"Harry, do you need to renovate this place too?"

Dudley frowned at the peeling wallpaper on the walls lining the corridor, and the dirty, blackened, dilapidated carpet on the floor.

It's not that he has a habit of cleanliness, it's just that this place is not much cleaner than its kennels.

No, in fact, most dogs love to be clean, which is the biggest insult to the kennel.

"I don't think so, I don't live here."

His old Potter mansion in Godric's Valley had been repaired, and the nearby castle Dudley had also reserved a room for him, so there was no need to travel so far to stay.

"It's also good as a temporary shelter, as long as it's cleaned."

Pressing a fox out of nowhere, Neville said, "I can't believe it's dirtier than Newmengard Castle, and it hasn't been cleaned for fifty years. ”

Yes, there were more foxes hidden in the curtains and in the dirty carpet than in the whole of Newmengard Castle.

As the group reached the stairs leading to the second floor, Harry suddenly said, "We should go upstairs from the other side." ”

"Sirius said there was something bad about that flight of stairs."

"Bad stuff? What is it? ”

Neville patted the dust falling from the ceiling on top of his head.

Harry shook his head, "He didn't tell me. ”

Everyone said it didn't matter, anyway, there was more than one staircase in Black's old house.

The moment they ascended to the second floor, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, to be precise, by a wall at the staircase on the second floor.

The walls were densely packed with countless shriveled heads, house-elves, to be precise, that seemed to have been cast with some kind of spell to prevent them from being easily weathered.

Sirius said these were house-elves who had served the Black family all their lives.

Harry explained, a little embarrassed, "I was also taken aback when I first came, and I almost used a fire. ”

If it were to be used, the old Blake house would be history.

"It's strange that these old pure-blood families have fetishes."

Ron complained, and at the end of the day, he didn't forget to diss Draco every day: "Draco, do you have this habit in your family?" ”

"The Malfoys aren't so barbaric and bloody, and you've not been there."

Draco gave him an angry look.

"What if your family is hiding the head of a house-elf in a secret room?"

Ron pressed on.

"Who would be so bored to hide the elf's head in the secret room? Rosiglitazone sodium tablets, sometimes I really want to pry your head open and see what's inside. ”

Draco was amused by Ron's wild fantasies, "And don't forget, your Weasley family name has no less history than the Black family's. ”

"Really? I don't believe it! ”

"Believe it or not!"

Draco glanced at Ron in disgust, and moved to the side very obviously, for fear of being infected by this unlearned idiot.

It was the first time Ron had heard of it, and he had only known that their family was pure-blood, after all, Arthur (Mr. Weasley) and Molly (Mrs. Weasley) didn't talk to the children about their bloodlines, let alone tell them how long and old their family's history was, and they didn't care.

The second floor was no smaller than the first floor, and there was a large living room that looked very elaborate and ornate at one time, with a large fireplace in the middle, flanked by two ornate glass cabinets filled with all sorts of dark magic objects, and a wall next to it was covered with a tapestry of the Black family's tree genealogy.

There are especially many foxes in the living room, so many that they can form an army, and the curtains are densely packed with foxes' eggs.

"Funny funny!"

Neville's voice rang out from beside him, and he was seen standing in front of his desk, next to a severed slug rolling in place.

Even a dark magic creature like Boggart has it.

Dudley was very unceremoniously bagged the Bogart.

Black's Mansion is more like a miniature magical creature base than Potter's Mansion, and this is when Black's Mansion can be hidden with spell protection.

"If you're going to live here during this time, you're going to have to clean it up."

"I don't want to be bitten by these annoying little things."

Draco said with disgust on his face, there was no such thing as a fox in Malfoy Manor.

Only wizards' homes that are basically uncleaned will breed this small creature, and the characteristics of the large-scale breeding number of foxes are similar to 'Xiaoqiang', and the annoyance is similar to that of fleas, although a bite from them is not fatal, but the thief is uncomfortable.

Fortunately, several of them are wizards, and although it takes a lot of work to clean such a large house, it is only a matter of moving their hands and waving their wands.

"Harry, what about Sirius? Though he gave you the house, where will he live himself? ”

"Of course he lives here, but he said he was going to run some errands far away, so he won't be there anytime soon."

Several divisions of foxes were packed and taken away by Dudley, and these little things are also very powerful weapons when used.

No matter how weak any creature is, once it has a numerical advantage, it is very terrifying.

A bunch of bread worms can eat a snake, and a swarm of ants can eat an elephant.

In ancient times, the 'locust plague' was a swarm of grasshoppers (locusts), which was overwhelming and terrifying, and no grass grew everywhere they went.

Dudley intends to turn these foxes into a similar secret weapon, the 'Fox Plague'.

"The Black family's collection of books is here."

One of the rooms on the second floor is the study, where the magic books collected by the Black family over the centuries are stored.

For Hermione, this room was heaven.

Generally speaking, powerful magic books will have magic protection, and it is impossible to read them without finding the corresponding way to release them, but no matter how powerful magic is, it is no match for time, and it is easy to destroy it if it is not properly kept.

The Hogwarts library is managed by Madame Pince, so the books in the library are the same as new, even in the forbidden area where professors need to open a slip to read.

And the Black family

"A lot of orphans are damaged."

Hermione took out a few books casually, looking at the weathered marks on many pages, and her eyes were full of distress, these are all valuable knowledge.

Even the sturdiest and easiest parchment rolls are infested with innumerable holes.

Sirius said he had a headache and sleepiness when he saw a book, so he hadn't set foot in the room since he took over the Black family.

Harry explained that he had only been to Black's house once, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Sirius had been imprisoned in Azkaban for more than a decade, and even if he was acquitted, he had never entered the study, let alone that he would take the time to maintain it.

Then

A loud expletive was heard outside the door.

(End of chapter)