A day at Hogwarts

In the next two days, Dumbledore did not assign life-size parchment homework. Charles was just relieved when the principal asked Percy to call him to the office after dinner that day.

Charles sighed, what should come will always come.

I also blame myself for this. In the past, I told the old man that "too little homework and too much thinking". The old man said it to Dumbledore, and now it has a tendency to become the guiding ideology of teaching at Hogwarts.

But today's matter has nothing to do with homework. It's an unexpected event that caught Charles's eye: Malfoy paid off his debt.

Lucius Malfoy used to donate to St. Mungo's Hospital from time to time. Although the money was eventually used to buy coffee cups with more than two hundred galleons each, the hospital still had a lot of benefits, so the pony was treated there. No money was spent on meals.

It's just that Pony couldn't live there all his life. Faced with a huge debt, he chose to use house elves to pay off the debt.

In the principal's office, Malfoy lowered his head and did not dare to look at Charles, his face paler than usual.

Dobby stood aside, lowering his head feebly, wondering if he was counting his toes.

Charles frowned, and his first thought was that there was a conspiracy.

"Malfoy," he asked in the same tone that Snape spoke to Harry, "don't you have some conspiracy?"

Malfoy immediately waved his hand and replied: "No, no, I don't have any conspiracy, but I really can't afford that much money to repay it now."

Charles said kindly: "It doesn't matter if you don't have money now. You can pay it back slowly."

Just looking at the debt, it would be a pity to pay off such wonderful interest now.

Malfoy said: "Only other people owe the Malfoy family money, and the Malfoy family does not owe other people money."

Charles laughed out loud, it was so embarrassing to say this, Malfoy's pale face turned red.

"Headmaster," he looked at Dumbledore, "do you think Mr. Malfoy has any bad intentions?"

Dumbledore shook his head slightly and said, "Malfoy didn't lie just now."

Charles trusted Dumbledore, and Malfoy was neither old enough nor capable enough to talk nonsense in front of him without being discovered.

"Malfoy," Charles continued, "ask your house elf if he has any orders to harm me or anyone else, or to do bad things without telling me or anyone else."

After some questioning, Dobby's answer was clear. According to him, the old horse and his wife were going on a trip, so he was sent to take care of the pony.

Charles thought for a while, it was not easy to ask him about the Horcrux Notebook and Voldemort now, so he told Dumbledore that he had to ask the old man about it.

So Dobby's interview was to deliver a letter written by Charles to the old man at No. 3 Privet Drive or the Island Villa.

Half an hour later, Dobby sent back the old man's reply.

After reading the letter, Charles put it away without changing his expression, took out the IOU, and asked Dumbledore: "Headmaster, do you think this is okay?"

Dumbledore nodded.

There is a mature process among wizards for transferring house elves. It didn't take long for Dobby to become Charles's. Malfoy ran away as fast as he could after getting the written certificate of settling the debt.

only……

"Dobby doesn't know this!"

Dobby was rolling on the ground holding his head while Dumbledore looked serious.

Charles also saw that Dobby had had part of his memory erased, and the old man and Dumbledore couldn't read it using Legilimency.

"It seems they are prepared." Charles sighed helplessly.

The fight against Voldemort was not about treating guests to dinner, but about killing a lot of people, and even more people would die if they were not careful. Therefore, Dumbledore once suspected that Charles was hooking up with Voldemort when he was in the first grade. He and Charles suspected many Bi was an undercover agent sent by Voldemort.

Now that part of Dobby's memory has been erased, he doesn't remember ever going to No. 3 Privet Drive, or nearly killing Harry during the Quidditch match, nor does he remember why he warned Harry in the first place.

This is very illustrative. Whether those memories were erased on his own initiative or by others, it can prove that he has experienced a period when memories would be in danger if they were leaked.

Dumbledore said to Charles: "Just take him in."

Charles thought seriously for a while, then turned to Dobby, who was still rolling, and said, "Dobby, stand still."

Dobby immediately stood up and asked respectfully: "New master, what are your orders?"

Charles said: "From now on you call me boss, I paid for you, and you must work for me before I pay back the money."

Dumbledore originally didn't care what Charles would do with Dobby, but now he heard what he said and reminded him: "Don't violate the law of confidentiality."

A bright smile appeared on Charles' face: "Principal, I want to discuss something with you."

A few days later, many students at Hogwarts were holding a biography in their hands.

The flyer contains many products from shops opened by wizards in Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade and other places, from drinks at Florin Fusco's ice cream shop to cakes from an unknown cake shop in the town by Loch Ness, and Stationery, socks, shampoo, basically everything students need on a daily basis are on it.

At the same time, an originally abandoned classroom in the castle was renovated and reused. The front and back of the classroom were separated by a wall composed of large and small cabinets. There was a copper key on the cabinet door with a rose bud on the key handle. pattern.

During the break in the morning, Hermione looked all the way to this classroom. Although there were many people here, Charles was not there, so she came to a cabinet with a copper key inserted, put a list and money in, and locked it. The cabinet took away the copper key, and the cabinet without the key moved to the top floor.

Although buying snacks here is a little more expensive than buying them in the store, it is very fast. If you place an order before lunch, it will arrive after lunch. If you place an order before dinner, it will arrive after dinner. It is much more convenient than Owl, which only arrives the next day.

The students welcomed this business very much, and the pocket money in their pockets seemed to have grown wings and kept running out.

Behind the cabinet wall, Dobby was wearing a yellow and blue vest. He opened the door on the other side of the cabinet to collect the orders and money. The orders were sorted according to the store address. After a few automatic quills copied the orders, Send the copies to the corresponding store, retrieve the relevant products, and put them back in the cabinet.

Charles used Dumbledore's face-saving ability and only needed to settle accounts once a month.

As lunch was coming to an end, Hermione felt the key in her pocket vibrate for ten seconds. When she took out the key, she discovered that the rose buds on the handle of the brass key had bloomed.

Taking advantage of her lunch break, she came to the classroom and touched the cabinet in front of her with the copper key. The corresponding cabinet automatically came to her, and the copper key flew in and opened it.

There is a large box in the cabinet. When opened, the 16 compartments inside contain different patterns of cream cakes, exuding an alluring fragrance.

She closed the box and was about to turn around when Tian Ling Gai was struck by a knife.

"Eat so many sweets again." Charles appeared behind her, "Be careful to become fatter than rubies."

Hermione turned around and pouted and said, "It's not because you fed it that it's so fat."

She asked again: "What did you buy?"

Charles replied: "I bought a book."

Hermione's eyes lit up and she asked, "What book is it? Can you lend it to me?"

Charles hesitated deliberately, shook his head and said, "That kind of book is too early for you."

As he spoke, he took out the copper key and knocked on the cabinet.

Hermione's face suddenly turned red and she hesitated, "You...you...can actually read that kind of book."

Charles opened the cabinet seriously and took out a book called "Magic on Your Cake". Hermione stepped on his foot angrily.