Hiring

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Ethan quickly started planning the creation of this world's Gwent cards.

At Zonko's Joke Shop, he bought blank cards made of the same material as the Chocolate Frog cards.

He also bought magic ink, magic paint to make the characters move, and a brush made of unicorn hair, the most suitable brush for drawing magic paintings.

After buying all the materials, Ethan returned to his room in high spirits.

He has studied the laws of the British Ministry of Magic, and there are no provisions for infringement of portrait rights, which means that Ethan now has many loopholes to exploit.

Sitting in the room, Ethan began to make the first card with great interest. He chose the person he was most familiar with and the most famous of the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore.

Strangely, although Ethan could precisely control a long sword, it wasn't easy to handle a brush.

Ethan held the brush as if holding an embroidery needle, sweating profusely. After humming for a long time, he finally completed a Dumbledore card.

He frowned. The "character" on this card was far from Dumbledore himself.

The Dumbledore face on the card looks square, with an abstract slanted nose and even oversized and undersized eyes.

And Dumbledore's flowing and shining silver beard was as gray as a mop, just like Dumbledore after a stroke.

Ethan could have imagined that if he dared to make and release this kind of card, Dumbledore would take out the Elder Wand and fight.

Drawing the cards alone would not work, and Ethan had to find a professional artist to do the job.

Ethan was immediately distressed. He didn't know too many people in this world, and he didn't know who to look for to undertake this job.

Suddenly, Ethan had a flash of light, and he figured out who was suitable for him.

After a while, Ethan reappeared at Hogwarts.

Without students, Hogwarts was quiet, and Ethan felt a little uncomfortable.

He walked down the hall to find Dobby in the Hogwarts kitchen.

Before he got to the kitchen, Ethan saw a house elf hanging from the top of the hallway, trying to clean the ceiling.

To prevent the house-elf from falling in fright, Ethan waited a while before speaking to him until the house-elf descended from the ceiling.

"Hello," Ethan said softly.

Despite Ethan's caution, the house itself was taken aback.

The house-elf was frightened and threw the broom in his hand on the ground.

"What's the matter, sir?" the house elf asked nervously.

The owner shouldn't discover a reasonable house elf cleaning the house, so every holiday, the house elf will thoroughly clean Hogwarts.

But Ethan suddenly appeared now, beyond the house elf's expectations.

"I'm looking for Dobby. Do you know where Dobby is?" Ethan asked.

The house itself frowned visibly when Ethan said Dobby's name.

"He's supposed to wipe the trophies in the trophy room," said the house-elf.

"But sir, if you have anything, tell me; Dobby is a very bad house-elf! He has deserted his master with a conspiracy!"

The house-elf complained to Ethan that he couldn't understand what Dobby was doing and that Dobby's behavior was horrific.

"I'm just looking for him for something," Ethan explained to the house.

"Okay, but you have to be careful with Dobby! He's so bad!" the house elf told Ethan earnestly.

Knowing the exact location of Dobby, Ethan walked towards the trophy room at Hogwarts.

As he walked to the prize showroom, Ethan saw Dobby wiping a huge trophy.

"Dobby," Ethan called out to Dobby, who was trying to wipe the trophy.

Unexpectedly, Dobby was startled. Ethan was leaning over to wipe the inside of the trophy. He was shocked when he heard Ethan's words and fell directly into the big trophy.

Dobby, who fell into the trophy, uttered a piercing scream, and Ethan hurried forward to fish Dobby out of the trophy.

Ethan was startled by Dobby's look. He was so dirty; the clothes made of pillowcases were now full of holes, and the dust and dirt looked terrible.

Seeing Ethan's face, Dobby's big green eyes, like ping pong, suddenly filled with tears.

"Mr. Ethan came to see Dobby! Mr. Ethan remembers Dobby!" Dobby burst into tears.

Dobby suddenly took two steps forward and hugged Ethan's leg tightly.

After a long time, Dobby finally calmed down.

"Dobby, Why are you at Hogwarts?" Ethan asked.

"Dobby is at Hogwarts, Mr. Ethan!" Dobby said sadly.

"Dobby has been wandering around since you left, sir, just looking for a job!" said Dobby shrilly.

"But Dobby didn't get a job, sir, because Dobby is getting paid now!" At this point, Dobby proudly puffed out his chest.

"But most wizards don't want a house elf who gets paid, Mr. Ethan; that's not the quality of a house elf," Dobby said, a little disappointed.

"Those wizards heard Dobby wanted wages and kicked Dobby out of the house immediately, never spoke to Dobby again."

"Dobby loves work, but Dobby wants to wear clothes too! Get paid! Dobby loves freedom!" Dobby announced loudly, looking incredibly proud.

"Later, Dobby followed Mr. Ron's advice, and Dobby came to Hogwarts."

"Professor McGonagall has Dobby stay at Hogwarts and is arranging Dobby's work when Professor Dumbledore returns." Dobby sniffed hard.

"Dobby wants to help the house-elves here, but they hate me! Don't want to talk to me!" Dobby cried again.

"Okay, okay, one-on-one." Ethan patted Dobby on the back and comforted him before calming him down.

"Dobby, are you willing to work for me?" Ethan asked Dobby.

"Would Mr. Ethan like to hire Dobby?" Dobby asked in disbelief, the tip of his nose trembling.

After getting an affirmative answer from Ethan, Dobby gave a short scream and hugged Ethan tightly.

"Mr. Ethan is such a good man!" Dobby said, sobbing.

"Mr. Ethan, you need to know. It's tough for a house-elf to get a new job after being fired, sir, it's tough--"

"Okay now, Dobby, I can offer you a job and pay you," Ethan said to Dobby.

"Thank you, Mr. Ethan, thank you." Tears trickled down Dobby's nose.

"Dobby's job only requires you and others to draw some paintings, and I can give you 50 Galleons a month's salary," Ethan said.

"God! Dobby doesn't need so much salary!" Dobby couldn't accept that he could get a high salary and began working hard to ask Ethan to reduce it.