Chapter 301 Dobby and Winky

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

'If I had known he was here, I wouldn't have come! '

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

"Hello, Cedric."

"Hello to you too, did you miss lunch too?" Cedric replied and looked at Mike again and said, "Come and sit down, it's a good opportunity for us to eat together."

Mike indifferently pulled out a chair and sat next to Cedric, but Harry and the others still did not move.

Seeing this, Mike spread his hands and said:

"Come on, everyone sit down. Harry, Cedric is not such a stingy person, he won't think that you stole his warrior spot."

Harry seemed to be a little moved when he heard this, and put his hand on another chair to pull it away, but his eyes were still glancing at Cedric from time to time.

"Who said I'm not angry! They let a little wizard like Harry become a warrior, but let me sit on the bench!" Harry's hand froze, and Ron and Hermione behind him glared at Cedric.

But Cedric didn't take it to heart at all, and continued:

"But after watching the first event, I don't think so. Becoming a warrior is not a good thing for you. It's too dangerous, Harry. It's obvious that someone wants to kill you. You must always be careful."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief and pulled out a chair to sit down.

But Ron behind him obviously didn't understand what Cedric meant, and said with a red face:

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

soon as this was said, Hermione next to him poked Ron with her elbow.

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

"You know that again? Huh? Miss Know-it-all!" Ron still insisted, "Answer me, Cedric."

Harry's body, which had been relaxed, tensed up again. In his opinion, a fight might be inevitable. He didn't know what was wrong with Ron recently.

However, to his surprise, Cedric didn't talk to Ron, but just glanced at him with contempt and said to Mike:

"Is this guy your friend?"

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

Cedric glanced at Hermione and understood instantly.

Hermione also realized the meaning of Mike's words at this time, her face flushed, and subconsciously kept a distance from Ron.

Ron was about to explode at this time, but fortunately he was still rational now, and did not rush directly to Cedric, but turned around and walked away.

"Well, the unwelcome person is finally gone." Cedric picked up the chicken leg and started eating again, "I can finally eat a little more."

Hearing this, Harry instinctively wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Ron's recent state is indeed a bit strange, even when he talks to him, he is sarcastic.

To be honest, he also has a lot of opinions about Ron.

"You can resist taking action in this situation." Mike tore off a chicken leg from the whole chicken in front of Cedric and said, "It seems that the sequelae of the last transformation accident have disappeared."

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

Mike: "?"

Looking at Mike's confused look, Cedric laughed.

“不是因为你刚刚吃了我的鸡腿。而是因为你抢了我勇士的资格。说吧，你准备要怎么补偿我，如果你的补偿我不满意的话我可真的会揍你的。”

“你打不过我。”麦克开着玩笑，见塞德里克开始掏魔杖了才认真的说道，“好吧，好吧。你想要什么？只要别太过分我都能给你。谁叫你是我朋友呢。”

“哼，算你识相。”塞德里克放下了魔杖说，“我也不难为你，就帮我准备一枚戒指吧，订婚戒指。”

“订婚？你准备和谁？”

“还能是谁？当然是秋张。你也知道的，我快要毕业了，我准备在毕业典礼上向秋张求婚。”

麦克有些惊愕的砸吧了下嘴，说道：

“我有预感你不会成功的，秋张可是天朝人，按照他们那边的习俗她父母是不会同意她这么早就结婚的。”

“所以我才说是订婚！我又没准备现在就和她结婚，最起码也得等她成年！”

"Well, then I wish you good luck. I'll take care of the ring. I'll use the most precious materials to make it. Then I'll find someone to enchant it. It doesn't need any powerful spells. It just needs to produce a strong sound and light effect when it is worn, such as a layer of shiny light clothes on the wearer. I think this will greatly increase the success rate of your proposal. After all, girls, like dragons, like shiny things."

Cedric opened his mouth and stared at Mike blankly.

Merlin, he really just wanted to find Mike to make an ordinary ring, but he didn't expect Mike to have such a big imagination.

However, this seems to be not bad.

At least Mike was right in one sentence, girls like shiny things. Didn't you see that the girl named Hermione next to him has sparkling eyes?

If he really had such a ring, the success rate of his proposal might really increase greatly. Although he was

already very happy in his heart, Cedric's face was still calm, and he said, "Well, I can do anything, you decide."

Cedric was a guy who said one thing and meant another, and Mike smiled and shook his head.

But neither of them noticed that when Cedric talked about proposing to Cedric, Harry's face turned pale.

But then Harry lowered his head and covered up his gaffe very well.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the tea is here!"

A somewhat old voice came over. Mike and others looked back and saw that the old house elf was holding a large wooden tray with four cups of black tea on it.

"Oh! Thank you, but only three cups are enough. One of our companions left early because of something."

"Damn it! It must be our poor hospitality. It's all our fault!"

The old elf panicked when he heard it. Mike said:

"Don't blame yourself. This has nothing to do with you. Your hospitality is excellent. Put down the tea and leave. By the way, the two elves named Robbie and Winky should be here with you, right? Please call them over."

