Harry Potter: Badger's Flathead

Fortunately, it was just an illusion. Alvin was still eating and didn't look at him.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

But why did he suddenly think of Ivan just now? ? ?

"Huh?" Alvin chewed his food and looked at the ceiling curiously. Why did he feel like someone was teasing him?

Forget it, let’s eat first. The potato and beef stew tonight is pretty good.

……

Winter is coming again, and this year Alvin has to prepare well. He has to make some warm alchemical clothes for Tiedan, the little guy who is afraid of the cold.

Otherwise, it wouldn't hibernate. It would be boring if it didn't go out of the house for several months. Although its body has been transformed and become stronger, its nature is still difficult to change.

It just so happens that the skin of the Chimaera beast that I killed last time has not been used yet.

In the courtyard, Alvin was combing Simba's mane. This big guy loved to go into the forbidden forest after recovering his physique. The same went for the tigers. Maybe they went to occupy the territory, but the tigers were better. Simba had too much hair and was often covered with dead leaves.

"Ivan, have you found a dance partner?" As soon as they met, Harry asked this question, which he had been asked countless times.

"Someone did invite me, but there were too many people. I haven't agreed yet. I plan to wait until the last few days to make an appointment. Anyway, there are so many people, so it's still in time to make an appointment at the last minute."

"Oh~ I really envy you. Now we are so annoyed about this matter. It will be so embarrassing if we don't have a dance partner on the first day of the ball." Harry squatted beside Ivan and sighed.

"So, this is why you guys have been acting weird lately?"

Harry didn't respond, but smiled shyly.

Alvin can't help with this. He can't help them date girls. It all depends on their own face.

Or~

Ivan looked towards the lake. Krum was running in a vest, revealing his strong biceps, and a group of little fans were following him.

After seeing Alvin, Krum nodded and greeted him, then took a deep look at him and continued exercising.

After Ivan responded, he just picked a leaf hidden in Simba's mane and looked back. Sure enough, Ron and Hermione were coming from behind.

Just say that the look in this boy’s eyes at the end was not right.

Hermione was holding a large book, and she and Ron sat next to Harry, staring blankly.

"what happened?"

Ivan felt that the atmosphere was not right.

"Well~ Hermione failed to mobilize the elves to strike again." Ron whispered, his tone full of helplessness.

Bang! Hermione slammed the book she had just opened shut.

"What do you mean by a strike? I just hope that they can get reasonable rights and freedoms! Moreover, in the more than a thousand-page book 'Hogwarts: A History', there is not a single word about us jointly oppressing a hundred slaves..." Hermione got angry again and started another long speech.

"Okay, stop!" Alvin put down the comb and used magic to glue the chattering little mouth shut.

"Didn't I tell you to understand why the elves are willing to be servants? You have to know that over the past thousand years, the house-elves' understanding of their own identity has gone beyond concepts and is almost like something deeply rooted in their blood.

It is not easy to resist the inherent ideas, and it is even more difficult to resist one's own nature. Therefore, house elves almost never have the idea of ​​rebellion. Even if they have magic, they assume that the use of their magic should be to serve their masters.

In the final analysis, they didn't resist because they didn't think there was anything to resist! It's not easy to change the thinking of a race with your thoughts, not to mention that the elves have deep interests in wizards. Who would be so stupid as to let someone spend money to do something that has no benefit to him?

Your ideals are good, but you have to distinguish them from realism. No matter how good your ideals are, it is absolutely impossible to tear down the tower of reality in an instant."

Hermione pointed at her mouth angrily and asked Ivan to let her go because she had something to say.

"Well, maybe you should practice how to cast spells silently." While saying irrelevant words, Ivan untied the spell on Hermione's mouth and showed off his silent casting skills.

"But look at Dobby! Isn't he free? He has his own salary and clean clothes. Isn't he very happy? Can't the other elves see that?"

Hermione argued unconvinced. In her opinion, Dobby had already set a good example and it was a good start.

Ivan also remembered that Dobby and Winky were hired by Hogwarts, and Dobby had a salary. However, Winky felt humiliated because he was fired, and was not as happy as Dobby. It seemed that Hermione had already met them.

"But don't forget, I said that the elves have their own ideas. In their minds, Dobby's behavior is like that of a traitor. Put yourself in his shoes. If a traitor between two cities told you that the other city is better, would you believe it?

It’s not that the elves don’t have their own dignity, but their dignity is based on loyalty. Asking them to give up their status as servants is tantamount to trampling on their dignity! Although this kind of dignity is very deformed in our eyes.”

Hermione opened her mouth, but for a moment she couldn't organize her words to refute, but she felt that something was wrong, it shouldn't be like this.

"It is because they have not received any education that they have such incorrect ideas. As long as we give them freedom and let them receive education..."

"Wait a minute Hermione, you have to understand one thing! The elves in Hogwarts are the property of the Hogwarts castle and do not belong to anyone else!

They don't belong to Dumbledore, nor to the school board. Only the elves' masters can give them freedom. You insist on throwing clothes to them, hoping that they will be free after picking them up. Do you think you are their master?"

Dad once said, use magic to defeat magic!

"No! I didn't, I didn't think so! I just..."

Hermione's little face wrinkled and she stammered, unable to utter a complete sentence. Obviously, she felt that Ivan was right and she did so.

"No need to explain, I understand what you mean! But you have to know that we live in reality, and conflicts also occur in reality. They cannot be solved by spiritualism!

First of all, you have to know that you can't just leave the elves alone after they are free. Have you ever thought about what kind of identity they will live as after they are free? Will they be human or magical animals? If they are human, can wizards accept this obviously non-human race as equals to them?

