Chapter 599 School Kitchen

While Hufflepuff's move changed the wizarding world, it also greatly enhanced the status of Hogwarts.

The pure-blood wizard family finally had to make a compromise. They reached an agreement with Helga Hufflepuff, agreed to the Hogwarts education model, allowed young Muggle-born wizards to enroll, and formed a board of directors accordingly. Watts takes control.

As for Hogwarts breaking away from the control of the board of directors and conducting school teaching activities independently, it was the matter of the later headmaster.

But I have to say that the success of the Hufflepuff and Hogwarts models was definitely a major event that could change the course of the entire wizarding world thousands of years ago. Magic schools like Hogwarts sprang up all over the world. out.

More and more young Muggle wizards are recruited into the school, the traditional single family, master-apprentice, and secret magic inheritance methods have been completely changed, and universal magic education has become the main education model in the magic world.

Helga Hufflepuff herself was the headmaster of Hogwarts until her death. She never left this place, and was buried in Hogwarts even after her death, with only her favorite gold cup as the only relic passed on to their offspring.

Like Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, the location of Hufflepuff's tomb has long been a mystery.

Because she ended up being buried by house-elves, no one knows exactly where Hufflepuff's grave is.

For thousands of years, countless latecomers have tried to find her burial place in the school, but no one has succeeded.

Aiwen carefully analyzed all the historical facts he could find, and he believed that the key breakthrough point was in the hands of the house elves.

As well as being the greatest wizard and educator in the history of magic, Hufflepuff is also the greatest cook, and the house elves are her assistants.

Ivan didn't think that Hufflepuff's secret treasure key would be brought into the coffin by her, but Hufflepuff's closest friend in the second half of his life was undoubtedly a house elf.

Everything is kept by them, even their own final burial is carried out by house elves.

At that time, Helga Hufflepuff provided shelter to all elves who lost their living places due to war.

Let them be a part of Hogwarts, the so-called ordinary friends in the reminder she left should be elves.

Since the Hufflepuff era, Hogwarts has been the place with the most house-elves in the wizarding world.

For thousands of years, they all lived in the kitchen below the castle, where they built their own huge underground kingdom.

Not surprisingly, both the keys to the treasure and the secrets of the Hufflepuff burials are kept in the hands of the house-elves.

In the last semester, Ivan asked Dobby and other house elves about this matter, but they all said they didn't know.

He speculates that these secrets, kept by the house-elf ancestors, may have been lost, with no one passing them on.

It's no surprise that house-elves have been enslaved for so long.

They have lost their own civilization inheritance and completely become the appendages of wizards.

If they really kept such important clues, they might have told the principal long ago instead of hiding it by themselves.

While no one knows, there must be clues in the kitchen.

Not long ago, Aiwen found a copy of the castle's early construction planning drawings in the ** area of ​​the library.

It was included in a very unpopular magic book, which had not been borrowed for hundreds of years.

The basement part on the map is much larger than it is now, and the big piece that disappeared later is near the kitchen.

This drawing verified Aiwen's long-standing conjecture, and combined with the information he had received before, he thought it necessary to check it out.

Ivan led Hermione into the basement, which was the only way to the Slytherin and Hufflepuff public rooms.

The two of them walked down a stone step along a narrow passage on the left.

It wasn't a dark, gloomy underground passage like the one leading to Snape's dungeon.

Instead, they found themselves in a broad stone corridor, brightly lit by torches, and here and there decorated with cheerful pictures, chiefly of things to eat.

They walked up to the picture of the big fruit bowl, and Ivan stretched out his index finger and gently scratched the big green pear.

Pear squirmed, giggled, and suddenly turned into a big green doorknob.

"This is the entrance to the school kitchen!" Ivan said.

He pulled the door open, revealing a low, dark, deep foyer.

"Let's go in and get ready!" Ivan said.

He remembered the scene of being surrounded by countless little elves when he came last time, and smiled wryly.

"Preparation for what?!" Hermione asked, staring nervously at the hall.

"You'll know right away!" Ivan took Hermione's little hand and walked in together.

In the next second, they walked into the picture. Inside was a large room with a high ceiling, which was as large as the auditorium above. There were many shining copper pots and basins piled up beside the surrounding stone walls. At the other end of the room was a Large brick fireplace.

They seemed to have sensed it, and before they could see it more clearly, there were many green things running towards them from the center of the room.

Hermione couldn't help but took a step back, and then she saw that all the house elves were running towards her.

There are hundreds of them, which is simply unbelievable.

"Sir, miss, what do you want?" The elves asked loudly, crowding over.

Each of them had a smile on their faces, waiting for Ivan and Hermione's orders.

Before the two of them could speak, another screaming elf rushed over.

He slammed into Ai Wen's upper abdomen and hugged Ai Wen tightly and tightly.

This guy is Dobby!

Although they had just met more than a month ago, he was still very excited that Ivan came to visit him in the kitchen.

He hugged Aiwen with great strength, and Aiwen hurriedly let him get off his body.

Hermione looked around in amazement at the house-elves and the two of them, taking a long time to get used to it.

In fact, she hadn't seen Dobby for a long time.

Dobby's big green ping-pong eyes, filled with tears of joy, looked exactly as he remembered them.

The pencil-like nose, the bat-like ears, and the long fingers and feet...

None of this has changed, only the clothes are quite different from the original.

Dobby wore that dirty old pillowcase all year round when he worked for the Malfoys.

Now, he's dressed in all sorts of weird combinations, worse than any of the wizards at the World Cup.

On his head was a teapot warmer with a lot of colorful badges pinned to it; on his chest was a tie with a horseshoe pattern, and he was wearing something that looked like children's football shorts. Two mismatched socks.

One of them was the black sock that Harry had taken off from his foot and tricked Mr. Malfoy into throwing it to Dobby so that he could go free, and the other had pink and orange stripes all over it.

This is a style that Aiwen has never seen before. All the wages he gave to Dobby are used to buy socks, and new ones are replaced almost every week.

In a way, Dobby might just be the trendiest house-elf around! (To be continued.) 8