Chapter 20: Squibs
Filch finally adjusted his mentality: there are ghosts, centaurs, and dragons in this world, so why can't there be talking wolves?
"You little guy, why are you so careless." Filch didn't get angry, and took Lovell into the office to punish him as he said, he just muttered a few complaints.
Filch did this, presumably because the guy who made the mistake was a cute little wolf, replaced by an average student, who was now being punished.
After complaining about Lovell, Filch suddenly realized something, he looked down at the wolf cub and asked, "You don't have a bad stomach too?" It just so happens that I have a potion there for stomach problems. You wait for me for a while, and I'll get it for you. ”
Filch left such a sentence, and after telling Lady Loris to take care of the wolf cub for him for a while, he shuffled away.
Looking at Filch's somewhat faltering steps, Lovell could not help but exclaim, "Mr. Filch is a warm-hearted man. ”
Lady Loris nodded, but then sneered, "Don't jump to conclusions, he doesn't have that much patience with the students, and he can even be called a bad one." ”
"Huh?" Lovell came interested. In the course of the brief contact it had just made, it felt that Filch was a cold-hearted man. Would such a person really treat students with a bad attitude?
Seeing Lovell's curiosity, Lady Loris also shared with him some of Filch's past deeds.
"So he was serious about the idea of hanging the students on the ceiling and whipping them?" Hearing this, Lovell was shocked.
Lady Loris nodded.
"Shhh...... Not really, right? Does he have a grudge against the students? The wolf cub gasped.
Hearing the wolf cub have such a question, Lady Loris stared at Lovell with her big eyes, and said slowly, "Do you know who Mr. Filch is? ”
The wolf cub frowned, and a thought flashed through his heart: Could it be that Filch has a high status in the school, so he can act unscrupulously? Just like the high-ranking wolf clan in the wolf pack, you can bully the lower wolf clan at will.
The hierarchy within the wolf clan is very strict, and there is almost no reason for the superior to suppress and bully the lower, and the wolf king will not interfere - it will even acquiesce to the wolf clan There is a wolf for everyone to be angry. The upper wolf shows its majesty through the control of the lower wolf, such as the priority right to eat and mate.
Well, if you are not good enough in the wolf pack, you can't even find a wife, and you can't keep it if you find it, but the little she-wolves are quite realistic. In the wolf pack, strength is everything.
It's just that Lovell is completely out of the way, and Filch doesn't have any status, or rather, his status is so low that Lovell can't imagine it.
"He's a squib." Lady Loris said faintly.
"Dumb...... What? "It's the first time the wolf cub has heard the term.
"Squib." Lady Loris's repeated, "Referring to those who were born into wizarding families but had no magical talent." ”
Lovell was vaguely aware of something.
"The saddest thing in the world is not that you never see the light of day, but that you have seen the light but can only live in the darkness." Lady Loris said in a slightly hoarse voice: "It's hard for you to imagine what Argus has been through. ”
As the famous saying goes: I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light. Being a Muggle is not a particularly miserable thing, there are seven billion people in the world, but there are only a few hundred thousand wizards, which is one in a million in the true sense of the word.
But what if you know the wizarding world and can't fit in? That's really miserable.
Filch was one such person, the wizarding world opened its doors to him, and after he had seen the glitz inside, the door closed again, and no matter how much he knocked on the door, the door to the wizarding world did not open even a gap.
Lucky or unlucky, Filch also became the castlekeeper of Hogwarts, and he was surrounded by gifted little wizards. The pursuit of things that they can't do for half a lifetime, the little wizards are born and have them at their fingertips, and this psychological gap can be imagined.
Perhaps it was in this life that Filch's heart was twisted, he was jealous of these students, and at the same time he hated them for wasting their talents and wasting their time, so he would punish every young wizard who violated the school rules with the harshest punishment. In Filch's mind, he may have fantasized countless times about himself sitting in a classroom learning magic, right?
Lovell was still young, and it was too ignorant to fully comprehend Filch's situation. But it instinctively felt that Mr. Filch was a poor man.
"It's okay, with you by his side, he will feel better - humans like to stroke our fur, and getting along with us can effectively improve their mood!" The wolf cub gives Lady Loris a suggestion. It knew that its soft fur was an antidote to depression, and that Filch's mood might improve with Lady Loris's company.
"Yes," Lady Loris nodded sympathetically, "I sometimes help him catch a few students to relieve his anxiety. ”
Wolf Cub: ???
Lovell: Σ(っ°Д°; )っ
At one point, it thought it had misheard.
Didn't Mrs. Loriss know that Filch was doing something wrong, so why would she help him bully those poor students?
"Filch is my master, I don't care if what he does is right or wrong, as long as it makes him happy, why not?" Mrs. Loris, however, looked indifferent.
In her eyes, it doesn't matter whether it's just or not, what matters is that her Argus can be happy.
It's really a distorted set of values. Lovell complained inwardly to Lady Loris, and then a thought popped up like a weed, growing and spreading wildly in its mind - what would Hermione do if she was going to do something wrong?
The wolf cub shook his head, thinking that this was not a problem at all, how could Hermione do something wrong? This question is not valid from the root!
"Wait a minute," Lovell suddenly found an opportunity to persuade Lady Loris, "you say you don't want to make Mr. Filch sad?" ”
"yes." Lady Loris nodded of course.
"But if you die of illness, he will be very sad, right?" The wolf cub said thoughtfully. Chronic kidney failure, although it carries the word "chronic", can also cause cats to die.
Lady Loris was stunned.
Lovell made a lot of sense, he was usually very worried about his own cold, and if he died, wouldn't Argus be grief-stricken?
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The first is offered, the old rules, and the second is at eight o'clock in the morning~
Note: Filch is a very special character, he is pathetic, but he is also twisted enough on the inside.