Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

"The esteemed Mr. McTorley has something to say to us?"

A house elf repeated it again. He carefully lifted the lid of the pot and climbed out. His eyes were full of doubt and longing, and the other house elf in the kitchen had almost the same expression.

Hermione immediately became excited when she saw this, and she vigorously waved the Quibbler in her hand and shouted:

"That's right! He wrote everything he had to say here!"

Hermione's sudden movement startled the house-elves, but Harry noticed that no matter how scared they were, their eyes were always following the "The Quibbler" in Hermione's hands.

Perhaps she discovered that the house elves were still more afraid of herself, so Hermione immediately stopped, placed the Quibbler carefully on the floor, and slowly stepped back and said:

"Don't worry, I'll put it here, you can see for yourself, I won't go there."

Hermione's method was obviously effective, and as she retreated, the house-elves became much more courageous.

Gradually, many house-elves gathered around, curiously looking at the book "The Quibbler" on the ground.

Finally, an old elf wearing a Hufflepuff pillowcase came to the center of the crowd on crutches and opened the book of The Quibbler under the watchful eyes of the house-elves.

Harry originally thought he would read the contents to everyone, but what he didn't expect was that the old elf looked embarrassed after reading it for a while.

It's really a shame, as the most knowledgeable house-elf in all of Hogwarts, he can't read the wizard's words.

But he can't really blame him, after all, wizards value their knowledge and power above everything else, which can be seen from the fact that they don't allow any other race to use wands.

The house-elves are obviously also within the scope of the intellectual prohibition, so no one even at Hogwarts will teach them the wizarding text.

The old elf looked at the pair of eyes full of longing around him, hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Hermione in the distance, and said a little tangled:

"Mo... er... little girl, can you read it for us?"

"certainly!"

Hermione jumped out like a cheetah and picked up the Quibbler.

This sudden movement startled the house-elves again, and many house-elves have even retreated to their hiding places again.

But their curiosity and longing for Mike's message forced them to gather around Hermione carefully again.

This scene made Hermione look a little jealous.

You must know that you really care about these house elves, but even so, the other party regards himself as a devil and avoids it.

She asked herself that the house-elves were definitely more thoughtful than Mike, but the house-elves treated Mike differently from her.

And now, these house-elves are even willing to approach themselves for Mike!

Shaking her head and throwing her shameful thoughts out of her head, Hermione quickly returned to normal. Under the expectant gazes of the house-elves, she read Mike's story published in The Quibbler Issue 107. An article titled "House-elf - a tragic creature on the verge of extinction under the oppression of wizards."

Harry has also read this article, which exposes the various cruel methods that wizards have done to house-elves for thousands of years. Among them, not only pure-blood families are similar to cutting off the heads of elderly house-elves. The cruelty of things like being on the wall also includes the xn of the house-elves by the wizards, and the fact that the wizards bred them like dogs and even forced inbreeding in order to breed good house-elves.

The content in it is not only supported by accurate and accurate data, but also uses a lot of lyrical writing, which made Mike cry at the time.

Hermione also rekindled the idea of ​​helping house-elves because of reading this article.

It's just that what Hermione is telling these house-elves now seems to be slightly different from the original article! ?

Harry looked oddly at Hermione who was reading to the house-elves.

He listened clearly beside him, Hermione mixed a lot of his own personal goods in Mike's article, which made this almost perfect article appear a lot of slack and logical loopholes.

It's just that the house-elves obviously didn't hear anything wrong. In fact, they were already sobbing halfway through Hermione's reading.

By the time Hermione had read the whole article thoroughly, the Hogwarts kitchen was already crying, not only the house-elves were crying, but even Hermione herself was moved. cried.

Seriously, house-elves don't look good when they cry, their nostrils and eyes are too big, and the snot and tears that come out when they cry become so much that they have to wipe themselves all the time. snot tears.

Over time, they will paint themselves into a big face.

"I didn't expect...Mr. McTorley...to care about us so much! He's such a good guy!"

The old elf at the head choked and said.

Perhaps because he was too excited, his fingers that wiped away his snot and tears kept shaking violently when he spoke. Harry was horrified to find that in the process, he threw a lot of crystal clear liquid into the boiling soup pot next to him!

Harry felt that he was about to vomit, but in order not to spoil the atmosphere of the scene, he still covered his mouth and suppressed the nausea in his chest.

But for dinner tonight, he won't eat anything!

At this time, the house-elves on the side also reacted, and they all agreed:

"Yeah! Mr. McTominay is such a good man! Not only does he always compliment us, but he solves a lot of problems for us!"

"He's going to be a good master too. He really wants to be his house-elf and serve him all his life! It would be even better if he could chop my head off and hang it on the wall when I'm old!"

"Yeah! Yeah! I wish I could follow Mr. McTorley forever! It's a pity that he already has four house-elves, so he shouldn't need us?"

"What a pity! What a pity!"

...

Listening to the conversation between the house-elves, Hermione felt like her lungs were about to explode.

I spent so much time reading articles to them, even at the expense of carrying a lot of private goods in it, but the result was that these house elves wanted to follow Mike even more?

This made Hermione unacceptable. The scene she wanted to see was that after listening to these words, these house-elves simply gave up and started to fight for their rights!

