Behind the brick wall, there was a wide space.
Elwyn was shocked as soon as he entered. The huge wall facing him was densely covered with something.
Upon closer inspection, he found that they were all the wrinkled heads of house-elves.
They were densely packed together, and they all had the same ugly big noses.
These heads were much more realistic than the row of house-elves that Elwyn had seen in the Blake family's old house. Under the low temperature, they looked lifelike, just like when they were alive. They stared coldly at the intruders with their big eyes.
Many of the house-elves looked humble, but they still had smiles on their faces. The corners of their mouths were forced upward in an exaggerated manner.
In this kind of situation, these smiles did not make people feel the slightest sense of intimacy, except for the creepiness.
Imagine the sensory stimulation, shock, and pressure that a few thousand ugly heads would bring to a person when they were piled together.
If Elwyn did not know that house-elves had the habit of cutting off their heads and hanging them on the wall after they died, he would have thought that this was the base of some evil dark wizard. Only those psychopaths would hang such things on the wall.
On one side of the wall was the cold storage where the Hogwarts stored their food, and on the other side was the exhibition hall of heads that looked like hell.
If the students saw this scene, they might not be able to eat the food made by house-elves.
Dobby walked in behind Elwyn.
He suddenly screamed and covered his eyes with his right arm.
Dobby's other hand held the corner of Elwyn's clothes, and he followed Elwyn forward, trembling as if he was very afraid.
"Young Master Elwyn, let's go back!" Dobby said. "Dobby doesn't feel comfortable here."
"Uncomfortable?!" Elwyn asked. "Isn't it a tradition for you house-elves to cut off their heads and hang them on the wall?"
As far as he knew, most house-elves, such as Klitscher, had this terrible idea.
His biggest dream was to cut off his own head and hang it with his ancestors in the old house of the Blake family.
"Dobby doesn't like this tradition. Dobby, don't hang your head here!" Dobby said in a shrill voice, "Dobby is a free elf. After Dobby dies, he must be buried like a wizard. Let's go back quickly, Master Elwyn!"
"Wait a minute, let's see!" said Elwyn, amused at the shivering house-elf at his feet.
He led Dobby past the rows of house-elf heads, his wand held high as he looked around carefully.
The spacious room was cold and quiet. Perhaps because it was cleaned regularly, there was not even a speck of dust on the floor.
Only the heads on the wall were hanging there quietly, with strange expressions on their faces.
Some of the house-elves looked solemn, some were smiling, some were angry, and some were humble.
In a sense, this was the holy land for Hogwarts' house-elves.
From the heads on the wall, one could see the changes in history and the status of the house-elves.
The house-elves of different eras dressed differently and had different expressions on their faces.
The expressions on the heads of the ancestors of the elves that Elwyn first saw were mostly full of confidence, and there were many exaggerated ornaments.
Many of the ornaments were of high value, and Elwyn could even feel the aura of magic from them.
It was conceivable that the house-elves of that era were relatively wealthy and had a lot of personal wealth.
This was the early days of the history of magic, before house-elves became the slaves of wizards. They were a free and independent species.
Their status was equal to that of the wizards because they were docile, peace-loving, and had relatively strong magic power. The house-elves of that era were the closest non-human intelligent creatures to the wizards. They accepted the employment of human wizards and served as the wizards' assistants in various fields of magic.
Elwyn continued forward, recalling the history of the house-elf race that he had read in the books.
The further he went, the more modern the expressions on the faces of the elves on the wall became more humble, and there were not as many ornaments.
At this time, they were no longer a free species, but the efforts of wizards.
There were heads hanging on the wall, and the faces of the house-elves were more or less missing something.
Each and every one of their faces was exceptionally shocking.
They seemed to have suffered some kind of cruel abuse in life, permanent damage caused by irreversible magic.
This was the period when the pure-blood theory and black magic were most prevalent, and the persecution of house-elves by wizards was also the most serious.
Even the house-elves in schools could not avoid being attacked and abused by students as entertainment tools.
One could imagine how miserable the little elves living in pure-blooded Sorcerer families were.
In fact, in that dark age, the same situation existed for other creatures.
Under these circumstances, many non-human intelligent creatures began to rebel against the brutal rule of human wizards.
The most famous of these was the Fairy Rebellion, which they rebelled many times.
The largest and most successful one occurred in 1612, when the fairies used Hogsmeade's tavern as a headquarters to attack the world of magic.
At the beginning of the battle, the cunning fairies hid behind the scenes. They were ostensibly allies of the wizards.
But they secretly united with the giants and let them come out to cause trouble.
When the army of the Ministry of Magic was fighting with the giants, the fairies suddenly rebelled and turned on them at the last moment.
The sudden change caused the wizards to suffer heavy losses, and many wizards died in that battle.
The fairies occupied the Ministry of Magic and Diagon Alley as fast as they could. Even the pure-blood wizard families were attacked, and for a while, everyone was in danger.
The last and most tragic stage of the war was the offensive and defensive battle of the Hogwarts.
The fairies continued to consolidate the advantage they had gained. They united with centaurs, giants, mermaids, vampires, and other non-human intelligent creatures. They also had the help of a large number of dangerous magical creatures and many evil dark wizards. Their power was far greater than the wizard coalition of the Ministry of Magic.
The wizards hid in the castle of the Hogwarts, and their allies were only the house-elves and a few magical creatures.
The house-elves were the only non-human magical creatures that did not betray the human wizards during the Fairy Rebellion.
At that time, the Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood wizard families probably promised the house-elves a lot of things to convince them to become their allies.
There was no way to investigate this, and Elwyn did not know how they did it.
The only thing he knew was that the tragic war ended in a draw. The fairies did not succeed in attacking the Hogwarts, but the world of magic recognized the independent status of the fairies, centaurs, mermaids, and other non-human intelligent creatures. They were no longer slaves of the wizards.
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