My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 66. The House-Elf Who Was Fired (Seeking Recommendations)

Side quest complete!

[Task Reward: Unlocks the Talent: Inherited Bloodline.]

【Inheritance of Bloodline (Effect): Ancient blood flows within you, and the immortal legacy will continue!】

Your spells will randomly gain an increase in strength.

[Inherited Bloodline (Status): 2, 50% chance of doubling the increase.]

Putting everything else aside, the effect of the talent of inheriting bloodline did not disappoint Lynn.

Although it seems like there's only a 50% chance of doubling the increase right now, that's only the effect at two talent points, and Lynn has high expectations for its future growth.

Back in the boys' dormitory, Lynn immediately checked all his belongings to see if there was anything that looked like a surveillance camera.

After searching for two or three hours, they still didn't find anything.

Finally, his gaze settled on his pet, Umaru.

Without saying a word, Lynn sat by the bed, holding the cage and silently watching it.

Hamster Agent 007 is extremely nervous. She's lying in her cage with her eyes closed, pretending to be dead, silently repeating to herself: He didn't suspect anything, he didn't suspect anything, he didn't suspect anything...

After comforting herself for a while, she had even hypnotized herself, subconsciously believing that Lynn didn't suspect her. Then she jumped up boldly, made two "na na" noises, and asked Lynn for something to eat.

Lynn opened a box of cookies for her and, as usual, broke them into pieces and put them in her small bowl.

Umaru buried half her body in the bowl, routinely hypnotizing herself, and happily began to eat.

This is meat, this is meat, this is meat...

Suddenly, Lynn, who had been quietly watching her eat, spoke up out of the blue.

"You eat this every day, it must be tough for you."

Umaru, who was enjoying her meal, suddenly froze. Then, as if she hadn't understood anything, she poked her head out of the bowl and looked at Lynn with blank eyes.

After saying something inexplicable, Lynn didn't continue to test her. Even if Umaru really was Kira's spy, it didn't matter.

He had no secrets other than the system, and no one but himself could see the system.

The next day was Saturday, and the older young wizards happily left Hogwarts to begin their Hogsmeade weekend.

The castle became deserted. Lynn declined Cedric and Ian's invitation to play wizard chess by the Black Lake and went alone to the vicinity of Hufflepuff's lounge.

He had heard Cedric mention before that the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchen was near their common room, where a painting of a silver bowl filled with fruit hung on one side of the corridor. If you scratched one of the pears in the painting, it would turn into a green doorknob. Holding the doorknob would open the door, and behind it was the Hogwarts kitchen.

Hufflepuff's lounge is right next to the kitchen, so they can come to the kitchen to get food and have a party in the lounge whenever they want.

Lynn walked into the kitchen, a large room filled with house-elves bustling about. As soon as Lynn entered, one of the elves put down its work and came to greet her.

"Is there anything I can help you with, sir?" it asked, clutching the tattered bedsheet covering it, its face showing some fear.

Lynn asked the question directly.

"Do you have a house-elf here named Kira?"

"Is it old Kira?" the little elf replied weakly. "I don't know what it's been up to lately, but Headmaster Dumbledore gave it a sock this morning and fired it."

Lynn frowned.

"Do you know where he went?"

The house-elf shook his head: "I don't know."

As it spoke, it suddenly became angry again.

"What a wicked elf! Headmaster Dumbledore gave it a sock, and instead of feeling ashamed, it threw it away, saying it had never truly served Hogwarts and that Headmaster Dumbledore had no right to give it a sock!"

While the house-elf was still angrily yelling and cursing, Lynn had already left the kitchen.

Instead of going to the Black Lake to find Cedric and the others, he went straight to the stairs and climbed all the way to the third floor.

The third floor is the entrance to the principal's office; Lynn had gone there intending to turn herself in.

When Dumbledore dismissed Kira at this point, he was essentially telling him, "I know everything about you. The rest is up to you."

Lynn is in a difficult position.

So he planned to throw the problem back at Dumbledore, saying, "I'll confess, whatever you say goes."

A conspicuous stone beast was placed in the corridor on the third floor. Lynn walked up to the stone beast, and the ugly stone beast suddenly opened its mouth and spoke.

"Password."

Lynn didn't know the password, so he said, "I'm here to see Professor Dumbledore. Please let him know."

The stone beast remained silent, as if communicating with someone. Soon, it received a command and jumped aside to make way for Lynn.

Behind it was a spiral staircase. Lynn climbed the staircase all the way up, and only reached the end of the staircase when he was probably on the eighth floor of the castle.

At the end of the road is a gleaming wooden door with a bronze door knocker shaped like a leopard's head.

Lynn politely knocked on the brass door knocker, and only after hearing a "Come in" voice from behind the door did he push the door open and go inside.

The circular office walls were covered with photos of past principals; they all looked very serious and were smiling as Lynn walked in.

In the center of the office, on a long-legged table, there were many exquisite silverwares that spun and sprayed mist. On a shelf behind the table was the Sorting Hat.

Behind the door, on a tall, gilded perch, lives a phoenix named Fox.

Fox saw Lynn and, as if he remembered him, nodded to Lynn in greeting.

"Good morning, Belloc. Have a seat. Hmm, what kind of snack would you like? Raspberry jam? Toffee? Or honey candy?"

Dumbledore put down his quill, looked up, his crescent-shaped eyes gleaming, and asked with a smile.

Lynn swallowed hard, wanting to say "I want it all" in an adult's tone, but this time he wasn't there to freeload, but to confess and beg for leniency, so he could only shake his head and refuse.

"Thank you, Professor, but I've already had breakfast."

He sat down in the chair opposite Dumbledore, and before he could explain his purpose, Dumbledore waved his hand again.

"Since you're not hungry, how about a sour soda?"

Suddenly, a glass of pale yellow soda appeared in front of Lynn. It looked like lemon flavor. He picked it up and tasted it. It wasn't very sour, but it was very sweet, which made him very satisfied.

Dumbledore smiled at him, his hands clasped together on the table, as if he were a listener.

Lynn hesitated for a moment before finding a suitable angle to begin.

"Professor, I heard you expelled a house-elf named Kira today?"

(End of this chapter)