Chapter 328: kitchen

After sending away the twin brothers who took the drawings from themselves to make a fortune, Lane was about to go for a short lunch break. Suddenly Hermione came in from outside the common room and stopped him.
"Ryan, can you go downstairs with me to do an investigation in the kitchen?"
"What investigation?" Ryan asked puzzled. He can't remember what kind of homework the professor arranged recently.
"An investigation about house-elves." Hermione explained. "Most of the work in the magic world is free slave labor for house-elves, so I want to make a specific investigation to determine what the real situation of these house-elves is. After all, except for Dobby, who has a mental problem I have seen a house elf, and it is impossible to make a correct and comprehensive analysis in this case. Fortunately today Ginny told me where the house elf at Hogwarts, I would like to take this opportunity to take a look.
As long as it's not vomiting, Ryan nodded at the thought. After a little tidying up, she and Hermione came to a bright and wide corridor towards the basement.
This corridor is different from the corridor they often visit to the potion classroom. The torches are densely installed, and they are decorated with pleasant pictures everywhere. The pictures above are mainly food. It is much warmer than the underground corridor leading to the potion classroom.
Halfway through the corridor, they could see a pile of wooden barrels piled up at the end of the corridor. That should be the legendary Hufflepuff common room, but not their goal. When they came to an oil painting with a huge silver bowl full of fruit in the middle of the corridor, the two stopped.
"A silver bowl full of food? Ginny should be here, she said her brothers often ran here for supper at night." After speaking, Hermione stepped forward and scratched the big green pear. Pear wriggled, chuckled, and suddenly turned into a large green door handle. Hermione grabbed it and pulled the door open and walked in with Ryan.
This is Hogwarts' kitchen. Lane has long been known for this place but has never been here. The entire kitchen is a large room with a high ceiling and an area equivalent to the auditorium above. There are many shiny copper pots and basins piled around the surrounding stone wall, and there is a large brick fireplace at the other end of the room. It's similar to the kitchen he imagined.
"Good afternoon, noble gentleman and young lady, what are you doing here?" A house-elf, who looks older, came over and asked with a bow.
"We have been studying at Hogwarts for four years. It was only yesterday that we were the family elves who served us in school. Out of curiosity, we wanted to find out how you work and live in school. Just don't know if it will disturb you and cause you trouble? "Ryan stepped forward.
"Oh, sir, you are too kind, this is not troublesome." The older house-elf, who looks a little older, said after bowing again. "You can look at whatever you want, and everyone will answer any questions."
Soon Hermione ran aside and began to ask the house elves. Hogwarts' elves looked pretty good. Each is very healthy and wears the same uniform uniformly: a tea towel with a Hogwarts badge on it. The elves wrapped those tea towels as robes. After glancing at the two, they lowered their heads to do their work, but the house elf would stop his work and answer his questions seriously when Hermione asked him in the past.
Ryan looked at the four long wooden tables in this huge kitchen curiously, and now they are clean. However, when eating, these tables will be filled with food, and then transferred to the above equivalent table by magic.
After mastering alchemy, Lane once observed and analyzed many things at Hogwarts, including the dining table. It was a pity that I only looked at the tables in the auditorium, and I couldn't analyze the teleportation spell on this thing before I saw the corresponding table in the kitchen. So now when he had the opportunity to enter the kitchen, Ryan began to observe these tables.
To know that these tables can be used to transfer the above things in a short distance in Hogwarts Castle, which is said to be impossible to phantom, Lane has always suspected that the principle contained therein may be the same as the principle of the disappearing cabinet. If this thing can be clarified, it is estimated that he will be able to master more knowledge in space.
"Can you tell me a story about this table?" Ryan asked a house elf beside him. The house elf showed a proud look and introduced to Ryan: "The legend of this table is that the school builder Chipach left behind and was in use when our earliest ancestor came here. "
"Hufflepuff! The things left by the school's founder for more than a thousand years can still be used normally, which is unbelievable." Ryan showed a surprised look.
After learning alchemy, he knows how difficult it is to make magic props that can maintain the effect for thousands of years. For example, the bracelet he made now can maintain the effect for one or two hundred years, and Valeria steel weapons can use the advantages of materials. Save more time. However, the additional enchantment above can save five or six hundred years. So Ryan showed a surprised look after seeing that the table magical effect of this material can save thousands of years ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Of course, the great Hufflepa made a lot of magical things. "When it comes to this, this house-elf looks a little frustrated." Unfortunately, we lost her favorite gold cup. " "
"Golden Cup?" Ryan thought of Voldemort's Horcrux. Seeing Ryan interested in the Golden Cup, the house elf gave him a serious introduction.
Legend has it that the gold cup is specially used to hold beverages and drinks. It can be used for drinking by the whole school. At the same time, it can keep what is put in it for one year. The only regret is that after Hufflepuff's death, the elves couldn't find the cup.
They had always wondered which younger Hufflepuff family took away the things that Hufflepuff had designated for the house elves to stay in the castle during his lifetime. Unfortunately, as house-elves, they couldn't enter or leave the castle at will, so they couldn't find the cup.
Ryan nodded when he heard it. After knowing the original function of the cup, it would be much easier to strip Voldemort's soul piece once he got the cup. With this extra gain, he motioned to the house elf beside him to do his work, and he himself began to analyze the magic on the table.
After more than half an hour, Hermione completed her data collection. Ryan also understood the principles of these tables. He admired Hufflepuff for being able to use the properties of those raw materials to the extreme. At the same time Hufflepuff linked the tables with the magical cycle of the entire castle, which is why these tables can be kept for thousands of years.
Putting away the small book, Ryan nodded at Hermione, who was not so pretty, and left the kitchen together. Of course, before leaving, they took a variety of snacks from the house elves.