Chapter 297： Dobby and Shining

Harry, who was being watched by Cedric, had an urge to run away. The scene was too embarrassing now.

‘I would not come if I knew he was here! ’

Harry thought, but forced a smile and said to Cedric:

"Hello, Cedric."

"Never mind you, did you miss lunch too?" Cedric replied, then looked at Mike again and said, "Come and sit down, just in time we can eat together."

Mike calmly pulled a chair away and sat beside Cedric, but Harry and the others still did not move.

Upon seeing this, Mike opened his hands and said:

"Come on, everyone sit down. Harry, Cedric is not such a stingy person, and he wouldn't think you took his place as a champion."

Harry seemed to be a little moved when he heard the words, and put his hand on another chair to pull it apart, but his eyes still looked at Cedric from time to time.

"Who said I'm not angry! They made a little wizard like Harry a warrior, but they let me sit on a cold bench!" Harry's hand froze, and Ron and Hermione behind him turned towards the plug. Derek glared at the past.

But Cedric didn't pay any attention, and continued:

"But after watching the first event, I don’t think so. Being a Warrior is not a good thing for you. It’s too dangerous, Harry. It’s obviously someone trying to kill you. You must always be careful."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the chair away and sat down.

But Ron behind him obviously did not understand Cedric's meaning, blushing and said:

"Can I understand this as a threat? Diggory?"

As soon as the words came out, Hermione next to him gave Ron an elbow.

"Hey! Ron, don't be so stupid, we can all hear that Cedric doesn't mean that."

"Do you know it again? Ah? Miss know-it-all!" Ron said reluctantly, "Answer me, Cedric."

Harry's body, which had already relaxed, tensed up again. It seemed to him that a fight might be inevitable, and he didn't know which of Ron's tendons had been wrong recently.

However, to his surprise, Cedric didn't talk to Ron, but gave him a contemptuous glance and said to Mike:

"This person is your friend?"

"Yes, but he has recently reached puberty, so some are too eager to show his masculinity in front of someone."

Cedric glanced at Hermione, instantly understanding.

And Hermione also realized what Mike meant at this time, her complexion flushed, and Ron subconsciously was farther away.

Ron was almost furious at this time, but fortunately he was still sane now, instead of rushing directly to Cedric, he turned around and left.

"Well, the unwelcome people are finally gone." Cedric picked up the chicken drumsticks and ate, "I can finally eat more."

Harry would instinctively retort when he heard that, but in the end he didn't speak.

Ron's recent state is indeed a bit strange, even when he speaks to him, it is a hidden sneer of yin and yang.

To be honest, he also had a lot of opinions on Ron.

"You can hold back this kind of situation." Mike tore a chicken leg from the whole chicken in front of Cedric and said, "It seems that the sequelae of the last deformation accident has disappeared."

"It's really better, but it hasn't completely disappeared yet." Cedric said, "For example, now I want to beat you up."

Mike: "?"

Cedric smiled at Mike's dumbfounded look.

"It's not because you just ate my chicken legs. It's because you robbed me of my qualifications as a warrior. Let's talk about how you plan to compensate me. If I am not satisfied with your compensation, I will really beat you."

"You can't beat me." Mike joked and said seriously when Cedric was starting to draw his wand, "Okay, okay. What do you want? I can give you as long as you don't get too much. Who calls you It's my friend."

"Hmph, count you acquainted." Cedric put down his wand and said, "It's not difficult for me to prepare a ring for me, an engagement ring."

"Engaged? Who are you going to be with?"

"Who else? Of course it is Qiu Zhang. You know, I am about to graduate. I am going to propose to Qiu Zhang at the graduation ceremony."

Mike slammed his mouth in a little astonishment and said:

"I have a hunch that you will not succeed. Qiu Zhang is from the celestial dynasty. According to their customs, her parents would not agree to her getting married so early."

"That's why I said it was an engagement! I am not ready to marry her now, at least I have to wait for her to reach adulthood!"

"Well, then I wish you good luck. The ring is wrapped around me, and I will use the most precious materials to make it. Then I am looking for someone to enchant it. I don’t need any powerful spells. It needs to have a strong sound and light effect when it is worn, such as a layer of shiny light clothing on the wearer. I think the success rate of your marriage proposal will also increase greatly. After all, girls Like evil dragons, they like shiny things."

Cedric looked at Mike blankly with his mouth open.

When Merlin was on, he really only wanted to find Mike to make an ordinary ring. He didn't expect Mike to have such a big brain.

However, this seems pretty good.

At least one thing Mike said was right. Girls like shiny things. Didn't you see that the girl named Hermione next to her had her eyes lit up?

If you really have such a ring, the success rate of marriage proposals may really increase.

Although his heart was already happy, Cedric was still calm on his face and said, "Well, I can do it, you can figure it out."

Cedric, a duplicity, Mike smiled and shook his head.

Neither of them noticed at the moment. When Cedric talked about proposing to Cedric, Harry's face suddenly turned pale.

But then Harry lowered his head, covering up his gaffe very well.

"Gentlemen and ladies, here comes the black tea!"

A somewhat old voice came, and Mike and the others looked back and saw that the old house elf was carrying a large wooden plate with four cups of black tea on the plate.

"Oh! Thank you, but only three cups are enough. One of our partners has left beforehand."

"Damn it! It must be our poor hospitality, we are all to blame!"

The old elf panicked when he heard this, and Mike said upon seeing this:

"Don't blame yourself, this matter has nothing to do with you, your hospitality is very good, put the tea down and leave. By the way, those two elves named Robbie and Sparkle should be with you too? Please call them over ."

