rang the doorbell of Aitch's house, and he received a letter from Aitch, "Are you sure this information is accurate?" Is 'that guy' really coming back? "Lucius was nervous.
Not to mention that Voldemort almost accidentally injured Draco in his first year, Lucius also broke one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to Edge. Let Voldemort dig out old accounts, the two sins will be superimposed, and the Malfoy family will have to die if they don't destroy the door.
"That's true. I told you about Professor Trelawney's prophecy, and it was she who predicted Harry's failure to bring 'that man' back, and it is absolutely credible. Aitch blamed everything on the so-called prophecy, and no one would believe the "future" in his head.
"And the basilisk I sent to find him in the forests of Albania that Dumbledore mentioned has returned. That environment, where the basilisk with the shrinking spell is more likely to survive than us, and it is a natural leader of the snake pack. ”
"The basilisk mobilized the snakes all over the forest to catch him and his pet snake, and it is said that a wizard rescued him at the last minute. If I'm not mistaken, it's Peter. Aitch nodded heavily.
Sending the basilisk to Voldemort was a safe move, and it was why Aitch had to gain full control of the Chamber of Secrets. Only in this way will the basilisk not be affected by Voldemort and Parseltongue, and will go all out to trouble him.
"It seems that Professor Trelawney's prophecy is on its way to come true, and it won't be long before this kind of comfortable life is over."
"Damn, Dumbledore, how could they let Peter run away like that!" Lucius hated it so much, if Peter died, Voldemort would have become basilisk feces and be pulled out of the fertile land of Albania.
Speaking of Dumbledore, Aitch had to rub his temples with his thumb. He couldn't understand the logic of the old fox's thinking.
When Aitch calmed down after that night, although the hatred was great, Dumbledore's ranking was at the top, to say that Blake lost Azkaban, the baby was lost, Dumbledore didn't look for it at all, Aitch didn't believe it!
Dumbledore's skills are also much stronger than Snape and Black, and even if he investigates Aitch in the past few years, the progress will not lag behind the two of them.
In fact, during the period when Dumbledore "stepped down" because of the secret room last year, Aitch had not had time to use memory magic to modify the memories of the relevant personnel, and if he had followed Snape's thinking, he would have known where he would have used to check the Rausch files of the year.
But that's how Dumbledore kept everything down, and kept it secret.
If it was in the past, Aitch could be understood as building momentum for Harry - after all, only one baby survived under the catastrophe, which would better reflect the uniqueness of Harry's savior status.
But now, Dumbledore is single-handedly inducing Harry and Hermione to turn things apart, making it difficult to see through Dumbledore's mind.
He didn't think that ten years was enough time for the savior's fame to sink into the hearts of the people!
Faintly, Aitch felt that Dumbledore was using him to play a big game, but he couldn't grasp the point.
Hogwarts, Aitch naturally wants to go back, and it doesn't do any good to wander outside. He didn't want to see anyone again, but he didn't do anything wrong.
What's more, this year there will be a great event at Hogwarts if nothing else, and it will also be an opportunity for the resurrection of the "future" Voldemort, and Aitch will not sit idly by.
After Lucius was gone, Aitch set off for Diagon Alley. At this time, others had already prepared the necessary items for the start of school, and Aitch deliberately delayed it, so as not to meet those who did not want to meet.
On the bustling streets, wizards also talk about the headlines of the Daily Prophet, and when they meet someone, they will talk about the horrors of the past. But the place where the Death Eaters made trouble was in the United States, and it was far away. Everyone is so lucky, thinking that things are far away from them.
Today, there is also a wandering house-elf on the streets of Diagon Alley, who holds a piece of clothing in her hand and reaches out when she meets a wizard who needs help. If the wizard doesn't object, the house-elf will always follow, and it wants to find a master.
For this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing, everyone will think about it. Especially when she saw that she still had a piece of clothing in her hand - only house-elves who had been banished by their masters and given freedom would have clothes. This can only happen to house-elves who have made big mistakes.
Contrary to her behavior, in front of each shop, another house-elf knocks on the door and asks if you need to hire one. If Harry had been there, he would have recognized this as Dobby, who had caused him so much trouble a year ago.
Yes, they heard it right, it's hiring! When did house-elves also have human rights? No way! Don't even think about a copper nut! Dobby doesn't know how many people have rejected him, but he decides that freedom is more important than work.
When Dobby meets a house-elf who is going to help Aitch carry his books, he wants to influence his kind to walk the road to freedom together.
"Sir, you should pay her!" Dobby said to Aitch in a straight voice.
"Remuneration?" The house-elf's eyes widened, "No! Twinkle hasn't fallen to Dobby's point yet. "Apparently they knew each other, and Flashing could cry in half a second, like someone had destroyed her worldview.
Shining? Aitch remembered that she was supposed to work at Hogwarts with Dobby.
"Twinkle was given a dress by her most beloved master! No one wants to take Twilight home with them. She took Edge's book and pounded her head hard, "because she's disobedient, bad shiny, bad shiny......"
Well, house-elves are all a little out of order. At the very least, they all have a penchant for being abused.
"So would Twilight want to come home with me?" Naturally, Aitch knew the cause and effect, and stopped Twilight's masochism.
"Really?" Twinkle snorted, "Great, Twinkle has another master!" She quickly settled into the role, holding the book and hugging Edge's thigh, expressing intimacy and excitement.
Dobby also bowed to Edge, "Sir, I wonder if you still need to hire a house-elf?" Dobby is also very capable. Although Dobby had been rejected more than once, and Aitch had just accepted a free labor force, he had to give it a try.
Aitch suggested that he go to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore was able to give Dobby a good answer, but had no idea what kind of trouble it would cause him in the future.