"You're so disgusting. Who are you trying to impress? Stop crying. Allen has something to ask you," Sirius grumbled impatiently, his tone full of disgust.
Kreacher choked on his sobs and let out a loud burp.
"Sirius, before you continue asking Kreacher, you can't tell anyone what you saw or heard. Whether it's the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore, or anyone else …" Allen narrowed his eyes at the middle-aged wizard. "Don't get me wrong. Your brother must have his own reasons for telling Kreacher this. He doesn't want too many people to know. I trust you, but I don't trust your mouth. Other than Hermione, I don't think anyone in Gryffindor can keep a secret …"
"Tsk … You guys are the ones who are too troublesome …" Sirius retorted impatiently. He then looked at Allen suspiciously. However, he was anxious to get news about Regulus, so Sirius still agreed. "Alright, I won't reveal anything that happened today. I won't reveal anything that we talked about."
Allen took out a piece of parchment from his waist pouch and let it float in the air. He then started writing in Latin with his lit finger. He quickly finished writing the contract and handed it to Sirius.
"Again? Why do you have to go through so much trouble?! " Under Allen's insistent gaze, Sirius took the contract in his hand with some annoyance. However, under vigilance, he still calmed himself down and scanned through the contract. After confirming the contents of the contract, he signed his name.
Alan then signed his full name, and the effect of the contract once again bound the two of them, although this time the agreement was only aimed at Sirius and asked him to keep it a secret.
After doing all this, Alan continued to ask Creech, "Creech, which one of you drank the potion later?"
"It's young master Regulus." Klitscher fiercely pounded his head with his fist as he burst into tears. "Klitscher was willing to drink that magic potion for Young Master Regulus. Klitscher knew how painful it would be, but Young Master ordered Klitscher to take a fake locket and switch the locket after the stone basin dried..."
Klitscher's sobs became harsh and harsh. "Klitscher had to follow orders. Leave him alone and go home … Don't tell anyone what he did … But he had to destroy the locket that the Dark Lord put in there … Klitscher watched Young Master Regulus drink the potion … and be dragged under the water …"
A long wail suddenly sounded in the room. Sirius stood up, looked up to the sky and cried in grief. He violently overturned the table, and the decorations that were originally on the table fell to the ground with a clatter. Amidst the mess, Sirius's face was pale. The corners of his mouth twitched, and his body trembled violently. His vision was blurry, and his hands tightly grasped the clothes in front of his chest. He was in great pain.
After the secret that had been hidden for so many years was revealed, Klitscher's body shook violently. Tears flowed down his long nose, and his tears mixed with snot covered his face.
Sirius clenched his fists so hard that fingernail marks could be seen in his palms. He glanced at Klitscher, who was kneeling on the ground and crying out in grief. Sirius, who was burning with grief and anger, found a way to vent. He rebuked in disgust, "Klitscher, what are you doing?! Are you just going to watch your master, Regulus, die like this?! Why didn't you stop him? Didn't you rather punish yourself than scold me? Why didn't you stop him? How could you just watch him die?! "
The more Sirius thought about it, the angrier he became. He walked up and kicked Klitscher. Klitscher had no intention of resisting. He knelt on the ground and whined about how it was all his fault.
However, Sirius was even angrier. He pulled out his wand and pointed it at Klitscher, but a hand pressed down on Sirius' arm, stopping Sirius' movement. Sirius wanted to break free from the hand, but to his surprise, he experienced what Blake's house elf had experienced. He was gripped tightly and couldn't break free at all.
"House elves are a race that was conquered by wizards in ancient wars. Every one of them is trained to be both female and male at birth. They must serve their master for generations to come. They take on all the household chores and are bound by their master. They can't casually disobey their master's orders. If they disobey, they must be punished. To them, their highest right is to obey their master's orders. The highest law for house elves is their master's order … "Allen held the hand that let go of Sirius, who had stopped struggling.
"It's not as easy to disobey the orders of its real master, Sirius. It's not as easy as disobeying your orders." Hermione was committed to improving the living conditions of house elves. She had done a lot of research on them. Although the only cases she could get close to were her Dobby, Penello's Blink, and Allen's Maggie, the house elves recruited by the umbrella would try to hide when they saw Hermione, just like the house elves in the kitchen of the Hogwarts, because she always tried to give them a salary and a vacation.
