Chapter 603 The Head of the House-Elf

Behind the brick wall is a wide space.

Ivan was taken aback as soon as he entered. The huge wall facing him was densely covered with something.

A closer look revealed that it was the crumpled head of a house-elf.

They are densely packed together, and all of them have the same ugly big nose.

These are much more realistic than the row of house elf heads that Ivan saw in the old house of the Black family before. Under low temperature preservation, they appear lifelike, just like they were before their lives, staring at Chuang indifferently with big eyes. entrants.

Many house elves still had smiles on their humble faces, and the corners of their mouths were exaggeratedly upward.

On this occasion, apart from being gloomy, these smiles did not make people feel the slightest bit of kindness.

Just imagine the sensory stimulation, shock and pressure brought by thousands of ugly heads piled together.

If he didn't know that house elves have the habit of cutting off their heads and hanging them on the wall after death, Ivan would have thought that this was the base of some of the most evil dark wizards, and only those psychopaths would hang their heads on the wall Hang something like this.

Separated by a wall, one side is the cold storage where Hogwarts stores food, and the other side is indeed a hell-like head exhibition hall.

If the students see this picture, I don't know if they can eat the food made by the house elves.

Behind Ivan, Dobby also walked in. 【】

He suddenly screamed, and his right arm was thrown across his eyes over his eyes.

Dobby held the corner of Aiwen's clothes with the other hand, and followed Aiwen forward tremblingly, as if very scared.

"Master Aiwen, let's go back!" Dobby said, "This place makes Dobby feel uncomfortable."

"Uncomfortable?!" Ivan asked, "Isn't it the tradition of your house elves to cut off your head and hang it on the wall?"

As far as he knew, most house-elves, such as Kreacher, had such terrible thoughts.

His biggest dream is to cut off his head and hang it with his ancestors in the old house of the Black family.

"Dobby doesn't like this tradition, Dobby don't hang his head here!" Dobby said sharply, "Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby is to be buried like a wizard when he dies... ...Let's go back quickly, Master Aiwen!"

"Wait a minute, we're watching!" Ivan said, looking at the house elf trembling at his feet amusedly.

He led Dobby past rows of house-elf heads, holding his wand high, looking carefully around.

The spacious room was cold and quiet, perhaps because someone cleaned it regularly, there was not even dust on the floor.

Only the heads on the wall hang there quietly, with strange expressions on their faces.

Some house-elves look serious, some smile, some look angry, and some are very humble...

In some sense, this is the holy land of Hogwarts house elves.

From these heads on the wall, we can see the changes of history and the status of house-elves.

House elves in different eras dress up differently and have different expressions on their faces.

Most of the expressions on the heads of the elf ancestors that Ivan saw at the beginning were full of confidence, and there were also many exaggerated accessories.

Many accessories have high value, and Ivan can even feel the breath of magic from them.

As you can imagine, the house-elves of that era were relatively wealthy, with considerable personal property.

It was early in the history of magic, before house-elves were slaves to wizards, they were a free and independent species.

Their status is equal to that of wizards, because they are docile, peace-loving, and possess relatively powerful magic power. House elves in that era were non-human intelligent creatures most closely related to wizards. They accepted the employment of human wizards and worked in various places. The magical realm acts as a wizard's assistant.

Aiwen continued to move forward, recalling the history of the house elf race he had read in the book.

The further back, the closer to modern times, the more humble the expression on the face of the elf on the wall, and there are no more decorations.

At this time, they are no longer free species, but the efforts of wizards.

There was a section of heads hanging on the wall, the face of the house-elf on it was more or less missing something.

The faces looked particularly shocking.

They seem to have suffered some kind of cruel abuse in life, permanently damaged by irreversible magic.

This period is the most popular period of pure blood theory and black magic, and the persecution of house elves by wizards is also the most serious.

Even house elves in schools are not immune to being attacked and abused by students as a tool for fun.

It is conceivable how miserable those elves living in the family of pure blood wizards will be.

In fact, in that dark age, this situation also existed in other creatures.

In this case, many non-human intelligent creatures began to rebel against the brutal rule of human wizards.

The most famous of these is the Goblin Rebellion, which they have rebelled against many times.

The largest and most successful of these occurred in 1612, when the goblins used Hogsmeade's tavern as a headquarters for their assault on the wizarding world.

At the beginning of the battle, cunning goblins hide behind the scenes, ostensibly allies of the wizard.

But secretly united with the giants and let them come out to make trouble.

When the troops of the Ministry of Magic fought the giants, the goblins suddenly rebelled and fought back.

The sudden change caused the wizards to suffer heavy losses, and many wizards died in that battle.

The goblins occupied the Ministry of Magic and Diagon Alley as quickly as possible, and even the family of pure-blood wizards was attacked, and everyone was in danger for a while.

The last and most tragic stage of the war was the attack and defense of Hogwarts.

The goblins continue to consolidate the advantages they have gained. They unite non-human intelligent creatures such as centaurs, giants, mermaids, and vampires, as well as a large number of dangerous magical creatures and the help of many evil dark wizards. Their power far exceeds that of the wizards of the Ministry of Magic. coalition forces.

Wizards are huddled in Hogwarts castle, and their only allies are house-elves and a few magical creatures.

House-elves are the only non-human magical creatures in the Goblin Rebellion who have not betrayed human wizards.

The Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood wizarding families at that time probably promised many things to the house-elves before they persuaded them to become their allies.

There is no way to find out these contents, and Ivan doesn't know how they did it.

The only thing we can know is that the tragic war ended in a draw. The goblins did not succeed in capturing Hogwarts, but the wizarding world has successively recognized the independent status of non-human intelligent creatures such as goblins, centaurs, and mermaids. They are no longer Slave of the wizard.

Only the status of the house elves who helped wizards in the war did not change in any way, on the contrary, they ushered in more deformed and severe slavery and oppression, and at that time, no one spoke for them... ..(to be continued.).

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