Chapter 744: The House-Elf Who Comes and Goes Freely

"Ha Li, Happy Easter."

Xiang Xien said.

He handed over something like a mirror, and Ha Li carefully took it.

"What is this?"

He asked.

"Magic Hand Mirror, you can use it as a telephone."

Xiang Xien said slowly, and he looked up at the front again; Ha Li realized with a start that Lu Xiusi was already walking far away.

"Thank you, Xiang Xien, I will return the favor."

Ha Li noted Xiang Xien's words and hurried to run forward.

He clutched the diary, hearing Dobby's painful screams go around the corner, getting further and further away.

While doubting in his heart whether his plan would work, he quickly took off one shoe, pulled off a sticky, smelly sock, and stuffed the diary into it.

Then, he ran along the dark corridor.

Just as the two were about to go down the stairs, he caught up with them.

"Mr. Ma Erfu," he said, panting, stumbling, and stopping his steps, "I have something for you."

He stuffed the smelly sock hard into Lu Xiusi Ma Erfu's hand.

"What is—"

Mr. Ma Erfu pulled the sock off the diary, threw it aside, looked at the destroyed diary angrily, and then looked at Ha Li.

"Ha Li Potter, one day, you will meet the same end as your parents,"

He said softly,

"They were meddlesome fools back then."

Ha Li didn't react, but inexplicably thought of another meddlesome wizard.

A wizard who was taciturn but had solved all the dangers at Hogwarts.

After Lu Xiusi finished speaking, he turned to leave.

"Come on, Dobby. Did you hear me, hurry up!"

But Dobby didn't move. He held Ha Li's sticky, smelly sock high, looking at it excitedly, as if it were a priceless treasure.

"Master gave Dobby a sock,"

The house-elf said in surprise,

"Master gave the sock to Dobby."

"What?"

Mr. Ma Erfu said annoyedly,

"What did you say?"

"Dobby got a sock,"

Dobby said in disbelief,

"Master threw it, Dobby caught it, Dobby—Dobby is free."

Lu Xiusi Ma Erfu stood there blankly, staring at the house-elf. Then he suddenly lunged at Ha Li.

"You caused me to lose my house-servant, boy!"

With a loud bang, Mr. Ma Erfu fell backward.

He stumbled, three steps at a time, down the stairs, and finally collapsed messily on the platform below.

He struggled to stand up, his face pale, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a slender, intimidating finger.

"You can go,"

Dobby pointed at Lu Xiusi below and said fiercely,

"You are never allowed to touch Ha Li Potter. You can go now."

Lu Xiusi Ma Erfu had no other choice.

He glared at the two of them one last time in anger, wrapped his body in his cloak, and hurried away.

"Ha Li Potter freed Dobby!" the elf said in a piercing, shrill voice, looking up at Ha Li, moonlight spilling in from the nearest window, reflecting in his bulging eyes, "Ha Li Potter made Dobby free!"

"I didn't do anything, Dobby, most of this is Xiang Xien's credit," Ha Li grinned and said, "But you have to promise me, don't try to protect me anymore."

A brilliant smile suddenly bloomed on the elf's ugly, brownish-red face, revealing a full mouth of teeth.

It stretched out its arms, hugged Ha Li's waist, and gave him a tight squeeze.

"Ha Li Potter is even greater than Dobby previously knew!"

It sobbed and said,

"Farewell, Ha Li Potter!"

Dobby made another loud choking sound in his throat, and then disappeared.

Ha Li watched the place where it left, feeling that the house-elf's magic seemed more powerful than a wizard's.

They were always coming and going without a trace at Hogwarts, as if anti-Apparition magic was useless against them.

He turned his head to look at the corner, where Xiang Xien was using his fingers to command books to fly out.

Is Xiang Xien also a house-elf?

Ha Li thought inexplicably.

"No... Xiang Xien?!"

He exclaimed.

Xiang Xien had already obtained the book he wanted: "Born Noble: Wizard Genealogies," so he commanded the book to fly into the Book of Wizards, which to Ha Li meant it had disappeared.

"Ha Li?"

He asked softly.

"You are... where is your wand?"

Ha Li's brain turned to mush.

"A wizard's magic does not come from a wand, Ha Li."

After Xiang Xien finished speaking, he left.

In the impression of most wizards with cognition, the house-elf's magic seems more powerful than many wizards.

They don't need wands, and they come and go freely in Hogwarts Castle.

But in Xiang Xien's view, this is a fallacy.

House-elf magic is not more powerful than a wizard's; it is just that wandless magic is inherently more destructive.

But one point is correct: house-elves, including goblins, can come and go freely at Hogwarts, or in the caves designed by Voldemort.

Voldemort looks down on house-elf magic, while Hogwarts is for convenience.

That's right, the reason is just for convenience.

Think about it, house-elves are responsible for all the meals of the wizards, responsible for helping wizards take away their luggage on the train, responsible for helping wizards clean their rooms...

It is very inconvenient without Apparition.

When Hufflepuff found a place for the house-elves to stay, allowed them to live in it, and do some chores, Ravenclaw left this "loophole" for Hogwarts Castle.

Until today, more than a dozen centuries later, this loophole has not been used by any restless wizard.

Differently, Xiang Xien also knows that this "loophole" can be filled.

Mr. Owl can accomplish this matter.

But according to Mr. Owl's observation over more than a dozen centuries, it proudly believes that Hogwarts should have house-elves that come and go freely.

"Will."

Xiang Xien called.

"Yes, respected Mr. Green."

Will appeared from the hidden night.

"Did you find it?"

Xiang Xien asked.

"I did not fail your expectations, sir."

Will puffed out its chest, its short arms lifted, and a coffin-like box appeared.

It looked quite large, deep black under the night light.

Inside lay quietly a wizard remembered only by house-elves; when he decided to resist, he didn't even have a decent helper by his side.

Regulus Black.

A wizard who existed almost only in a memory of Kreacher, a suicide note, some fragments of words, and the forever-still photo frame in the Black ancestral home.

"You did very well, Will."

Xiang Xien said softly.

"For your will, I would go through fire and water!"

Will shouted low. ===== CHAPTER 745 =====