Chapter 524: Equality Thoughts at Hogwarts

"Students, I wish you a happy weekend. Class is dismissed now!"

As Professor Slughorn announced the end of class, the students in the Potions classroom cheered and rushed out of the classroom. The next two days will be their rare vacation.

But just as everyone was heading towards the auditorium, the lounge and other places, Harry saw Hermione alone, holding a stack of books and running towards the direction of Hufflepuff House in a hurry.

"Hermione, what are you doing there?"

Harry chased after her and asked, but Hermione raised a book that she was holding alone and said,

"I'm going to promote this book to the house-elves in the kitchen, so that those rigid-minded house-elves may pay more attention to their rights."

Harry looked closely and found that it was a copy of "The Quibbler".

This magazine was just a niche magazine before. Except for a very small number of core fans, other people basically just used it as a pastime when they were bored. After all, the records of various unknown creatures on it were too weird, and no one would really take it seriously.

But not long ago, all this changed. The

Quibbler began to report first-hand news about the equality of Muggles and wizards in the outside world, which greatly increased the interest of the young wizards who were locked up in Hogwarts and could not understand the outside world.

Later, a statement published by Mike on it resonated with most of the students in Hogwarts, making it one of the must-read magazines for Hogwarts students every day, and almost everyone had a copy.

Even Harry himself felt that Mike's statement was right. There are indeed many injustices in the wizarding world today, which need to be corrected.

But I heard that this matter was a big fuss outside, and many people paid for it. This made Harry, who was kind by nature, feel a little reluctant and confused.

He has become a little confused. Is it worth it?

If possible, Harry really wants to ask Mike in person, and he believes that he will give a satisfactory answer.

It's a pity that Mike is no longer in Hogwarts. One night, he disappeared inexplicably, and no one knows where he went.

A student is missing.

This should be a very serious matter, but strangely, neither Mike's friends nor the professors cared about it.

Perhaps he was thinking too much, and he couldn't help but say the second half of the sentence.

"Of course it's worth it!" Hermione screamed, and then opened the book "The Quibbler" and read, "Poverty makes men destitute, hunger makes women degenerate, darkness makes children weak, and what we have to do is to change all this! Look! What he said is so good! This is a great cause! I am even willing to give everything for it!" "But...that

sentence seems to be said by Hugo..."

"Do you think I don't know?" Hermione retorted with a red face, "Or do you think I'm a fool?"

"No, of course I'm not..."

"Then shut up!"

"Okay... okay."

Harry closed his mouth a little disappointedly, and silently followed Hermione to the direction of the Hogwarts kitchen.

He has always felt that Hermione is a little bit wrong. Not only did she not invite them to play every day, but she even relaxed a lot in her studies.

That's why Harry had to follow Hermione today. He really wanted to find out what was going on.

In fact, there were many people who were in a similar situation to Hermione, just like the students Harry and Hermione saw along the way. Almost everyone of them had a copy of The Quibbler in their hands, and they all looked hurried.

But the strange thing was that no matter how busy they were, they would greet students who had a copy of The Quibbler in their hands like them, but they would look coldly at people like Harry who had nothing in their hands.

The most exaggerated one was Filch. Now, the janitor and cleaner of Hogwarts had been completely conquered. He read The Quibbler every day like those students, and he didn't even want to put it down when he ate.

This state was undoubtedly not conducive to work. In fact, during this period, the cleanliness of the corridors of Hogwarts had obviously declined a lot, and the reason for all this was that Filch was too obsessed with The Quibbler and slacked off at work.

He no longer went out on patrol at night. Even if the students who went out at night made a lot of noise, he would not care. Instead, he hid in his office filled with the smell of grilled fish and continued to read The Quibbler by the light of the oil lamp.

According to the descriptions of several night-watching veterans, they even often saw Filch reading Mike's article "Squibs are people too! They have the same powers!" from The Quibbler to Mrs. Norris over and over again.

Now, Harry felt a chill down his spine as long as he imagined Filch staring at his light-bulb eyes in the middle of the night and not sleeping, slowly telling Mrs. Norris the details of the article in that cramped and dark room!

It was really weird!

But when he told this to Ron and Hermione, he didn't get the response he wanted. Ron and Hermione actually expressed sympathy for Filch.

In Hermione's words:

"This is the last ray of hope for this poor old Squib!"

Then from the next day, the two of them brought some classmates to help Filch clean Hogwarts, which moved Filch to tears.

This was also the first time Harry saw Filch's dry eyes so wet.

Of course, this was not the point.

The point was that his classmates were willing to help Filch with his work? They looked so harmonious?

This was simply ridiculous!

You know, they usually hated Filch to the bone!

All of this made Harry feel a strong sense of disobedience. Under the compulsion of this feeling, he began to instinctively look for his peers who had not been affected.

As a result, he searched and searched, and found that only Slytherin students in the whole Hogwarts could be considered normal.

The rest of the students, even some professors including Flitwick, were completely immersed in "The Quibbler", which made Mike feel a little strange.

But the normality of Slytherin only lasted for a short time.

After the initial resistance to "The Quibbler" and Mike, the students of Slytherin soon encountered misfortune.

