While Hufflepuff's move changed the world of magic, it also greatly improved the status of the Hogwarts.
The pure-blood sorcerer family had to compromise in the end. They reached an agreement with Helga Hufflepuff and agreed to the Hogwarts' education model. They allowed the Muggle sorcerers to enter the school, and formed a corresponding board of directors to control the Hogwarts.
As for the Hogwarts breaking away from the control of the board of directors and independent school activities, it was later up to the headmaster.
However, it had to be said that the success of Hufflepuff and the Hogwarts model was definitely enough to change the course of the entire magic world a thousand years ago. Magic schools similar to the Hogwarts emerged all over the world.
More and more young Muggle wizards were being recruited into schools, and the traditional method of passing down magic through family, master and apprentice, and esoteric methods had been completely changed. Universal magic education had become the main mode of education in the magical world.
Helga Hufflepuff herself was the headmaster of the Hogwarts until her death. She never left the place, and even after her death, she was buried in the Hogwarts, only passing down her favorite golden cup as the only legacy to her descendants.
Like Slytherin's secret chamber, the location of Hufflepuff's grave had always been a mystery.
Because she was buried by the house-elf, no one knew where Hufflepuff's grave was.
For thousands of years, countless people tried to find her burial place in the school, but no one succeeded.
Elwyn carefully analyzed all the historical information he could find, and he believed that the key point of breakthrough was in the hands of the house-elf.
As the greatest sorcerer and educator in the history of magic, Hufflepuff was also the greatest cook, and the house-elf was her assistant.
Elwyn did not think that Hufflepuff's secret treasure key would be taken into the coffin by her, but Hufflepuff's closest friends in the latter half of her life were undoubtedly the house-elf.
Everything was kept by them, and even his final burial was handled by the house-elves.
At that time, Helga Hufflepuff gave shelter to all the elves who had lost their home because of the war.
Let them become part of the Hogwarts. The so-called ordinary friends in the hint she left behind should be the elves.
Since the Hufflepuff era, Hogwarts had been the place with the most domestic elves in the magic world.
For thousands of years, they lived in the kitchens under the castle, where they built their own huge underground kingdom.
Unsurprisingly, whether it was the key to the treasure or the secret of Hufflepuff's tomb, they were all in the hands of the little elf that he kept at home.
Last semester, Elwyn had asked Dobby and the other house-elves in detail about this matter, but they all said that they did not know.
He speculated that the secrets kept by the ancestors of the house-elves might have been lost, and no one had passed them on.
This was not surprising. The house-elf had been enslaved for too long.
They had lost the inheritance of their civilization and had become the appendages of the wizards.
If they really kept such an important clue, they might have told the principal long ago, instead of hiding it themselves.
Although no one knew, there must be some clues in the kitchens.
Not long ago, Elwyn found a blueprint of the early construction of the castle in the library area.
It was hidden in a very unpopular magic book, and no one had borrowed it for hundreds of years.
The basement on the map was much larger than it was now, and the large piece that had disappeared was near the kitchens.
This blueprint verified Elwyn's conjecture. Combined with the information he had received before, he felt that it was necessary to check it out.
Elwyn led Hermione into the basement, which was the only way to the common room of Slytherin and Hufflepuff.
The two of them followed a narrow passage on the left and walked down a stone step.
It was not a dark and gloomy underground passage like the one that led to Snape's underground classroom.
Instead, they found themselves in a wide gallery of stones, brightly lit by torches, and adorned with delightful pictures, chiefly of things to eat.
They walked to the picture of a big fruit bowl, and Elwyn reached out his index finger and gently scratched the big green pear.
The pear wriggled, giggled, and suddenly turned into a big green doorknob.
"This is the entrance to the school kitchen!" Elwyn said.
He pulled the door open, revealing a low, dark, and deep hall.
"Let's go in and get ready!" Elwyn said.
He remembered the last time he came here, he was surrounded by countless little elves, and smiled bitterly.
"Get ready for what?!" Hermione asked, staring at the hall nervously.
"You'll know in a minute!" Elwyn took Hermione's little hand and walked in together.
The next second, they walked into the picture. Inside was a large, high-ceilinged room, as big as the auditorium above. The surrounding stone walls were filled with many shining copper pots and basins, and there was a large brick fireplace at the other end of the room.
As if sensing something, before they could get a better look, many green things ran quickly towards them from the center of the room.
Hermione couldn't help but take a step back, and then she saw that the things running towards her were all house-elves.
There were hundreds of them, which was incredible.
"Sir, Miss, what do you want?" the elves asked loudly, crowding over.
They all had smiles on their faces as they waited for Elwyn and Hermione's instructions.
Before the two of them could speak, another shrieking elf rushed over.
He slammed into Elwyn's midsection and hugged Elwyn tightly.
This guy was Dobby!
Even though they had just met a month ago, he was still very excited that Elwyn had come to the kitchen to see him.
He hugged Elwyn so hard that Elwyn hurriedly let him down.
Hermione looked at the two of them and the house-elves around her in surprise. It took a long time for her to get used to it.
In fact, she hadn't seen Dobby for a long time.
Dobby's ping-pong ball like green eyes were filled with tears of joy, and he looked exactly the same as she remembered.
His thin, pencil-like nose, his bat-like ears, and his long fingers and feet …
Nothing had changed, only the clothes were very different from before.
When Dobby worked for the Malfoy family, he wore that dirty old pillowcase all year round.
Now, he was dressed in all kinds of strange combinations, even worse than the wizards in the World Cup.
He had a teapot thermal cover on his head, which had a lot of colorful badges on it. He had a tie with a horseshoe pattern on his chest, and he was wearing something that looked like children's football shorts. On his feet were two mismatched socks.
One of them was the black sock that Harry had taken off his foot and tricked Mr. Malfoy into throwing it to Dobby. The other sock was printed with pink and orange stripes.
This was a style that Elwyn had never seen before. All the money he gave Dobby was used to buy socks, and he had to change them almost every week.
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