Hogwarts: Harry Returns from Azeroth

Chapter 104 103. The Savior (by mistake) enters Malfoy Manor on a snowy night
Generally speaking, when facing the house-elves in the Hogwarts kitchen, as long as you don't say things like 'I'm not full today', 'The food you cooked is not delicious', 'You look so tired, do you want to take a rest'... as long as you don't say things like the above, then apart from being very enthusiastic, the house-elves in the kitchen will not do anything exaggerated.

——But as long as you say this, the house-elves will become very crazy in an instant. They will scream, cry, scratch their ears hard or bang their heads against the wall and the floor until they feel they have punished themselves enough.

However, even though the house-elves in Hogwarts would become very crazy when they heard certain key words, they were still able to remain calm most of the time... completely different from the house-elf in front of him who seemed particularly neurotic from the moment they met.

"Enough!" Harry growled, narrowing his eyes slightly, regretting that he couldn't use a silencing spell at this time - if this house-elf continued to make noise, someone might notice what was going on here.

And Harry's words really had a good effect. The house-elf in front of him suddenly covered his mouth and looked at him with wide eyes as if waiting for his next instruction.

"Your name is Dobby?" Harry asked in confusion, "You are the one who intercepted my letters for the past three days?"

"Harry Potter remembered Dobby's name!!" Dobby's already big eyes suddenly opened wider, and even tears flashed in his eye sockets, "He also found out that Dobby hid his letter!!"

Dobby looked so moved that he was about to cry, although Harry had no idea why he was so moved.

"It sounds like you are my admirer?" Harry said softly, "But your act of hijacking my letters is malicious. Why did you do this? Who sent you?"

"No one sent Dobby! Dobby wanted to do this himself!!" Dobby straightened his back proudly at first, then suddenly fell to the ground, banging his head against the ground. "Dobby disobeyed his master's order, bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!!"

As if he wanted to kill himself, Dobby banged his head against the ground until Harry shouted to stop.

"Dobby didn't hijack Harry Potter's letters!" Red blood flowed down from Dobby's forehead, but he seemed not to feel it, just staring at Harry, "Dobby just wanted to give them to Harry Potter later! Dobby will never hurt Harry Potter!"

This was a sophistry that was very consistent with Harry's impression of house-elves, and it seemed to have convinced itself with this reason.

"I don't need your protection," Harry said expressionlessly, "I know nothing about you or your background. The most important thing is that you are still a house-elf. You have your own master and cannot disobey your master's orders. If you insist on not saying anything, at least don't touch my letter again."

"Otherwise, you are my enemy."

The wind in the air was gradually solidifying. Harry's words were just delaying. He chose to slowly interrogate the house-elf after catching him, but this process had to be careful -

Snapped!
Dobby disappeared out of thin air on the side of the road, but reappeared on the railing next to it at the same time.

At the same time, a wind element appeared in a hugging posture at the place where Dobby was just now. It seemed a little embarrassed because its sneak attack failed.

"Harry Potter is very cunning!!" Dobby shouted in surprise, "He wants to seize the opportunity to catch Dobby! But Dobby is prepared! This is a good thing! A very good thing! Only the cunning Harry Potter is safe! But this is far from enough, Harry Potter must stay away from danger! He can't go to Hogwarts again!!"

Looking at Dobby who was yelling on the railing, Harry felt somewhat helpless - the magic possessed by house-elves was different from that of wizards.

It was as if Hogwarts and its surrounding areas had been cast with an anti-Apparition spell to ensure that foreign wizards could not appear at will in any corner of the castle or its surroundings, and at the same time to ensure that students would not find themselves in some inexplicable place.

However, house-elves can teleport freely to any place where the Anti-Apparition Charm is cast. They have their own unique magic. Perhaps in order to allow the house-elves to serve them secretly, wizards turn a blind eye to this situation.

It was as if in the eyes of wizards, house-elves would never do anything against them, and they would not even consider the possibility of betrayal by house-elves.

In any case, these factors became Harry's trouble at the moment - he couldn't catch this nimble house-elf.

Even if he used the spells of this world recklessly at this moment, he could not do this. After all, Harry's current research on spells was still in the scope of wizard magic and had not involved the special magic of house-elves at all.

"What's going to happen at Hogwarts again?" Harry asked after sighing.

He now believed that this house-elf was not sent by anyone, but to be honest, a house-elf who would come to protect him even if it violated the orders of his master - it was completely inconsistent with the description of house-elves that Harry had read in books.

Could it be that I met a complete outlier?

