Harry Potter and the Old Ones

Xenophilius stood nervously at the door of 221 Baker Street.

After ringing the doorbell, he straightened his bow tie.

"Don't worry, Dad," said Luna, who was standing at Xenophilius' left. "You look great today."

"Thank you, Luna." But Xenophilius still touched his cotton candy-white hair nervously.

Today Xenophilius is wearing a gorgeous dress that seems to have come out of a medieval court, while Luna is wearing a pure white suspender dress with a flower pattern, and her platinum blonde hair is wrapped in a ball at the back of her head, surrounded by a flower. Wreath tied.

Finally, while Xenophilius waited anxiously, the door to 221 Baker Street opened from the inside.

The one who opened the door was a little wizard with black hair and black eyes, about twelve or thirteen years old, it was Tierra.

Tiera was wearing a Hogwarts school uniform today, her hair was combed into a grown-up look, and she had a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of her nose.

"Mr. Lovegood, Miss Lovegood, hello." Tiera politely shook hands with Xenophilius and Luna before letting them in, "My father is already waiting. You guys, please come with me."

Luna and Xenophilius followed Tiera to the restaurant, where Gilderoy Lockhart was already waiting for them, and next to him was someone who Luna and Xenophilius could never have imagined... …or creatures—

A house-elf, somewhat cramped, sits to the left of Gilderoy Lockhart.

This made Xenophilius obviously stunned for a moment, and stayed in place——

On the other hand, Luna's eyes were shining, her body trembled slightly, and she looked very interested in Dobby.

"Aha, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart came out from behind the dining table and shook the hands of Xenophilius and Luna Lovegood enthusiastically, "Please come in, please come in. "

"I hope you don't mind." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "This is Dobby, originally a house elf of the Malfoy family. I think you should have learned from various reports. I I won't go into details."

With that said, Gilderoy Lockhart led Xenophilius to the table.

"And because of the operation of my lovely adopted son, Tiera, Dobby has been freed, so I decided to hire him, and the salary is one Galleon per month-" Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile, "I know that this salary is not high. I originally planned to pay ten gold Galleons a month, but Dobby would not accept it, so I had to settle for one gold Galleons a month. Mr. Dobby is now in charge of our daily work. Eating, living and working, today's sumptuous lunch is Mr. Dobby's masterpiece."

"My God, Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius seemed to be shocked, and stood beside the seat, somewhat bewildered, "I used to, I used to... always heard that you were a great wizard with great ambitions. , but I didn't expect... I didn't expect... I didn't expect your ideal to be so great..."

"Then please raise a glass." Said, Gilderoy Lockhart raised the wine glass on the table, "In order to welcome the visit of Mr. Lovegood and Miss Lovegood, and to celebrate the upcoming arrival in advance Second, thanks to our lovely Mr. Dobby for preparing such a great lunch for us, cheers!"

After speaking, "Gildello Lockhart" raised his glass. Then he bent down and touched a glass with Dobby.

"cheers!"

Tiera, Luna and Xenophilius said at the same time.

"Everyone, hurry up and take your seats." Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile.

For today's lunch, Tiera had Dobby prepare a big pot of tuna mashed potatoes, a whole roasted turkey, a pot of pea and lamb soup, and a red wine steak for each person.

And Sirius Black is still alone digging the gopher.

"Mr. Lockhart, you are so great." Lovegood said again excitedly after he was seated. "You are really different from the gang of rice buckets in the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet."

"Mr. Lovegood, we've known each other for a long time," Gilderoy Lockhart said. "I remember that your first interview in the Daily Prophet was done by you. I said at the time that my The ideal is world peace."

"Yes," Xenophilius said, "but I didn't realize it at the time...I mean, I just thought you were talking politely to me."

"It's not your fault, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart elegantly cut a steak and put it in his mouth—

Well, the meat is tough and tender, and the juice is thick and flavorful.

I have to say that Dobby's cooking skills trained by the Malfoy family are quite good.

At this time, Sirius Black had just eaten his first gopher, and swallowed it whole with fur, bones and dirt.

"At that time, I did not show any intention to maintain world peace." Gilderoy Lockhart continued, "Maintaining world peace is a long and arduous operation. At that time, I was just an adventurer who had just become famous. Although I have the ideal of maintaining world peace, I have no strength to maintain world peace. So I made a preliminary plan."

"What... what preliminary plan?" Xenophilius asked.

"That is to enhance my own strength. At that time, I was just a young wizard with mediocre talent. Seven years of stable study and life at Hogwarts did not change this fact, so I began to travel around, constantly using adventures. Sharpen my own abilities." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "But as I traveled, as my knowledge continued to deepen, I realized how shallow my previous knowledge was and how naive my previous ideals were. "

"You... what do you mean?" Xenophilius slowed down his eating a little nervously.

"It's not enough to keep world peace," Gilderoy Lockhart said.

At the same time, Tiera completely let go of her spiritual dimension, and her powerful spiritual power poured out, filling the dining table.

"Mr. Lovegood, I want to ask you, what is peace?" asked Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Peace..." Xenophilius didn't quite understand why Gilderoy Lockhart asked, but he answered honestly:

"Peace is the absence of war or other acts of life-threatening violence."

"Then do you think our magic world is at peace now?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"Well...it should be," Xenophilius said.

"Okay, Mr. Lovegood, I'll ask you one more thing, house-elves don't have wars with each other, and there's no life-threatening violence. So can we say that house-elves live in peace? ' asked Gilderoy Lockhart.

"This..." Xenophilius was speechless.

"The centaurs live alone in the forbidden forest, and they live in peace with each other, but as their habitats are destroyed, they migrate to the depths of the forbidden forest step by step, and the birth rate of centaurs is also decreasing year by year, so centaurs live in peace. In?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked again ~www.NovelMTL.com~ and half-blood wizards, werewolves, do they all live under the Ministry of Magic's whitewashed peace? "

"The last question, Mr. Lovegood, if Voldemort had succeeded and killed all the wizards who opposed him, leaving only the wizards who were willing to accept his rule, everyone would be at the mercy of him like puppets on strings, living in Under his reign of terror, I believe there will be no wars and no more violent acts that endanger the lives of others, but..." Gilderoy Lockhart asked again, "Is that called peace?"

"What do you want to say? Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius finally realized the change in the topic.

Gilderoy Lockhart put down his knife and fork with a smile, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said:

"Mr. Lovegood, have you heard of exploitation?"

Xenophilius stopped eating.

Even Luna Lovegood stopped his knife and fork.

Although she didn't understand the meaning of the word "exploitation", she instinctively noticed the sea of ​​corpses and blood contained in the word.