mastermind behind the scenes

"Mysterious man... do you know Voldemort? Do you also know the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry asked curiously. It was still summer vacation when Dobby reminded him, and the first basilisk attack hadn't happened yet.

When Harry mentioned "Voldemort," Dobby shuddered, fear evident on his face.

"Are your house elves also afraid of Voldemort?" Harry became increasingly curious.

Dobby trembled. "Mysterious Man... Ciaran must never forget the situation when the He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was at his most powerful! Sir, you don't know what Ciaran did to us humble, enslaved people. What does it mean to be little people, people treat us house elves like vermin!"

"Of course, they still treat Ciaran that way, sir." Dobby admitted. House elves are an ancient and noble status symbol for many ancient pure-blood wizarding families, but They often ignore house elves and even beat and scold them arbitrarily. House elves are not even as good as the humblest servants.

"The Malfoys are indeed dark wizards!" Harry said with disgust.

Dobby seemed to want to agree, but he immediately knelt heavily on the ground and banged the ground with his big ugly head.

Harry was startled and shouted quickly: "Stop! Dobby, stop, you will wake up the others!"

Dobby lay on the ground, gasping for air. He said: "Dobby wants to speak ill of his master. This is not allowed. Sir, Dobby must punish himself. This is the rule of the house elf."

"You shouldn't punish yourself like this, Dobby, the Malfoys are evil wizards to begin with," Harry said.

Dobby sobbed hard again, making Harry confused. The elf said: "Harry Potter is always as kind as ever, and greater than Dobby ever knew!"

Harry smiled sheepishly.

"Dobby did not tell lies, sir, everything Dobby said is true." Dobby said with wide eyes, "Sir, since you defeated the mysterious man, the situation of the house elves has changed greatly. Improvement - although Dobby still wasn't better off - but life for the rest of us had improved for the most part. Harry Potter survived, the Dark Lord's reign was ended, and this was a new For those of us who thought the dark days would never end, Harry Potter was a beacon of hope, like the sun shining through the darkness, sir."

Although Harry knew that he was famous in the wizarding world, he never thought that even the house elves would admire him. Especially when Dobby said these words in front of him, he felt very embarrassed.

"By the way, Dobby, how did you know about the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry asked.

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened before, sir, and you should know that by now," said Dobby.

Harry was a little embarrassed, he had indeed forgotten this matter, but he immediately remembered that Dobby reminded him that it was far back during the summer vacation.

"How did you know there was going to be an attack on Hogwarts this year?"

"That diary... sir, the diary... is... the master... ah, bad Dobby, very bad, very bad Dobby!" Dobby said a few words intermittently with difficulty, and then started again. Punishing himself, Harry had to speak to stop Dobby's self-punishing behaviour.

"You mean, Dobby, the diary belongs to Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy?" Harry still heard who the instigator was from Dobby's words.

Dobby yelled, about to punish himself again.

"Stop! Dobby, stop!" Harry hurriedly stopped Dobby and stopped asking Dobby about the diary, because he had already guessed the truth. Riddle's diary must be Lucius Malfoy's masterpiece!

"Ah, yes!"

Then Harry remembered again. Ginny said that she found the diary among the pages of a book, and when they were buying books at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore in Diagon Alley before the start of school, Mr. Weasley and Lucius... Malfoy had a fight, and it was definitely at that time that Lucius Malfoy took advantage of the chaos and stuffed the diary into Ginny's old book.

He felt that he had everything figured out. From a certain perspective, they did not suspect any mistakes. Draco Malfoy's father, Lucius Malfoy, was also one of the culprits of the basilisk attack in the Chamber of Secrets.

"Dobby, thank you!" Harry said to Dobby sincerely. In any case, Dobby's starting point was good, but the method he used was too radical and he did not discuss it with him, but he still felt that Dobby should ask Dobby for help. Than thank you.

Dobby's big eyes suddenly widened, his two big ears fanned out, and his ugly face seemed to blush with joy. No wizard or anyone had ever thanked him in his life!

"It would be an honour for Dobby to serve Harry Potter, sir," Dobby whispered happily.

Harry rummaged around on the bed and found only one uneaten milk-flavoured candy. He said with some embarrassment, "Dobby, this is the only candy left. I have eaten all the other candies."

He hurriedly wrapped the candy in a nice paper towel and said: "This is my Christmas gift. I hope you like it." After a slight pause, he continued: "I will give you a big gift next Christmas. The humble gifts that make up for this year."

Dobby took the candy with trembling hands, and said with tears in his eyes: "Dobby has never had a Christmas present, sir, never, and no one has ever said thank you to Dobby. Sir, you are the greatest wizard in the wizarding world." , far greater than Dobi imagined!"

He carefully placed the candy in the small pocket of his pillowcase and collected it carefully.

Harry felt that he had heard Dobby's praise so much that he was almost immune and no longer felt embarrassed.

"Dobby should go, sir, Dobby will prepare a Christmas present for Harry Potter." Dobby said, snapping his fingers, and with a snap, the house elf disappeared from Harry's dormitory.

Harry had to swallow the "No thanks" before he could say it.

When Harry lay down on the bed again, he felt that he had to talk to the headmaster after Christmas. Regarding Dobby and the Malfoy family, Riddle's diary must be related to Lucius Malfoy's relationship.

Harry had a good dream that night.

******

"Well, in the past few days, I went to borrow some ancient magic books from Dumbledore. I have read all of them, and some of them have been read many times." Ciaran closed a book. Although it was late at night, But he was still reading and had not yet fallen asleep.

He turned to look out the window. Heavy snow was falling, and as soon as the chill drifted in, it was driven away by the flames in the fireplace.

Ciaran feels that in addition to relying on Force points to improve his strength, his daily unremitting study is also crucial, especially in related knowledge such as spells and transformation. The level of magic power is limited by this physical talent. , but it is extremely difficult to make progress, and you must rely more on Force points.

As for Gryffindor's

 sword and the Sorting Hat, he didn't have the chance to draw Force points. What is known now is Slytherin's ring in Gaunt's old house, and the Three Hallows of Death inlaid on the ring. One of the resurrection stones.

But that was something he had scheduled for the summer vacation. Going to Gunter's old house would take him a lot of time. A short vacation was obviously not enough time, and a long summer vacation was the stage where he had enough time.