Mike turned around and drank the black tea. However, the old elf did not leave as he expected, but hesitated for a long time and said to Mike:

"Why did Mr. Townley look for them?"

"Is there any problem?" Mike asked back.

"No problem! But if you need us to serve you, maybe we should change two elves. Excuse me, Winky and Dobby are not good people!"

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

At this point, the old elf had no other reason to refute Mike, so he could only retreat. Not long after, he came over with two house elves.

"Mr. Harry Potter! You actually came to see me again! I'm really... woooo... I'm so touched! The respected Mr. Harry Potter actually came here again to visit me, a humble house elf!"

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

The old house elf was almost dead with anger. Dobby's behavior was extremely rude in his opinion.

Behind him, there was a house elf in a small skirt.

That should be the female house-elf named Winky. Mike noticed her the moment she appeared, but she seemed to be in a very bad condition. Not only did she look haggard, but her eyes were also red, and it was obvious that she had just cried.

"Oh! God, Dobby! You don't have to be like this, get up quickly, let me introduce you to a new friend." Mike hurriedly pulled Dobby off his trouser leg and said, "This is Mike, Mike Townley. He really wants to make friends with you."

"Harry Potter's friends are my friends! Hello! Mr. Townley! My name is Dobby, nice to meet you!"

"I'm also very happy to meet you." Although Mike was talking to Dobby, he was always watching Winky beside him with his peripheral vision, "I heard about your and Winky's experience from Harry before, and I feel very sympathetic to you. So if I can, I think I might be able to give you a job. I mean, you can be my house elves, just like you were before."

Mike's last words were actually said to Winky, and he also noticed that after he said this, Winky's big ears shook noticeably.

"No! This is absolutely not possible!"

the old house elf screamed.

"What's wrong? Why haven't you left yet? Aren't you very busy now?"

"Winky and Dobby are not good house-elves! You must not take them in, or you will regret it in the future!"

Winky cried bitterly.

"Yes, Dobby is a bad elf, and he even wants a salary." Dobby said with his head held high, "But Dobby doesn't regret it! Because Dobby is now a free house-elf!"

The old elf couldn't stand it anymore, he pulled his ears desperately as if he heard the most unpleasant sound in the world.

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

"You are right! Dobby! You are free, no one can enslave you anymore! Mike, if you want to hire Dobby, you must pay him a salary! And don't try to fool him about the amount, I will talk to you as his lawyer throughout the whole process!"

Dobby raised his head and looked at Hermione with tears of emotion in his eyes.

"These are minor issues. I'm glad I have a special employee like Dobby." Mike laughed, "You can come with me now if you want!" "

Contract! You must sign a contract with Dobby!"

Mike nodded to the excited Hermione, and then cast his eyes on Winky who was still crying beside him.

"What about you, Winky, are you willing to be my house elf?" Mike said, "Don't worry, I won't pay you, and I have countless jobs for you to do. You won't even have time to sleep for a long time in the future."

"Really...really?" Winky's ears stood up again, looking very happy, but she immediately started to hit the floor with her forehead, "No! No! Winky is a bad elf driven out by the previous owner! Winky doesn't deserve a new owner, Winky should die!"

"Okay, Winky, stop what you're doing, if you still want to be my house elf!"

Winky stopped immediately, tremblingly came to Mike, and looked at Mike with hopeful eyes.

Mike smiled, snapped his fingers and said, "From today on, you are the house elf of the Townley family! I will make arrangements for the school, you can just follow me later!"

"Thank you! Thank you! Master!"

Winky's condition suddenly became much better. House elves like her who were driven out by their masters would be labeled as inferior products, and generally no one would be willing to take them in, so she was really happy now.

But at this moment, Hermione suddenly yelled at Winky:

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

"Shut up! You bad woman! Don't try to teach Winky bad things!" Winky interrupted with an angry face, "Winky is not Dobby, the shameless bad elf! Winky has a new master now!"

After that, she looked at Dobby with contempt, and then stood beside Mike, holding her head high, with a proud face.

Hermione was furious, standing there pointing at Winky but couldn't say a word.

At this time, Cedric had finished his late lunch, and Mike had just achieved his goal for today, so the four of them left the kitchen with the two elves, Dobby and Winky.

On the way back to the lounge, Hermione realized that Winky would not listen to her, so she changed her strategy and started to attack Mike.

Mike, who was really annoyed by her, could only perfunctorily say:

"Don't worry, Hermione, I will treat Winky and Dobby well. As for Winky's treatment, you don't have to worry too much. Her mentality has not changed yet. Just let her get along with Dobby for a while. You should also understand that any intelligent life will instinctively pursue better treatment."

"Except for house elves."

Mike added in his heart.

Winky exploded immediately after this. She screamed and denied that she would never become like Dobby.

Hermione heard this and said nothing else. She followed Harry back to Gryffindor.

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

He could have tried to persuade Hermione to return to normal thinking.

But why bother?

Everyone is not a child anymore, and everyone has different ideas. If Mike forced Hermione to accept his ideas, then what is the difference between him and those extreme animal protectors?

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

If his verbal skills failed and affected his relationship with Hermione, it would be bad.