Chapter 598: The first director
The crowd was noisy, and the young wizards stood around Fred and George, waiting for them to come up with more gag products.
Pig's tail candy and canary creams were very popular, and there were continuous sounds of deflection and laughter in the crowd.
Only Hermione didn't go upstairs to join in the fun; she crouched quietly on the couch, watching the fire in the fireplace.
Hermione's bright brown eyes sparkled with the fluttering of the flames, frowning slightly as she seemed to be thinking hard.
Looking at her, Ivan knew she must still be thinking obsessively about the house elves in the kitchens.
He knew Hermione all too well. Since she knew how to get into the kitchens, she was surely planning to do something there.
In fact, in the middle of the party, she slipped out alone.
Ivan, who had been watching Hermione, sighed and hurried after her.
In the dim hallway, Hermione turned like a kitten when she heard footsteps behind her.
"Why did you follow me?" she looked at Ivan in surprise.
"I know you're going to the kitchen to fetch the house elves, I'll accompany you," Ivan said earnestly.
He had visited the kitchen several times during his nightly adventures in the castle, but had not gone into it.
Imagine the scene, in the middle of the night; him sneaking into the school kitchen to get something to eat.
As soon as he entered, he was surrounded by a group of house elves who came out of nowhere and came up to his knees.
They stared at him with their big bulging eyes, looked respectfully at the teacher and asked him in a squeaky voice what he needed.
Before he spoke, more house elves kept appearing, lighting the fire and preparing the food on their own initiative.
He was just a little hungry and was heading to the kitchen to see if there were any cookies, cakes or anything left over from dinner, but these house elves were very keen to prepare a sumptuous feast for him. They could even cook a cow if necessary.
Even though it was late at night, even though they had been caught in their sleep by his intrusion, even though the delicious dishes were all very troublesome to cook, despite all the difficulties, they never complained.
The house elves only used a humble tone to ask if he was satisfied and if he needed more food.
If the expression on their face seemed slightly dissatisfied, they chastised themselves willingly, with deep respect, humility, and... fear...
This scene was so embarrassing that Ivan had only experienced it once and did not want to try it again.
After that, every time he wanted to eat, he had to ask Dobby to bring him some food to the Common Room.
Regardless of whether Hermione's concept of defending the rights of the elves was correct or not, Ivan believed that it was really necessary to change the house elves' minds. They really didn't have to, even if they were slaves to wizards....
This was also the main reason why Ivan planned to accompany Hermione to the kitchen tonight. He also wanted to do something for the house elves.
Also, considering that Hermione might be too excited to see so many elves, Ivan thought it was necessary to keep an eye on her to prevent her from doing something wrong.
In addition, he had consulted a lot of information about Helga Hufflepuff's life and speculated about the location of the secret treasure key she had left behind.
He believed that the treasure key Hufflepuff had left behind was probably in the hands of a house elf or in the kitchen.
In fact, Helga Hufflepuff was the greatest wizard of the age.
In the historical assessment, her final achievement surpassed that of the other three Founders.
Unlike Slytherin, who left the school suddenly and was never heard from again, nor were there any records about him for the rest of his life, Hufflepuff remained at the school from its founding, and devoted her entire life to Hogwarts until death finally came.
Hufflepuff lived the longest among the four founders, and was also the first headmistress of Hogwarts. (Nowhere in the books or elsewhere do we find that Helga Hufflepuff was headmistress of Hogwarts. By contrast, in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which is a themed part, based on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, it clearly reads: "A statue of the first headmaster of Hogwarts: the founders were teachers, none was ever headmaster, although the name of this first headmaster is not known either, but we can add this as one of several flaws in the fic simply ;) ")
Those who have read Hogwarts History will know that at the beginning of the story, the four founders co-founded Hogwarts and left many legends.
But the second half of the story was Hufflepuff's solo performance. She worked hard day and night, all by herself, to make Hogwarts strong.
She laid the foundation for the best magical school in the world and changed the entire magical world.
For nearly a thousand years, almost every historian of magic had considered Hufflepuff to be the greatest wizard and educator in the history of magic.
She had earned the praise of later generations with her practical actions. The school rules and teaching framework she created had continued to this day.
As headmistress of Hogwarts, Helga Hufflepuff had continued the traditions left by the other three founders to the fullest and had strictly enforced them.
In addition to inheriting the educational philosophy of the other three founders, she had made it the most important school in the world and a distinctive place.
Moreover, his main achievement during his tenure was the enrollment of Muggle-born wizards.
Although this point had been raised during the period of the Four Founders, the scale of enrollment had been very small.
At that time, the majority opinion in the magical world was that magic was sacred and should not be desecrated by dirty bloods.
Instead, most foolish Muggles labeled magically talented children as evil and killed them outright.
In that environment, it was extremely difficult to enroll Muggle students on a large scale.
Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff had made many preparations for it, but because of many restrictions, they had not been fully implemented.
After Gryffindor and Ravenclaw passed away, the benevolent Hufflepuff became headmistress of Hogwarts. Shortly after taking office, she made a great effort to discuss the issue, regardless of the opposition of many pureblood wizarding families, to further expand the enrollment of Muggle students, pointing a clear path for many Muggle students.
At its peak, Hogwarts expanded its enrollment to the entire European and Mediterranean region, with over 50,000 students.
It should be noted that at the time when there was no council sponsorship, the tuition and living expenses of these Muggle students were borne entirely by Hufflepuff.
For this reason, he depleted all the wealth the family inherited over thousands of years, leaving only his favorite gold cup.
Of course, his move was unanimously opposed by the mainstream magical community, dominated by pureblood wizarding families.
Even his descendants and those of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin did not approve of his doing so.
Pureblood wizarding families banded together to boycott and block Hogwarts, and many evil dark wizards even attacked it directly.
Hogwarts was once on the verge of collapse and found itself in dire straits. Hufflepuff was the only one who managed to hold it together.
Regardless of her background and talent, she treated all students equally. She dedicated the magical knowledge left by her, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin to all young wizards, and taught them how to grow up and behave in the world.
In the last decade of her life, Hufflepuff stood alone and ran this school of magic with lofty beliefs.
Her efforts had finally paid off, as more and more wizards were graduating from Hogwarts.
Most of these students were of Muggle origin and would have been burned alive as demons, but Hogwarts and Helga Hufflepuff saved them.
They gradually became the backbone of the magical community, changing the magical world dominated by pureblood wizarding families, and even changing the course of all magical history.
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