"The mysterious man tried to kill him. My brother sacrificed his life to defeat the mysterious man! But this ugly thing still tried to sell my information to the mysterious man! It happily took advantage of my order to get out and misinterpreted its meaning, revealing the intimate relationship between Harry and me to my cousins! " Sirius was still very angry. "The battle in the Ministry of Magic in your fifth grade was caused by him lying to Harry."
"Sirius, Klitscher doesn't think so," Hermione said, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand. "He's both female and male. House elves are used to being treated badly, even cruelly. What the mysterious man did to Klitscher is no worse than what they are usually treated in a traditional family like yours. What does the wizard war mean to elves like Klitscher? He is loyal to the people who treat him kindly. Mrs. Walbuga Black used to be like this, and Regulus must be like this as well. That's why he serves them willingly and blindly follows their beliefs. I know what you want to say … "
Sirius tried to protest, but Hermione just went on. "Regulus changed his mind … but it seems that he didn't tell Klitscher about this, did he? I think I know why. If Klitscher and Regulus' family maintained their ancient, pure bloodline, then they would be the safest. Regulus is just trying to protect the people in his family. To Klitscher, you, Sirius, are even more terrifying than the Mystery Man. In his mind, you are constantly betraying this family. This is completely different from how he sees Regulus. You don't have to try to explain yourself. You know it's true. For Klitscher, who has served the Blake family for most of his life, he has been lonely for a long time when you came back. He certainly wants some love. I'm sure that Miss Blake and Miss Bella will treat Klitscher much better, so he is willing to work for them and tell them everything they want to know. I've always said that wizards will pay for the way they treat house elves. Of course, the mysterious man is like that … and so are you, Sirius. "
"Sirius, you've never seen house-elves as creatures with the same keen emotions as humans." Allen patted the back of Hermione, who was a little excited. "This is the cause and effect. You have seen Maggie in my family. She is so loyal to me that I can entrust my life to her. And even if we don't talk about her, maybe you should look at Hermione's efforts in the past few years. Those house elves who have been sheltered by her are in a better state. Look at Dobby, and even Sparkle from the Penello family is far better than she was in the Crouch family."
Sirius's arm dropped, and he fell back to the sofa weakly. After calming down, he murmured sadly, "Regulus, you coward, why are you trying to be a hero? Why didn't you tell me … You fool, you don't even have a decent helper around you … You are the bravest person in the Blake family … I'm just a stupid brother …"
There had been no news of his younger brother for so many years, and he had long assumed that he had been killed, but Sirius never thought that Regulus would sacrifice himself in such a way. This subverted the inherent stereotype he had formed for his younger brother in the past.
"Regulus was too young at the time. The cruel world of the Death Eaters in reality was completely different from the glory of the pure-blood family he originally imagined. But what really changed him was the moment when the mysterious man tried to kill Klitscher." Hermione looked sympathetically at the house elf who had fallen into self-blame. Hermione flicked her messy hair and looked at Allen. "This is where we need to make some changes in this world."
"Your Blake family has a kind of persistence. Bellatrix used it to obtain power to follow the mysterious man; Nymphadora, like her mother Andromeda, used it to follow love and married the werewolf Lupin and the Muggle born male wizard Ted Tonks respectively, even though she was removed from the Blake family because of this; Draco's mother Narcissa used it to protect her family; Sirius, you used it to prove that you pursued the freedom you wanted, but when you all left, Regulus used this persistence to protect your entire family." Allen sighed and praised. "He is not like you. He is very proud of the Blake family's book collection. Your family's book collection contains knowledge related to the soul vessel. The soul vessel is not a magic invented by the mysterious man, but no one has done as much as him. The mysterious man is too arrogant, but he is actually a mixed-blood wizard and grew up in the Muggle orphanage. He did not have the support of any family and relied on his own amazing talent to get to where he is today. I admire his efforts in this regard, but it is also because of this that he blindly believes that no one in modern times would understand this kind of profound magic. Regulus was suspicious of the mysterious man's certainty that he would not die. He had heard of this kind of magic before, and after some investigation, he guessed right. "
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