At dusk, Li Wei and Hermione properly hosted Professor Flitwick for a good meal.
At the dinner table, the three of them discussed traveling to Moscow together to participate in the Wizard Duelling Convention.
"Let's go, Li Wei, and Miss Granger!"
Early the next morning, Professor Flitwick changed into sportswear, looking just like an ordinary hiking trekker.
Li Wei and Hermione did the same, wearing activity-friendly sportswear, carrying backpacks, and leaving the manor castle together with Professor Flitwick.
The two of them left the matters inside the castle to Tower Spirit One and the two house-elves, Tib and Meb.
It was worth mentioning that Hermione's house-elf better-treatment plan began with their family's house-elves, Tib and Meb.
This pair of house-elves had already grown accustomed to their master's kind treatment.
They showed little resistance and readily agreed to Hermione's proposed salary and even holiday plans.
In contrast, over at Hogwarts Castle, apart from house-elves like Dobby who had experienced accidental awakening of consciousness and pursued freedom, all the other house-elves viewed Hermione's proposals to improve their treatment, pay them wages, give them holidays, and allow them to actively appear before young wizards with as much terror as tigers, resisting them utterly.
This sometimes left Hermione unable to help complaining to Li Wei:
I really don't know what Keeney and Marty and the others are thinking.
How could any intelligent creature resist a more comfortable life and better treatment?
Can't Keeney and Marty and the rest just be like Dobby and treat themselves as truly independent lives?
Can't they choose to be a little better to themselves?
Facing Hermione's complaints, Li Wei was just about to explain when the young witch knew what he wanted to say and answered preemptively:
"Yes, I know, I know, wizards' enslavement of house-elves is not only