Dobby looked at Harry again, and at this time, Harry finally cleared his mind, he put his wand back in his pocket, and nodded at Dobby,

"Take us around, Dobby--"

Dobby immediately grabbed Harry's hand and led them through four long wooden tables to the very back of the kitchen.

"I finally figured out how those foods suddenly appeared when I ate every day, didn't I?"

Ron looked at the long wooden table identical to the four college tables in the auditorium above, and muttered quietly.

There are at least a hundred elves in this kitchen, and when the three of them pass by, these elves have stopped what they are doing, and they are all smiling, bowing, and curtsimming all over their faces, bowing, and curtsy, looking very respectful, but so many small creatures show such expressions to you at the same time, it still makes people feel a little panicked.

All three of them deliberately avoided the elves' gaze, and Harry asked in a whisper,

"Are all the ponies from the school here, Dobby?"

"That's not all, sir!"

Dobby said happily,

"There's a lot to be done in the castle - washing the dirty laundry of the little wizards and professors, cleaning the classrooms used during the day, boiling water, cleaning and unclogging the bathroom, in short, we have a lot of work to do, sir!"

Hermione snorted dissatisfiedly, thinking that Dobby was saying this with a happy expression.

Dobby stopped in front of the big fireplace they had first seen, and only showed them,

"Twinkle, look, sir!"

"Oh my!"

Hermione let out an exclamation and covered her mouth in a moment, tears glinting in her pure brown eyes, and Harry and Ron were staring at Twinkle as they saw it.

Twinkle sat on a stool by the fire. Unlike Dobby, it doesn't have so many weird outfits, but instead wears a neat little skirt and short top, and a matching blue hat with two holes on it to expose its two large ears, but although it is neatly dressed, its top is soaked with stains, and even a part of the skirt is burned.

Hermione, of course, they didn't care about the shiny dirty clothes, but the scars on its body.

With the exception of his face, almost all of the places on his body that were exposed to the air had serious scars, not whiplash wounds, but burns. These untreated burns have left the shimmering skin distorted and charred after natural healing, making it look scary!

"What the hell—"

Hermione gasped sharply, her fists clenched into her lips but chattering.

"How the hell did you get it, Twilight?"

Unlike Dobby, after seeing the 'old acquaintance', Twinkle didn't show any excitement, he just threw away the wood he was about to add to the stove, covered his face and cried, and didn't answer Harry's question at all.

"I think it's Professor Blaine--"

Of the three, Ron, who had lived in the wizarding world since he was a child, was the most normal for the situation of house-elves, but after seeing the burns on Shining's body, his voice became muffled.

"That night, it fainted in the top box and couldn't dodge Professor Blaine's magic, so. The Ministry of Magic, after interrogating it, failed to treat it—"

"You're right, sir--"

Dobby looked sadly at Twinkle,

"It was a serious injury, and when Dobby went to visit Twilight, it was dying, and St. Mungo wouldn't treat a house-elf, so Dobby had to go out into the forest to find herbs. For two months, Twinkle couldn't move--"

Dobby's voice was high-pitched,

"The house-elves are very tenacious, and Twilight eventually came back to life!

Then, Dobby took Twinkle to find work, and the house-elves had to work to have food, but where was there enough work for the two elves to do, Dobby searched for a long time but couldn't find it, and then one day, Dobby found that there were many wizards gathered in Diagon Alley in one place, so Dobby wanted to go in and find food! ”

As he said this, Dobby's eyes sparkled,

"Dobby found out that these wizards were watching a Triwizard Tournament match, and Dobby saw Hogwarts Castle on a strange screen, and then Dobby and Twilight came to Professor Dumbledore, sir, Professor Dumbledore took us all!"

Dobby's face had a very bright smile, and tears of joy filled its eyes,

"Professor Dumbledore is not only willing to hire Dobby and Twinkle, he is also willing to pay Dobby, sir, Dobby gets one Galleon a week and one day off a month!"

Well, now Harry finally knows why Dobby and Twinkle are at Hogwarts.

Harry was still very happy to see Dobby in the Hogwarts kitchen, but the sparkle of crying on the floor made Harry's heart heavy.

"Someone has to take responsibility for your injuries, Twinkle!"

Hermione's clenched fist still didn't let go, and she cried out angrily.

"It's easy--" Ron glanced at Hermione and said sensibly, "who are you going to put in charge, Hermione, Professor Blaine, Barty Crouch, or the entire Ministry of Magic?" ”

This is indeed a real problem, and Hermione would not be naïve enough to think that Barty Crouch and the Ministry of Magic would be willing to pay for Shinyle's injury. He was a good talker, but the point was that he wasn't actually to blame for it, the situation in the Quidditch arena was so critical at the time that Professor Bryan was so focused on stopping the Black Witch from committing a crime that it was impossible to take care of a single elf.

"Don't bother, Miss Granger—" Dobby was still a little reserved in the face of Hermione, "Twilight doesn't want an apology or compensation, it just wants to. Just want to go back to Mr. Crouch--"

Sparkle erupted suddenly, howling loudly and slamming its fists against the floor, looking almost heartbroken.

"Back to Crouch?!"

Anger erupted from Hermione's eyes, "Why do you want to go back to him, Flash, you served him, but he fired you knowing you were wronged, and he didn't treat you when he saw that you were seriously injured, he wasn't a qualified person at all-"

"You are not allowed to insult my master, miss!"

The glittering cry disappeared as if it had pressed the pause button, and it did it, but the two huge brown eyes glared at Hermione fiercely, and the wet face suddenly became angry,

"You are not allowed to insult my Mr. Crouch, Miss! Mr. Crouch is a good wizard, Mr. Crouch fired Bad Twilight, and he did the right thing! ”

"But--" Hermione was dazed and wanted to argue, but Ron stopped her,

"Oh, come on, Hermione, just give up, this creature is like this, they are absolutely obedient to wizards, they take all the fault on themselves, and they never get tired of it, you can't change them--"

"It's not like that—" Harry said suddenly, and he picked his chin at Dobby, "We have an exception in front of us, don't we?" ”

Harry crouched down so he could better talk to Dobby, and he smiled,

"Dobby once tried to defy Lucius Malfoy's evil commands, didn't he?"

"Dobby's old master is that Dobby doesn't want to listen to them!" A look of fear swept over Dobby's huge eyes, "They are. Very bad wizard! ”

It stood for a moment, trembling, stunned by its audacity, and suddenly rushed headlong to the nearest table. Hermione was already familiar with the scene, and she grabbed her clothes and pulled them back.

"You're right to resist, Dobby!" Hermione said with a determined look in her eyes, "If it weren't for you, Lucius Malfoy's despicable behavior would have killed a lot of people!" ”

"Oh, thank you, Miss Granger, thank you!"

Dobby rubbed his forehead with his hand and said breathlessly.

"Oh, that's right!"

Dobby's instinct to restrain self-punishment undoubtedly surprised Hermin, and she blinked and suddenly exclaimed,

"You just told us that you have a wage here, don't you?"

"Yes, Miss Granger, Dobby is paid!"

At the mention of this, Dobby was happy again,

"Dobby still has holidays, Professor Dumbledore is a great wizard, he is willing to give Dobby more holidays and wages, but Dobby bargains with him Dobby likes freedom, miss, but he doesn't want too much freedom yet, he prefers work!"

"This is it!"

Under the confused gaze of Harry and Ron, Hermione exclaimed excitedly,

"Dom, come to me!"

(End of chapter)