The Mightiest Wizard of Hogwarts

Feeney continued to follow Duoduo forward. The tunnel began to widen, and the candles on the stone walls on both sides became denser. Some dead bones also appeared on the ground. Looking at the size of those bones, a small part of them might be domestic animals.

elves, and mostly goblins and elves,

"Duoduo, what are these?"

Feeney still couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked,

Duoduo turned to Fini and bowed and said,

"I'm very sorry, Master Black, the scene here has frightened you."

Feeney waved his hand and said,

"No, I'm not surprised, I'm just curious, who are these bones?"

Duoduo said,

"I don't know the details of Duoduo, but according to the legend passed down by the clan, these were once a stronghold of the goblins when they were judged by the goblins."

Feeney frowned. He didn't quite agree with this statement, but he didn't say anything.

Because apart from this statement, he could not think of any other reason. When all options are eliminated, the remaining one will be the correct result no matter how absurd it is.

No longer thinking about the filled with bones around him, Feini continued to follow Duoduo forward for about ten minutes. If it were on the ground, he would probably have arrived underground in the Forbidden Forest.

They finally arrived at their next destination, an empty space underground and connected to the Hogwarts kitchen.

Feeney discovered that there was a huge iron pot here, with some flames burning underground, and inside the pot was a green, viscous liquid with a pungent smell.

"Master Black, that's where the bodies of the house elves are disposed of,"

Duoduo pointed to the iron pot and said to Feeney,

Feeney was stunned. He thought that after a house elf dies, the body should be buried in the soil. But, is it boiled in a pot? It can't be shared afterward, right? That's a joke.

This was of course impossible. After careful observation, Feeney discovered that the iron pot actually just looked like an iron pot.

In fact, that item has a track connected to the bottom of the iron pot to drain the liquid in the pot. There are small holes in the track, allowing part of the liquid to pass through the holes and stay under the track.

At the end of the track is a huge, square pothole,

Inside the pit are grinding tools for candles. It seems that the candles on the left and right stone walls in the tunnel were made in this way.

The iron pot is where the corpse is boiled and the oil is extracted, the track is where the oil is filtered, and the final pit is where the candle is cooled.

Upon closer inspection, it turns out that there is another device above the iron pot. It is a sieve plate with corpses on it. There are enchanted knives on the bones, which are constantly peeling off the muscles on the bones.

organize.

There were several house elves on the sieve tray. After seeing the arrival of Duoduo and Fini, they hurried over.

"Hello, dear young master, Duoduo, what are you doing here?"

After greeting Fini, the house elf asked Dodo,

Duoduo shook his head and said,

"Master Black wants to come to the cemetery to have a look. Duoduo brings the young master here to have a look."

The house elf then breathed a sigh of relief and continued to snap his fingers to control the bones in the sifting tray that had no meat scraps to fly to the pit nearby.

Feeney looked around and saw that there were already many bones inside.

Duoduo introduced,

"Hogwarts' house elves will be sent here after they die, and their grease will be refined to make candles to light the Hogwarts castle."

Only then did Feeney realize that the candles and flames in the castle, except for Gubler's fairy fire, were candles made from the corpses of house elves.

Duoduo continued,

"The corpses that have been refined will be sent to the pit over there. House elves that die within three hundred years will be placed in the same pit. When three hundred years pass, that pit will be

The three hundred years it will take to fill up and leave a hole in it, and the number of house elves in it."

Only then did Feeney notice that next to the pit, there were three stone tablets with some numbers written on them, which turned out to mean this.

Feeney said he couldn't understand the unique funeral form of the house elves at Hogwarts, but he also had some guesses.

Perhaps the house elves in Hogwarts have such a custom because Hufflepuff did it deliberately. After all, even the candles made from the corpses of house elves will burn out one day, and at this time,

According to Feeney's judgment based on the burning conditions of the candles he saw before, it is roughly about three hundred years.

Coincidentally, the longest lifespan of a house elf is only three hundred years.

Finny didn't believe this was a coincidence. Combined with the goblin and elf bones he saw in the tunnel before, Finny had to suspect that the rumor circulating in the wizarding world that Hufflepuff saved the house elves was wrong.

The truth is that there is another rumor in the pure-blood family. Hufflepuff created house elves, which can also explain the contract between the house elves' blood.

Looking at the empty space around him, Feeney felt that it would be better to look for it by himself, so he said to Duoduo,

"Duoduo, I'm walking around here alone, you don't have to follow me."

Then he ignored Duoduo and walked first towards the basic stone monument where the bones of many house elves were buried.

Compared to those empty spaces without anything, Feeney felt that this place was more likely to contain clues.

Sure enough, the earliest of the three stone tablets happened to be a few years later than the time when Hogwarts was established. This is inconsistent with the time when the legendary Hufflepuff in the wizarding world saved the house elves. After all, she could not save a house elf.

The pile of house elves would not live long, but it was more likely that the first generation of house elves she made were buried in it.

What's even more interesting is that the inscription on this stone tablet says that Hufflepuff personally erected the stone tablet here. In order to commemorate this event, the house elves specially recorded it.

You must know that the cemetery was established not long after the establishment of Hogwarts. Even if Hufflepuff was just a child at that time, he would never live to see the day when the stele was erected. After all, this stele was to be in the cemetery home.

It would take three hundred years before it could be erected.

Therefore, either the house elves lied and this stone tablet had nothing to do with Hufflepuff, or Hufflepuff lived to that time, which is consistent with certain rumors in the wizarding world.