Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

The bright moonlight streamed through the window and fell on Tom's face.

Li Weide poked his face with his hand, but Tom didn't respond.

"Toby added a drop of Living Death Draught to Master Tom's midnight snack, as Master Weide instructed. He won't wake up before dawn."

Toby's thin voice came softly from behind.

The Living Death Draught is an extremely strong sleeping potion, also known as the Draught of Living Death. Just a drop can make a wizard fall into a deep sleep.

Li Weide opened Tom's eyelids again to look at his pupils, and nodded with satisfaction after confirming that he had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Very good, that's the effect I wanted. Then... we can now talk about some secrets that only the two of us can know." Li Weide's expression became serious.

Toby swallowed nervously, "What does Master Weide want to ask Toby?"

"Toby, can you tell me about the family you served before?" Li Weide asked.

Toby was slightly stunned when he heard this question.

"Toby... Toby's former master's family is the Somnolens family. The last heir of the Somnolens family, Master Sophocles... who was Toby's former master, died in a duel not long ago..."

Li Weide frowned.

Somnolens... a very unfamiliar surname.

He had never heard of this family before.

Li Weide couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. A family he had never heard of, and whose bloodline had been completely cut off, meant that this family probably didn't have a deep foundation.

He originally thought that since Toby's former master was a dark wizard, and the entire family was gone, he might be able to investigate.

Maybe he could find some books or notes that Dumbledore wouldn't let him see...

However, nothing is absolute. Logically speaking, families served by house-elves should have quite a deep foundation.

"Toby, did your former master leave anything behind?" Li Weide asked immediately.

"When Toby's former master was alive, the family had already fallen into decline. Valuable things were sold. Apart from an old house, there was nothing else left..." Toby said sadly.

In fact, Toby, who had lost his master, should have stayed in the old house and quietly died of old age. He would never have run out to find a second master.

But for some reason, that day he just wanted to go out for a walk, walk far away, and then recall the good times of the past and his master.

Then, because he was too engrossed in his memories, he was accidentally hit by a carriage speeding by in the middle of the night.

After being hit, he was very unlucky and landed on the sharp fence next to him, and he also had several penetrating wounds on his body.

Finally, he struggled to crawl into an alley, ready to meet the end of his life.

After all, his master was dead, and he had no meaning in living.

As a result, when he opened his eyes again, he saw Li Weide, and for some reason, the desire in his heart to make him his master was extremely strong...

After that, Li Weide became his current master.

...

Li Weide's eyes lit up when he heard about the Somnolens family and that an old house was left behind.

"Who inherited your former master's old house?"

"No one inherited it... Master Sophocles was already the last of the Somnolens family, and there were no distant relatives." Toby sobbed again sadly.

"That is to say, that old house is already ownerless?"

"Yes... Ever since Master Sophocles died in battle, the poor old house, like poor Toby, has no owner... Now that Toby has a new master, he has no way to go back to take care of the old house. The poor old house can only be abandoned..."

Toby couldn't help but feel sad again when he thought of the place where he used to live, which would become more and more desolate.

Li Weide waved his hand to stop Toby's tears and asked very seriously, "Can I become the new owner of this house?"

Toby widened his eyes in surprise, "Master Weide... you... you are willing to take over that old house? Of course, you can become the new owner of that house!"

"You seem very happy for me to take over that house?" Li Weide looked at Toby in surprise.

"Yes... Toby's former master has passed away. That old house holds Toby's best memories of the past. Toby really doesn't want to see it become desolate day by day. If Master Weide is willing to take over... Toby can maintain that old house again!"

"So that's how it is..."

Although Toby was a house-elf purchased by Li Weide from the system, he was an independent life form.

He had his own past and his own beautiful memories, and that beautiful memory was in that old house.

Only if Li Weide took over the old house, Toby, who had a new master, would have the right to return to that old house again.

However, this is a good thing for Li Weide, who has gotten rid of the shackles of his guardian.

He originally planned to find a secret base so that he could carry out those small experiments in his plan.

Now this old house can only be said to have come just in time.

"Can you take me to see it now?" Li Weide couldn't wait to see it.

"Of course! Of course! However, some protective magic has been set up outside the old house. Master Weide must be careful..."

After Toby told Li Weide how to enter the old house, he stretched out his hand.

"Please grab Toby's hand. Toby will take Master Weide to the old house now!"

Read it all at once, one first, one inside, one content, one in one look!

...

Looking at the familiar castle in the distance, Li Weide felt a little emotional.

This old house is actually in the Scottish Highlands.

You can even see Hogwarts in the distance...

Judging by the distance and direction, this old house seems to be built on a highland deep in the Forbidden Forest.

It's just that this highland is covered with all kinds of protective magic, so that it's impossible to detect that there is a highland here, and there is an old house on the highland.

Li Weide turned his head and looked at the building in front of him, covered with green vines...

In fact, the old house in front of him, as Toby called it, should be called a tower.

This is a tower that seems to have five floors.

"Creak! Creak!"

At this time, Toby had excitedly opened the door of the tower.

"Master Weide, please come in!"

Most of the protective magic of this tower is outside.

Inside the tower, there is no protective magic.

As soon as Li Weide walked in, he found that the space inside the tower was much larger than it looked from the outside. It seemed that a space-expanding spell like the Undetectable Extension Charm had been cast.

However, although the space on the first floor was large enough, it was empty.

Only a dirty long table was placed in the middle, and the table was filled with messy empty bottles.

And on the shelves that should have been used to store various experimental materials around, there was nothing but dust.

Li Weide could see from the traces on the ground that there should have been many instruments of unknown purpose here.

But now they are all gone.

...

"The first floor is the laboratory, the second floor is the bedroom and dining room, the third to fourth floors are the places where books are stored, and the fifth floor is used for stargazing... Because the family has fallen into decline, Master Sophocles sold everything that could be sold in these years after inheriting the old house, and failed to leave anything valuable... And Toby was too sad at the time, and had no mood to clean up the house, so it looks so messy..."

As soon as Toby entered the door, he began to introduce the old house in his mouth endlessly.

But Li Weide immediately heard the key point in this sentence.

"Wait, you just said that the third and fourth floors are the places where books are stored? Those books... were they also sold?"