"You guys! Don't you want freedom at all!?"

Hermione gritted her teeth and said, now she is really angry to the extreme.

"My Mr. Townley! What have I heard!" The old elf at the head screamed in horror, he even replaced Merlin with Mike's surname, "You devil! How dare you insult like this us!"

The reactions of the other house-elves were similar to those of the old elves. The screams of hundreds of house-elves were directly combined into a terrifying sound wave, and Harry covered his ears in pain.

But after the screams gradually subsided, the old elf said out of breath:

"For the sake of you being Mr. Townley's friends, we won't throw you out! Now, please go out by yourself! You are not welcome here from now on!"

"Yes! You are not welcome!"

"Get out!"

Hearing the roars of the house elves, Hermione's eyes began to turn red, she stomped the ground ruthlessly, turned her head and walked away quickly.

Seeing this, Harry hurriedly followed, but unexpectedly, Hermione, who had walked over, turned around as if she had suddenly remembered something, and almost collided with Harry.

Roughly bypassing Harry, Hermione stared at the house-elves and said:

"If, I mean if Mike was in danger, would you guys be willing to help him?"

"Of course!" said the old elf, holding out his thin chest. "We would do anything for the great Mr. McTorley!"

"Would you like to leave Hogwarts to help him?"

As soon as these words came out, the expression on the old elf's face instantly froze.

He lowered his head and glanced slowly at the Hufflepuff emblem painted on the pillow on his chest. After a long time, he raised his head and said firmly:

"willing!"

"Hehehe! That's good!"

A smile appeared on Hermione's face, and she turned her head again, grabbing Harry's arm and not turning her head back.

I don't know if it was accidental or intentional, Hermione didn't take away the "The Quibbler" that she brought, it was still lying quietly at the feet of the old elf.

Seeing this, the old elf's face flashed with a hint of joy, and he quickly stuffed the book of "The Quibbler" into his pillowcase with lightning speed, and the loose pillowcase was instantly supported. The four corners of the book are also clearly visible.

Afterwards, he looked around again as if he had done something bad, and was relieved to see that no other wizards saw him around.

And most of the house-elves around him reacted the same way, and some were even more nervous than the old elves.

You must know that stealing is an extremely shameful thing for house-elves, even if it is to take something no one wants for himself Even if they starve to death and freeze to death, they can't take it. It is conceivable how much psychological pressure the old elves have to bear in doing this!

But no way, this "The Quibbler" is too important to them!

Even if they don't understand the text inside, just looking at the cover is enough for them to be happy all day!

The old elf has even decided to sleep with this book on his own tonight.

Thinking like this, the old elf even showed an excited smile on his face.

But soon, his face changed greatly as if he had suddenly thought of something, and he turned his head and roared at a group of house-elves who had a very similar expression to him just now:

"It's about to start dinner! What are you still doing here? Why don't you go to work soon!"

One by one, the house elves returned to their posts in a panic. During this time, the kitchen at Hogwarts became busy again.

...

In a piece of broken ice in the Arctic Ocean, a pure black island is standing silently.

Despite its staggering size, the island is no smaller than Iceland, it has never been on the map of Muggles since time immemorial.

The reason is because the wizards have already set up a large number of protective circles on this island early. These powerful circles not only make all the ships around it ignore its existence, but also Let the map of everything in this world be unable to show its exact location.

Such a strict protection spell group makes this island the most stable fortress in the world, because Muggles and even most wizards cannot observe the existence of this island, unless Muggles use nuclear weapons against the entire Arctic Ocean. Carpet bombing, otherwise there would be no way to find this place.

Not only that, a large number of protection spells on the island not only protect the island from being discovered, but also completely isolate the cold outside the island. Stable at the standard of twenty degrees.

This is almost the temperature that most plants prefer, so the vegetation on the island is very rich, and some trees are even hundreds of years old.

At the same time, it is also the place with the most abundant magical resources in the world. In addition to the abundant resources that can be produced locally, various countries have also transported a large amount of materials and stored them on this island to be used as capital for last-minute counterattacks.

Here, it is the headquarters of the International Magic Federation - Mary Joa!

At this moment, in the largest and only castle in Maryjoya, a special meeting is being held.

The people who participated in the meeting were the Ministers of Magic of the United States, France, Finland and other countries, as well as the President of the Magic Congress of the United States.

The purpose of their trip is to solve the problem of the Ministry of Magic's request for help. Originally, it was enough to send envoys to this kind of problem, but the envoys from various countries have been arguing for nearly half a month, due to the increasingly urgent domestic situation. , Scrimgeour had to take the initiative to call this summit.

However, unlike the expected serious meeting scene, the atmosphere in the castle meeting hall at the moment was extremely relaxed.

Except for Scrimgeour, who was sitting upright at the conference table as the minister of the Ministry of Magic, showing his true military qualities, the postures of the other ministers were very relaxed, especially the Minister of the Magic Congress of the United States, Catherine Peel. Qualey.

This charming middle-aged woman is sitting relaxed on the soft chair by the fireplace with her legs crossed.

With the continuous spray of smoke from his mouth, Scrimgeour at the conference table felt that he would soon be unable to suppress the anger in his heart.

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