Chapter 211 209 House-Elf Cemetery

Feeney continued to follow Duoduo forward. The tunnel began to widen, and the candles on the stone walls on both sides became denser. There were also some dead bones 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 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 specific details, 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 bones that were 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. There were some flames burning under the iron pot, 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 Fini,

Finny was stunned. He thought that after a house elf died, the body should be buried in the soil. But in the end, it was boiled in a pot? Can’t we share food after that? That's a joke.

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

In fact, that object has a track connected to the bottom of the iron pot to drain the liquid in the pot. There are small holes on 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 will bring 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 know 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 "

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 intentionally. 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 in the blood of house elves.

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 took the lead in walking towards the basic stone monument where the bones of many house elves were buried.

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

Sure enough, the earliest of the three stone tablets was built a few years later than the time when Hogwarts was established. This was inconsistent with the legend in the wizarding world that Hufflepuff saved the house-elves. After all, she couldn't save a bunch of house-elves who didn't live long. Instead, it was more likely that the first generation of house-elves she created was buried here.

What's 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 know, the cemetery was built not long after Hogwarts was founded. At that time, even if Hufflepuff was just a child, he would never live to see the day when the stone tablet was erected. After all, the stone tablet could only be erected three hundred years after the cemetery was built.

So, either the house-elves lied and the stone had nothing to do with Hufflepuff, or Hufflepuff lived to that time, which was consistent with some rumors in the wizarding world.