Train to Another World.

Chapter 560 Connections and Ambition

(Two chapters in one)

When Li Zhuoguang saw Dobby, he was shaking violently, as if he would be minced into pulp in the next moment. The blood color on his wrinkled bat face also faded, showing a sickly waxy yellow.

"Why is your face yellow?"

"What, Master?"

"Forget it, just tell me what's wrong with you?"

"I...I don't understand."

Li Zhuoguang leaned over and looked at Dobby carefully: "Although house-elves have their own emotions and tendencies, one thing is absolute, that is, they will never disobey the orders of their masters.

So I am very curious, why would you go to Harry Potter without ever meeting him, and even betray the secrets that your master was discussing at home."

Hearing his secret being exposed, Dobby instantly showed a look of fear and guilt, and began to press his head, slamming it hard on the ground: "Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!"

"Stop." Li Zhuoguang stopped him, and Dobby stopped immediately, but his eyes were still looking at the floor and trembling. It was foreseeable that as long as he had the chance, he would continue to punish himself, or even end his life.

It seems that as a variant, he has broken through the curse of the house elves, but not completely. The behavioral logic of the house elves still has a strong restraint on him.

Li Zhuoguang took out a set of children's clothes from the gourd. It was a casual suit. Li Zhuoguang waved his wand, making the children's clothes smaller, and threw it to Dobby: "You are free."

Dobby took the children's clothes, but there was no joy in his eyes. Instead, he started to cry loudly. To be honest, his crying sounded very unpleasant. Li Zhuoguang snapped his fingers to stop the sound of his crying.

In Li Zhuoguang's opinion, Dobby in the original work is extremely fond of freedom. After gaining his freedom, he no longer accepts being a slave of others, but prefers an employment relationship.

His reaction now was beyond Li Zhuoguang's expectations: "Why are you crying? I can see that you want freedom. Now I give you freedom, why are you not happy?"

Dobby sobbed in grievance, but could not make a sound. Li Zhuoguang snapped his fingers again, and then he began to speak: "Dobby wanted freedom before, but now Dobby has a new master, who is an upright and kind person. Dobby does not want freedom anymore."

"Honest and kind? Me?" Li Zhuoguang pointed at himself and asked, "Who told you that?"

"Dobby saw it with his own eyes."

Li Zhuoguang suddenly realized: "I was wondering why Sirius didn't go find Harry, but instead came to observe me intensively. It turned out to be you. But why do you think I am upright... Forget it, according to your family elves' values, there are very few bad wizards.

I have already given the clothes away, and I don’t plan to take them back, and then…”

Li Zhuoguang said as he threw a gold Galleon at Dobby: "From now on, we will be in an employment relationship. I will pay you to hire me."

Dobby was a little stunned holding the gold Galleon in his hands: "This... this... No, house-elves cannot be hired."

In the original novel, Dobby left the Malfoy family and wandered around for two years before he gradually understood what he wanted. Now he was sent to Li Zhuoguang by the Malfoy family. Li Zhuoguang's direct offer of employment was still a huge shock to him.

Li Zhuoguang was too lazy to convince him, because he knew that Dobby's refusal now was just due to inertia. If he kept him by his side, the seed of his desire for freedom would always sprout.

Li Zhuoguang started to argue directly: "If you agree that I have expelled you, then at this moment, I am extending an employment invitation to you. If you do not agree that I have expelled you and you still regard me as your master, then now I am ordering you as your master to accept my employment."

"Dobby... Dobby... His mind is so confused."

"You don't have to think so much, because you actually have no choice at all."

Dobby hesitated for a while, then raised his head: "One gold galleon is too much."

"Then consider it as this year's salary. I'll write down my home address for you later, and you write it down." As he spoke, Li Zhuoguang's finger touched Dobby's chest, leaving his Flying Thunder God mark: "You go to my house first and take care of my companions' lives."

"Thank you for your kindness, the great Lord Li Zhuoguang." Dobby put away the parchment covered with scribbles and disappeared with a crackling sound.

Li Zhuoguang shook his head, then took out a piece of parchment from the gourd. It was the one that gushed out of the Goblet of Fire at that time, and his name was written on it.

