Homecoming from Hogwarts

Chapter 464 Hermione and Kreacher
"Don't be so serious, Arthur, just let the children relax -" Sirius said nonchalantly, "Let's go and have something to eat first. After getting up so early in the morning and walking such a long way, I I think you must be starving."

Sirius led Mr. Weasley and Harry into the villa. They passed through the luxuriously decorated front hall and turned several turns along the maze-like corridor before arriving at the dining room.Then, they were surprised to find that this villa really lived up to its name. In addition to the swimming pool in the front, there is a small green garden in the back.

Remus moved the dining room table to the garden, where Hermione and Ginny were enjoying a sumptuous breakfast.

It was far away from the front yard, so no wonder they didn't hear the sound in front of them.

He didn't realize it just now, but when he saw the mountains of toast, fried sausages, sandwiches, pumpkin pie and other food on the dining table, Harry suddenly felt that his chest was pressed to his back with hunger. He didn't need Sirius to greet him. The little guys rushed forward one after another, and after finding their positions, they began to feast.

"What took you so long?"

Hermione asked, squinting at Ron who was holding a pie in each hand and chewing sausages in his mouth.

"I bet, Hermione, if you knew what you were missing out on, you would be green in the gut!"

Ron grinned after swallowing the food, not to mention how happy he was.

Hearing this, Hermione cast a suspicious look at Harry, but Harry said nothing, just lowered his head and munched on a baked potato.

"It's not that exaggerated, Ron--"

Noticing that Remus was also giving him a curious look, Sirius pursed his lips, smiled and told Remus and the two girls the general story of the matter.

Just as Harry expected, Hermione frowned immediately, her dissatisfied expression was the same as that of Professor McGonagall who found out that she was doing tricks in Transfiguration class, but Ginny looked at her three brothers enviously. , but since she missed it, she must be embarrassed to open her mouth to Sirius.

"Ludo Bagman——"

After hearing this, Remus moved his eyebrows slightly.

"I've heard his reputation—"

"Haha, Ludo has a lot of small problems like this. There are many people in the ministry who have opinions about him, and there are also people who have asked the minister to remove him. But in any case, it is difficult to find someone who is better than him. The passionate Director of the Ministry of Magic's Sports Department, isn't he?"

Mr. Weasley said cheerfully.

Remus could hear a lot of gossip. What he actually wanted to say was that Ludo Bagman's reputation was not very good. The bets made by Harry and others were very likely to be in vain. However, considering Arthur's face, He said no more.

"By the way -" Sirius asked while breaking a piece of apple pie, "Have you seen Kreacher?"

"No, when I came to the restaurant, all the food was already on the table--"

Remus shook his head, with helplessness in his eyes.

"You know, Sirius, there's no way a house-elf would like someone of my composition, and besides, I've stopped him outside from inviting the Malfoys over, so he's definitely not happy to see me--"

"That's what I want to say -" Sirius turned cold and shouted, "Kreacher!"

boom!
A loud bang appeared unexpectedly in the back garden, causing the unprepared Ron to have the pie stuck in his throat. Seeing that he was choked and rolled his eyes, Hermione rolled her eyes and gave Ron's back a hard blow. After giving Ron a slap on the back and seeing Ron finally spit out what was in his throat, Hermione curled her lips and turned her gaze to the little guy who suddenly appeared next to Sirius. At this sight, Hermione's eyebrows suddenly appeared. wrinkled.

Appearing in the garden was a house-elf who looked very old. Hermione noticed that the house-elf's tennis-ball-sized eyes were foggy, as if his eyesight had deteriorated, and his bat-sized ears The two tufts of white hair growing out of it further proved her suspicion.

When she saluted Sirius, Hermione believed she could see that it was not done voluntarily. Her movements were extremely slow, as if she was about to fall down at any moment.

This fine little elf wore nothing but a dirty rag around his body. What was even more dazzling was the potato that Kreacher was holding in his hand. This potato was only peeled. But it was completely raw, and there were many bug eyes all over it.

There was obviously a big table of delicious food, but Sirius let this old house elf eat this?

Hermione's face turned blue and she looked at Sirius with anger in her eyes.

"Kreacher was cleaning the kitchen, but he came immediately after hearing the young master's call," Kreacher said slowly, bowing his body.

"Master, do you have anything to tell Kreacher? Kreacher will serve the noble Black family all his life." At the end of their meeting outside, Sirius, who was squeezed by Narcissa, was filled with anger, but when he saw Kreacher passing by The cold potatoes caught in the palm of his knees seemed to be quite helpless for him.

Ever since Amosta took him and Remus to bring Regulus back from the island by the sea and held a funeral in the Forbidden Forest adjacent to Hogwarts, the house elf had compared him to He remembered it as a much more polite time, but something fundamental remained the same.

"I want to ask you, Kreacher-"

Sirius said in a very cold tone,

"You invited Narcissa Malfoy to the tent as a guest before. Is this your own decision? I don't remember giving such an order!"

Kreacher blew his nose, his tennis ball-sized eyes filled with confusion. He was still hunched over, but he tilted his head to look at Sirius.

"But Miss Narcissa is not an outsider. The hostess loved Miss Narcissa and Miss Bella the most during her lifetime!"

After a pause, Kreacher added in a low voice,
"The mistress doesn't like the young master, but for the sake of Master Regulus, Kreacher reluctantly serves the young master."

Harry and Hermione had both seen this very old elf once, at Regulus's funeral. The elf was only mourning and there was no communication between them.

But now it seems that the differences between individual house elves are really huge. Kreacher and Dobby are completely different.

"You don't have to force yourself at all, Kreacher—" Sirius said angrily.

There was absolutely no point in talking to Klitsch. After thinking about it, Sirius directly gave it an order not to allow it to have contact with the family, and then sent it away.

"Wait. Excuse me, is your name Kreacher?"

Just when Kreacher was about to teleport away, Hermione finally couldn't bear it anymore. She stood up from her seat, took two pieces of pie and hurriedly walked around the table, handed them to Kreacher, and showed a friendly smile.

"Can I trade these two pies for your potato, Kreacher, oh, it looks delicious!"

Everyone had question marks on their faces, wondering what Hermione wanted to do.

"The Mudblood actually talked to Kreacher. The Mudblood wanted to please Kreacher!"

Kreacher seemed to see something dirty on Hermione's frozen smile, and took several steps back.

At the dinner table, Harry and Ron suddenly frowned. Even though they had some sympathy for this old elf who still had to wait on people, all the sympathy disappeared after it called Hermione a mudblood.

"Don't say that word to Hermione, apologize to Hermione, Kreacher!"

Sirius was furious and glared at Kreacher angrily.

"Oh, it's okay Sirius -" Hermione quickly stopped him from losing his temper, "Look, this elf is very old. It has done heavy work all morning and only ate a cold bad potato. It may Kind of I mean--"

"No need to defend it, Hermione -" said Sirius, "it knows exactly what it's talking about!"

Kreacher couldn't resist the direct order from Sirius. He bent down and apologized to Hermione, but it could still be seen that he was very reluctant, and he cursed something softly in his mouth.

"Do you remember what happened the last time you said the word 'Mudblood' to someone, right? Kreacher?"

Seeing Kreacher mumbling, Sirius rolled his eyes and said, "Would you like me to do it for you too?"





(End of this chapter)