Harry couldn't help but wonder.

"Dobby can't tell!!" Dobby's shrill voice shouted, "There will be very, very terrible dangers at Hogwarts this year! Dobby can't let Harry Potter be in danger - Dobby has heard rumors that he has even met the mysterious man twice!"

"I don't think there's any danger in this," Harry sighed and said, "If you were more informed, you would know that the mysterious man failed again. I even made him into a trinket and gave it to Dumbledore - so can you calm down?"

Harry had to suddenly raise his voice because the house-elf opposite him went even crazier. He was crying and laughing, his face covered with snot and tears.

"Oh my god! Oh my god!! Harry Potter has defeated You-Know-Who again!! He has saved us and the wizarding world again!" Without even a shred of doubt, Dobby believed Harry's words without hesitation, "Harry Potter is indeed! Our hero!!"

"It is because of the great Harry Potter that all those evils cannot - Oh, Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!!" The house-elf has punished himself once again.

"So, you are serving a Death Eater family now?" Harry tried to analyze Dobby's fragmented words. "Voldemort... or a part of him plans to launch an attack on Hogwarts this year?"

"No! Don't say that name! Sir! Don't say it!" Dobby suddenly covered his head and screamed.

Harry was a little reminded of Ron before. Just like a cat whose tail was accidentally stepped on, Dobby's reaction at this moment was exactly the same as Ron's at that time, which made Harry speechless.

Is Voldemort really that scary?

"So it was him?"

"No, it's not." Dobby shook his head vigorously, "It's not the man who must not be named."

"Then you should believe in my strength," Harry said seriously, "With Dumbledore and I both in Hogwarts, it should be the defeated evil forces that fear our existence, not that we need to avoid them. Don't get the point wrong, Dobby."

"How brave, how bold." Dobby's eyes became moist again. "In a place unknown to so many people, he has once again defeated the mysterious man and protected the wizarding world... Oh, but even Harry Potter will be in danger. This time, Dobby must protect Harry Potter."

To be honest, Harry was a little annoyed. Dobby's words made him suddenly realize one thing: it was impossible to convince an extremely neurotic person with simple words. They would act according to what they had already determined.

Whenever Harry encountered such people in the world of Azeroth, he usually had to engage in a passionate battle before they could understand his nonsense and become easier to communicate with.

Harry decided to fast-forward the process.

"So you still don't want me to go back to Hogwarts?" he asked aloud, "Or is it because of a weird thing that you can't even explain, which is not even Voldemort?"

"No, no, Hogwarts is too dangerous." Dobby shook his head vigorously, his ears flashing, "Dobby must protect Harry Potter! Dobby can do it! Even if Dobby has to punish himself for it and clamp his ears on the oven door——"

"I repeat, Dobby, I don't need your protection," Harry emphasized seriously, "I also don't need someone to make decisions for me without authorization, because I didn't even know you before this afternoon."

"Oh my God! Harry Potter actually said Dobby is a human!" Dobby shouted in surprise, "Dobby has never been said like this by a wizard! It's like a peer--" There was no way to talk today!

Harry had completely given up on trying to negotiate normally with a crazy house-elf.

"Fawkes!!" Harry suddenly raised his head and shouted, calling the phoenix belonging to Dumbledore.

And in the next second, accompanied by a flash of fire, Fawkes appeared on Harry's shoulder as they had agreed before.

Almost at the moment when Fox appeared, Dobby disappeared over the railing out of thin air.

"Catch it! Fox!!"

Without too much time to explain, Harry pointed at the place where Dobby disappeared and shouted, and Fawkes was indeed very smart - Harry once again felt the feeling of being transported by the Phoenix.

Not just smart, but more importantly, reliable.

When Harry landed amidst the flames, the first thing he saw was Dobby, who looked shocked.

This paranoid house-elf had never imagined that Harry would be able to track him down by following the trace of his Apparition. To be honest, not even Harry himself had expected this. He had called out to Fawkes just to give it a try.

As a matter of fact, the teleportation ability of the phoenix is significantly higher than that of the magic of the house-elf.

"Harry! Potter!!"

Dobby screamed and disappeared again. Fawkes pecked Harry's hair gently, asking whether he should continue to chase him.

"Wait a minute." Shaking his head slightly, Harry stood up straight. He wanted to know where on earth he was being taken.

There is no distance limit for Apparition. When Dobby encounters danger, the first place he will instinctively flee to is definitely his home - or his owner's home.

