Hogwarts Kryptonian

"Why are you crying?? No, who are you?"

"My name is Xueli...ah! Can you really force me to answer? Are you really the owner of the house??"

"...Are you a house elf??"

When Lu Yunkai heard the words of the strange-looking creature, he instantly understood what it was.

Although Lu Yunkai knew about the existence of house elves as early as last year, this was the first time he saw this magical creature that was said to be completely inviolable.

In Malfoy's words, they were a "low and dirty magical race", but in Lu Yunkai's view, the big-eyed creature in front of him, who was wiping his tears in aggrieved manner, had an indescribable cuteness.

"Don't cry." Lu Yunkai tried to order the house elf named Xue Li.

Sure enough, it couldn't cry anymore.

I could only look at Lu Yunkai helplessly.

"Are you the house elf of this house?" Lu Yunkai asked.

"yes."

"Why is there a house elf in this house?"

"Xueli's great-grandmother was the house elf of the Shafiq family, and Xueli's grandmother was also..."

"The previous owner's surname was Shafiq?" Lu Yunkai interrupted Xueli's thoughts of counting down the generations there.

"A house-elf must not speak of his master's affairs."

"I am your master now!! Tell me!" Lu Yunkai was amused.

I have a little more appreciation for this house elf named Xue Li.

"...Yes." Xue Li obviously still didn't want to say it, but she couldn't go against Lu Yunkai's wishes.

The big, aggrieved eyes made Lu Yunkai embarrassed to push him.

"Forget it, I won't ask you anymore." Lu Yunkai suddenly felt a little guilty and waved his hand, "The previous owner of this house traded it with me for a wine bowl, so now this house is mine. If you If you want to stay, then stay. If you don't want to... By the way, I remember hearing someone say that breaking the contract of a house elf seems to give you something..."

"No!!! New owner, please don't drive me away!!"

"Okay! Okay! Don't cry!!" Lu Yunkai was startled by its sudden loud voice.

"Master, do you want to eat? I'll prepare it for you right away." Xue Li seemed to be frightened because Lu Yunkai wanted to drive her away, and she was a little anxious and wanted to show her worth immediately.

"No need...well, that's fine." Lu Yunkai thought for a moment and nodded.

Just give this house elf a chance to show off!

"yes."

In response to Lu Yunkai's reply, Xueli suddenly disappeared as if she had suddenly appeared.

Lu Yunkai was shocked again.

Then suddenly Xueli appeared again.

"Master, if you have any requirements for the room, you can leave it to me. You don't have to do it yourself."

"I'll do it myself! Aren't you going to cook?"

"It's ready! Do you want to go to the restaurant now?"

"……So fast?"

"This is the magic of our house elves, but it is also because there is really not much food to eat at home..."

"If I give you gold galleons, can you buy food and drink by yourself?" Lu Yunkai looked at Xue Li, who had a coy face, and then realized that this house elf with a big head and big eyes was actually a Skinny, I just remembered that it and the previous owner of this house actually sold them just for an endless drinking bowl.

Thinking about it, this family must have been without food for a long time.

Alcohol is really harmful! !

"Okay...Wow!! So many Galleons??"

As soon as Xue Li's answer came out, Lu Yunkai took out 10,000 gold galleons in cash from his bag and piled it into a small mountain in front of it.

"Take it. I see that the yard outside the house and many things in the house are in disrepair. It will definitely cost you a lot of money to maintain. If it's not enough, come and tell me." Lu Yunkai replied calmly.

"Okay, Master!!" Xue Li nodded happily.

Then the pile of gold galleons in front of it disappeared.

"Although I'm not short of money, don't spend money randomly behind my back, understand?" Lu Yunkai warned.

"Master, don't worry! We have been the best house elves since my great-grandmother's time..."

"Well, I'm going to eat first." Lu Yunkai once again interrupted Xue Li's idea of ​​showing off her family tree.

After eating a rather simple dinner in the huge dining room, Lu Yunkai realized that this home might not be suitable for living now.

There are too many things missing.

It was a bit unrealistic to expect a house elf to put these things together quickly, and Lu Yunkai himself lost interest in this matter after being interrupted while tidying up his bedroom.

As a result, he decided to leave the matter of tidying up the house entirely to Xueli, who wanted to show her loyalty to the new owner. After eating, he directly used the Floo powder and used the fireplace at home to return to the broken house in London. Cauldron Bar.

The bar was still busy, and the drinking party after dinner was still going on. Those lonely wizards without family members can't seem to find a more suitable place to relieve their loneliness at Christmas time than the Leaky Cauldron.

Lu Yunkai glanced at Tom, who was already drunk and was arguing with the guests about whether the batter or the seeker was more important, and then went back to the room to sleep.

After waking up the next morning, when Lu Yunkai came to the bar hall again, there were still traces of the carnival the night before everywhere.

The boss, Tom, was dragging his obviously tired body behind the bar, wiping the wine glass with a cloth.

"Are you up?"

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai sat in front of the bar, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Only some snacks and bread left over from last night." Tom said as he waved his wand, and some unappetizing breakfast appeared in front of Lu Yunkai.

But compared to what we ate at home last night, it was already rich.

Lu Yunkai wasn't too picky, so he picked up a piece of scone, stuffed it into his mouth and took a bite.

