"Mr. Malfoy, then you understand all the issues now," Ethan said to Lucius Malfoy with a smile.

"That's right, fortunately, the matter of the secret room has been resolved very well, and no one was hurt. I think the members of the Hogwarts Board of Directors will be quite satisfied with the result," Lucius Malfoy replied genially.

Professor McGonagall looked at the two suspiciously. Lucius Malfoy, who was obviously aggressive at first, asked Ethan for a while, and then became so easy-going after talking with Ethan for a while.

"Since the matter has been investigated, I think I should go too," said Lucius Malfoy.

Then he turned to his house-elf and said, "Let's go, Dobby!"

Lucius Malfoy opened the door, Dobby hurried over, and Lucius Malfoy kicked him out.

Professor McGonagall frowned when he saw him treating Dobby so rudely, but she couldn't interfere in this matter, after all, Dobby was the "personal property" of the Malfoy family.

All three in the principal's office heard Dobby's screams of pain coming down the hallway.

Harry stood there, thinking hard for a moment, then he had an idea.

"Professor Ethan," said Harry hastily, "excuse me, may I borrow this diary?"

Of course Ethan knew that Harry wanted to save Dobby, so he agreed without hesitation.

"Of course, Harry." Ethan put the diary in Harry's hand.

Harry grabbed the diary and rushed out of the office. He heard Dobby's pained screams round the corner, farther and farther.

Harry quickly took off a shoe, ripped off a sticky smelly sock, and shoved his diary in, wondering if the plan would work.

Then he ran down the dark corridor.

Ethan smiled as he looked at Harry who was leaving, presumably after a while, Dobby would be free.

"Professor Ethan, can you tell me what you and Mr. Malfoy talked about?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"It's nothing, we just exchanged the details of the back room incident. It is obvious that Mr. Malfoy is a reasonable person." Ethan replied.

Professor McGonagall looked at Ethan suspiciously, she could feel that Ethan must be hiding something.

But Ethan was obviously reluctant to say it, and she couldn't over-examine it, after all, Ethan was also her colleague.

Professor McGonagall wanted to say something, but a sudden loud noise in the corridor interrupted her.

Just when Professor McGonagall wanted to go out of the headmaster's office worriedly to see what was going on, Harry led Dobby happily into the headmaster's office.

"Harry Potter has freed Dobby!" Dobby exclaimed in a piercing shriek as soon as he saw Ethan.

"Harry Potter set Dobby free!" Dobby continued, widening his round eyes, "Harry Potter is the greatest man in the world!"

"Congratulations, Dobby, you are now a free elf, and you can now do whatever you want!" Ethan congratulated sincerely.

Dobby's ugly reddish-brown face suddenly burst into a bright smile, full of teeth, and he jumped twice as if planning to do something.

But soon the confusion appeared on his face again, and the freedom gained was so sudden that he didn't know what to do for a while.

Dobby stood cramped and squeezed his hand, he didn't know what to do.

Harry was a little dumbfounded when he saw the current situation. He was still immersed in the joy of letting Dobby back to freedom, but he didn't expect to encounter such a problem in the blink of an eye.

"I can give you an opinion, Dobby," Ethan said. "Go to Hermione, and Hermione must have a way to properly accommodate you."

"If you need any help, you can come to me or Professor McGonagall." Eason said, and Professor McGonagall also nodded, saying that he would definitely help.

Harry also remembered now, Hermione's House Elf Rights Promotion Association, and it was obvious that Hermione was finally useful now.

Thinking of this, Harry bid farewell to Ethan and Professor McGonagall in high spirits, and rushed outside with Dobby.

"Dobby, congratulations on your freedom!" Hermione exclaimed in surprise after hearing Harry's introduction to the whole process of freeing Dobby.

"Thank you, Miss Granger." Dobby's big nose was shaking with excitement.

"But the problem now is that Dobby doesn't know where to go!" Harry took the opportunity to express the problem he was facing now.

After listening to Harry's description of the current situation, Hermione also grew up in surprise. She didn't expect that she had finally waited for Dobby's freedom, but now she has encountered such a problem.

"Maybe we can ask Professor McGonagall if Dobby can be put into Hogwarts?" Ron, who had been silent all the time, suddenly reminded him.

Hermione's eyes lit up, "Yeah, let's go and ask!" Hermione cried.

Hermione thought that Ron had come up with a good idea, so that he could not only place Dobby, but also see Dobby whenever he wanted.

More importantly, Dobby can spread "advanced" ideas to other house-elves in his dealings with other house-elves.

"Dobby is a free elf, he can receive his own salary and regular holidays!" Hermione said excitedly.

When Dobby heard the salary and vacation, his body froze, as if someone had cast a petrification spell on him.

Harry looked at Dobby worriedly, for fear that he would be as hysterical as Pippi.

"Wages one by one vacation one by one" Dobby said these words tremblingly, as if something terrible had happened.

"Dobby is a house elf - an elf can't have one and one!" Dobby was pale and squeezed out the words word by word.

"Dobby! You're not like them! You're free!" Hermione warned loudly.

"Yeah! Dobby is a free elf!" Hermione's words seemed to give Dobby an inexplicable courage, making him puff out his bony chest.

"Dobby thinks that one-to-one can ask for a copper nut a year!" Dobby mustered up his courage and said his most daring request.

After he finished speaking, he seemed to be taken aback by his own greed, gasping for breath, and almost fainted.

Harry had no choice but to lower his waist and support Dobby's shoulders, preventing Dobby from passing out.

"A copper nut?" Hermione said in surprise.

"A copper nut can't buy anything! Dobby!" Hermione's eyes widened~lightnovelpub.net~ Even her two large front teeth were bared nervously.

"Dobby, you have to have more legitimate needs!" Hermione advised aside.

"You need at least 11, 50 Galleons a month!" Hermione thought for a while and set a reasonable salary price for Dobby.

"Fifty gold Galleons?" Dobby jumped up as if burned.

"This is terrifying! Miss Granger! Please don't say such things!" Dobby begged Hermione, trembling all over.

"Dobby, you don't have to be ashamed of this! You deserve it!" Hermione was still trying to persuade Dobby.

It's a pity that Dobby has been completely frightened by Hermione's fifty Golden Galleons proposal, and he is trembling and unwilling to listen to Hermione's words,

He didn't even have time to say goodbye to Harry, snapped his fingers and fled in a puff of smoke.

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