Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Xenophilius stood at the door of No. 221 Baker Street nervously.

After ringing the doorbell, he stretched out his hand to straighten his tie.

"Don't worry, Dad." Luna said, standing on Xenophilius's left hand side, "You look great today."

"Thank you, Luna." But Xenophilius still touched his marshmallow-white hair nervously.

Today, Xenophilius is wearing a gorgeous dress that looks like he came out of a medieval palace, while Luna is wearing a pure white suspender dress with a flower pattern. Her long platinum hair is tied into a bun behind her head, surrounded by a flower.

Wreaths are tied.

Finally, while Xenophilius was waiting anxiously, the door of No. 221 Baker Street opened from the inside.

The person who opened the door was a young wizard with black hair and eyes, about twelve or thirteen years old, it was Tiera.

Tiera was wearing the Hogwarts uniform today, her hair was combed like an adult, and she had a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on her nose.

"Mr. Lovegood, Miss Lovegood, hello." Tiera politely shook Xenophilius and Luna's hands and let them into the room. "My father is already waiting.

You guys, please come with me."

Luna and Xenophilius followed Tiera to the restaurant. Gilderoy Lockhart was already waiting for them there, and sitting next to him was someone whom Luna and Xenophilius could never imagine...

…or a creature—

A house elf sat awkwardly to the left of Gilderoy Lockhart.

This made Xenophilius visibly stunned for a moment and stayed where he was——

Looking back at Luna, her eyes were shining, her body was trembling slightly, and she looked very interested in Dobby.

"Aha, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart came out from behind the dining table and shook the hands of Xenophilius and Luna Lovegood warmly, "Come in, come in.

"

"I hope you don't mind." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "This is Dobby, who was originally a house elf of the Malfoy family. I think you should have learned the specific story from various reports. I

I won’t go into details.”

With that said, Gilderoy Lockhart led Xenophilius to the dining table.

"And due to the operation of my lovely adopted son, Tiera, Dobby has gained freedom, so I decided to hire him, and the salary is one gold galleon per month-" Gilderoy Lockhart smiled and said,

"I know that this salary is not high. I originally planned to pay ten gold galleons a month, but Dobby refused to accept it no matter how high it was, so I had to settle for one gold galleons a month. Mr. Dobby is now in charge of our daily work.

Food, daily life and work, today’s sumptuous lunch is Mr. Dobby’s masterpiece.”

"Oh my god, Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius seemed to be shocked and stood beside his seat at a loss. "I used to, I used to... always heard that you are a great wizard with great ambitions.

, but I didn’t expect...I didn’t expect...I didn’t expect your ideal to be so great..."

"Then please raise a glass." As he said this, Gilderoy Lockhart raised the wine glass on the table, "First of all, in order to welcome Mr. Lovegood and Miss Lovegood's visit, and to celebrate the upcoming arrival in advance.

Secondly, thank you to our lovely Mr. Dobby for preparing such a sumptuous lunch for us, cheers!”

After speaking, "Gilderoy Lockhart" raised his glass. Then he bent down and clinked the glass with Dobby.

"cheers!"

Tiera, Luna and Xenophilius said at the same time.

"Everyone, please take your seats quickly," Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile.

For today's lunch, Tiera asked Dobby to prepare a large bowl of tuna mashed potatoes, a whole roast turkey, a pot of pea and lamb soup, and a red wine-baked steak for each person.

And Sirius Black was still scratching the gopher alone.

"Mr. Lockhart, you are so great." Lovegood said excitedly again after sitting down, "You are indeed different from the idiots at the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet."

"Mr. Lovegood, we are old acquaintances." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "I remember that my first interview in the Daily Prophet was done by you. I said at that time that my

The ideal is world peace."

"Yes." Xenophilius said, "But I didn't realize it at all... I mean, I just thought you were saying polite words to me."

"It's not your fault, Mr. Lovegood." Gilderoy Lockhart gracefully cut a piece of steak and put it in his mouth——

Yes, the meat is tender and juicy.

It has to be said that Dobby's cooking skills, trained by the Malfoy family, are quite good.

At this time, Sirius Black had just eaten his first gopher, swallowing it whole together with the fur, bones and dirt.

"At that time, I did not reveal my intention to maintain world peace." Gilderoy Lockhart continued, "Maintaining world peace is a long and arduous action. At that time, I was just an adventurer who had just become famous.

Although I have the ideal of maintaining world peace, I do not have the power to maintain world peace. So I made a preliminary plan."

"What...what preliminary plan?" Xenophilius asked.

"That is to enhance my own strength. At that time, I was just a young wizard with mediocre talent. The seven years of stable study and life at Hogwarts did not change this fact, so I began to travel to various places, constantly using adventure

To hone my own abilities." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "But as I traveled and as my knowledge continued to deepen, I realized how shallow my previous knowledge was and how naive my previous ideals were.

"

"You...what do you mean?" Xenophilius slowed down his eating speed nervously.

"It is not enough to maintain world peace," said Gilderoy Lockhart.

At the same time, Tiera completely let go of her spiritual dimension, and her powerful spiritual power poured out, permeating the dining table.

"Mr. Lovegood, I would like to ask you, what is peace?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"Peace..." Xenophilius didn't quite understand why Gilderoy Lockhart asked, but he still answered honestly:

"Peace means the absence of war or other acts of violence that endanger life."

"Then do you think our wizarding world is at peace now?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"Hmm... I guess so." Xenophilius said.

"Okay, then Mr. Lovegood, let me ask you one more thing. House elves do not have wars with each other, nor do they engage in life-threatening violence. So can we say that house elves live in peace?

" Gilderoy Lockhart asked.

"This..." Xenophilius was speechless.

"Humans and horses live alone in the Forbidden Forest, and they live in peace with each other. However, as their habitats are destroyed, they migrate step by step deeper into the Forbidden Forest, and the birth rate of humans and horses is also decreasing year by year. So, do humans and horses live in peace?

Hit?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked again.

"There are also mixed-blood wizards and werewolves. Do they all live under the whitewashed peace of the Ministry of Magic?"

"The last question, Mr. Lovegood, if Voldemort had succeeded and killed all the wizards who opposed him, leaving only the wizards who were willing to accept his rule, everyone would be at his mercy like puppets on strings, living in a

Under his reign of terror, I believe there will be no war at that time, nor will there be any violence that endangers the lives of others, but..." Gilderoy Lockhart asked again, "Is that called peace?"

"What do you want to say? Mr. Lockhart." Xenophilius finally realized the change in the topic.

Gilderoy Lockhart smiled, put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said:

"Mr. Lovegood, have you ever heard of exploitation?"

Xenophilius stopped eating.

Even Luna Lovegood stopped her knife and fork.

Although she did not understand the meaning of the word "exploitation", she instinctively sensed the mountains of corpses and seas of blood contained in this word.