"You're here to ask me about Chris, right?" Tom continued to pick up the rag and wine glass, wiped them, and said casually.

"……Um."

In fact, Lu Yunkai is really not.

Yesterday, he just came up with an excuse to deal with Daphne. When he entered the bar, he casually asked Tom. Maybe Tom and Chris have known each other for many years, but Lu Yunkai doesn't want to hear anyone tell him what Chris was like back then...

It felt too much like family and friends sitting together for a memorial service after someone died.

Chris is not dead! !

Therefore, he rejected it from the bottom of his heart.

But Tom was so positive, and Lu Yunkai was really embarrassed not to give him face.

"Is Chris really dead? It shouldn't die that easily, right?"

Tom said something casually, which instantly cheered up Lu Yunkai, who was still feeling very uncomfortable.

Even now in Hogwarts, no one except Daphne knows that Chrissy is still alive (well, of course he doesn't know that Firenze has told Dumbledore about it), there is a lot of information in Tom's sentence .

"It's not dead. But it's almost dead."

"Is its soul gone again? Who else cast a life-killing curse on it?" Hearing Lu Yunkai's words, Tom was stunned, stopped what he was doing, and looked at Lu Yunkai.

This was the first time Lu Yunkai saw such a serious expression on this bald man who didn't know whether he was hunched over because he liked to bow or bent over, or whether he naturally bowed and bent over because of his hunched back.

"Again??" But what Lu Yunkai focused on was this word.

"Chris was killed by a dark wizard before. Boss Jesse was very angry about this incident. He thought Chris was dead at the time, but he didn't expect that a month later, she came back to life... Well, although the thing that came back to life cannot be regarded as Chris. "

"Well, she's much prettier than Kris." Lu Yunkai remembered the lynx with long white hair and nodded.

"Chris can actually become beautiful, but after she becomes beautiful, many witches will want to touch her, which will be annoying to her." Tom said and laughed.

Lu Yunkai was stunned and then smiled.

really. As ugly as Chris is now, Hermione and Daphne still want to hold it and pet it. It will turn into a white long-haired cat...

Chris will definitely have a worse and more violent personality.

"In order to take revenge on the wizard, Jesse found Oro, who was at the Ministry of Magic at the time, and sent the wizard to Azkaban on the grounds that Chrissy's possessed soul was equivalent to the human soul." Tom continued, "As a result, that The wizard died within a month of entering Azkaban."

"Then Jesse helped Chris get another soul?" Lu Yunkai asked curiously.

"Of course not! If that were the case, Boss Jesse would have to go to Azkaban." Tom laughed, "As soon as the wizard who used the Imperius Curse on Chris died, Chris recovered the next day. "

"...Huh?? The memory has also been restored?"

When Lu Yunkai heard this, his eyes lit up.

"Yes! It's amazing!" Tom nodded. "Boss Jesse later said that it was probably because the Imperius Curse actually took the soul of the wizard out of the body and imprisoned it in the wand, and the wizard who used the Imperius Curse After death, the soul imprisoned by him escapes from the wand. The wizard who loses his soul will die, but as long as the soul-eating lynx is still alive, the possessed soul will return to it..."

"Then, as long as I kill the monster that attacked Chris, Chris can recover, right?"

There was a hint of trembling in Lu Yunkai's voice.

Kris can recover! ! What are you waiting for! ! He must do it!

"Are you sure what kind of monster attacked Chris?"

Suddenly, another voice sounded in the bar.

A wizard familiar to Lu Yunkai appeared at the back door of the bar, wandered to the bar and sat down.

It was the old man whose crystal ball was sold to Chris for a thousand gold galleons last year.

"Old Eli, why are you so early today?" Tom greeted the old man with a smile, while skillfully pouring a glass of beer and placing it next to the counter.

"I heard that Chris died, and I was still wondering what could kill that guy." The old man whom Tom called Eli smiled and sat next to Lu Yunkai, "From what you said, it was obviously Someone used the soul-stealing curse!"

"It should have been attacked by a monster." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "It's not a wizard."

"How are you sure?" Tom answered.

"So say the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest."

"Oh, that should be the case. Centaurs are a race that is notoriously disdainful of lying." Tom nodded, "And they also understand nature best."

"But except for the soul-eating lynx, I have never heard of any creature that can directly attack the soul!" Eli disagreed, "If there are such creatures, they have been exterminated by the Ministry of Magic."

"Then I don't know. Maybe you can ask Isabella?" Tom shook his head, "It's normal that you don't know."

"With a boss like you talking like that, I'm afraid this bar will be ruined." Eli glared at Tom.

"Then you pay me the wine money you owe me, and I might not go bankrupt." Tom retorted.

"...The Leaky Cauldron can't be closed down. I'll never find such a nice place again." Eli changed the subject instantly.

"Um... I'm sorry." Lu Yunkai saw the two of them chatting and had to interrupt, "Who is the Isabella you are talking about?"

"She's the owner of the magical zoo over there in the alley!" Eli replied with a smile, "No one in the whole of England knows more about animals than she does."

"Don't worry, she didn't go back until early this morning. It would be nice if she could open the door in the afternoon." Seeing Lu Yunkai standing up and about to leave, Tom advised.

"……Um."

Lu Yunkai nodded calmly.

But in his heart, he was already eagerly looking forward to the afternoon...