After sending away the twin brothers who took the drawings from him to make a fortune, Ryan was about to take a short lunch break. Suddenly Hermione came in from outside the common room and stopped him.
"Ryan, can you accompany me downstairs to the kitchen to do some research?"
"What investigation?" Ryan asked confused. He couldn't remember any professor assigning this kind of assignment recently.
"About the investigation of house elves." Hermione explained. "Most of the jobs in the wizarding world are free slave labor of house elves, so I want to conduct a specific investigation to determine the real situation of these house elves.
What. After all, I have never seen a house elf except Dobby, who has mental problems. In this case, it is impossible to make a correct and comprehensive analysis. Fortunately, Ginny told me about the house elves in Hogwarts today.
Where is it? I want to take this opportunity to see it."
As long as it doesn't involve vomiting, Ryan nodded as he thought about this. After tidying up a little, he and Hermione went to a bright and wide corridor in the direction of the basement.
This corridor is different from the corridor leading to the Potions classroom that they often go to. The torches are installed very densely and are decorated with pleasant pictures everywhere. The pictures on them are mainly about food. It is much better than the corridor leading to the Potions classroom.
The underground corridor looks much warmer.
Halfway through the corridor, they could see a pile of barrels stacked at the end of the corridor. That should be the legendary Hufflepuff common room, but it was not their target. When they came to the middle of the corridor, a painting
The two people stopped in front of the oil painting of a huge silver bowl filled with fruits.
"A silver bowl full of food? This is probably what Ginny was talking about. She said her brothers often come here at night to have supper." After saying that, Hermione stepped forward and scratched the big green pear. Pear
It squirmed, chuckled, and suddenly turned into a big green doorknob. Hermione grabbed it, pulled the door open, and walked in with Ryan.
This is the kitchen of Hogwarts. Ryan has been famous for this place for a long time but has never been to it. The entire kitchen is a large room with a high ceiling, with an area equal to the auditorium above. There are piles of stone walls around it.
There were many gleaming copper pots and basins, and a large brick fireplace at the other end of the room. It looked just like the kitchen he had imagined.
"Good afternoon, noble sir and madam, what are you here for?" A house elf who looked a bit older came over and bowed before asking.
"We have been at Hogwarts for four years, and we just found out yesterday that you house elves usually serve us in the school. Out of curiosity, we want to know how you work and live in the school.
I just don't know if it will disturb you and cause you trouble?" Ryan took a step forward and said.
"Oh, sir, you are too polite. This is no trouble." The older-looking house elf bowed again and said. "You can take a look at it as you like. If you have any questions, we will answer them."
Soon Hermione ran to the side and started asking about the house elves. The elves in Hogwarts looked pretty good. Everyone was healthy and wearing the same uniform: a pair of elves with Hogwarts embroidery on them.
Chapter's tea towel. The elves wrapped those tea towels around themselves as robes. After taking a look at the two people, they lowered their heads and went about their work. However, the house elf would stop when Hermione went to ask.
Work hard and answer his questions.
Ryan looked curiously at the four long wooden tables placed in this huge kitchen. These tables are now clean. However, when eating, these tables will be piled with food, and then they will be transported to the top through magic.
On the waiting table.
After mastering alchemy, Ryan once observed and analyzed many things in Hogwarts, including dining tables. Unfortunately, he only looked at the dining tables in the auditorium and could not analyze them at all without seeing the corresponding dining tables placed in the kitchen.
What is the teleportation spell on this thing? So now that he had the opportunity to enter the kitchen, Ryan began to observe these tables.
You must know that these tables can teleport objects over short distances in Hogwarts Castle, which is said to be unable to apparate. Ryan has always suspected that the principle contained in it may be the same as the principle of the disappearing cabinet. If this thing can be understood
If so, I estimate that I will have more knowledge about space.
"Can you tell me a story about this table?" Ryan asked a house elf next to him. The house elf showed a proud look and introduced to Ryan: "The legend of this table is that the founder of the school, He
What Chippaqi left behind was already in use when our earliest ancestors came here."
"Hufflepuff! It's unbelievable that the things left by the founder of the school for more than a thousand years are still in normal use." Ryan looked surprised.
After learning alchemy, he learned how difficult it is to make magic items that can maintain their effects for thousands of years. For example, the bracelets he is making now can maintain their effects for one or two hundred years, and Valyrian steel weapons can take advantage of the material's advantages.
It can be saved for a longer period of time. However, the additional enchantment on it can only be saved for five to six hundred years. So Ryan looked surprised when he saw that the magic effect of this table with ordinary materials could be saved for thousands of years.
"Of course, the great Hufflepah made many magical things." At this point, the house elf looked a little depressed. "It's a pity that we lost her favorite golden cup."
"Gold Cup?" Ryan thought of Voldemort's Horcrux. Seeing Ryan's interest in the Gold Cup, the house elf gave him a serious introduction.
Legend has it that the golden cup is specially used to hold drinks and drinks. It can hold drinks for the entire school, and at the same time, it can keep the contents in it the same as they were put in and taken out within a year. The only regret is that
After Hufflepuff died, the elves couldn't find the cup.
They have always suspected that some descendant of the Hufflepuff family took away the things that Hufflepuff had designated to leave in the castle for the house elves to use when he was packing up the belongings. Unfortunately, as house elves, they did not
I can't enter or leave the castle at will, so I haven't been able to find the cup.
Ryan nodded after hearing this. After knowing the original function of the cup, it will be much easier to peel off Voldemort's soul piece once he obtains the cup. With this additional gain, he motioned to the house elf next to him to go about his work, and he
I began to analyze the magic on the table.
After more than half an hour, Hermione completed her information collection. Ryan also understood the principles of these tables. He admired Hufflepuff very much for taking full advantage of the properties of those raw materials. At the same time, Hufflepuff put the tables
It is connected to the magic cycle of the entire castle, which is why these tables have been preserved for thousands of years.
Putting away the notebook, Ryan nodded to Hermione, who looked a little unhappy, and then left the kitchen together. Of course, they took a lot of various snacks sent by the house elves before leaving.