Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

But understand that being ahead of the curve is not necessarily a good thing.

Once people's minds get into trouble, it is easy to make mistakes. The most evil villains in the story are actually ambitious young people with ideals and ambitions.

Sherlock very much expected Hermione to mature and become a pioneer of thought that could benefit the British wizarding community in the future, but he did not want this seedling to grow crookedly and become a figure like the so-called Dark Lord.

Of course, history makes winners and losers, and it is the right of the victors to discredit the losers.

If Grindelwald had won the final victory, the Dark Lord who hindered the progress of history might have been Dumbledore, and the title of the greatest white wizard of the 20th century might have been transferred to him.

But no matter from that perspective, it was not what Sherlock expected.

"How to eliminate inequality is an almost unsolvable problem, Hermione. Countless great people in history have been thinking about this problem, but they have not come up with an answer."

Sherlock said softly.

"It's good that you can spontaneously read these books and think about these issues. It proves that you really think about it. But knowledge is like this. The more ignorant people are, the more arrogant they are, and the more they know, the more correct they are. The world is full of questions, confusion and humility. This is not your problem, but it is for all seekers of knowledge.”

"If you read enough books, you can understand the wisdom of the predecessors and look at current problems by standing on the shoulders of those giants, but you must also understand where the ideas left by these people came from."

"Practice brings true knowledge. If you just read a book, you will always stay in other people's framework. If you have more and more questions and are more and more confused about what you want, then go and see for yourself."

"Go and look at the problem you want to solve. Look at other ideas. Don't blindly instill your ideas into others. You have to understand what they think first."

Hermione's eyes were filled with determination.

"I've already found out where the kitchen is, Professor, and I'll get to know the house elves with my own eyes."

Sherlock picked up his cup of black tea and took a sip.

"One more thing, I hope you can always remember that no matter what ideas you are exposed to or how your understanding of the world has changed, you must never forget your original intention, which is to make everyone better. If what you do in the future violates this original intention, then you are no longer you, and I don’t want to see Hermione Granger like that in the future.”

All he could do now was put a patch on Hermione's mind that hadn't completely let go yet.

Judging from the way Hermione nodded solemnly now, his patch should still have some effect.

After the conversation with Sherlock that day, Hermione took Harry and Ron with her in the evening to the corridor at the entrance to the Hufflepuff lounge that George and the others had mentioned.

"I think it's better if we don't disturb their lives." Harry said hesitantly, trying not to dampen Hermione's enthusiasm while also expressing his demands.

"I won't rush into the kitchen and persuade them to go on strike, as you think." Hermione said seriously, "I know that would be bad for them and us."

Ron stared. Because he had a quarrel with Harry some time ago, he didn't know what kind of changes had happened in Hermione. His face was full of surprise now.

"Then why are you taking us to the kitchen?"

"Go and see the living conditions of those house elves, chat with them, and understand their thoughts on unpaid work."

As Hermione spoke, she had already walked to the fruit mural, and then gently scratched the pear with her hand just as George taught her.

Li Zi chuckled, and then suddenly turned into a doorknob and appeared in front of them.

Hermione pressed the green door handle, opened the door, then grabbed Harry and Ron's arms with both hands, and pulled them into the kitchen together.

Harry only had time to see clearly that this was a room as big as the Great Hall. There were probably more than a hundred house elves working inside, when a familiar scream came from far and near.

"Harry Potter! It's Harry Potter!"

Then a small figure flew over, jumped up and hugged Harry tightly.

Harry also saw clearly the appearance of the house elf at this time.

"Do, Dobby!"

Dobby, whose big excited eyes were filled with tears, looked very happy.

"Dobby has come to work at Hogwarts, sir!" Dobby screamed excitedly. "Professor Dumbledore has given Dobby and Winky jobs, sir!"

Winky and Dobby were the only two house elves Harry knew.

Dobby learned about Lucius's conspiracy when he was in second grade to prevent Harry from returning to Hogwarts and encountering danger. Winky met at the Quidditch World Cup during the summer before school started. The Crouch family of house elves.

She was ruthlessly fired by Crouch for illegally possessing Harry's wand.

Unexpectedly, they all came to work at Hogwarts this year.

Dobby took them to find Winky in the kitchen. Winky seemed to be unhappy here. When she saw Harry and the others, she cried loudly, as if recalling bad past events.

They were clearly two completely different kinds of house elves.

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And Dobby is obviously an outlier among the elf. When he was at the Malfoy family, he admired Harry whose legendary deeds were widely circulated.

Even after overhearing his master's plan to disrupt Hogwarts, he acted as a bastard without hesitation, trying to prevent Harry from returning to Hogwarts no matter what.

Later, he became the only elf who advocated freedom. After coming to work at Hogwarts, he asked Dumbledore for wages and rest time.

It's just that although he is an alien, after all, he has been domesticated for more than ten years. He is full of guilt when asking for wages and rest time. Originally, Dumbledore wanted to give him a salary of ten galleons a week, but in the end he still Rejected by Dobby.

All he needed was a salary of one galleons a week and one day's rest a month.

It seems that this is completely out of proportion to the value of the labor he provided, but it is already an epoch-making feat among house elves.

It is precisely because of this that all the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen regard him as an alien, and even Winky doesn't like him.