He took out another piece of parchment, took out a quill and wrote his name. Whether it was the structure, the stroke, or the focus, it was exactly the same. Dobby wrote like a dog paddling, and there was no way to imitate his handwriting, so he could almost be ruled out.

If he hadn't confirmed that he hadn't registered, he might have really thought that he had written it. But since he came to this world, whether it was homework or letters, he had always written in English, and had never written in Chinese. Who on earth got his handwriting from?

Li Zhuoguang shook his head and decided not to think about it for the time being. Just like in the original book, Barty Crouch Jr. wanted Harry to participate in the Triwizard Tournament in order to teleport him away with the portkey, someone who wanted him to participate in the Triwizard Tournament must have his own purpose. As long as he continued to participate in the competition, someone would definitely jump out.

When those people jump out, I will let them know what Jiang Boyao beats up Cai Xukun means - a dimensionality reduction attack.

Another new day.

Because of the holding of the Three-Power Tournament, a lot of class time was taken up this semester, but Li Zhuoguang found that if there were fewer classes on the schedule, then there were fewer classes, and he had no intention of finding time to make up for it.

Moreover, the intensity of teaching this school year has also been reduced a lot. It seems that even at Hogwarts, in essence, it still emphasizes happy education for the vast majority of young wizards.

As for those who are willing to make progress, they are not without plans. The Hogwarts library can be said to occupy a top position in the entire wizarding world, not to mention the Ravenclaw library.

Ravenclaw's common room does not prohibit wizards from outside the school from entering. As long as they can answer the questions raised at the door of the common room, they can enter. Professors of various majors have their own small clubs in the school, where talented students can communicate and study.

But what puzzled Li Zhuoguang was that Hermione in the original book had never joined any other club except for receiving an invitation from the "Slug Club" organized by Slughorn.

However, considering the subsequent plot, Hermione is lucky. Although the original book describes Slughorn's power and the existence of the "Slug Club" in a derogatory way.

But looking at the list of members of the "Slug Club", many of them have become outstanding figures without exception, and most of them are also connected with members of other clubs. This is a very valuable network of contacts.

The most famous member of the club is Voldemort. Besides him, there are also Snape, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, an officer of the Goblin Liaison Office, the captain of the Helihead Harpy Quidditch team, the author of "A Theory of Magical Defense", and so on.

The fact that Hermione was able to serve as Minister of Magic as a Muggle-born may not only be explained by her participation in the Battle of Hogwarts. Of course, this is a bit far-fetched, but it shows that in a small circle like the wizarding world, connections are a very important resource.

Just like now...

Li Zhuoguang sat at the long table, looking at the pile of invitations in front of him with a numb face. They were not delivered by owls, but were delivered directly to him by little wizards, as if only this way could reflect the importance of the inviter.

And if you pay a little attention, you can find that these little wizards who sent the invitations are all descendants of the Wizengamot members who came to the school before.

Unlike the tired Li Zhuoguang, Malfoy was flushed with excitement at this moment, just like Ron Weasley. He took a piece of parchment and quickly copied the key information on the invitation, and added the matters that needed special attention at the end.

With his look, Lucius would surely be very happy if writing a paper had such an ending. After copying the invitation, Malfoy placed the parchment respectfully in front of Li Zhuoguang.

He also made suggestions on the order of Li Zhuoguang's visits based on the strength of the other party's family and the situation of the people in power. At this moment, Malfoy seemed to feel that he had reached the pinnacle of his life.

That's almost fifty invitations. All the Wizengamot members expressed their goodwill to Li Zhuoguang. The rise of the Li family has become a foregone conclusion at this moment.

As Li Zhuoguang's right-hand man, he is bound to make a fortune.

"You've arranged them in the wrong order." At this time, a cold voice came from behind. Malfoy turned around angrily, wanting to see who dared to deny the work results of his uncle Draco.

Then he saw Percy Weasley standing behind him. Malfoy's face froze. Even though he mocked Weasley every day, he only bullied Ginny because she was young and Ron because he was useless.

As for the other Weasleys, not to mention the twins, Malfoy generally wouldn't take the initiative to provoke them. As for Percy, who was the prefect, Malfoy avoided him even more. Although he was the prefect of another college, a prefect was still a prefect, and judging from his momentum, he would be the president of the Boys' Union next year.