First, the people of the other three major colleges began to spontaneously boycott the students of Slytherin, which made it difficult for them to move forward in Hogwarts.

Harry felt that this was actually nothing for Slytherin, after all, they always liked to be alone before.

But then Draco actually jumped out and publicly expressed his support for Mike's remarks, admitting that the pure-bloods of Slytherin did discriminate against Muggle-born classmates in the past, and said that he would strictly restrain Slytherin students in the future to eliminate such behavior.

Unexpectedly, this group completely regarded himself as the speaker of Slytherin. Although his speech made him gain the favor of many other college members, it also made him the target of public criticism in Slytherin.

Almost all Slytherins regarded Draco as a traitor, and some even publicly declared that Draco was a scum among pure-bloods like Ron!

Harry felt that there must be something wrong with Draco's brain, otherwise he would never say such stupid words. You know, he is a Slytherin. If he arouses the anger of Slytherin, his future life will be very difficult.

But what Harry didn't expect was that this time things still didn't develop as he expected.

Facing the upcoming revenge of the Slytherins, Franklin took decisive action.

In the name of Mike, he led the members of Ravenclaw and Los Santos Security Company to directly penetrate the entire Slytherin and pushed Draco back to the position of the boss of Slytherin. It was not until this time that everyone finally understood that Draco had always been Mike's man.

Since then, no matter what the students of Hogwarts thought in their hearts, at least they have become supporters of Mike's theory on the surface. Even Hagrid, who once had a grudge against Mike for killing his pet, has now become a die-hard fan of Mike, waiting for the owl to deliver the new issue of "The Quibbler" to him by the window all day.

If there were anyone in Hogwarts who had not been influenced by Mike, apart from Dumbledore and other professors, there were only the hardworking house-elves. But

now Hermione seemed to have noticed this and began to try to recommend "The Quibbler" to them.

But to be honest, Harry didn't think Hermione could really convince the house-elves to fight for their rights.

You know, Hermione had already established a "Vomiting Association" a few years ago to try to help the house-elves get rid of the current situation of being enslaved.

But the actual situation was that the house-elves were too stubborn. They were unwilling to accept Hermione's ideas and even verbally abused them. In the end, only Mike supported Hermione as a friend and paid the wages of the house-elves in his house. Even so

, the two normal house-elves in Mike's house were still fighting, thinking that this was an insult to them!

Thinking of this, Harry's expression couldn't help but become a little strange.

Because if it didn't go as he expected, they would probably be driven out by the house elves this time.

At this moment, Hermione, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, which made Harry almost bump into her.

"We're here!"

Hermione said with a firm look in her eyes. It didn't seem like she was talking to Harry, but rather like she was cheering herself up.

Then she ignored Harry and went into the kitchen with a copy of "The Quibbler".

At this time, the house elves were busy. The whole kitchen was filled with the smell of oil smoke, and tableware and various ingredients were flying all over the sky. The house elves were busy on the kitchen counter.

Looking at this scene, Harry couldn't help but feel emotional.

I heard that they had to repeat such busy work three times a day, each time for at least 2 hours, otherwise the professors and students of Hogwarts would face the risk of starvation.

Not only that, after completing these kitchen tasks, they also need to be responsible for the cleaning work in various parts of Hogwarts Castle, and the lawn outside the castle also needs to be mowed, otherwise Hogwarts would have become a garbage dump long ago just relying on Filch, a squib.

It can be said that this is a group of people who have been silently contributing to Hogwarts for thousands of years.

And the reason they did this was just to repay the help of Ms. Hufflepuff who took them in and gave them a place to live.

"This is a group of great creatures!"

Harry made a judgment. For a moment, he even felt that he understood why Hermione established the "Vomiting Association" and why Mike must participate in this massive resistance movement outside.

Such great creatures should not be treated like this all the time!

At this time, the house elves in the kitchen also discovered the arrival of Harry and Hermione.

They originally thought that Harry and Hermione were just ordinary students who came to the kitchen to find food, and were preparing to receive the two with a smile on their faces.

But when they saw Hermione, the smiles on their faces disappeared instantly, and were replaced by a look of horror!

"That devil is here again!"

The leading house elf screamed and shouted, and then the noisy kitchen suddenly became quiet as if someone had pressed the mute button.

All the house elves stared at Hermione in a daze.

The next moment, screams of terror resounded throughout the kitchen. In just a moment, all the house-elves disappeared. Only the flames in the stove were still dancing in the kitchen.

Three black lines fell from Hermione's forehead. She was speechless. Since she had persuaded these house-elves to ask for wages from Hogwarts a few years ago, these house-elves have always treated her in this way. And judging from the current situation, these stubborn house-elves seem to remember this for the rest of their lives, and they may even tell their children about it, so that Hermione's reputation as a devil will continue to be passed down.

When thinking of this, Hermione still couldn't help but feel depressed.

Harry beside her was amused and was covering his mouth to hold back his laughter.

After glaring at Harry, Hermione took a deep breath, then raised "The Quibbler" in her hand and shouted:

"I have a book here that records what Mike wants to say to you. Does anyone want to listen?"

As soon as these words came out, Harry was surprised to find that little heads secretly popped out from small corners of the kitchen, looking at them in shock.