To cruelly mistreat a sentient species and derive pleasure from such atrocities.

This behavior, in any world, is a pathological act unwelcome in civilized society.

To be more precise, apart from a few psychologically twisted individuals or those with childhood traumas, most wizards do not harbor overt malice towards magical creatures. They do not deliberately abuse magical species, but... they don't consider them "beings with sensitive emotions like humans."

Wizards rarely care about the feelings of other non-human races; their attitude is often one of indifference.

This attitude has nothing to do with kindness or wisdom.

And among them, the most representative are undoubtedly the elves, whose race name has been changed to "house-elves."

As conquerors from ancient times, generations of wizards have domesticated house-elves, instilling them with the idea of slavery for generations.

What wizards have deprived them of is not just the house-elves' freedom, money, or fairness, but everything. The wizards' deprivation of house-elves is no longer at the level of individual morality, but rather the entire wizarding class oppressing the house-elves throughout a long history. Many wizards use the "voluntary" will of house-elves as a reason, but the essence of the problem lies in the fact that this "voluntary" is precisely the "original sin" accumulated by the wizarding community over thousands of years.

What house-elves are deprived of is not just the individual treatment of a single house-elf, but everything:

The entire self-existence of a race with higher intelligence.

House-elves no longer have anything of their own; they are simply a part of wizards' lives.

All their thoughts, emotions, and ways of life are dependent on wizards, and individual emotions and rationality are completely ignored and forgotten by wizards.

In the eyes of most wizards, "house-elves" are a general concept of beings born to unconditionally obey wizards.

"So, are you really not considering my suggestion just now? Professor."

Aileenna stood in front of the fireplace, turning her head to look at Dumbledore sitting behind his desk, making one last attempt to persuade him.

"Wizard-involved products will have a certain impact on the existing non-magical market, and the content that needs to be communicated and discussed is quite complicated. In addition to the supervision and review from the magical world, the response plan for the Muggle government also needs to be discussed. In fact, as I mentioned just now, in the early stages of magical industrialization, we can temporarily start with the liberation of production and consumption power in the magical world..."

"For example, ordering house-elves to enter the free market as independent individuals?"

Dumbledore shook his head, refusing with utmost firmness.

"They are too different from the goblins at Gringotts. If I really let you go ahead and push this idea, it might be okay in the short term, but it will be hard to say in the long run. Compared to those uncertain 'troubles' in the future, I would rather solve the clear difficulties in front of me."

"Actually, why don't you consider it again? Even if there are troubles, that would be a long time later."

Aileenna blinked her eyes, looking at the white-bearded old wizard with a look of concern, like a filial granddaughter.

"You are one hundred and eleven years old this year. I just hope you can be kind to your own body and not think about things that are too far away..."

"..."

Dumbledore couldn't help but twitch his lips.

He sent this girl to Nurmengard Castle in the first place because he was afraid of trouble, thinking of letting his old friend temper her.

Who knew that in less than a week, Grindelwald sent back an "enhanced version" of the witch, and publicly convened a meeting of the Acolytes in Salzburg, almost triggering the Third Wizarding War... Now that he thought about it, it might have been easier if they had just fought directly.

"Alright, do you really need me to state my concerns so clearly, Miss Kaslana—"

Dumbledore sighed longly, and said quietly, "You intend to liberate house-elves, right? Those seemingly mercenary words cannot cover up your kind, noble, and incredibly naive ideals... I believe that you will gradually prove that giving house-elves more freedom can create more benefits, but in reality, that is not the real cause and effect, just like everything you did in the former Soviet Union..."

"Oh, spare me, Professor Dumbledore—"

Aileenna raised her eyebrows, shook her head with a look of disgust, and said with a chuckle.

"To be honest, I would rather you regard me as a profit-seeking Goblin Queen, a dangerous and cold-blooded Dark Lord... than become the silly, naive, and disgusting saint in your mouth—I just think that the work of house-elves has not reached maximum saturation and profit, that's all."

"As one of the beneficiaries of the future new world, I have no reason to betray my own class."

Aileenna looked at the old wizard with a strange expression, raised her finger and shook it from side to side, and said seriously.

"Besides, house-elves are different from goblins and the people of the former Soviet Union. House-elves neither desire freedom nor need money."

"From the perspective of profit ratio, their biggest advantage is that what house-elves create is not surplus value, but direct profits that can be fully cashed in. As for these requirements of forced consumption, it is just another way of saying exploitation..."

