Chapter 316 S.E.E.S.

( ) Due to the fact that he didn't sleep almost all night last night, Maca looked particularly energetic now, because he had to take a sip of sobriety potion to refresh himself, so as to ensure that he could give the little wizards a normal class today.

As long as he finished the first class in the morning, he would have time to go back to the office to catch up on sleep.

However, when the bell rang for the end of the first class, Maca, who had just arrived in the corridor, was stopped by Hermione who was chasing her out.

"Oh, what's the matter, Hermione?"

Maca turned her head and looked at the girl who was chasing out of the classroom.

"Maka, just hold you up for a little while... is that okay?"

Hermione seemed to be holding something in her hand, she looked at Maca firmly, and seemed a little nervous.

"Of course... I mean, if you're not afraid of being late for the next class?"

Before the words were finished, Hermione grabbed Maca's sleeve decisively and quickly, and pulled him behind the corner of the corridor.

"It only takes a few minutes..." Hermione hurriedly said, "Maka, I have something I want to give you, and I hope you can accept it!"

As she spoke, she pulled Maca's hand forcefully, and stuffed a small object that she had been holding in her hand into Maca's hand.

When Maca opened his hand curiously to take a look, he found that it was a not very delicate brass badge. The most striking thing on the badge was the four letters:

".."

Maca was taken aback at that moment, as if he had thought of something, but he wasn't quite sure. After all, something similar to this does exist in his vague memory, but the above content seems to be...

"Huh?" He thought for a while, and simply joked, "Sees? What did you see?"

"It's not 'seeing'!" Hermione said dissatisfiedly. "It's S-E-E-S, which means Society for the ;of Elfish Spirit①."

"Oh?"

Maca finally showed a hint of surprise when he heard the concept of "liberating the spirit".

"I thought you'd set up something like a 'Rights Promotion Association'!" He stared at Hermione a few more times,

This is what he said with a certain meaning.

This time Hermione was surprised - when she met those house elves who worked hard every day but lived like slaves, the first thing she thought of was to improve their lives.

And if they want to make their lives better, they must readjust their status in the wizarding society.

So, what Hermione first thought of was to start an advocacy organization called "House Elf Rights Promotion Association". At this time, this concept came out of Maca's mouth, how could Hermione not be surprised?

But the point is that Hermione changed her original mind due to an opportunity in Black's old house and some influence from Maca.

In fact, this matter still has to start from the source after all...

During a certain conquest by ancient wizards, those elves who were originally free were completely conquered. The elves who lost their freedom were naturally reduced to a subordinate race of wizards, and were forced to swear an oath to serve the wizards from generation to generation.

Not to mention who was right and who was wrong in that war - because there is always no right or wrong in war, let's talk about the elf's oath of attachment first!

Obviously, in order to continue to survive, the elves, after being conquered, led by the patriarch of the elves at the time, actively obeyed the powerful wizards in desperation.

And once this kind of obedience by the weak begins, the primitive beliefs of the elves will collapse like an avalanche.

But in fact, this is just an inducement to change from "elf" to "house elf".

The original elves were originally a race of magical creatures with strong individual strength. They had their own innate magic, and they also possessed a powerful "reproductive ability" that other magical creatures could not match.

Although there was a period when the "elf" race was active, it was far enough away from modern times, and there are really no traces of relevant records to follow.

But based on the above two points, it can be roughly estimated that the wizard's battle against the elves at that time would never be easy.

In this way, it is conceivable why the wizarding society repeatedly "treats" house elves.

But because of this, when the entire race of elves belonged to wizards, their status was actually much higher than it is now.

Because there were records of the frequent wars at that time, it was the most appropriate choice for a race like the elves with impressive combat power to be organized into a controllable combat power.

However, at some point in history, the elves rebelled!

Maybe the rebellion was huge, or maybe the rebellion wasn't that great, at least the modern magic world didn't find much relevant information.

Everyone only knows that the elf's mutiny plan failed completely, and it was that failure that made the "elf", a race of magical creatures, quickly go to the bottom.