If they were magical animals, how would they exist in human society? You wouldn't want humans to abandon their current social environment and actively transform into a society of elves, would you? What kind of disaster would that cause? Have you ever thought about this?

If you just let the wizards give the elves freedom but fail to give them a new direction in life, then they will lose their goals due to their slave mentality, and then large-scale suicide of elves may occur, because they have lost their direction in life!

After all, people like Dobby are a minority, and even if it is Dobby, he only asks for a salary, and his life goal is still to serve others!"

Hermione opened her mouth, unable to utter a word. It was obvious that as an idealist, she only thought about how to give the elves equality, but had not thought about what would happen in the future.

In her view, as long as they gain freedom, everything will be fine, humans will accept them, and they will live like humans. Everything is as it should be.

But according to what Ivan said, if she insisted on doing this, she would be harming the house-elves, but this...

"No one can stop you from doing this, but you have to make sure you are ready, rather than just spreading your unrealistic ideas around and asking people around you to join you in the fun."

Hermione didn't say anything, but fell into silent thought. Harry and Ron sat aside, eating melon seeds and watching the show. Although they didn't quite understand what Ivan was saying, it was rare to see Hermione being scolded, so they didn't want to miss it.

But this time, Hermione shouldn't torture the house-elves every day in the dormitory because of the freedom of the house-elves~

"I'll think about it, but can you let me go?"

"Okay." Ivan waved his wand and untied the restraints on Hermione.

Just now he was afraid that Hermione would get angry and run away. If he didn't make things clear at once, Bubu and the others would continue to suffer, so Ivan could only forcibly keep Hermione.

Sometimes, you can't always be gentle. If you want to solve the problem in one go, you can't worry about the details!

After Hermione was free, she looked at the reference book she had found in her arms, and suddenly felt that it was useless, so she turned around and prepared to go back to the library to return it.

Ivan chuckled and continued to comb Simba's hair. It seemed that our future Minister of Magic had found his first goal in life.

Chapter 316 The dance begins

At some point, Alvin really didn't understand the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts!

He is indeed very competent, not only teaching the Dark Arts, but also Defense! And he teaches very seriously.

Just like the Imperius Curse, one of the three unforgivable curses, he was very keen on casting it on his students during this period, and then teaching them how to resist the control of the spell.

Although Alvin approves of this teaching method, isn't he afraid that after his master comes back to life, he will upgrade from easy mode to difficult mode when he starts over?

But he is really dedicated~

Winter has fully arrived, and the snow has once again covered Hogwarts in a layer of silver.

Christmas is just a few days away, and it will be time for the Christmas Eve dance soon. The poor guys who don’t have a dance partner have to hurry up.

"Here, catch it! Be careful not to hit your classmates."

In the courtyard, Alvin and Tata and a group of other little dragons were playing in the snow. Alvin made a snowball and threw it into the air. Tata and Little Tornado competed to see who could react faster and who could be the first to break the snowball with a plasma bomb.

Alvin was having fun playing with a few little Night Furies, while Frost was making snowballs with Luna and Reese on the other side.

After two months of getting along, Alvin was able to release most of the dragons that were not too big. They moved freely during the day and rested on the edge of the Forbidden Forest at night.

With Nighoed around, there is no need to worry about them running around. The Dragon Park and Dragon Island are almost completed. After winter is over, the dragons can move in.

At that time, the environment in the box can be transplanted to the underground space of the badger hole. Alvin will build it into a solid refuge as a last resort.

"Hahaha~ They are so cute." Furong walked forward and hugged Tata's neck, smiling happily while leaning against Tata.

After spending some time together, and with Newt's teaching in class, everyone got along very well with the dragons. The students loved these dragons, which were much friendlier and cuter than the local fire dragons!

"Of course, Night Fury is my favorite among all dragons. My vision is not bad!" Alvin was very confident in his vision.

"Yeah, you're awesome~" Furong said perfunctorily and continued to hug Tata.

"Hello! Furong! Can I be your dance partner?" Ron suddenly appeared and shouted!

This shout attracted all the people and dragons in the courtyard, but before anyone could see what was going on, he ran away, as if running for his life.

Ivan: ...Huh?

Furong: ...What is he going to do?

Tata: ...scared Longlong to death~(?ω?* )

Looking at Ron's back as he ran two steps and his legs weakened, and was supported by Ginny and the others, the two men and the dragon fell into deep thought...

"My lovely lady, are you free to be my dance partner?"

"Are you talking about me?" Reese asked for confirmation.

"Yes, lovely lady." The boy said affirmatively.

Hearing the noise here, Ivan's ears pricked up!

"It will be my honor to dance with such a lovely lady like you." The little Slytherin snake behaved very elegantly and gentlemanly. He believed that no one would refuse him.

Just as Graham Pritchard was imagining Reese being attracted to him, a large hand rested on his shoulder.

"Boy, what are you talking about with my sister?"(???)¤=[]:::::＞

Ivan smiled gently, but the sword in his other hand was not gentle at all, and was placed on Graham's neck.

"Um... I didn't say anything. I was just praising your sister for being adorable! Now that I've complimented you, I won't bother you anymore. Goodbye, senior!" Graham smiled awkwardly, carefully broke free from Ivan's restraints, and ran away for his life.

Graham: That's scary! This bastard is serious! Damn it~

"Tsk! You are not worthy of holding my sister's hand at the dance! Put on your skirt and be Carlo's dance partner!"

Ivan snorted disdainfully. This guy is from Carlo's group. Doesn't he know the relationship between them? How dare he mess with his sister?