Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

She laid the foundation of the greatest wizarding school in the world, and in doing so changed the entire wizarding world.

For nearly a thousand years, almost all historians of magic believe that Hufflepuff is the greatest wizard and the greatest educator in the history of magic.

She won the praise of latecomers with her practical actions, and the school regulations and teaching framework she created have continued to this day.

As the first headmaster of Hogwarts, Helga Hufflepuff continued to the greatest extent the tradition left by the other three founders and strictly implemented it.

While inheriting the educational philosophy of the other three founders, it has also become the most distinctive place of this school.

In addition, the main achievement of her tenure was the recruitment of young Muggle-born wizards.

Although this point has been raised during the Big Four era, the enrollment has always been small.

At that time, the mainstream view in the magical world believed that magic was a sacred thing and should not be polluted by mudbloods.

And most of the ignorant Muggles will kill the children who discover that they have magical talents as evil.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult to recruit Muggle students on a large scale.

Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff have made a lot of preparations for this, but due to many restrictions, it has not been fully implemented.

After the deaths of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, the benevolent Hufflepuff became headmaster of Hogwarts.Not long after she took office, she tried her best to disregard the opposition of many pure-blood wizard families, and further expanded the enrollment of Muggle students, pointing out a clear way for many Muggle students.

In its heyday, Hogwarts’ enrollment expanded to cover the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean region, with more than 5 students.

It is worth noting that in the era when there was no board sponsorship, the tuition and living expenses of these Muggle students were all borne by Hufflepuff.

For this reason, she exhausted all the wealth passed down by her family for thousands of years, leaving only her favorite golden cup.

Naturally, her move was unanimously opposed by the mainstream magical world dominated by the pure-blood wizard family.

Even her own descendants, as well as the descendants of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, did not approve of her doing this. The pure-blood wizard families united to boycott and block Hogwarts, and even There are many evil dark wizards directly attacking here.

Hogwarts was once on the verge of bankruptcy and was in a difficult situation, all relying on Hufflepuff to barely maintain it.

Regardless of their origins or talents, she treats all students equally. She dedicates the magical knowledge left by herself, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin to all little wizards free of charge, teaching them to grow into talents, And teach them the way of life.

In the last ten years of his life, Hufflepuff persevered alone, running this magic school with lofty beliefs.

Her hard work has finally paid off, and the number of wizards graduating from Hogwarts is increasing.

Most of these students were Muggle-born and should have been burned alive as devils, but Hogwarts and Helga Hufflepuff saved them.

They have gradually become the backbone of the magic world, changing the magic world dominated by pure-blood wizard families, and even changing the development track of the entire history of magic.

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. She only kept her favorite gold cup as the only relic pass 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 an early construction plan drawing of the castle in the restricted 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 gleaming copper pots and basins piled up on the surrounding stone walls, and 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, and then waited 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; a tie with a horseshoe pattern hung on his bare chest, what looked like children's football shorts, and two Only unpaired 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!

Chapter 600 The House Elf Who Needs a Wage

After Dobby was expelled by the Malfoy family, Ivan took him in.

He just wanted to help Dobby, and in fact, there was nothing Dobby needed to do.

At the busiest time of "Hogwarts Magic News", Ivan once asked Dobby to assist Fred and George in applying for the printing job.

After Professor Lupine took over, Dobby was free again and was mainly responsible for taking care of Ivan's daily life.

This amount of work is nothing to a house elf, and he needs more work.

Ivan can only let him help in the kitchen and live with his companions, which is the best arrangement for him.

"Master Aiwen, do you need any food here?" Dobby screamed excitedly, "You don't need to come down in person, you just need to call, Dobby can send it up for you at any time, you know how to summon it Than……"

As soon as he finished speaking, the house elves beside Ivan and Hermione began to get busy.

They took out all kinds of ingredients at once and prepared to give the two of them something to eat.

"No need to prepare, we don't need to eat!" Aiwen said hurriedly, looking at these house elves with a headache, "Dobby, Hermione and I just came to see how you are living here?"

"Oh, Master Aiwen is still so kind!" Dobby's big green eyes were suddenly soaked with tears, and he looked at Aiwen and Hermione tearfully, "Master Aiwen actually brought his friends to visit Dobby himself , Dobby and Winky..."

"What, Winky is here too?!" Hermione said in surprise.

After the World Cup, they never saw Winky again.

Ivan knew from Sirius that the Ministry of Magic released Shining after some investigation and found her innocent.

But she could never go back to Crouch's house, and she didn't know where she went after leaving the Ministry of Magic.

"Yes, Miss, yes, Winky also works here!" Dobby said, grabbing Ivan and Hermione's hands.

He pulled the two of them across four long wooden tables and into the inner kitchen.

In the kitchen, the tables were placed in exactly the same positions as the tables of the four colleges in the auditorium above.

Dinner was over by the moment, and there was no food on the table, but not so long ago it must have been piled high with delicacies and delivered through the ceiling to the corresponding tables above.

At this moment, there were at least three hundred elves standing in the kitchen.

When Dobby led Alvin and Hermione past them, they all laughed, bowed, and curtseyed.

They all wore the same uniform: a tea towel with the Hogwarts crest on it.

They wrapped tea towels like robes like Winky had done before.

A few minutes later, Dobby stopped in front of a brick fireplace and pointed it out to Alvin and Hermione.

"Winky, look, Miss, Master Aiwen!" he said.

Winky was sitting on a stool by the fire, and unlike Dobby, she didn't seem to wear whatever she could find.

She was wearing a neat little skirt and blouse, and a matching blue hat with two holes cut out to show her large ears.

However, Dobby's strange combination of clothes was kept spotlessly clean as if it were brand new, while Winky clearly didn't care about her own clothes, with soup-splattered blouse and a burnt spot on her skirt up.

"Winky!" said Hermione.

Seeing the two of them, Winky raised her head and trembled slightly, her lips trembled, and then burst into tears, tears rolling out of her big brown eyes and falling on her chest, and Quidditch It's the same at the World Cup.

"Oh my God," said Hermione sadly, "Winky, stop crying, please..."