The Mightiest Wizard of Hogwarts

Chapter 211 209 The Graveyard of the House-Elves
Feeney continued to follow Duoduo forward, the tunnel began to widen, the candles on the stone walls on both sides became denser, and some dead bones appeared on the ground. Looking at the size of those bones, a small part of them may be domesticated. elves, and most are goblins and elves,
"A lot, what are these?"

Finny still couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked,
Duoduo turned around and bowed to Feeney and said,

"I'm very sorry, Master Black, the sight here frightened you."

Finny waved his hand and said,
"No, I'm not surprised, I'm just curious, what are these bones?"

Duoduo said,
"I don't know the specifics, but according to the story handed down from the clan, these were once a stronghold of the fairies when they were judged by the fairies."

Feeney frowned. He didn't quite agree with this statement, but he didn't say anything.
Because besides this statement, he can't think of any other reasons. When all the options are eliminated, the remaining one, no matter how ridiculous, will be the correct result.

No longer thinking about the surrounding bones that were full of bones, Feeney continued to walk forward with Duoduo. It took about ten minutes. If it was changed to the ground, it would probably be when he reached the underground of the Forbidden Forest.
They finally arrived at their next destination, an empty space underground connected to the Hogwarts kitchen.

Finny found that there was a huge iron pot, some flames were burning under the iron pot, and inside the pot was a green viscous liquid with a pungent smell.

"Master Black, that's where the dead house-elves are disposed of,"

Duoduo pointed to the iron pot and said to Feeney,

Feeney was taken aback for a moment. He thought that after the death of the house elf, the body should be buried in the soil, but it turned out that it was boiled in a pot?Can't share food after that?Then kidding.

This is of course impossible. After careful observation, Feeney discovered that the iron pot was actually just shaped like an iron pot.

In fact, a track was attached to the bottom of the iron pot to drain the liquid in the pot. There are small holes in the track, so that part of the liquid can pass through the hole and stay below the track. At the end of the track is a huge, square pothole,
Inside the pits are candle molds one by one. 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 fat is extracted, the track is where the fat is filtered, and the final pit is where the gelled candle is cooled.

Looking closely, it turns out that there is a device above the iron pot, which is a sieve plate, on which are corpses, and there are magical knives on the bones, constantly peeling off the muscles on the bones organize.

There were a few house elves on the sieve tray, and after seeing Dodo and Finny coming, they hurried over,

"Hello, dear young master, Duoduo, what are you doing here?"

After greeting Finny, the house-elf asked Dodo,

Duoduo shook his head and said,

"Master Black is coming to the cemetery to have a look, so Duoduo will bring you over to have a look."

The house elf breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to snap his fingers to control the bones that had no meat scraps in the sieve tray to fly into the pit beside him.

Feeney saw that there were already many bones in there.
Duoduo introduced,

"Hogwarts house-elves are sent here when they die, and the oil is refined to make candles to light the Hogwarts castle,"

It was only then that Finny knew that the candles and flames in the castle were candles made from the corpses of house elves, except for the Gublai fairy fire.

Duoduo continued talking,

"The corpses after refining will be sent to the earth pit over there. Every 300 years, the dead house elves will be placed in the same earth pit. When 300 years pass, that earth pit will be filled. The beginning and end of the 300 years when it was full and left the pit in it, and the number of house-elves in it."

It was only then that Feeney noticed that beside the pit, there were three stone tablets with some numbers recorded on them, which meant this.

For the unique funeral form of Hogwarts house elves, Feeney expressed that he could not understand, but he also had some guesses.

Perhaps the house elves at Hogwarts have such a custom because Hufflepuff did it on purpose. After all, even the candles made from the corpses of house elves have a day when they burn out, and at this time, According to Feeney's judgment based on the burning conditions of the candles he saw before, it is roughly about 300 years.

Coincidentally, the longest lifespan of a house-elf is only 300 years.

Feeney doesn't believe it's a coincidence. Combining the goblin and elf bones seen in the tunnel before, Feeney has to suspect that the rumor in the wizarding world that Hufflepuff saved the house-elf is wrong. And the truth is another rumor in the pure-blood family, Hufflepuff created house-elves, which would also explain what happened to the contract in the blood of the house-elves.

Looking at the empty space around, Feeney felt that he had to find it by himself, so he said to Duoduo,

"Duoduo, I'm here alone, you don't have to follow me."

Afterwards, Duoduo was ignored, and he took the lead in walking towards the foundation stone tablet where the bones of many house elves were buried.

Compared to those empty spaces without anything, Feeney felt that it was more likely that there were clues hidden in this place.

Sure enough, the earliest of the three steles happened to be a few years later than the time when Hogwarts was established. This does not match the time when the legendary Hufflepuff rescued the house elves. A pile of house-elves that don't live long, but it is more likely that the first-generation house-elves she made are buried here.

What's more interesting is that the inscription on this stone tablet says that Hufflepuff erected the stone tablet here himself, and the house elves specially recorded it to commemorate this event,
You must know that the cemetery was established not long after Hogwarts was established. Even if Hufflepuff was only a child at that time, he would never live to the day when the stele was erected. After all, the stele was to be in the cemetery. It was erected 300 years later.

So, either the house-elves were lying and the stele had nothing to do with Hufflepuff, or Hufflepuff lived to that point, which fits with some sort of rumor in the wizarding world.

(End of this chapter)