Hogwarts: The Savior's Strong Cousin

Dudley left the tower quickly and no one knew what Dumbledore said to him.

However, the incident did not go as expected - Dudley and Draco would both be punished with confinement. The difference was that Malfoy's punishment would not be carried out until he was discharged from the school hospital.

Dudley was very excited and showed up in the Hogwarts kitchen at 8 o'clock every night to prepare ingredients with the house-elves.

To be fair, normal students would not choose this job. They would rather choose to clean the trophies with Filch - without magic. After all, there are so many people in Hogwarts who have to eat so much meat, vegetables, rice and noodles every day, which is also an extremely heavy job for the house elves.

Just below the hall, along the stairs leading to the Hufflepuff common room, there is a painting of fruit in the corridor. Just scratch the pear inside and the green door handle will appear with a hissing sound. This is the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchen.

As a kitchen, it is very tall and large, as wide as the hall above, and also has four long tables. There are spells on them, so that as long as the house-elves prepare the dishes, they will place them on the tables, and when the students start eating, they will appear in the corresponding positions. This explains why the dishes on the tables can always be kept hot and fresh, and almost endless, even though no one serves the dishes.

At the moment, Dudley was wearing an apron and a white chef's hat - although there was not a single hair on his bald head that could fall into the food. Holding a spatula in his hand, Dudley sniffed hard and shouted to the side: "Put it in the pot!"

The house-elf next to them immediately brought out a large basin of sliced ​​meat, which was white and covered with starch. Several house-elves worked together to cast a levitation spell, and the huge copper plate was suspended above the oil pan. It slowly tilted, and the plate of meat slices slid into the pan.

"Okay, everyone, today I'm going to show you a delicacy that you can never taste in the UK!"

"I call it 'Pot-fried pork'!"

"First we have to coat the meat slices with batter and fry them in a pan. Be sure to pay attention to the oil temperature!"

Dudley's shouting was so loud that it even drowned out the sizzling sound of frying in the pan, but the house-elves all looked delighted. Some were looking at the frying of the meat in the pan, some were taking notes with pens and notebooks, and some house-elves who were busy with other work couldn't help but look at the bustling production scene.

A week has passed since the punishment began.

At the beginning, Dudley was just helping the house-elves in the kitchen, moving flour and vegetables that could not be moved by magic. However, one day a careless elf accidentally burned a pot of stew. Dudley cleaned the pot at an amazing speed, and under the astonished looks of many house-elves, he quickly remade a dish of "Beef Tenderloin with Green Peppers" and saved the table that might have been in trouble.

From then on, Dudley became a big shot in the Hogwarts kitchen.

Although the punishment was over, he still had to spare one free evening every week to respond to the sincere enthusiasm of the house-elves - satisfying the appetites of Hogwarts teachers and students and making delicious food was the highest achievement for them. Dudley, whose mind was full of Chinese cuisine, naturally became the chef who broadened their horizons.

These delicious dishes are also subtly changing the appetites of Hogwarts teachers and students.

Dudley did not try to teach the British some dishes that they were not used to, but started with dishes that were once Western food and changed to Chinese food, such as borscht, Portuguese chicken, and braised beef in a pot, which naturally won unanimous praise from all teachers and students. Some people even took the initiative to write letters to request an update to the Hogwarts canteen menu - after all, although it is still delicious, it has been eaten for so many years, so it should be a little more varied.

Dudley was even happier. Today's sweet and sour pork was a great success. All the house-elves were full of praise for this trial dish. Even the Weasley twins, who secretly came to the kitchen for a midnight snack, ate so much that their mouths were drooling and they even forgot to thank the house-elves politely.

"Well, my dear friends, I hope to see the fruits of your labor at dinner tomorrow!"

Dudley waved his hand, and the house-elves said goodbye to him warmly and stuffed him with a lot of snacks and drinks as a midnight snack.

Back in the Gryffindor common room, Harry and Ron had already gone to bed - their work was not enjoyable at all, not to mention that Harry often had to attend Quidditch training at night.

Lying on the bed, Dudley stretched comfortably and communicated with the system.

"Let's chat for a while?"

After a long while, the system finally responded hesitantly.

"Do you think that if I do this, will it change the direction of the original story?"

Dudley skimmed the foam off his lips as he drank his butterbeer.

“Yes, but not completely.”

"The original storyline is to maintain the order of this world. As long as there is no change in the ending and the original length of the story is maintained, there is no danger of collapse."

"Rather, what the host has done can make the order of the magic world more stable."

The system rarely avoided Dudley's question.

"So, what if I were to save some lives that... would have been lost?"

"Cedric? Fred?"

"Sirius? Lupin? Tonks? Moody?"

"Even Dumbledore? Snape?"

After a series of names were mentioned, the system fell silent. As Dudley waited patiently and drank a large glass of butterbeer, the system slowly made a sound.

"unconfirmed."

"The preliminary assessment is that there is a risk, but it is not impossible."

Dudley curled his lips. What the system said was almost the same as not saying anything.

However, this also reveals one thing, that is, Voldemort and the Death Eaters cannot be destroyed in advance. At least, changes can only be made when the story lines of several parts are coming to an end.

To be fair, if Dudley had explained the list of Death Eaters and the matter of the Horcruxes directly to Dumbledore now, perhaps what would have been waiting for him would have been a happy but boring school life, and it was still unknown what kind of treatment Harry would have suffered as part of the Horcrux.

And on the whole, Voldemort's chaos was also able to eradicate and deter the unstable factors in the wizarding world. At least after Harry defeated Voldemort, the wizarding world did not experience too much turmoil.

"Okay, that's it. I'm going to sleep now. If there's any reward or something, let me know in time."

Yawning and glancing at the clock in the room, Dudley pulled the quilt over his exposed belly. Soon, steady snoring began.

There is no need to think too much about things that will happen so long in the future.