Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"Wh, what, what... Dong, something." The man looked around in a daze, but there was no one around him. He scratched his head troubledly, and wanted to move on.

"Sir, I am here."

This time the man finally followed the voice's instructions and looked down, and then he laughed out loud: "Little, little elf? It's weird to wear and dress-hey, your master is still, really a weird, weird. ..." He was annoyed that his tongue would not obey, and he even put his hand in his mouth and tugged, and then threw an angry punch into the air.

"Get out, get out, get in the way!"

But the house elf seemed to be unable to understand what he said, so he stood still on the spot like a pillar: "Sir, I haven't heard your apology before you left."

It repeated stubbornly.

"He, hehe, what do you want me to do or apologize for? Impossible!" The man pushed on the elf's thin shoulders and watched the elf staggering back. He laughed, "I, me, why should I And, want to apologize to an elf?"

The elf was obviously angry too, but he still tried to behave like a polite gentleman, although his fists were clenched.

"If you don't apologize, I won't give in. Apologize to the offended person. Isn't that natural?"

"But it's human, no, it's no elf!" the man roared irritably, his face almost turning purple, he raised his hand and pulled out his wand, "Get out, little thing! Otherwise I'll explode. Rotten, blow your nose!"

"...If you plan to use a duel to solve all this." The elf shrank at first, as if he was afraid of the wizard's wand.But in the end it pretended to be tough.You know that elves can also use magic, don't need a wand.It's just that usually their owners will explicitly forbid them to do so.

"Oh, my esteemed Mr. Carpenter, you are a respectable person, why not let this respect last to the end? I sincerely hope you can do that." Rosmerta walked to the man He said with a smile.

"But this, this damn beast (the little elf's face sank suddenly) is the one who provokes and provokes me first..." The man still wants to be unforgiving, but Rosmerta can stay here for so long The three broomsticks are not just because of her delicate appearance.

"What you should know is that the Minister is also a frequent visitor here." There was a cold tone in her voice, but in general she was very polite. "Mr. Carpenter, you still want me to be with the Minister. Tell me a little about his subordinates' usual words and deeds, such as making trouble in a lady's shop?"

Carpenter slapped his lips unwillingly, and the last trace of his sober consciousness left him restrained himself.Regardless of the image of Cornelius Fudge in the minds of every subordinate, he does have power in the Ministry of Magic. In any case, the consequences of offending the boss still need to be carefully measured.

When Carpenter staggered away from the three broomsticks, Rosmerta looked at the little house-elf with a cold face.

"Thank you for your help, madam." The elf was relieved. If it could, of course it didn't want to conflict with the wizard, because it would remind it of bad memories in the past.

Rosmerta didn't appreciate it at all. Her attitude towards this house elf was even more mean than she did to Carpenter: "I need to remind you that the three broomsticks will never welcome you from now on."

"I think I was the one involved. It is unfair for you, madam."

"Hehe, although Carpenter will become an idiot when he gets drunk, at least he is right. Elf, why don't you go find a family to settle down? Or find a solid job, not so Free and loose." Rosmerta sighed, still counseling.

"I have been walking for a long time and have gone to many places, madam. Of course I need to find a place to settle down, and a job, what is more wonderful than this?" the elf sighed, "but nowhere is willing to accept I."

"You're kidding, elf—"

"Please call me Crocker."

"Well, Crocker." Rosmerta continued, "You need countless families, not to mention that you are the best laborers, even the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts-yes, I can help Tell me about this lady."

She pulled Hermione over: "You can work at Hogwarts. Dumbledore and I have a good relationship. He often comes to me to buy mead... But I think this enthusiastic lady will I would like to talk to you for a while, and she will be studying at Hogwarts."

Chapter Thirty Seven

"Hello," Hermione saw Crocker looking at her, and quickly told her her name, "Miss Granger, it's a nice name."

"Thank you, Mr. Crocker." Hermione suddenly found Crocker looking at herself with wide eyes. "What, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, Miss Granger, I'm just happy." Crocker screamed, and at the same time bowed to her, and Hermione hurriedly returned it.

"You said you want to find a job, then you can really try Hogwarts. My good friend said that Professor Dumbledore-he is the principal of Hogwarts-should be willing to accept more Many elves." Hermione rubbed her hands. When she saw Kroc, a strange feeling would develop in her heart, but it was not disgusting.

"My situation is different." Kroc took off his monocle and kept rubbing it on his robe, as if this would relieve the tension in his heart, "I don't know the principal you said. Would you be willing to accept my request, but every place where I applied for a job rejected me because I wanted to be paid."

"Remuneration!" Rosmertaco hadn't left yet, she exclaimed, looking at Kroc's eyes as if looking at something strange, "You are a house elf, not only is not doing business, but you actually want to be paid, you The previous owner would actually be willing to take you in!"

"My master is dead. I don't want to mention this, madam." Crocker's tone was dissatisfied, "and it's not just payment, I..." It stopped talking suddenly, "Anyway, I want to find someone who can get Wages and holiday work."

Rosmerta sneered, "I think it's normal for you to bump into walls everywhere. You are much weirder than it looks."

