Chapter 488 Poor Old Kreacher

Harry was startled by the sudden sound,

Ivan was not surprised. He looked in the direction of the sound and found a house elf standing on the stairs.

It looked very old, with wrinkles on its face and a dirty rag around its waist. It looked like it hadn't taken a bath for several days, so that two big bat-like ears had grown out. There was a lot of white hair, and there was no clean spot anywhere on the body.

"Kreacher! Why don't you clean this room when no one is around?" Sirius also saw the house elf, his face was red and he looked very angry, and he scolded it.

The house elf named Kreacher did not reply, but looked down at his toes and murmured to himself.

"Oh, poor old Kreacher, his mistress died, the noble Blacks were thrown into jail, and old Kreacher thought they would never come back and he would die with the house.

But why is this happening? A prodigal son who was expelled from the family tree, after so many years, still has the audacity to step into this place with annoying brats. If the mistress's coffin is placed here, she might be angry and come to life."

Before Kreacher could finish speaking, Sirius cursed angrily. "That's enough! Shut up Kreacher! I won't let you insult my friends!"

"According to the rules, I am your new master now. I order you to respect my friends and use honorifics when greeting me in the future! In addition, clean this house for me immediately! Before going to bed today, I want See three clean beds or you need to get out of the Black family!”

Sirius shouted, almost growling.

Kreacher's body trembled, especially when he heard Sirius say that he was going to be kicked out of the Black family, a look of panic appeared on his face.

"Yes, the only meaning of Master Kreacher's existence is to serve the noble Black family-" Kreacher hesitated, said reluctantly, then snapped his fingers and disappeared in front of everyone.

However, you can still vaguely hear Kreacher's slight murmur before leaving. "It's the prodigal son and his annoying friends who should get out."

Sirius' face turned dark. He wanted to call Kreacher back and beat him up, but he finally held back. He turned his head to look at Ivan and the others and said helplessly.

"Sorry for making you laugh, I will discipline it well in the future."

"Don't be like this, Sirius, that house elf looks very old. Maybe he's just a little confused. We shouldn't be so strict with him." Harry thought about Kreacher's old and dirty look, and felt a little confused for a moment. pity.

"You don't understand, Harry. Kreacher was taught badly by my mother. He absorbed a lot of ugly pure-blood theories from her. If you don't care about it, it will only go further!"

Sirius shook his head. He knew very well the pure-blood theory of the Black family, and it was precisely because of this that the Black family was in the current tragic situation.

"Okay, let's go clean together. It will take several days for Kreacher to do it alone. I don't want to live in a place full of dust and cobwebs!" Lupine smiled and changed the subject. .

"Well, let's start from the first floor." Sirius also nodded, then patted Harry on the shoulder. "Harry, follow me!"

After discussing it, they split up and Ivan also walked into the kitchen on the first floor.

The place was messier than he imagined. The walls were covered with oil stains, thick dust accumulated on the kitchen utensils, the trash baskets fell on the floor, and the entire kitchen gave off a disgusting smell.

When I just opened the door, the smell almost killed Ivan.

"Clean it up!" Ivan covered his nose and recited a spell, struggling to clean the stains on the wall, but it was so dirty here that even if the magic power swept through the entire kitchen like a brush, it could not remove these stains. Scrape it clean.

On the contrary, it caused a large number of strange little things to crawl out of the gaps in the cabinets and tables. Ivan even saw a long creature that looked like a silver snuff box squeezed from the cabinet to the ground, and then rolled to hide. Reached a hidden corner.

Of course Ivan knew what these creatures were. They were as annoying as cockroaches and mice in the Muggle world. They would often hide in every corner of the room to steal food and spread germs. Although they looked weird, there was no research on them. value

In the end, it took Ivan a full hour to catch all the nasty guys running around and burn them to ashes.

But according to the book, this alone is not enough. It is necessary to spray corresponding chemicals and destroy their nests to completely drive them away.

Otherwise, these annoying magical creatures will reappear within a few days.

Of course, Ivan can't take care of so much now. That's what Kreacher will do in the future. He is only responsible for cleaning the kitchen.

The Sirius family's mansion was very large, and it took several hours just to clean the first floor. In the evening, everyone gathered together for a hasty dinner.

Without the corresponding ingredients, Sirius could only ask Kreacher to buy some bread to fill his stomach.

Fortunately, this bad situation will only last for one night. After cleaning the kitchen, we can buy the ingredients and have a good meal tomorrow.

So after dinner, everyone started cleaning the second floor with great enthusiasm.

Since learning the cleaning spell is not difficult, after a few hours of study, Harry was able to initially cast this spell, and occasionally he could help with some small help to clean up the corners that were not cleaned.

Ivan walked into the room on the second floor. While cleaning, he was also looking for Slytherin's locket. He vaguely remembered that it was placed in a certain room.

Perhaps he felt that Ivan's looking around was very suspicious, so the house elf kept following him, not too far or too close, just standing outside the door, staring at Ivan with his eyes the size of light bulbs. Fan's every move.

This made Ivan's search operation constrained. He had to pretend to drive away the little creatures before he could open a clothes hanger or cabinet to see if the Horcrux was inside.

After casting the cleaning spell, Ivan couldn't bear it anymore, so he turned around and asked.

"Kreacher! Why do you always follow me? Didn't Sirius ask you to clean other rooms?"

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