Harry Potter: Glory Bows to Me

Amanda and Draco were so fascinated by the invisibility cloak on Harry that they almost forgot about Harry underneath it.

"...Don't forget, I'm still in there."

Harry twitched his lips.

"Oh, sorry, Harry." Amanta quickly withdrew her hand and explained, "It feels really strange to touch it... like flowing water? So I couldn't help but touch it a few more times..."

Harry said helplessly: "Indeed, I felt the same way when I first opened it. By the way, Draco, judging from your appearance, the Malfoy family doesn't have this thing, right?"

He raised an eyebrow at Draco.

"..."

Draco's expression was as sour as if he had eaten a lemon.

He said with a strange expression: "Who said that?...How could the Malfoy family not have one?! Of course, I heard that there is one in the Malfoy family treasure house, but my father hardly let me go there."

"So… this is indeed the first time I've seen an invisibility cloak."

Draco admitted reluctantly.

After hearing what Draco said, Harry happily put on the invisibility cloak and showed off in front of them for a long time.

"Haha, the invisibility cloak - I have an invisibility cloak! If we wear it - we can go wherever we want, even wander around Hogwarts in the middle of the night, and we don't have to worry about Filch and Mrs. Norris! And Snape! What do you think, Draco? Are you envious?"

Draco praised sourly, "That's great."

Amanta looked at Harry's excitement and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

In the wizarding world, ordinary invisibility cloaks are extremely precious and rare magical items.

What's more, Harry was completely unaware.

This is not an ordinary invisibility cloak created by magic. Although its effect is limited or can only be used for a short time, such an invisibility cloak is already valuable enough.

This is one of the three Deathly Hallows, a true invisibility cloak.

I really don’t know how excited Harry would be if he knew about this.

After Draco dealt with Harry in a perfunctory and sour manner for a while.

He suddenly stopped expressing his emotion and vigilantly grabbed Harry's hair. After all, he could only see Harry's head now.

His hand slid down Harry's head and he said nervously, "Harry, why don't you take it off first and let Dobby check it carefully. After all... this person doesn't even dare to sign his name. What if he is not your father's friend, but a dark magic item given to you by someone who wants to harm you?"

Harry's eyes widened in surprise.

"Draco... your words do remind me, but... except for Voldemort, who else would want to harm me?" He argued, "And I've already put it on... If there really was a problem, I should have been in trouble."

Draco shook his head.

"That's hard to say. Many spells or curses have a delayed onset, or accumulate over time... slowly taking the user's life."

The more he spoke, the deeper his voice became, with a determined and sinister expression on his face.

Harry was frightened by him: "Really?"

"..."

Amanta had good reason to suspect that he was taking revenge on Harry for having been too smug.

But in the end, Harry reluctantly took it off.

After all, this matter was really strange. Would anyone just return such a treasure to him without signing his name?

Even someone as open-minded as Harry couldn't help but have some doubts.

Finally, after much discussion, they called Dobby over.

But what surprised them was...

There was more than one house-elf appearing before them.

There was a "puff" sound in the air, and Dobby appeared in front of them, dragging a familiar female house-elf.

This house-elf...Amanta looked at the house-elf next to Dobby, whose eyes were red and whose eyelids were swollen.

She thought of Shanshan who cried miserably last night amid little Barty's insults.

Only then did Amanta remember something that almost everyone had forgotten.

It was true that young Barty was arrested yesterday and old Barty was taken away... but perhaps even the careful Aurors overlooked the existence of Winky, or perhaps...

They thought a house-elf was nothing to behold.

After all, in the eyes of most wizards, house-elves have no thoughts of their own, and all their actions are based on the orders of their masters.

They don't care about the existence of these house-elves at all.

No one admitted that house-elves had minds of their own.

House-elves also have the right to pursue their freedom - just like Dobby.

This may also be the reason why they took away all the relevant personnel but forgot to capture a house-elf, and left the house-elf here.

Perhaps even her two masters would not even remember her existence for the time being if it weren't for their blame on Shanshan.

At this moment, Dobby appeared in front of them with Winky, and Dobby had to lock Winky's arms behind her back, even though his expression was full of guilt.

"I'm sorry, Dobby had to do this, otherwise she would...uncontrollably keep beating herself up," he explained to them.

This unexpected incident caused them to put the matter of the invisibility cloak on hold for a moment.

"It... is the Crouch elf from yesterday?" Draco asked.

"Yes." Dobby nodded. "Last night, after Miss Amanta asked Dobby to search the mansion, Dobby searched and searched...searched the garden and the guest room, and finally found her in the corner of the kitchen."

Draco frowned.

"Then why didn't you inform us immediately after you found her?"

"I'm sorry, Master Draco." Dobby replied pitifully, "It was too late at that time. Dobby found her late at night after all the guests had left Malfoy Manor. Dobby wanted to inform Master Draco and Miss Amanta early this morning, but as soon as Dobby was about to go out, she started burning her hands with a hot iron."

Amanta frowned and looked over.

Shanshan's hands hanging behind her back were red and had a few scary blisters on them.

Even though Barty Jr.'s attitude towards her was extremely bad, and even though the Crouch father and son were now both taken to the Ministry of Magic.

Winky remains loyal to the Crouch family.

She even always felt that it was all her fault, so much so that she used this behavior to punish herself.

At this time, in front of them, it was still crying and making a fuss about going to find little Batty, and its eyes were almost broken from crying.

