Chapter 576 Meeting with Sirius

"Spare me, Hermione!" Ron wailed.

"Hermione, when are you going to give up this S.P.E.W. stuff?" Harry asked.

"Wait until the day house elves get decent wages and decent working conditions!" she said earnestly, shaking the roster in Harry's face. is correct."

Harry saw that the names of himself, Hermione, Ivan, and Ron were written at the top of the list.

Ivan is the president, Hermione is the vice president, Harry is the secretary, and Ron is the treasurer.

This is the organizational structure that Hermione planned at the beginning, and there are still many Gryffindor students under it.

Even Gabriel's name is written on it, the first foreign member Hermione developed.

But Harry was surprised to find that there were more names he didn't recognize, densely written on several pages.

These were all wizards who had spontaneously written to Hermione asking to join the S.P.E.W. after seeing the reports in the newspaper.

The Hogwarts Newsletter of Wizardry and Wizardry has a special issue concerned with protecting the rights of house-elves, which Hermione maintains.

The effect of the special edition gradually appeared. At the beginning, everyone thought Hermione was crazy, and she wanted wages and holidays for house elves.

But as Hermione persisted in explaining her position, more and more people began to agree with her.

In all fairness, everyone thought that what Hermione said had some truth.

And very courageous, dare to say such words, against the ancient traditions that have been passed down for centuries in the magic world.

This era has changed for a long time now. Whether it is the Ministry of Magic or the mainstream society of the magic world, there are more and more wizards who are born as Muggle apprentices.

Gone are the dark ages when pure-blood wizards held power and the right to speak.

As the biggest bad habit left over from the old system, the status of house elves really needs to be improved.

With Hermione's efforts, this is the result so far, but there are more wizards against her.

She receives dozens of emails almost every week with unsightly and insulting words.

"We now have three hundred members, which is a great achievement." Hermione said excitedly, writing back to supporters, "I think it's time to take some more direct action, I don't know how to get into the school kitchen .”

"I don't know, ask Frey and George." Harry said, "Ivan should know too."

Hermione was lost in thought again, while Harry sipped his butterbeer and eyed the people in the tavern.

They all looked light-hearted and cheerful, Ernie MacMillan and Hannah Abbott exchanging cards from Chocolate Frogs with those at the next table, both wearing badges of support for Cedric Diggory on their robes.

Just by the door, he saw Cho Chang and her large group of Ravenclaw friends.

Harry couldn't help thinking that if he became a warrior, maybe Cho Chang would cheer him on...

Ron was lying there, not intending to communicate with others, nor did he want to talk to Harry and Hermione.

He is very depressed now, in a terrible mood, and has an inexplicable sense of anxiety and fear.

As long as those people outside saw him, they would attack him with badges or words in newspapers.

He'd had enough of that, especially since he was about to face a dragon, and for the first time Ron realized that being a warrior wasn't all that great either.

He didn't want to go up to embarrass himself, unless Aiwen could lend him the Philosopher's Stone, he had no chance.

"The Philosopher's Stone!" Ron murmured.

He couldn't help but think that after he got the Philosopher's Stone, he could also get honors like Ivan's now.

Honestly, it's heartwarming.

Ivan said before that the four founders of Hogwarts each left a secret treasure key, which is the Sorcerer's Stone.

Ron felt that he could get a piece too, and the even more exciting secret treasure, which might be his only chance to become a powerful wizard.

He has dreamed more than once, dreaming that he got those treasures alone...

Ivan took Gabriel to the edge of the bar, and the beautiful owner Mrs. Rosmerta greeted them both warmly.

Gabriel was choosing a drink, and Ivan saw Hagrid and Keresis, who was pretending to be Professor Moody, sitting at the bar.

Hagrid had his usual mug of beer in front of him, and Keresis drank Polyjuice Potion from the Moody's curved bottle he carried with him.

Madam Rosmerta seemed displeased with this, she kept squinting at Keresis.

From her expression, she probably thought that Moody was insulting her by drinking other drinks in her tavern.

"We just want to find you, Ivan!" Hagrid said to Ivan, his eyes lit up, he leaned over, and whispered mysteriously, "You tell Ron, let him arrive at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night today My hut came to me, remember to bring Harry's invisibility cloak, I have something to show him."

After Hagrid finished speaking, he straightened up and said loudly, "Nice to meet you, Ivan, see you next week!"

"Good luck!" said Keresis softly, and followed Hagrid away.

Alvin and Gabriel returned to the small table in the corner with butter beer, and told Harry, Ron and Hermione about it.

"Hagrid asked me to go to his cabin at midnight?" Ron said in surprise, "Why?!"

"Probably because of the fire dragon." Ivan replied.

Obviously, under the persuasion of Keresis, Hagrid finally made up his mind to secretly tell Ron about this.

But it was also possible that he had intended to do so.

"I'm not going..." said Ron stubbornly. "There's no dragons."

"It's not a bad thing to go and have a look, Ron, the few of us will accompany you!" Hermione said, "Hagrid must be trying to tell us important information about the event, even if it's not a fire dragon, it may be something else Monster, we need to prepare ahead of time."

Harry agreed, and Ron fell back down again with a grunt.

If it is said that he still has a glimmer of hope now.

Then when everyone met Sirius, this glimmer of hope disappeared.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the five of them left the Three Broomsticks to meet Sirius at the Shrieking Shack.

At Sirius' suggestion, their meeting took place in secret.

By the time they climbed the long climb to the crumbling Shrieking Shack, Sirius was waiting for them, just as he had been hiding in the haunted house for so long when they first met last year.

Seeing Sirius, Gabriel was very excited. She had seen many deeds about Sirius in the newspapers before.

Harry was even more excited than Gabriel. He hurried over and asked, "Sirius, how are you doing?"

"It's not bad, leave me alone!" Sirius said seriously, "How are you guys doing?" (To be continued.)