Harry Potter and the Old Ones

Xenophilius stood nervously at the door of 221 Baker Street.

After ringing the doorbell, he reached out to straighten his bow tie.

"Don't worry, Dad." Luna, who was standing on Xenophilius' left, said, "You look great today."

"Thank you, Luna." But Xenophilius still stroked his cotton candy-like snow-white hair nervously.

Today Xenophilius is wearing a gorgeous gown that seems to have come out of a medieval court, while Luna is wearing a pure white suspender dress with flower patterns, her platinum-blond long hair is tied in a bun behind her head, covered by a flower Wreath tied.

Finally, while Xenophilius was waiting anxiously, the door of 221 Baker Street opened from the inside.

The one who opened the door was a young wizard with black hair and black eyes who was about twelve or thirteen years old. It was Tierra.

Tierra was wearing a Hogwarts school uniform today, with her hair combed to look like an adult, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose.

"Mr. Lovegood, Miss Lovegood, hello." Tiera politely shook hands with Xenophilius and Luna and let them into the room, "My father is already waiting You guys, please follow me."

Luna and Xenophilius followed Tiera to the dining room, where Gilderoy Lockhart had already been waiting for them, and there was a person Luna and Xenophilius could never have imagined sitting next to them... ...or creatures—

A house-elf sat awkwardly to Gilderoy Lockhart's left.

This made Xenophilius obviously stunned for a moment, and stayed where he was——

On the other hand, Luna's eyes were shining, her figure trembled slightly, and she looked very interested in Dobby.

"Aha, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart came out from behind the dining table, warmly shook the hands of Xenophilius and Luna Lovegood, "Come in, come in. "

"I hope you don't mind." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "This is Dobby, who was originally a house elf of the Malfoy family. I think you should have known the details from various reports. I won’t go into details.”

With that said, Gilderoy Lockhart led Xenophilius to the dining table.

"And thanks to my lovely adopted son, Tierra, Dobby has been freed, so I decided to hire him, and the salary is one Galleon per month—" Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile, "I know, this salary is not high. I originally planned to pay ten Gold Galleons a month, but Dobby refused to accept it, so I had to settle for one Gold Galleon a month. Mr. Dobby is now in charge of our daily work. Diet, daily life and work, today's sumptuous lunch is Mr. Dobby's masterpiece."

"Oh my god, Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius seemed to be shocked, and stood by the seat in a daze, "I used to, I used to... I always heard that you are a great wizard with great ambitions , but I didn't expect... I didn't expect... I didn't expect your ideal to be so great..."

"Then please raise your glass." As he said, Gilderoy Lockhart raised the wine glass on the table, "Come, to welcome Mr. Lovegood and Miss Lovegood's visit, and to celebrate the coming Second, thanks to our lovely Mr. Dobby for preparing such a sumptuous lunch for us, cheers!"

After speaking, Gilderoy Lockhart raised his glass. Then he bent down and touched the glass with Dobby.

"cheers!"

Tiera, Luna and Xenophilius said at the same time.

"Hurry up and take your seats," Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile.

For today's lunch, Tierra asked Dobby to prepare a large pot of mashed potatoes with tuna, a whole roast turkey, a pot of lamb soup with peas, and a steak baked in red wine for each person.

And Sirius Black is still digging the gopher alone.

"Mr. Lockhart, you are so great." Lovegood said again excitedly after taking his seat, "You are really different from the gangsters in the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet."

"Mr. Lovegood, we are old acquaintances." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "I remember that my first interview in the Daily Prophet was done by you. I said at that time that my The ideal is world peace."

"Yes," Xenophilius said, "but I didn't realize it at all...I mean, I just thought you were talking to me."

"It's not your fault, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart gracefully cut a piece of steak and put it into his mouth——

Well, the meat is tough and tender, the juice is thick and delicious.

It has to be said that Dobby's cooking skills trained by the Malfoy family are quite good.

At this time, Sirius Black had just eaten his first gopher, mixed with fur, bones and dirt.

"At that time, I did not show any intention of maintaining world peace." Gilderoy Lockhart continued, "Maintaining world peace is a long and arduous operation. At that time, I was just an adventurer who had just become famous. Although I have the ideal of maintaining world peace, I have no power to maintain world peace. So I made a preliminary plan."

"What... what preliminary plan?" Xenophilius asked.

"That is to enhance my own strength. At that time, I was just a young wizard with mediocre talent. Seven years of stable study and life in Hogwarts did not change this fact. So I started to travel around, constantly using adventure Sharpen my own ability." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "But as I traveled and as my knowledge deepened, I realized how shallow my previous knowledge was and how naive my previous ideals were. "

"You... what do you mean?" Xenophilius nervously slowed down his eating speed.

"It is not enough to maintain world peace," Gilderoy Lockhart said.

At the same time, Tierra completely let go of her spiritual dimension, and the powerful spiritual power poured out, permeating the dining table.

"Mr. Lovegood, I want to ask you, what is peace?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"Peace..." Xenophilius didn't quite understand why Gilderoy Lockhart asked such a question, but he answered honestly:

"Peace is the absence of war, or other acts of violence that endanger life."

"Then do you think our current wizarding world is at peace?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"Well... it should be considered." Xenophilius said.

"Well, Mr. Lovegood, I'll ask you one more thing. House-elves don't go to war with each other, nor do they commit any act of life-threatening violence. Can we then say that house-elves live in peace? asked Gilderoy Lockhart.

"This..." Xenophilius was speechless.

"The centaurs live alone in the Forbidden Forest, and they live in peace with each other, but as their habitats are destroyed, they migrate to the depths of the Forbidden Forest step by step, and the birth rate of the centaurs is also decreasing year by year, so the centaurs live in peace. Are you in?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked again.

"And half-blood wizards, werewolves, do they all live under the whitewashed peace of the Ministry of Magic?"

"The last question, Mr. Lovegood, if Voldemort succeeded in killing all the wizards who opposed him, leaving only the wizards willing to accept his rule, everyone would be at his mercy like puppets on a string, living in the Under his reign of terror, I believe that there will be no wars at that time, and there will be no more violent acts that endanger the lives of others, but..." Gilderoy Lockhart asked again, "Is that called peace?"

"What do you want to say? Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius finally realized the change in the topic.

Gilderoy Lockhart put down his knife and fork with a smile, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said:

"Mr. Lovegood, have you ever heard of exploitation?"

Xenophilius stopped eating.

Even Luna Lovegood stopped her knife and fork.

Although she didn't understand the meaning of the word "exploitation", she instinctively noticed the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood contained in this word.

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