Complete freedom restrictions, complete labor errands, and complete ideological remolding finally allowed the term "house elf" to be born in the long river of history.

From the beginning of "wizards transforming elves" to later "the previous generation of elves transforming the next generation of elves", the change in thinking gradually became deeply rooted and has continued to modern times.

Today, the house elves have completely lost the concept of "self". The wizard's will is their will, and everything about the wizard is everything about them.

This is a long and monotonous history, and there are even many ambiguities in it, but the current Hermione can understand the truth.

She figured it out, even if she could persuade some wizards to unite and propose to improve the social status of house elves and give them the rights they deserved, that's not what she should do now.

Because the root of the problem lies in the house elves themselves - they have no "self".

As Sirius said that day:

"Anyway, that shock will definitely kill him—if you don't believe me, you can try to ask him to leave this house and see how he will react."

Although the old Kreacher seems a bit extreme, because his wish is to nail his head to the decorative panel of Black's house after death, just like his mother, and then hang it on the wall of Black's house to "glory his ancestors".

However, his thoughts are like a microcosm of all the house elves in today's society, clearly and clearly telling a bloody reality.

Therefore, Hermione gave up the "vomiting ②" and went further to think about "sees".

"Maka, how did you know this word? I haven't told anyone about it!" Hermione seemed a little embarrassed by the initial idea, because when she thought about it later, she realized that it was too naive.

"I guess..." Maca smiled and said, "I roughly understand what you mean. I will accept this badge first. Regarding your idea, I choose to support it."

"Really? That's great!" Hermione immediately put aside the shame in her heart, and almost jumped up with joy.

"Let's go to class first! Don't be late for a while... You can come to me and talk to me about your specific thoughts on this 'House Elf Spiritual Liberation Association'... Go first!"

"Okay," Hermione nodded vigorously, and after turning around and running for two steps, she turned around again and said seriously, "Thank you, Maca!"

Looking at the back of Hermione running away, Maca touched his chin subconsciously.

"Leaving aside Hermione's kindness and ideals, at least the race of house elves, if handled well, will indeed become a very powerful force..."

He couldn't help itching when he thought of the house-elf tribe on the small island of Rowena.

He really didn't intend to disturb the peaceful life of those little guys at the beginning, but if Hermione can make a good start with this "..", then he might as well use the power of those little guys to do something, right? ?

It's just that if it's not handled well, it will become a double-edged sword - he absolutely doesn't want to do things that harm others or himself, so this matter needs more consideration.

While Maca was thinking, he was walking along the corridor to his office. Halfway through, he suddenly felt a surge of tiredness from inside his body—the effect of the sobriety potion had come to an end.

He yawned big, then pushed open the door of the office and walked in lazily.

"There is another class in the afternoon, so I have to wake up before lunch..."

Maca muttered casually, and with a bang, the door of the office was closed roughly.

...

On the other hand, Hermione was not to mention how happy she was when she got Maca's affirmation.

Herbology class was next, and the smile on her face never faded as she made her way to the greenhouse. Even in the greenhouse, when Professor Sprout started her class, she still curled her mouth slightly, as if she would laugh again in the next second.

Beside her, Harry and Ron stared at her suspiciously, and kept on staring.

"What good thing happened to her?" Ron leaned closer to Harry's ear and whispered.

Of course, Harry shrugged inexplicably, expressing that he didn't know either.

Only occasionally, occasionally, Hermione would take her eyes off the flower pot and the little spatula, and look at the two of them with a sparkling look, and every time it would make their skin crawl.

"Harry, I don't think anything good will happen!" Ron whispered to Harry with a serious face while Hermione was not paying attention, "Let me tell you, let's not stay in the common room for a while, and go directly to the dormitory! "

At this moment, Hermione glanced at the two of them again very abruptly, that gaze seemed to be sizing up a group of animals for slaughter.

"Ron," Harry said decisively in a low voice, "I have to admit, I will definitely listen to you this time!"