The Admiral of Hogwarts

“I don't understand why Sirius Black doesn't give the house-elf freedom.” A few minutes later, Hermione asked while preparing potions with a dropper and measuring cup.

“You see, they hate each other. At the same time, that house-elf won't do anything. What's the point of keeping that house-elf in the room like that?”

“There's no way around it, this place is the secret base of the Order of the Phoenix.” Venetto said while grinding several medicinal powders with a pestle and mortar. “He knows too much about the secrets of the Order of the Phoenix.”

“Sirius is already very benevolent. At least for us, those who are hostile but also know too many secrets are usually preventively executed.”

“Especially since you just heard that this house-elf has been heavily poisoned by the so-called pure-blood theory. In this case, kicking him out after he has served here for a lifetime is no different from killing him.”

“Alas, this is really a terrible thing.” Hermione sighed, shook her head, and continued her work.

Although using alchemy is obviously much easier than sweeping with a broom and mop, cleaning a whole floor of rooms in one go is not easy at all.

Therefore, even when it was lunchtime, Hugo and the others just hastily ate a lunch of sandwiches and pumpkin juice to fill their stomachs. Fortunately, he wasn't the kind of person who cared about satisfying his appetite, so he didn't care about the situation.

However, when it was around 4:30 in the afternoon, Hugo, who was cleaning the last room, had to stop. It wasn't that he couldn't hold on, but that the raw materials were used up.

Compared to ordinary spellcasting, alchemy often requires various materials to be used, and Hugo obviously didn't expect to clean so much space here, so it was impossible to carry enough materials with him.

“Sorry, we may have to continue working tomorrow.” Hugo said to Mrs. Weasley, who happened to be coming up to get something. “There is still one room left on the third floor, and my spellcasting materials are used up.”

“It's okay, you've already done a great job.” Mrs. Weasley said after looking at the cleaned rooms. “This is already more than we can do in a week.”

“So you guys take a break now, and we can all have dinner together in the evening. As for the things you want, write me a list, and I'll help you buy them when I go to Diagon Alley to shop tomorrow.”

So in the next hour or so, Hugo and the others went to the second floor to meet everyone, and then talked about how they had spent their previous few weeks of vacation.

“Our family moved here at the beginning of the vacation.” Ginny's face was full of unhappiness when she talked about her vacation experience. “And then I haven't been out a few times, except for writing homework, I'm busy with all kinds of housework.”

“Of course, there are also some interesting things in this old house.” Fred said from the side. “Although the house-elf in this place is elusive and creates some trouble from time to time, it hides a lot of secrets.”

“That's right, this is how ancestral homes of pure-blood families are.” George nodded on the side. “While there are a lot of troubles, it may bring a lot of surprises.”

“I remember your Weasley family is also a pure-blood family, right?” Hermione suddenly said softly from the side at this time. “Doesn't your family have these things from Sirius's family?”

“Of course not, the Black family is the top family in the wizarding world.” Ron said at this time. “And our family can only be said to be a very ordinary pure-blood family.”

“Okay, ordinary pure-blood.” Hugo slandered. Although the Weasley family is indeed a bit poor, even so poor that the children's clothes have to be bought second-hand. But he can be sure that the most important heritage of this family is still there.

Because whether it is the car made by Mr. Weasley himself, or the endless joke products of the Weasley twins, they all require sufficient magic and magical knowledge to make.

“By the way, how were you two before the summer vacation?” Harry suddenly asked Hugo at this time. “The Weasleys have been staying here, and I can't leave my aunt's house too far—”

“Because our parents needed to go to the East to deal with some business matters, the few of us lived together at Miss Hood's house before.” Hugo shrugged and said. “I also stayed in the house and didn't go anywhere.”

“Alas—” Hearing Hugo say this, everyone present sighed. After all, for these young people, the feeling of staying at home during the vacation is really terrible.

Maybe because everyone was stuck in the room together during the summer vacation, everyone present quickly started chatting, taking advantage of this language that everyone was interested in.

“I saw a lot of people coming in after lunchtime. Can you tell me what this Order of the Phoenix does?” After chatting for a while, Harry suddenly asked.

Hearing them ask this, Hugo and the others also focused their attention on the Weasley family on the opposite side, because although they roughly knew what the Order of the Phoenix was, they were equally curious about how it specifically operated.

“This is a secret society.” Ginny said after looking at her brothers, “It is led by Dumbledore, who created it. They are all people who fought against the mysterious man last time. As for the people inside—”

“Wait a minute!” Just as Ginny said the second sentence, Harry suddenly stood up and shook his hand. “Don't tell me this part for now, you know, I'm here—”

“Then I'll skip this part first.” Whether it was Ginny or Ron, they all knew about Harry's problem, so they also realized why Harry wanted to avoid this part, so they immediately started talking about the part that didn't involve specific situations.

“Although the Order of the Phoenix will not allow us to attend their meetings, we have heard a very vague part of the information through the Extendable Ears invented by Fred and George.” Ron said at this time.

“Extendable—” Harry showed a puzzled expression.

“Extendable Ears, yes. But we recently had to stop using them, because Mom found out and was furious. So we had to hide them, lest Mom throw them in the trash.” Fred explained.

“But before Mom found out what was going on, we used them to great advantage. We know that some members of the Order of the Phoenix are tracking those Death Eaters whose identities have been exposed, paying close attention to their whereabouts, you know—”

“Some of them are absorbing more people into the Order of the Phoenix—” Ginny said. “In addition, they will also contact some other organizations or personnel to do certain things.”

“I know this.” Harry nodded and said. “Because Sirius went out for a few days, saying that he was going to Southern Europe to discuss alliance matters with an organization.”

“This is related to my teachers.” Venetto interjected at this time. “Several of them accidentally saved Harry once last time, so the headmaster contacted them before.”

“I was just saying, where did you learn so much knowledge? So you have teachers!” At this time, several Weasleys present showed a sudden realization.