"Hogwarts is the place with the most house-elves in the magical world, and I have no reason to lower my quality of life, don't you think?"

Aileenna waved her hand and poured the last bit of Floo Powder from the small basin beside the fireplace.

They have been using the fireplaces at Hogwarts for teleportation frequently during this period of time, and it seems that they need to consider replenishing some goods later.

She sprinkled the Floo Powder into the flames, watching the color of the flames instantly turn green.

"Well then, have a pleasant weekend—my work is done."

With the flames rising, her figure quickly disappeared in Dumbledore's office.

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Hufflepuff Common Room, Aileenna's bedroom.

The luxurious and warm room was empty, with several sets of girls' clothes casually thrown on the soft big bed.

The faintly ajar bathroom door revealed the sound of rushing water, as well as sporadic conversations and banter from the girls.

"Phew, I almost got trapped again..."

Aileenna materialized from the flames, gently patted her chest, and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the magical world, few people can hide their true thoughts from Dumbledore and Grindelwald.

Not to mention, like Aileenna just now, using some vague rhetoric to induce them to make choices—as time goes by, it is becoming increasingly difficult for her to hide herself from the two old men. If it were not for the long-standing mindset of the magical world, she would have been exposed.

The issue of house-elves must be resolved, it is a debt that has lasted for thousands of years.

Slavery may bring benefits in the short term, but when the capitalization process starts, it will inevitably evolve into a terrifying beast that devours people.

As Marx said: Capital is afraid of the absence of profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of a vacuum.

As long as there is enough profit, capital will become bold—if there is 10% profit, capital will guarantee that it will be used everywhere; with 20% profit, capital can become active; with 50% profit, capital will take risks; for 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; with more than 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime...

However, in the magical world where non-human intelligent creatures exist, wizards have a particularly high-return way:

To enslave other races, or rather, to bloodily exploit those who linger outside of human laws.

And the only way to curb this potential danger is to completely abolish slavery from the root before the demon's thoughts spread.

As the door opener of the "magical capital" world, Aileenna believes that she has the need and the obligation to close the gate of hell that may erupt at any time, otherwise she may really become the biggest executioner in the civilized world.

It's just that the difficulty of liberating house-elves is much greater than controlling Gringotts.

At least Hermione's childish plan of the "Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare" in the original work, as well as her naive attempts, have ruled out some wrong options for Aileenna in advance. In the original work, Hermione tried to leave knitted items she knitted in the Gryffindor common room, thinking that this would allow the house-elves to accidentally get a piece of clothing while cleaning, so as to liberate the house-elves of Hogwarts.

But the house-elves regarded Hermione's behavior as an insult, and even refused to clean the Gryffindor common room because of this.

In Aileenna's view, liberating house-elves is never a simple matter of granting freedom and rewards.

What wizards have taken away for thousands of years cannot be returned overnight by mandatory policies.

The deeply ingrained slave mentality of house-elves is one reason, and more importantly, what the elves lack is not just freedom and wealth.

What they lack is a complete set of independent survival modes. If you want them to form spontaneous rights demands—even if it is only a small beginning like Dobby—then you must let them occupy an independent living space in the wizarding world, as well as a certain social value.

"It seems that we still have to find a way to start with Dobby..."

Aileenna untied her wizard robe, threw it on the bed, and various thoughts floated and collided in her mind.

The big snake in the Chamber of Secrets is gone.

The plot in the original work has long been torn to pieces by her.

However, this does not mean that the plot in the original work has completely lost its effect.

By studying Dobby's mental journey, and the important nodes and factors that Harry Potter used to win over this elf, Aileenna still has a way to replicate the event one-to-one—even, she can create 120% or even 200% effect.

And when "Free Dobby" leaves the Malfoy family, she, as the head chef of Hogwarts, will have much more room to display her talents.

The only problem is, how should these few "performances" be filmed, and what are the choices of actors and scripts...

Aileenna kicked away the pleated skirt and socks at her feet, opened the door of the bathroom and walked in.

"You're back? Why did the meeting take so long this time?"

Noticing the noise at the door, Hermione, who was helping Luna put bubbles on her back, turned her head and glanced at the flat-chested white-haired dwarf.

Her eyes fell on the little dumb hair swaying lazily on Aileenna's head, and she looked alert.

"Also... you're not thinking of any bad ideas again, are you?"

"You guys say—"

Aileenna said softly, as if thinking about something.

"Elf Queen, Elf Princess, which of these two titles sounds better?"

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