After saying that, Mike turned his head to drink black tea, but the old elf did not leave as he expected, but hesitated and said to Mike:

"Why did Mr. Tangli look for them?"

"Is there any problem?" Mike asked rhetorically.

"No problem! It's just that if you need us to serve you, maybe you should change to two elves. With all due respect, Shining and Dobby are not good things!"

Mike smiled and replied: "Don't worry, I just want to ask them something."

Having said that, the old elf had no other reason to refute Mike. He could only retreat, and soon came over with two house elves.

"Mr. Harry Potter! You came to see me again! I'm so...uuuu...I'm so touched! The respected Mr. Harry Potter came here again to visit my humble house elf !"

With a teapot warmer full of colorful badges on his head, Dobby, who was wearing two socks of different sizes on his feet, hugged Harry's legs and started crying.

That old house elf was almost dying, and Dobby's behavior seemed extremely rude to him.

And behind him, followed by a house elf wearing a small skirt.

That should be the female house elf named Shining. Mike noticed her the first time she appeared, but she seems to be in a very bad state now, and her face is haggard, and her eyes are still red. I just cried.

"Oh! God, Dobby! You don't need to be like this. Get up quickly and let me introduce a new friend to you." Mike panicked and dragged Dobby from his trouser legs and said, "This is Mike. , MacTowny. He really wants to make friends with you."

"Harry Potter's friend is my friend! Hello! Mr. Tonley! My name is Dobby, I am glad to meet you!"

"I'm also very happy to meet you." Although Mike spoke to Dobby, he kept watching Shining from the sidelines. "I heard about you and Shining from Harry before. , I sympathize with you very much. So if I can, I think I might be able to give you a job. I mean, you can become my house-elves, just like you did before."

Mike's last sentence was actually addressed to Shining, and he also noticed that when he said this passage, Shining's big ears visibly trembled.

"No! This is definitely not possible!"

Screamed the old house elf.

"What's the matter? Why haven't you left yet, aren't you busy now?"

"Neither Shining nor Dobby are good house elves! You must not take them in, or you will regret it later!"

Shining on the side cried bitterly.

"Yes, Dobby is a bad elf, and he still wants a salary." Dobby said with his head upright, "but Dobby doesn't regret it! Because Dobby is now a free house elf! "

The old elf couldn't bear it anymore, he tried desperately to tugged at his ears as if he heard the worst voice in the world.

Hermione smiled and touched Dobby's smooth forehead, and said:

"You are right! Dobby! You are free, no one can enslaves you again! Mike, if you want to hire Dobby, you must pay him! And don’t try to fool him about the amount of money, I will Talking to you as his lawyer throughout the whole process!"

Dobby raised his head and watched Hermione's eyes with moving tears.

"These are all small problems. I am very happy that I can have a special employee like Dobby." McHaha laughed, "You can follow me now if you want!"

"Contract! You must sign a contract with Dobby!"

Mike nodded at the excited Hermione, then turned his gaze to Shining who was still crying on the side.

"What about you, Shining, would you like to be my house-elf?" Mike said, "Don't worry, I won't pay you, and there are countless tasks for you to do in my place, and it will be a long time in the future. For a while you won’t even have to sleep."

"Really...really?" Shining's drooping ears stood up again, looking very happy, but immediately she began to smash the floor with her forehead, "No! No! Shining was kicked out by her former master. The bad elf! Shining is not worth having a new owner, Shining should die!"

"Well, Shining, stop your behavior, if you still want to be my house elf!"

Flash stopped immediately and came to Mike tremblingly, looking at Mike with hopeful eyes.

Mike smiled, snapped his fingers and said, "From today, you are the house-elf of the Tonley family! I will arrange it here at the school. You can just follow me directly later!"

"Thank you! Thank you! Master!"

Shining's condition became much better all of a sudden. House elves like her who were driven out by the owner would be labeled as inferior. Generally, no one would want to take them in, so she is really happy now.

But at this moment, Hermione suddenly shouted at Shining:

"No! You can't just agree to it! You should enjoy a better treatment like Dobby! I can..."

"Shut up! You bad woman! Don't want to teach bad luck!" Shun interrupted with an angry face, "Shanl is not Dobby that shameless bad elf! Shining now has a new owner!"

After all, she glanced at Dobby contemptuously, and then stood beside Mike with her head held up and proud.

Hermione was so angry that she stood there pointing her finger but couldn't even say a word At this time, Cedric had already finished his late lunch, and Mike happened to have reached today's Purpose, the four of them left the kitchen with the two elves, Dobby and Shining.

On the way back to the lounge, Hermione understood that Shining wouldn't listen to herself, so she changed her strategy and started working on Mike.

Mike, who was so annoyed by her that she couldn't stand it, could only perfuse:

"Don't worry, Hermione, I will treat Shining and Dobby well. As for Shining's treatment, you don't have to worry too much. She hasn't changed her mentality yet. Just let her spend some time with Dobby. You too It should be understood that any wise life will instinctively pursue better treatment."

‘Except for house elves. ’

Mike added inwardly.

This statement exploded as soon as she gleamed, she screamed in denial, saying that she would never become like Dobby.

Hermione heard this, not talking about other things, and returned to Gryffindor with Harry.

Mike watched them leave and shook his head, to be honest, Hermione is really like those extreme animal protectors now.

He could have tried to persuade Hermione to get her back to normal thinking.

But, why bother?

Everyone is no longer a child, and they all have their own different ideas. If Mike forces Hermione to accept his ideas, what is the difference between himself and the group of extreme animal protectors?

What's more, Mike himself really didn't have the confidence to convince Hermione.

At that time, if his mouth-cannon skills were not successfully used, the relationship between him and Hermione would be bad.