Dumbledore? He knows nothing about MC alchemy.

"Is it just for today's situation?" Harry tilted his head.

"No, it was an accident today. Don't you subscribe to the Daily Prophet during your holidays?"

Harry shook his head. "They won't even let me out of the house, let alone have owls flying around the roof all day."

"Are they so mean to you? I always thought it was boring for you not to go out during the holidays." Lupin said in surprise.

"If you had seen what he was like at Hogwarts, you wouldn't ask such a question." Kaisen complained in a low voice.

"Sorry..." Lupin said as he took out a newspaper from his coat pocket, flattened it and handed it to Harry.

Harry took the newspaper and glanced at it casually, his eyes quickly drawn to the front page headline.

"So, the purpose of this prison escapee named Sirius is to kill me?" Harry asked calmly.

"Normally a normal child shouldn't have the same attitude as you do," Lupin said.

"It happened once before, actually," Harry said a little embarrassedly.

Lupin looked at Kaisen with a strange look, and the latter shrugged helplessly.

"Dumbledore, don't you know?"

"Um...that's right."

Chapter 149 New Newspaper

"Why did he come to kill me?" Harry asked suddenly looking up.

"A Death Eater, a dark wizard, do I need a reason to kill you?" Kaisen shook his head and said.

Lupin, standing aside, seemed to be hesitant to speak, then said, "By the way, Kaisen, can I go to your office later?"

"Of course, I can stuff you in right now if you want."

Lupin shook his head. "Wait a minute. Anyway, Harry, this holiday, although subjectively your aunt and uncle won't let you leave the house, you might feel very bored, but objectively speaking, you are quite safe."

"Today's new newspaper has arrived! Who wants to buy one?" As a few people were talking, a little wizard suddenly appeared outside the ice cream shop with a stack of newspapers floating behind him and chanted a spell in a loud voice.

This should be the little wizard from the shop in Diagon Alley who hasn't started school yet. He used his parents' old wand to buy a lot of newspapers to earn pocket money.

"Little wizard, give me four servings." Lupin waved his hand at the little wizard and said.

Soon, four copies of the Daily Prophet, which had just been published this morning, were placed in front of several people, even in front of Dobby.

Lupin was looking at the newspaper boredly, and then he noticed the headline of today's newspaper.

"Oh, Arthur and the others are so lucky to have won so many Galleons. Now their lives should be comfortable in the near future, right... Are they going traveling?" Lupin said a little confusedly.

"...Obviously, that's the case." Kaisen also saw the photo in the newspaper and nodded.

"But this..." Lupin suddenly saw a little mouse in Ron's arms in the photo. He always felt that the mouse looked like a close friend of his who died more than ten years ago...

One of his best friends, Peter Pettigrew, has an Animagus that is a little mouse... But maybe I'm mistaken, Peter Pettigrew has been dead for over a decade...

To be honest, instead of studying whether the little mouse in the photo is Peter Pettigrew, it would be better to study whether the big black dog he and Kaison picked up when they went out for a drink that day is Sirius.

After all, Sirius's Animagus looks really similar to the big black dog named Bruce who plays with boats in the office all day or has fun in the castle.

"By the way, Kaysen, that big black dog...is Bruce. Have you seen him through your monocle?" Lupin asked.

"I've seen it. The entry is beast."

Lupin nodded and smiled bitterly, "I see. I thought he might be able to find the Leaky Cauldron and have some magical blood in him."

"Who knows, maybe it's very thin." Kaisen said as he casually folded the newspaper and put it in his pocket, looking at Dobby who was sitting obediently in his seat.

"Dobby, what are your aspirations for the future?"

Dobby, who was sipping his ice cream, looked up with a start: "I want to protect Harry Potter!"

"Well...actually I don't need your protection. Really, if you protect me, it's very likely that I will die young." Harry commented bluntly.

"Then... then Dobby doesn't know what to do now... maybe Dobby needs another job." Dobby said with his eyes downcast.

"Then I set you free for nothing?" Harry touched his nose awkwardly.

"No, no, no. Dobby wants to find a job that pays him a salary, so that he can save all the money and give it to Harry Potter! Just like Harry Potter gave the money to Professor Kaysen!" Dobby said in a shrill voice.

"In fact, Harry's behavior is called repayment. Of course, if you give the money to Harry, it can also be considered repayment in a sense." Kaisen suddenly remembered halfway through his words that Harry had exerted all his efforts to help Dobby regain his freedom, so in a sense, it was subjectively reasonable for Dobby to return the money he earned to Harry.

However, objectively speaking, it was different, because Harry had acted impulsively to give Dobby freedom. There was no employment relationship or exchange of interests between Dobby and Harry. From this point of view, it was unreasonable for Dobby to give the money he earned to Harry.

However, Kaisen did not dwell on this dilemma for too long. After he had gotten himself out of the maze, he said, "Do you think Dumbledore will accept Dobby?"

Lupin, who was sitting next to him, seemed to suddenly react: "Yes, Dumbledore will definitely accept Dobby!"

