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Chapter 279 Hogsmeade Week

Human nature always likes to compromise.

This also applies to monsters like Fiddlesticks.

If you want it to be Sherlock's slave for the rest of its life, and always obey the young man who defeated it twice, then even if it really chooses to dissipate its soul, it will not agree.

But when it clearly expressed resistance, Sherlock slightly modified the magic contract.

Change the terms with the word slavery in everything to "cooperation", and change the free service for Sherlock to "work in exchange for freedom."

The working time is set as 100 years, and after 100 years, Fiddlesticks will regain his freedom again.

Looking at it this way, such a very "equal" magic contract makes people feel less uncomfortable.

Fiddlesticks, who has the ability to think independently, will find himself a step down.

Slavery has become cooperation, which means that it has not lost its dignity.

100 years of work in exchange for freedom is not unacceptable to Fiddlesticks, who has a nearly infinite life.

Anyway, it was imprisoned in the German Ministry of Magic for a century before, and it seemed no big deal to endure another century of captivity.

Besides, this is not considered to be imprisoned, and there is still a chance to come out with Sherlock.

After all, they are "equal" partnerships!

Even though he had given himself a step down, when he actually signed the soul contract, Fiddlesticks was still very coy, trying to continue pretending to resist, and let Sherlock put some clauses in the contract again. more relaxed.

But Sherlock just threw the pen away at this time, sign it if you like it, and blew yourself up if you don't sign it, the big deal is lying on the bed for two months, a good man who is still alive and kicking after he recovers from his injuries.

Seeing that there was really no way to bargain and give itself some benefits, it could only sign the revised contract pitifully in the end.

It's just that it didn't find that at the end of this contract, there was a very small text written in ancient runes, which would not be noticed under normal circumstances.

【Sherlock Forrest has the final right to interpret this contract】

In the end, the matter of controlling Fiddlesticks was completed without any risk. Fiddlesticks, who successfully signed the contract, naturally no longer needs to be locked in those four wooden boxes.

It itself is an incorporeal creature, and the form of the straw man is just what it thinks is the easiest to scare.

So in general, it can be turned into some small ornaments hanging around Sherlock's neck, which looks unobtrusive.

One and a half hours before entering the Room of Requirement, Silke opened the door of the Room of Requirement from the outside on time.

Seeing that Sherlock inside did not show any abnormal appearance, she was slightly relieved.

"I just told you, keep it safe."

Sherlock proudly walked out of the Room of Requirement with Silk, at this moment he suddenly remembered how he entered the Room of Requirement just now.

"Why did you kick me when you entered the door?"

Silk didn't even look at him after making sure he was fine.

"It's nothing, I just want to kick."

"What do you mean just want to kick? Don't tell me whether it's big or small, you'd better explain it to me now!"

"I want to go to Hogsmeade tomorrow."

"Don't change the subject!"

"are you going?"

".go!"

The relationship between Harry and Ron still hasn't eased.

Even today, Hogsmeade Week, Harry was determined not to meet Ron, preferring to go out in the cloak of invisibility.

Although Hermione said that talking to the air was silly, and that she would never walk with Harry if he went out wearing an invisibility cloak, she eventually left Hogwarts Castle with Harry.

"People keep looking at me now," said Hermione dissatisfied. "They think I'm talking to myself."

They had just come out of the Honeydukes Candy Store, and there were lots of students around.

"When you speak, don't move your mouth too obviously, or they won't notice it." Harry tried to teach Hermione why she wasn't so special now.

But Hermione didn't really mind making others think she was a weirdo talking to herself. Her real purpose was to trick Harry into taking off his invisibility cloak so that he could be in the Three Broomsticks Tavern" Coincidentally" and Ron met, maybe the two will reconcile as before.

But Harry didn't intend to be fooled at all, no matter what Hermione said, he was unwilling to take off his invisibility cloak.

Facts also proved that Harry's approach was right, because after they came out of the candy store, they met an annoying woman, Rita S. Kit.

If she saw Harry, it would be a struggle.

"Why doesn't she leave!" Harry said angrily, hiding under the cloak.

Hermione said with no surprise: "She will definitely stay here until the competition officially starts. The interview with you before is not a big achievement for her."

After Skeeter and her camera assistant came out of the tavern, Hermione and Harry walked in.

There were quite a few people in the tavern, almost full. After all, there were only three taverns in the entire town of Hogsmeade. A broom tavern is the most suitable place for drinking among friends.

Hermione took Harry to find an empty table and sat down. From the eyes of outsiders, all they could see was Hermione drinking butterbeer here alone.

"This is really stupid." Hermione complained helplessly, and then she took out a book from her small bag, "Fortunately, I carry this thing with me all the time."

Harry saw the title of the book, it was called The Communist Manifesto.

"I never knew what the use of reading these books is for you." Harry grumbled softly. He has been living at the Dursleys' house, and obviously knows something about the contents of these books Hermione read recently, "The wizarding world The situation is different from the Muggle side."

Hermione looked serious indeed.

"As long as the society is composed of people, they are essentially the same, but now it seems that wizards have not been divided into classes by such things as productivity in modern times, but this does not mean that classes do not exist. Another way emerged in magical society."

Harry said these things to her, just listening to them felt dizzy.

Just when he was bored in every possible way, his eyes accidentally turned to the door of the tavern, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)