Kroc smiled bitterly: "If it doesn't work here, I will probably continue to the next place."

"If you are down-to-earth and don't think so much, I think you can find a good job right away."

"This is not a fantasy!" Hermione could not help shouting, and she said excitedly, "Yes! That's how it should be, this is the right way! Remuneration, freedom, dignity, this is what everyone really should strive for! "

Ignoring Rosmerta's vision of seeing her as a madman, she took Kroc's hand, and the poor old elf was taken aback. It had never seen a human being so excited about this matter.

"I implore you to visit Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore is a very tolerant person, and he will certainly listen to your requests. Anyway, it is always good to try." She stammered again. He said: "Actually, I have some thoughts in my heart, but they are just outlines. Can I communicate with you? When I get a clear idea, I want to talk more with you."

"You unexpectedly encountered this kind of thing on the three broomsticks!" Zoe sucked the sherbet, looking surprised.She was listening to Hermione talking about everything that happened in the bar before, "I have never seen a house elf like this!"

"Then what do you think of it? Do you find it unacceptable that it wants to be paid?" Hermione asked, her voice a little anxious.

"I think it's strange, because no elf ever did this. At least I haven't seen it. Maybe it's just a freak..." Just when Hermione was discouraged by Zoe's answer, Zoe Yi added, "But I don't think this is bad, at least it has chosen which way to go. I still don't understand this problem until now."

What a pity, Hermione sighed.She hopes to hear from Zoe's full support, and hopes that someone will have the same idea as her. Seeing all the unreasonable and old things in the magical world, the world of wizards is undoubtedly very attractive. Human, but they also have many bad habits, old and inappropriate rules.Now that Hermione saw it, no matter how others looked at it, of course she couldn't accept it.

"Zoe, I have an idea." She hesitated for a while, and still said, "I would still be confused-of course, I haven't straightened out my thoughts yet, but I think I can help Crocker and What do domestic elves who have the same idea or have not awakened, I want to liberate them, elves should not be enslaved by humans, since freedom should be everyone’s choice, why can’t they be like horsemen and fairies? Is it equally independent?"

"In that case, if you don't talk about other places, Hogwarts will be paralyzed because of the lack of maintenance personnel. Without delicious meals, hot bath water, even the fire in the fireplace will not keep up. "

"We’re not trying to keep them away from the wizarding society, it’s impossible, Zoe. Even Crocker just hopes to find a paid job. I talked to him. He hates the freedom of doing nothing and thinks it’s It’s very scary.” Hermione said, “but we can call on people to pay attention to house elves and replace cruel slavery with more reasonable employment... This is just the first step, but I haven’t thought about the next steps. I I think I need to find a lot of information, such as the goblin rebellion that occurred in the 17th century. I have to exchange letters with Crockett several times to listen to his opinions..." Although Hermione was busy talking, her eyes were shining. With the light of joy when she found the goal that should be achieved, Zoe was a little jealous of her, because she looked really dazzling like this.

"It will be very busy if you do it alone, you still have to deal with your studies."

"This is indeed a problem," Hermione smiled wryly, "but someone is going to do this."

"You can find someone to find information together. For example, here is a person who is not so busy." Zoe ignored Snape's homework that was upsetting her, and pointed to himself.

"Oh my god! Is it really okay?" Hermione asked in surprise. She originally thought that Zoe had no interest in liberating the elf. After all, she was also from a complete wizarding family, and there would be a gap between her perspective and Hermione. Yes, there is no plan to let her join at this time.

"No problem, I will support you." Zoe patted his chest.She is indeed lack of interest in the future of the house elves, and does not feel that it is bad for the house elves to do housework-the elves of the Siegel family can almost replace her as the new owners of the house, and They live well.

But of course she didn't hesitate to extend a helping hand to Hermione, except for the secretive thought in her happiness, she didn't want Hermione to continue to burden her.The girl who would do whatever she thought of was already too tired and tired this year, and she wanted to share some for Hermione.

"Great! Thank you, Zoe." Hermione rushed up and hugged her (sure enough, as she had thought, the heart thumped out of the chest), "We can even set up an institution in the future. , I can be the chairman, and you can be the vice chairman!"

She was very happy. Although she hadn't finished this matter yet, and the preparations were piled up, there were too many things to think about and weigh, but she became more determined and confident in her heart.

You know that the girl who will help her is as good as her. As long as the two of them work hard together, what difficulties will they be unable to conquer?

*****

"Where are we going next? I can do it," Hermione was in a good mood, "except for the magic equipment store."

"What's the matter? That shop sells many convenient magic items. It's always good to take a look." Zoe asked. She just wanted to let them go there to take a look.

Hermione scratched her face awkwardly. She didn't want to explain to Zoe that she had just had a fight with Ron, and that magic item shop was a place where Ron would most likely appear-because they had previously agreed to give Harry brought gifts.And now there will be some very embarrassing scenes in the past.

Hermione didn't want to show her humiliating scene in front of Zoe, if she could, she wanted to show her best all the time.I didn't want Zoe to feel guilty about the conflict between her and Ron and think it was her own responsibility; not to mention that because of this conflict with Ron again, they already saw each other uncomfortably.