When a low, deep bell rang from the castle and drifted to the damp grounds.

After class, the students dispersed.

Hufflepuff students walked up the stone steps to attend another of their lessons.

The Gryffindor students went in the other direction, walking down the gently downhill lawn to Hagrid's cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Hagrid was standing outside the door of the cabin, one hand holding the collar of his great hound's teeth.

On the ground at his feet lay several open wooden chests, whimpering and wrestling at their collars, as if they wanted to investigate their contents carefully. As they approached, a strange chirping sound reached their ears.

"Good morning, students!" Hagrid said in a gruff voice.

"Looks like the Slytherin classmates are late again, but that's okay, everyone is used to it, right? "Hagrid is going to be weird, too.

"What are we going to learn in this lesson?" said a mocking voice.

The Slytherin students are here, and it wasn't Draco Malfoy who was talking just now, his personality has become much more stable since last year, and he doesn't go around firing map cannons everywhere.

"Nivre, you know?" said Hagrid, calmly.

"Haven't heard of it. The boy who spoke said arrogantly.

"Indeed, your little head has everything but knowledge. Hagrid said.

Ignoring the slytherin boy's purple face, Hagrid looked at the other students who were listening without saying a word, and began the lesson.

Malfoy looked at the boy like a fool.

"How did this kind of person survive? No one is happy, everyone wants to say two sentences, and his nostrils are always facing the sky when he speaks. Malfoy tugged at Pansy's sleeve and quietly walked away from the boy he thought was an idiot.

Pansy was stunned for a moment and said, "Draco, weren't you like that before?"

Malfoy was shocked: "No way, you must be slandering me, how can I be so stupid?"

Pansy thought for a moment and said, "It's really different. Your head is higher than his. ”

Malfoy: "......"

Hagrid opened several wooden chests, revealing several animals inside.

This animal is covered with black fuzz all over its body, has a long snout, and looks gentle and non-aggressive.

Hagrid explains: "Muvres is a burrowing animal in Britain, and it has a penchant for all things shiny. For this reason, youkai are most fond of raising mud to dig up treasures deep underground. While Devret is not aggressive and even likes to be close to wizards, it can be destructive to your treasure, so don't keep it at home. Devres live in their own nests, usually twenty inches underground, and give birth to six to eight calves in a litter......"

"There are two things to note about Devre, which are ......"

A little over an hour later, the Magical Beasts Protection class was over and Harry returned to the castle.

......

In the afternoon, Harry and Hermione stayed in their cabin without classes.

Hermione was lying on her desk, writing her first press release.

It's about house-elves.

"The last time we saw the house-elves Shine, it made me think that the status of house-elves was very wrong, I checked a lot of books about house-elves, and found that they don't have any freedom, life and death are in the hands of the wizards of the family they are staying in, and they don't get paid a penny for working for the wizarding family all their lives. Hermione was shocked, as if it was so ridiculous.

"They are a very lowly race, and from birth they must serve their masters from generation to generation, undertake all household chores, be bound by their masters, and cannot disobey their master's orders at will, and must punish themselves severely if they disobey. If you want to use a spell, you must get permission from your master......" Hermione had a free, egalitarian Muggle mind, so after learning about house-elves, she really couldn't accept it.

It's almost the 21st century, and there is still slavery?

Harry said, "And what do you want?"

"I'm going to write an article in the newspaper, stand on the side of house-elf rights, and call on the wizarding community to change its attitude towards house-elves. ”

Harry said, "Concrete measures, new clothes to wear, pay them, can't punish them at will, etc.?"

Hermione nodded, "That's how it should be." ”

"Is there something wrong?"

Harry said, "No, that's right. Although house-elves are created by wizards, they have independent minds, so they can't be treated as tools......"

"But, you're going to say but, right?" Hermione said.

Harry smiled and pinched Hermione's cheek, "However, house-elves have had no place for more than a thousand years, and no wizard would try to change it. ”

"Those old families with house-elves, they have called house-elves from generation to generation, and they have never had to pay anything. But you suddenly say that they are going to pay the house-elf salary, and they will never want to. ”

"Then you said earlier that I did the right thing. Hermione said bitterly.

"Your goal is the result of the final realization, with the enlightenment of the house-elves and wizards, the future will inevitably evolve like this, but there is a slow process, it cannot be achieved overnight, and there is a long way to go. ”

"When most of the house-elves realized that they were being treated unfairly, and a few more mind-awakened people took the lead, their entire race began to speak out and defend their rights. That's when the real change began. ”

"Now that you recognize the injustice of what happened to the house-elves, take a stand in the Daily Prophet. Those pure-blood families with house-elves will definitely publish an article to refute you, in fact, this is secondary. The point is that the person you are busy with for this, but will not receive your affection at all. They may also find your suggestion an insult to them. Harry said.

"Why are they like this? But that's not what Dobby the elf thinks, it works at Hogwarts and gets paid, and I think it's more than willing to accept it. ”

Harry said, "Dobby is a wonder, one in a million...... It's harder to find another house-elf who pursues freedom than it is to ascend to the sky. ”

"Then you're telling me to give up and stop doing this laborious thing?" Hermione said sullenly.

"Of course not, I'm just going to make it clear to you about the frustrations you're going to have, so you don't get depressed later. ”

Hermione smiled: "I won't be defeated so easily, besides, you also said that wizards will become more and more civilized, and it is the general trend for house-elves to have status, so let me be the first leader." ”

Harry said, "Don't worry, when the time comes, if a pure-blood wizard dares to let his dog bite you, I'll ...... Well, three hundred and sixty-five ways to die, let him choose whatever he wants, I'm very open-minded. ”

Hermione sneered, "We are civilized wizards, don't always fight and kill. ”

After the first class in the afternoon.

Zhang Qiu came back from class.

The first thing she said when she walked in the door was, "When I first came back, I heard a sixth-grader say something. They say Professor Snape has become their Defence Against the Dark Arts professor!"

Hermione: "Ah......hhhh

Harry said, "He's got the position he couldn't ask for, and I'm kind of looking forward to how he's going to teach this subject, considering that every year the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, in his mouth, is Waste One, Waste Two, Waste Three......"

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