Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Ai Wen nodded, a place that no one has been in for hundreds of years, it is indeed necessary to go in and check it out.

He took out the Marauder's Map from his pocket. On the map, this was already the edge of the kitchen.

It seems that Harry's father and Sirius didn't enter here at the time, and didn't draw this part on the map.

Thinking about the blueprint I found, there should be a lot of space behind it. What secrets are hidden in it? !

The refrigeration principle of this cold storage is also suspicious. Since it has been used for hundreds of years, there may be a powerful magic at work.

Ivan could feel a faint magic filling the air, but it wasn't the magic he was familiar with.

"Luminescence!" he said softly, putting away the map.

Ivan led the trembling Dobby into the dark cold storage, and the light of the wand dispelled the surrounding darkness.

In front of them was a small room that could be seen to the end at a glance, and it was filled with rows of iron shelves.

The shelves are stacked with all kinds of food, and this is the part often used by house-elves.

"Master Aiwen, there is a door behind that shelf, which can lead to the inside!" Dobby said.

He pointed to a shelf full of potatoes, and seemed to have guessed what Ivan was going to do.

Ivan nodded and raised his wand lightly, all the potatoes and heavy shelves flew into the air and landed somewhere else.

Behind that is a loose blue brick wall.

It may have been built by the house-elves themselves, but the workmanship is too rough.

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 look lifelike, just like before, 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 your head here!" Dobby said sharply, "Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby is to be buried like a wizard when he dies . . . 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. The house elves of 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. On the contrary, they ushered in more deformed and severe slavery and oppression, and at that time, no one spoke for them...

Chapter 604 The Frozen Passage

In the eyes of the goblins, house-elves are cowardly traitors not to be forgiven.

Their cruelty and miserable lives are entirely their own fault.

In the eyes of human wizards, house-elves are mere slaves, belonging to the wizard's private property.

They have the right to dispose of their own house-elves, even to kill them, regardless of what they think.

After the Goblin Rebellion, the house-elves lived another very miserable, very dark life.

The only good news is that with the end of the era of pure blood glory and black magic, the status of house elves has been improved to some extent.

Although they were still slaves to wizards, there were very few instances of inhuman persecution.

However, judging by how Dobby was treated at the Malfoys' house before, they were still mistreated.

The scary thing is that both pure-blood wizards and house-elves take these things for granted.

Aiwen hopes that Hermione's House Elf Rights Promotion Association can change this situation, although this is unlikely.

After walking forward for 5 minutes quickly, he came to the end of the room.

The head of the house elf was no longer on the wall in front of it. Instead, there was a stone staircase extending downward.

At the end of the stone ladder, it was tightly closed by a thick iron gate.

"Where does the door lead to?" Ivan asked, looking around carefully, feeling something was wrong.

The entire room was unobstructed, and only this passage continued forward, but he always felt that things were not that simple.

"I don't know, Master Aiwen, Dobby has never been here!" Dobby replied, looking at the dark corridor in fear.

"We can go in and check it later!" Ai Wen paused, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Wait a minute, since this cold storage can maintain such a low temperature, there must be a magic at work, but I didn't feel it here magic."

On the contrary, the temperature near this corridor seems to have picked up.

Ivan closed his eyes, felt the magic changes in the air, and led Dobby back.

He took a few steps and stopped before a shelf full of mutilated, persecuted house-elf heads.

The heads of the little elves on the shelf were all missing some organ or damaged in some way, just like Moody's face.

In addition, they present a strange light blue color, which looks extraordinarily eerie.

These mummified heads stared at Ivan and Dobby viciously with scary bulb-sized eyes.

Ai Wen didn't know what kind of abuse they had suffered in front of them, which made them look so horrified with such an expression of hatred on their faces.

It stands to reason that this look should not appear on such a submissive creature as a house-elf.

Even if the masters killed them, they probably wouldn't show this expression...

Dobby groaned and closed his eyes again.

Aiwen ignored it directly. When he just passed by, he thought it was because of a problem with the antiseptic potion formula that made the heads of these house elves so weird. Now it seems that this is not the case at all. Full-bodied, what should be said.

Enduring his nausea, he used his wand to knock the heads of the blue house elves on the shelf one by one.

"Master Aiwen!" Dobby looked at him worriedly, not knowing what he was doing.

When Alvin's wand fell on the head of the third house elf on the left with a missing nose, the elf's closed eyes suddenly opened.

He looked at Ai Wen ferociously, as if he wanted to eat Ai Wen alive.

Aiwen took a step back subconsciously, and saw three groups of eerie green magic fires appearing in front of him.

The magic fire rushed towards Aiwen quickly. Amidst Dobby's screams, Aiwen hurriedly lowered his head and passed the magic fire.

He cast a protective magic on himself at the fastest speed, and the remaining two flames hit the protective shield, making a suppressed sound.

A few seconds later, Ivan got up from the ground, looking at the shelf in front of him with lingering fear.

I didn't expect to encounter an attack. Fortunately, I reacted quickly...

It seems that no matter where you are, you can't take it lightly.

He cast another protective magic on himself, and continued to try to crack the mechanism.

This time he was lucky, and when his wand fell over the head of the fourth house-elf, the whole shelf shuddered and slid to the right to give way to a secret passage downward.

Dobby screamed again, staring in surprise at the sudden secret passage.

For Ivan, who has rich experience in castle exploration, he is already familiar with this scene.

In Hogwarts, secret passages can be hidden anywhere, even bedrooms or the headmaster's office.