Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 78 For the Greater Good
When Lockhart and Dumbledore entered Black's old house, they saw Kreacher lying on the ground and banging his head constantly, and Sirius was ordering him to stop.

On the floor next to it, there is a golden box.

"I order you to stop, Kreacher!" Sirius yelled at the weeping house-elf lying on the ground.

Kreacher stopped, seeing Lockhart and Dumbledore who came suddenly, they didn't continue to hurt themselves, and didn't have any intention of speaking.

"Kreacher, continue with what you said earlier, why do you say this is my brother Regulus' locket?" Sirius continued to order Kreacher.

Although Lockhart didn't like it, he knew it was the only way for Kreacher to keep calm and stop hurting himself.

Kreacher, whose forehead was covered with purple, red and swollen, continued: "Master Regulus, he is different from Master Sirius...he is a good boy...so good to heaven, and some random strangers in and out of Black's old house People with authority are just the opposite..."

"Get to the point!" Sirius interrupted Kreacher again.

"Master Regulus joined the Dark Lord's organization when he was 16 years old. He was so proud, so proud, so happy, to be able to serve the mysterious man."

""One day after a year, Master Regulus came to see Kreacher in the kitchen.Master Regulus had always liked Kreacher.Master Regulus said... he said..."

Speaking of this, Kreacher suddenly stopped, he buried his face between his knees, and kept shaking his big head.

"What did he say?" Sirius kept asking.

"...Master Regulus said that the Dark Lord wanted an elf."

"...the Dark Lord needs an elf?"

"Yes, Master Regulus contributed to Kreacher..."

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This time, Kreacher didn't stop anymore, and kept talking about how Voldemort used himself as a tool to test the safety of the Horcrux, and he was dragged into the water by the surrounding corpses.

"So how did you survive?" Sirius interrupted Kreacher to ask.

"Master Regulus said he wanted Kreacher to go home, so I came back."

"I know, but how did you get rid of those infernal corpses?"

Kreacher didn't seem to understand, he repeated again:

"Master Regulus said he wanted Kreacher to go home."

"I know, I'm asking you..."

"Sirius, he left by apparating." Dumbledore said when he saw that they kept repeating a question and couldn't understand each other.

Immediately afterwards, Dumbledore went on to explain: "The magic of elves is different from that of wizards. They can Apparate or Disapparate at Hogwarts, but we cannot."

"Voldemort looked down upon creatures like house-elves and treated all house-elves as livestock. He would never have imagined that elves could master magic beyond his knowledge."

"From this point of view, Voldemort was doomed."

Sirius fell silent with the answer to his question, but Lockhart asked another.

"Elf magic is not the same as wizard magic. Voldemort treated all house-elves as beasts and did not believe they were capable of anything else. Dumbledore, you feel that Voldemort's failure is therefore doomed, don't you? "

"Then Dumbledore, think of the elves working day and night in the basement kitchen of Hogwarts, getting up before dawn to make breakfast, and waiting until midnight for a hungry little wizard to come to the kitchen to prepare food for him." They serve good food. Clean every crevice of the castle while no one is looking."

"Don't you treat them like livestock?"

Dumbledore hummed a few times, but finally remained silent.

Lockhart continued to ask mercilessly: "You said that Voldemort didn't believe that elves have the ability to do other things, so may I ask Headmaster Dumbledore, have you asked Hogwarts elves to do other things? ?Anything other than cleaning and cooking?"

This time, Dumbledore finally spoke, and he said calmly: "I admit that I didn't, I didn't even make any effort, but I don't think I made any mistakes from the perspective of a wizard and headmaster."

"For the greater good! You are wrong Dumbledore!"

After Lockhart said this, Dumbledore's originally relaxed expression suddenly became serious, and his blue eyes fixed on Lockhart, making Sirius on the side feel a little hairy.

"Anyway, Lockhart, if you want to go down the same path, even if I am over 110 years old, I will still stop you, and I will never allow you to make the same mistake."

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold, and Sirius didn't understand why he and Kreacher were asking about the Horcruxes, so why did they switch to the elves at Hogwarts, and why Lockhart was confronting Dumbledore .

"Relax, Dumbledore, the mention of 'for the greater good' is just to remind you of something from the past. Let's put it another way, what do you think of the term 'liberating the productive forces'?"

Dumbledore still didn't speak, so Lockhart continued: "Don't pretend not to understand, what you said in Gaunt's old house has exposed yourself."

"Do you want me to repeat what you said? 'New things will replace old things, and even if there is an occasional backlash, it can only be said that history always spirals' You must have watched a lot of "The New Witcher" to say those things.”

"Go on, I can understand." Dumbledore's tone was still serious, but he no longer kept silent.

"Grindelwald's slogan 'for the greater good' you remember, his thinking is certainly wrong, but at least one thing is right." Lockhart said here, suddenly stopped.

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There was a stalemate in silence for a minute, and finally Dumbledore broke the silence first: "Which point?"

Lockhart knew that if Dumbledore spoke first, it meant that he had won the initiative to talk. Sure enough, as long as Grindelwald was mentioned, Dumbledore would not be as calm as usual even if he was over 100 years old.

"The more developed our world is, the better. The development of productivity can benefit people from all walks of life as a whole."

"Let me give you an example. I'm sure you've heard about the Industrial Revolution in the Muggle world. Although we say that factory workers have been exploited in various ways, we must also admit that their lives are much better than before when compared vertically. Right? At least not so many people will starve to death, freeze to death, or die of disease.”,
"And Grindelwald's initial idea originated from this common sense, right?"

"Yes. The development of society as a whole can benefit every class in society." Dumbledore replied.Then he went on to ask: "And then? What does this have to do with elves?"

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