But what does he mean by this?
Percy glanced at what was written on Malfoy's parchment and explained: "The Wizengamot is an organization that predates the Ministry of Magic and is now a combination of the Court and Parliament.

It is composed of about fifty members, the highest officer of which is called the Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot. The current Chief Wizard is our headmaster, Professor Dumbledore.

There is a misconception in the outside world that the Wizengamot is composed of fifty councillors, but this is not the case. There are also ordinary members, clerks, investigators, senior investigators, and finally councillors. In fact, there are only a dozen councillors, and they are lifelong.

The Minister of Magic, the Senior Under-Minister of Magic, and senior officials of the Ministry of Magic automatically join the Wizengamot when they are in office, but when they leave office...

You've arranged them in order of importance based on their current positions, but if I were you, I'd put the councillors first, even though they appear to be famous wizards without positions."

With a click, the quill in Malfoy's hand fell onto the table, and he stared blankly at Percy Weasley.

Red hair, freckles, old robes, it's Weasley, right? What about Weasley's rich sense of humor? What about Weasley's indifferent attitude towards fame and fortune?
Aren't you Weasleys very noble and great? You, a Weasley with thick eyes, should now stand on the opposite side of me and the boss, and continue to fight against the "powerful and wealthy" who are rich and unkind and collude with evil!

Why do you look like you want to steal my position as my right-hand man? Merlin, we Malfoys have a special right to be my right-hand man! Mine! Mine!!!
Li Zhuoguang, who was feeling upset, was too lazy to think too much after hearing Percy's words. He just felt relieved. He picked up the quill that Malfoy had dropped on the table and handed it to Percy: "Tick off those congressmen. Uh, you don't need to tick too many, just the three with the strongest power."

Percy was afraid that Li Zhuoguang would go back on his word, so he quickly took the quill and began to sketch Ali on the parchment, and also added a more detailed description after Malfoy's notes.

If there wasn't enough space for the parchment, Li Zhuoguang suspected that the other party could even write a diplomatic reference book about the other party's invitation.

At this time, Li Zhuoguang probably saw the other party's purpose. Li Zhuoguang did not dislike this purpose at all. After all, the other party made a living by his ability. It was a waste for such a person to study the leakage rate of imported crucibles after graduation.

Li Zhuoguang stood up, holding Malfoy with one hand and Percy with the other. "Although I was the only one invited, it would be hard for me to go to the banquet alone. Would you two like to go with me?"

Malfoy agreed with a bad look on his face. Bastard! Originally, this opportunity belonged to him alone, but now it was going to be split in half by a Weasley. He felt really uncomfortable.

As for Percy, Li Zhuoguang could even feel his body trembling slightly, and his face began to turn red, but he still insisted: "To thank you for everything you have done for Ron and Ginny, I will go with you."

Li Zhuoguang smiled. It is hard for young people to take off their long gowns. If they were veterans in the workplace, they would have already started to show their loyalty.

But Li Zhuoguang had no right to laugh at him. After all, when he first started working, it was not as simple as wearing a long gown or not. When he was in a bad mood, he would start to criticize his leader...Huh? I remembered so many things? It's really a cause for celebration.

Li Zhuoguang always scheduled the visit on weekends, because on weekends, students in the third year and above of Hogwarts can go to Hogsmeade. Although Li Zhuoguang is not yet in the third year, the person who invited him did not treat him as an ordinary third-year student.

Finding a way to leave school, isn't this basic?
Of course, this was not a difficult task for Li Zhuoguang. The method he chose was simple and unsophisticated, that is, climbing over the wall. Li Zhuoguang couldn't understand why in the original book, Harry had to wear an invisibility cloak and take a secret passage when he wanted to go to Hogsmeade.

Since we all have invisibility cloaks, what's the difference between putting on the invisibility cloak and walking directly through the door?
Li Zhuoguang didn't have an invisible cloak, and he climbed over the wall without telling anyone, so many people saw him. But Li Zhuoguang wasn't nervous, because he had become a core figure in Slytherin.

If anyone dared to tell on the traitor, there would be Slytherin villains who would take revenge in private.

(End of this chapter)