"Mr. Crouch must be furious. Woohoo... It was Winky who failed to control Master Barty and let him escape. If Winky had been tougher at the time, perhaps this wouldn't have happened. It was Winky who ruined the Crouch family!... It's over. The entire Crouch family is finished! Bad Winky!"

While they were talking, Shanshan kept crying softly, mumbling these words, and was almost fainting from crying.

From what Winky said, she must have known what happened last night, and that the Ministry of Magic had taken the Crouch father and son away together.

But Shanshan couldn't accept it at all and even blamed all the blame on herself.

"Bad Winky! You killed Master Barty! Winky deserves to die!... Woohoo, Winky will be driven away! Winky will be driven away by Mr. Crouch!"

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and her voice became shriller, almost piercing their eardrums.

Then she twisted her arms hard and threw her head to the ground in a desperate manner.

Harry was startled by her and hurriedly reached out to hold her shoulders, trying to calm her down.

"Don't be like this, okay? At worst... at worst, if they are done or put the blame on you, at worst if they kick you out, you can go to Hogwarts or the kitchen of Malfoy Manor..."

But his words clearly added fuel to the fire.

"No!" Winky screamed, "Impossible! Winky will not be driven away! Winky will be the elf of the Crouch family for life, even if she is beaten to death by Mr. Crouch! Winky will never leave the Crouch family!"

Harry had completely stepped on a landmine.

After all, the simple Harry has not yet discovered one thing - that is, Dobby, who loves freedom, is definitely an outlier among the house-elves.

Ordinary house-elves, on the other hand, consider it a shame to betray the family they serve.

It seemed that with Shanshan's violent struggle, she was almost out of Dobby's arms.

Amanta had to cast a petrification spell on it.

"Petrificus Totalus!"

Shining was hit by Amanta's spell and stood stiffly in place, but tears continued to flow out of her huge eyes.

But at least she could no longer try to do anything that would hurt herself.

But this is not a solution either.

After all, she couldn't keep Shanshan in the petrified state forever.

When she recovers, she'll be depressed again - it's terrible.

She thought about it and asked Draco.

"Draco, didn't Mr. Lucius go there with the officials from the Ministry of Magic? Do you know when they will start the trial?"

Draco shook his head thoughtfully.

"Well... Regarding this, I haven't heard from my father yet, but I think it will take at least a few days or even weeks. They will have to get something out of the Crouch father and son before they can start the trial."

It seems that this matter has not yet come to any conclusion.

Old Batty - it is not clear how he will distance himself from the matter or be kicked into the water by Fudge.

These are not things they should worry about.

However, it is almost certain that the fate that awaits Barty Jr. will either be the Dementor's Kiss or he will continue his life imprisonment in Azkaban.

Amanta had no choice but to touch Shanshan's hard head after being petrified to comfort her.

"How about this, Winky? You stay here for a few days. Dobby and the house-elves here will take care of you. When the Crouch father and son attend the trial later, Dobby will take you to see them?"

There is no doubt that the Crouch father and son must be under the close surveillance of the Aurors, or in some temporary detention room or interrogation room. The only time they can contact the outside world, that is, the only time they can find a chance for Winky to meet them, is the day of the trial.

Amanta was almost certain that old Batty would fire Shanshan directly.

On the one hand, it was because of Winky's dereliction of duty, and on the other hand, it was to clear his relationship with Barty the Young, of course, including the relationship between him and the house-elf who acted with Barty the Young.

In the original plot, during the Quidditch World Cup, Winky failed to keep an eye on Barty Jr. and almost let her be discovered. In order to avoid subsequent questioning, Barty Sr. simply fired her.

In the eyes of old Batty.

Although sons are important, no matter how important they are, they are not as important as one's own career.

When necessary, he would certainly choose to abandon him just to save himself.

At other times, he would choose to turn a blind eye and protect and cover up some of his son's crimes.

Although Amanta knew that when Shanshan learned that she was fired and little Batty was sentenced, she would be even more sad.

But Shanshan’s current state is obviously that he will not turn back until he hits the wall.

If she had not heard with her own eyes and ears that she had been fired by Mr. Crouch, she would probably never have given up.

Using this reason to temporarily appease her can also make her temporarily at peace for a while.

After this, we can only wait until Mr. Crouch fires Winky himself before we can think of a solution.

Speaking of which, in a few days, it will be time to implement Dobby's freedom plan.

By then, Dobby, who was fired at the same time, could take care of her and maybe recommend her to work at Hogwarts. Although this would not make Winky happy, it would be enough to solve her temporary living problems.

Even looking at Shanshan's eyes, she still seemed a little reluctant.

But...of course, she had no better solution.

Amanta looked at her expression and confirmed that she had calmed down for the time being.

She removed the petrification spell from Winky.

After the petrification spell was lifted, Winky seemed to finally lose all his strength and collapsed to the ground exhausted.

"Sparkly, are you okay?"

Dobby nervously helped her up.

But Shanshan just fell to the ground, not moving at all.

After she seemed to calm down a bit, she apologized for what she had done during this period.

"It's okay... I'm sorry, Shanshan is very grateful for your care. I'm sorry, Shanshan was rude..."

As she spoke, she began to sob and cry again.

Amanta had no choice but to suggest: "Send her back to be alone for a while, or find a few more house elves... to chat with her?"

She didn't expect that Dobby, who had some wrong ideas in his head, could make Winky happy. With Dobby's train of thought and speaking style, it would be a blessing if he didn't make a traditional and conservative house elf like Winky angry to death.