Chapter 1326 The House Elf's Treasure

"How could there be house-elves without masters?" Hermione asked. "Have they all been expelled from their original families? Or have they come out on their own, like Dobby?"

She looked very excited, and Alvin knew why Hermione was so excited after hearing about house elves without a master. Reading at midnight

You know, despite the lack of progress, she has not given up on S.P.E.W.

As long as there is a chance, Hermione will not give up.

She campaigned for the legal rights of house elves, wrote articles in newspapers, and persuaded wizards to treat house elves better. When she was in school, she insisted on going to the kitchen to talk to elves every week.

Hermione does a lot of things, but with poor results.

With the exception of Dobby, few house-elves share her philosophy.

House-elves don't need wages and holidays, all they need is work. The more work they do, the happier they are. If they can’t finish it, then punish them as much as you want, such as whipping them, burning their hands with an iron, or directly slashing them a few times with a knife, and then ordering them to go to work quickly.

In the eyes of traditional house-elves, the only good masters are those who treat them like this...

They regard it as the greatest honor to serve their masters for life, especially after the Black family created a perverted tradition. The dream of many house-elves is to be like their ancestors. Cut it off and hang it side by side with the ancestor's head on the wall as a decoration.

Even the house-elves as far away as France have imitated and learned this custom one after another, like a treasure.

So, for domestication, Hermione's promotional stuff is heretical.

Over time, she became the least popular person in the kitchen.

When other students went to the kitchen, the house elves would take the initiative to gather around him and stuff all kinds of food into his arms.

Hermione passed by, and all the house elves hid immediately...

S.P.E.W. has not made much progress, but if there are many house elves without masters, maybe this situation can be changed. Without the restraint of masters, it will be much easier to help them fight for their rights, and there will be many more role models at that time, so that others The house-elves learn.

"Don't get excited, Hermione, I may not have made it clear that these house-elves still have masters in name, they are not evicted house-elves like Dobby, but their masters are actually gone." Fred explained, "Imagine, those ancient pure-blood wizard families lost their descendants for various reasons in the process of inheritance. Without family members, the family died, but the house-elves were still there. These lost masters The house-elves don't pledge their allegiance to the new wizard, they just..."

"House-elf without a master?"

"Yes, if you ask them in the past, they will be willing to tell you about their masters. They are all pure-blood wizard families that have disappeared for a long time, and there are ancient surnames hundreds of years ago." Fred pointed The house-elves who were working in the room said, "These house-elves you see now are the descendants of those house-elves who lost their masters. They nominally belong to those extinct wizard families."

Bound by ancient contracts and magic, house-elves are slaves to ancient and wealthy wizarding families.

The same goes for their descendants, and while many of these wizarding families are no longer there, the potency remains.

House-elves do not betray and switch to other wizards, even if their master is no longer around.

This kind of situation is very common in the magic world, especially in the past, when there were frequent wars between wizards and duels prevailed, people would die if they disagreed, and the ancient families would be extinct. As the last members of these families, the domesticated Pokémon probably thrived for centuries.

After listening to Fred's explanation, Ivan realized that there is indeed such a possibility.

He once read a book about the coats of arms of wizarding families in the UK. In the past few hundred years, the number of families that have disappeared is countless, there are hundreds of thousands of them, even if not all families will survive. House-elves, but as long as there are one-tenth, it is also a very large number.

"I don't know when, these house elves who lost their masters gathered in the underground world of London, which is the fringe of the wizarding world, where they lived in obscurity." Fred said, "I heard that they The history of living there can even be traced back thousands of years.”

"It's the first time I've heard of the existence of such a group of house-elves."

"I only found out about their existence not long ago. Only the house-elves know about their existence, but the house-elves regard this kind of thing as a taboo and won't say it easily." Fred said, "If it wasn't for the recent Those werewolves and dark wizards are making too much noise in the Underworld, and George and I won't know about it."

"What are the werewolves going to do? Why are they occupying the territory of the house elves?" Ivan asked.

"It may be because of the treasures of the house elves. Many of these house elves are the last members of those ancient wizard families. When they moved to the underground world, they took the last things of these families with them." Fred disapproved. Said, "I have seen some of their so-called treasures, which are not of much value. The concept of house elves is different from ours. The actual value of the items they fancy and collect as treasures is not very high. The real treasures of the pure blood wizard family Usually kept in Gringotts..."

This is true, but it is undeniable that there will be more or less gains in doing so.

However, this kind of thing sounds like only a wizard like Mundungus Fletcher would do it, and a werewolf would not do this kind of thing.

Greedy werewolves? A bit strange?

They have lived in the underground world for many years, and they have been living in peace with the house elves there. The relationship between them may be quite friendly, but it is not impossible to attack them and occupy the elves' territory.

The house elves only look weak, but their actual fighting power is still very strong.

Aiwen didn't understand why the werewolves did this. He suddenly thought that this matter had something to do with Voldemort?

Assuming the werewolves are now obeying Voldemort's orders, is there any secret in it?

"These house-elves, do you and George pay them?" Hermione asked.

She was more concerned about this than the illusory conspiracy.

"No wages, they won't take it, as long as we provide food," said Fred, "Please, Hermione, stop talking about vomiting, it's not suitable for house-elves at all..." 8)