I am currently standing on a lawn that has been well-groomed to the point of being exquisite. Not far away is a clean stone road. Looking further ahead, this is probably the interior of a manor. Further away, I can see a series of black iron fences with vines more or less entwined around them.

At the place where the main entrance of the manor should be stood a majestic gate, probably forged from black iron, carved with intricate patterns and decorated with delicate spikes on the top. But what Harry cared more about was the huge emblem inlaid in the center of the gate - two silver snakes entwined on a shield, and the emeralds inlaid on the snakes' eyes flashed a cold color in the sun.

But more important was the big letter M... Combined with the name that had been mentioned many times when he was reading the history of wizards, Harry felt that he had roughly guessed where he was now.

Malfoy family, Malfoy Manor.

Uninvited, sudden visit - it was a real sudden visit, there was absolutely no way that Malfoy Manor was not set up with an Anti-Apparition Charm, but unfortunately, Harry was forced into the manor by Fawkes, and the wizards' Anti-Apparition Charm could not stop the power of the Phoenix.

There was a gorgeous fountain in front of Harry. In the center of the fountain stood a snake-shaped sculpture with its head raised high. The water droplets sprayed from it were illuminated by the sunlight, and a beautiful rainbow could be seen faintly behind it.

Harry could even see a few beautiful white peacocks strolling leisurely on the grass, and his sudden appearance did not disturb them at all.

Harry had heard the sound of the door opening, and on his right was a magnificent Gothic mansion with a towering spire pointing straight to the sky. The exterior walls were made of dark grey stone, and the sunlight reflected a soft luster on the stone walls. The windows were tall and narrow, each one inlaid with thick glass, shimmering with colorful light and shadow.

And at this moment, at this moment, at the door of this Gothic mansion, a man with light golden hair was standing there. He held a cane carved with a snake head in one hand. His gray eyes flashed with cold and angry colors. His face looked thin and pointed, and very pale.

In Harry's memory, Draco Malfoy's face still vaguely resembles that of this man.

Fawkes was pecking at Harry's hair fiercely, because this was the first time he had encountered such a situation - although he had taken Dumbledore to the door of other people's manor houses several times before, this was the first time that the manor owner reacted so violently.

Yes, intense.

The alarm was sounded at Malfoy Manor.

The statues on both sides of the road began to move on their own. They walked towards Harry with stone weapons in their hands. A translucent light shield directly enveloped the Gothic mansion, and even the gray stone slabs covering the surface of the mansion seemed to be emitting a faint glow.

The neatly-tended lawn suddenly began to churn, as if something was moving underneath. Was it a snake? Or a vine?
Harry watched all this with a wooden face. He suddenly raised his head and saw a black owl flying through the air. The next moment, a letter fell directly from the air into his hand.

Why would a letter arrive at this time?
Don't be anxious, really don't be anxious. Draco Malfoy's father was obviously very panicked at this moment, and the strategy he adopted was more of a defensive strategy, serving as a deterrent - he was also shocked that someone dared to invade Malfoy Manor.

The most important thing is——how did this person get past the manor's external defense system and directly enter the manor? ? ! !

Not panicking because of the various defenses activated in Malfoy Manor, Harry took a deep breath and chose to open the letter in his hand first.

Dear Mr. Porter:

We have received reports that you used the Apparition Charm at 4:26 this afternoon in your Muggle neighbourhood.

As you are aware, underage witches and wizards are not allowed to practice magic outside of school and if you continue to do so you may be expelled from school (The Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards Act, 1875, Section C).

We also remind you that any magical activity that might attract the attention of non-magical members of the community (Muggles) is a violation of Article 13 of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and is a serious offense.

Have a great holiday!

Yours faithfully
Mafalda Hopkirk
Prohibition of misuse of the Magic Office

Ministry of Magic]

Harry expressionlessly crumpled the letter in his hand into a ball - then he unfolded the ball of paper again, folded it and put it into the dragonhide bag he carried with him.

This is evidence.

Evidence of a protest against the Ministry of Magic.

All Harry wanted now was to skin the house-elf named Dobby.

This bastard even tricked him. No wonder when Fawkes was tracking him, he didn't end up in the inner room of the Malfoy mansion but appeared at the door of the mansion. The house-elf named Dobby actually used the wizard's Apparition to escape in the end!

Then of course it can't directly enter the mansion!
Everything was done to trigger the traces in Harry, so that he would be punished by the Ministry of Magic - even if this bastard continued to use magic, according to the contents of this letter, wouldn't he be expelled from Hogwarts on the spot? ! !

(End of this chapter)