Chapter 278 Hogsmeade Week

Human nature always likes compromise.

This also applies to monsters like Fiddlesticks.

If it were to be Sherlock's slave for the rest of its life and always be obedient to the young man who defeated it twice, then even if it really chose to dissipate its soul, it would not agree.

But when it clearly expressed resistance, Sherlock slightly modified the magical contract.

Change the clauses with the word "slavery" in them to "cooperation", and change the free service to Shylock to "work in exchange for freedom."

The working time is set at 100 years. After 100 years, Fiddlesticks will regain his freedom again.

Looking at it this way, such a very "equal" magic contract makes people feel less uncomfortable.

Fiddlesticks, who has the ability to think independently, is very good at finding opportunities for himself.

Slavery becomes cooperation, which means it has not lost its dignity.

100 years of work in exchange for freedom is not something that cannot be accepted by Fiddlesticks, who has an almost infinite life.

Anyway, it had been imprisoned in the German Ministry of Magic for a century before, so enduring another century of imprisonment seemed to be no big deal.

Besides, this doesn't count as being imprisoned. There is still a chance to come out and show off with Sherlock.

After all, they are an "equal" partnership!

Even though he had given himself a chance, Fiddlesticks still acted very coy when he actually signed the soul contract, trying to continue to pretend to resist and let Sherlock relax some of the terms of the contract. A little looser.

But Sherlock just threw away the pen at this time. If you want to sign, you can sign it. If you don't sign, you will blow yourself up. The worst thing is that I will lie in bed for two months, recover from the injury, and still be a good and active man.

Seeing that it really had no way to bargain and give itself some benefits, it could only pitifully sign the revised contract.

But it didn't find that at the end of the contract, there was a very small text written in ancient runes that would not be noticed at all under normal circumstances.

[Sherlock Forrest has the final right to interpret this contract]

In the end, the matter of controlling Fiddlesticks was completed without any danger. Fiddlesticks, who successfully signed the contract, naturally no longer needs to be locked up in those four wooden boxes.

It itself is an incorporeal creature, and the shape of the straw man is just the form it finds most frightening.

So under normal circumstances, it can be turned into some small ornaments hanging around Sherlock's neck, which does not look noticeable.

When the hour and a half agreed upon with Silk arrived before entering the Room of Requirement, Silk opened the door to the Room of Requirement from the outside on time.

Seeing that Sherlock inside didn't look unusual, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"I just told you, it's safe to keep."

Sherlock proudly walked out of the Room of Requirement with Silk. At this moment, he suddenly remembered how he had just entered the Room of Requirement.

"Why did you kick me when you came in?"

After making sure that he was okay, Silk didn't even look at him.

"It's nothing, I just want to kick him."

"What do you mean you just want to kick me? Don't give me any trouble. You'd better tell me clearly now!"

"I want to go to Hogsmeade tomorrow."

"Don't change the subject!"

"are you going?"

"......go!"

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The relationship between Harry and Ron still hasn't thawed.

Even if it was Hogsmeade week today, Harry was determined not to meet Ron and would rather go out wearing the invisibility cloak.

Although Hermione said that talking to the air was stupid and she would never walk with Harry if he went out wearing the invisibility cloak, she still left Hogwarts Castle with Harry in the end.

"People keep looking at me now," Hermione said dissatisfied, "They think I'm talking to myself."

They had just come out of Honeydukes Candy Shop, and there were many students around.

"When you speak, don't move your mouth too obviously, otherwise they won't be able to see it." Harry tried to teach Hermione why she wasn't so special now.

But Hermione actually doesn't mind making others think she is a weirdo talking to herself. Her real purpose is to trick Harry into taking off his invisibility cloak so that he can later go to the Three Broomsticks Tavern." If he meets Ron by chance, maybe the two of them will reconcile.

But Harry had no intention of being fooled. No matter what Hermione said, he was unwilling to take off his invisibility cloak.

Facts also proved that Harry's approach was right, because after coming out of the candy store, they met an annoying woman, the Daily Prophet reporter who had just conducted an exclusive interview with Harry not long ago - Rita S. Kit.

If she were to see Harry, it would definitely be a struggle.

"Why hasn't she left yet!" Harry, who was hiding under the invisibility cloak, said angrily.

Hermione was not surprised and said: "She will definitely stay here until the competition officially starts. The exclusive interview with you before was not a big achievement for her."

After Skeeter and her camera assistant walked out of the tavern, Hermione and Harry walked in.

There were a lot of people in the tavern, and it was almost full. After all, there were only three taverns in the entire town of Hogsmeade. Compared with the sloppy Pig's Head Tavern and Mrs. Puddieff's Teahouse, which was generally only visited by couples, the three taverns were The Broomstick Tavern is a perfect place for drinking among friends.

Hermione and Harry found an empty table and sat down. From outsiders' eyes, all they could see was Hermione drinking Butterbeer.

"This is really stupid. Find Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com" Hermione helplessly complained again, and then she took out a book from her small bag, "Fortunately, I can always bring it Carry this thing with you.”

Harry saw the title of the book, called "The Communist Manifesto".

"I never knew what the purpose of reading these books was." Harry complained in a low voice. He had been living in the Dursleys' house and obviously knew something about the contents of the books Hermione had read recently. "The Wizarding World The situation is different from the Muggle side."

Hermione did look serious.

"As long as societies are made up of people, they are essentially similar. However, it seems that after entering modern times, wizards have indeed not been divided into classes by things like productivity, but this does not mean that classes do not exist. It is just based on Another way emerges in magical society.”

Just listening to what Harry said to her made her feel dizzy.

Just when he was bored, his eyes turned to the door of the tavern inadvertently, and suddenly his eyes lit up.