"That's it. Dobby, you and I should go back to Hogwarts later. We can ask Dumbledore." Kaisen said.

Soon after the four of them finished their ice cream, they walked around Diagon Alley for a few rounds. It was not until the afternoon that they sent the sad-looking Harry back to Privet Drive, his aunt's house.

"At least this holiday is almost over, relax." Kaisen rubbed Harry's big head and said.

"Yes, I will, Professor." Harry said with a bitter face as he walked towards his aunt's house.

"That's right, Harry," Kaysen said suddenly.

Harry turned quickly.

Kaisen added: "If you want to live better at your aunt's house, maybe you can give them some gold as alimony. Of course, if you can't get over it, you can also use it as rent and food money."

Harry nodded, "I will, Professor."

"Hmm, let's go back."

After several people watched Harry return to his aunt's house, Kaysen sighed, "This is what it's like to live under someone else's roof. The adoptive parents don't get any love, and the adopted children don't feel any love either. Ultimately, it's because the parents aren't around... Otherwise, Voldemort deserved to die..."

Lupin on the side just shouted that Kaisen's words were like a sharp sword, piercing his heart directly.

"...What's wrong with you?" Kaisen noticed Lupin's strange expression and asked with some concern.

"..Nothing, let's go back to Hogwarts. I want to see Bruce first...I miss him a little." Lupin lied casually.

"Uh-huh, Remus Lupin," Kayson said.

"Ok?"

In the blink of an eye, Lupin was sucked into the ring in Kaisen's hand.

"What kind of magic is this?" Dobby said in surprise.

"Alchemical magic, Dobby."

"Yes!"

Kaisen was the only one left on the street at dusk. With the activation of the Ender Teleport, even he disappeared, leaving only a slowly dissipating purple light spot.

【Today is New Year's Day, happy everyone! 】

[Originally, I wanted to take a day off today because it's New Year's Day, but after thinking about it, I decided not to. I'll just stick to the update. This should be considered good news.]

[But it's not all good news. Final exams are approaching, and I'm having trouble sleeping. Although the author has no human rights, I also want to do well on the exams, have a healthy body, and have a restful New Year. So, starting today, I'll be updating this book twice.]

After all, authors need to rest, too. Please understand, my fellow breadwinners. I'm also taking some time to heal. Lately, I've been suffering from severe insomnia, waking up at the slightest noise. I need to adjust my sleep schedule.

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Chapter 150 Your Arrogance is More Terrifying Than Theirs

The two of them, along with Dobby, returned to Kaysen's office at Hogwarts.

"Lupin, wait a moment. I'll take Dobby to Dumbledore's office."

As Kaysen took Dobby away, Lupin also looked at Bruce who was drifting on the ice track.

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"Dumbledore." Kaisen pushed open the door of the principal's office. Dumbledore was studying a cup of strawberry milkshake.

"Oh, Kaisen, it seems that the matter was resolved smoothly." Dumbledore said as he gave half of the milkshake to Kaisen: "Try it."

"Um, I can't. I'm here to recommend a house-elf to you." Kaisen said as he stepped aside, revealing Dobby who looked a little embarrassed.

"Oh, Dobby, I remember you, you're the house elf of the Malfoy family."

"Dobby is no longer the Malfoy family's house-elf. Dobby is free now," Dobby explained.

"Oh... I almost understand. You need a job?"

“And it’s a paying job,” Kaysen added.

"That's no problem. What is your expected salary?" Dumbledore nodded.

"Um...I don't know, Headmaster."

"Hmm...how about ten Galleons a month?"

"Ten Galleons! No, that's too much."

Kaisen rubbed his ears helplessly after listening to Dobby's harsh voice for a moment.

Dumbledore looked at Kaisen and spread his hands with an innocent look.

"So... five Galleons?"

Kaisen sat on the sofa in the corner and slowly made himself a pot of tea. After the tea was finished, Dumbledore and Dobby finally ended their negotiation on salary.

Dobby happily went to the canteen with his monthly salary of four Galleons, while Dumbledore wrote down [-500 Galleons] on the Hogwarts monthly bill with great interest.

"Let me guess, this was Harry's idea," Dumbledore asked.

"Yes, Dumbledore, what do you think of those pure-bloods?" Kaisen nodded and asked back.

"...idiots. There are some smart people among them, but those smart people don't have good vision." Dumbledore said.

"Would you mind mentioning a few typical examples?" Kaisen asked.

"Typical... I'll use the Weasleys and the Malfoys as examples. I'd like to call the Weasleys smart. They see clearly that wizards and Muggles are a community, and they're very willing to accept Muggles, and Muggle wizards."

"The idiots are the Malfoy family. They're a bit clever, stirring up trouble in the wizarding world throughout history, and they've always managed to escape being liquidated. But that's still just cleverness. Truly smart people try their best to avoid getting involved in those fierce power struggles, but they always get involved, and never get tired of it."

"But both have one shortcoming: arrogance." Dumbledore took a sip of milkshake and then shut up.