The Chinese girl from Hufflepuff is both timid and brave

Sun Zhu didn't pay too much attention to Dobby, but looked around.

The rain was still pouring down with no sign of abating, but there were no other wizards coming and going around, so there was no need to worry about being seen or heard by others.

She hadn't expected Lucius to be so efficient, and Dobby showed up now.

"It looks like you've been with us for quite a long time?" Sun Zhu tilted her head. Cedric put his hand about a foot in front of her chest and looked at her warily.

In fact, Tongzi had reminded her about half an hour ago, but it also said that it did not catch the magic aura in time, and it could only sense it accurately after the other party entered the plot. So Sun Zhu guessed that Duobi might come earlier than they thought.

"Host, the unforgettable mission that you haven't triggered for a long time has appeared again."

Sun Zhu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "This is different from what I thought. When I saw Hedwig, nothing happened. Why is Dobby...you guys are still playing species discrimination?"

"Host..." Tongzi was unable to explain, and only said: "You'd better be careful. This elf is very wary of you. What if it does something to you..."

"Ced, it's okay, don't be nervous." Sun Zhu reached out and patted his arm that was subconsciously protecting her, "Dobby can't hurt me."

"Well, I'm just blocking the wind for you."

"Okay." Sun Zhu grabbed his sleeve and whispered to the elf who was drenched in the rain not far away: "Dobby, you have a way to block the rain curtain, right? Now I need you to do this for us."

The elf in the tattered pillowcase really began to struggle painfully after hearing this. It covered its big ears, as if it wanted to hit something, and shouted: "Dobby - Dobby must punish himself! The master expelled Dobby, and Dobby became the servant of the devil! But - Dobby can't refuse -"

"Devil?" Sun Zhu pulled the corner of his mouth, "You are not talking about me, are you? Is there a devil like me?"

"Dobby, Dobby is afraid of her, afraid of this new master - she looks like an angel, but Dobby knows -" the elf burst into tears in the rain, "she is a demon who is good at disguise - oh no, Dobby can't say that about his new master, Dobby should be punished!"

Sun Zhu tugged at Cedric's sleeve with a headache: "Why don't you try to talk to it nicely?"

"I have no experience with house-elves." Cedric also noticed something was wrong. "Does it have any misunderstandings about us?"

"It can't really be called a misunderstanding. Alas, it's hard to explain. Anyway, I have no choice but to 'enslave' it now. I was planning to give it this scarf, but seeing how it looks now, I'd better wait until it is more stable."

Dobby bent down, almost curled himself up into a ball, and rolled several times in the rain, while hitting his head hard: "Punishment! Punishment! Dobby needs to be punished! Obey - must obey! Master -"

It snapped its fingers, and in an instant, the raindrops that occasionally splashed on their clothes disappeared, and the edge of the umbrella suspended above their heads with a floating spell dripped a string of raindrops, but there were no more crackling raindrops splashing on the umbrella. But it was still raining a little further away, and the elves in the rain looked even more miserable.

"Obey! Punishment!" It kept repeating, which made Sun Zhu feel nervous.

"Okay, stop torturing yourself." She said coldly, "I didn't call you here to see you go crazy, Dobby. Malfoy is no longer your master. Let me ask you, do you want to be free now?"

The elf lying in the rain stopped moving, loosened its ears and looked at them.

"Well, even if you cover your ears, you can still hear us talking, so why did you do that just now?" Cedric spoke first, "You are different from other elves I have seen."

Dobby struggled to get up from the ground, hung his head and sobbed, "Dobby needs to answer this question, sir. Even if he is accompanied by Miss Devil, the great Harry Potter said that this is his friend. Dobby is just punishing himself, sir. The previous master liked Dobby to do this."

Cedric touched his nose and glanced at Sun Zhu. Sun Zhu poked him and said, "Ask some nutritious questions, such as, after regaining freedom, will it come back to trouble me?"

Cedric looked at Dobby again, and seeing the elf's evasive look, he said helplessly: "Although I don't know why it suddenly became your elf, but... it is indeed a bit dangerous."

"Harry has to step in on this matter. If anyone else sets it free, it won't appreciate it." Sun Zhu also shook his head and pulled him to continue walking. "Dobby, no matter what you want to do, just listen to my orders now."

The big-eared elf followed their steps painfully and tangledly.

"First, you cannot hurt others, including themselves and their property, unless they hurt you first. Second, you cannot punish yourself like you just did, no matter what the reason. Third, you are not allowed to call me Miss Devil. If I hear it again, I will pull out Harry's hair and make him bald at a young age!"

"Oh - Dobby has to -"

"Shut up! Fourthly, you can't yell like that. Just stay in the Hogwarts kitchen when you have nothing to do. Don't bother Harry whenever you have time."

The elf's cry was choked in his throat. He looked at her helplessly with his round eyes and begged in a low voice: "Miss, you can't...you can't hurt Harry Potter, Dobby...No, Dobby can't talk to his master like this!"

"Host." Tongzi said after a long silence, "Do you need me to help you block out its sound?"

Sun Zhu glanced at the new task reminder that Tongzi had highlighted earlier.

"It is detected that the host has contacted the key character of the text, Dobby. Start the long-term side quest: Save Yi Nanping. Mission description: This humble and persistent elf not far in front of you is a very special existence in this text world. The task that the host has to complete is to let it live for freedom forever and bring more freedom to this world."

This mission doesn't seem to require saving Dobby. Does this mean that, for Dobby, freedom is much more important than life?

It was still not a task that could be solved immediately. Sun Zhu waved his hand and continued walking in the rain: "No need, it's just going crazy, it's normal."

"But how can it call you 'you' like me?" Tongzi said, "It calls you like this, but it doesn't respect you from the bottom of its heart. This is completely wrong!"

"...Tongzi, have you been infected by Dobby?" Dobby's magic had been following her like a shadow, shielding her from the rain. Sun Zhu sighed and said, "It's enough to have someone like you who is omnipotent and obedient to me. Dobby has to do other things. I just asked it to test whether it really would not pose a threat to me anymore."

Cedric, whose ears hurt from the loud elf's noise, couldn't help wondering why he always encountered strange things in Hogsmeade. Sun Zhu's expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry made him worried again, so he simply reached out and gently covered her slightly cold earlobes: "Zhu, are you okay?"

"It's okay, I'm just chatting with my little AI." She said subconsciously, feeling the warmth from his palm.

"what?"

"Well, I'm not talking about you!" she explained hurriedly.

"Although I don't know what AI is." He said seriously: "But if you want to adopt a quiet and obedient 'companion', you can indeed consider me."

He blinked his eyes, and it seemed that he was not going to be a human anymore. Instead, he pretended to be a puppy drenched by the rain, and said pitifully: "It's just that I'm not as powerful as a house elf at the moment, but I promise..."

Sun Zhu covered his face with the scarf in his hand and stammered, "Can you please be more promising?"