Chapter-5: I am finally free but there is something beyond the servant binding
"Winky… keep this book and these books into the rack…" Barty crouch senior asked her to work and Winky quickly went to work and took the book. Immediately she felt that a strange binding on her was broken. She can feel it.
Other humans that are wizards cannot feel it unless they have strong connection to the magic movements. If it was Luna she would have definitely noticed this but Barty crouch senior has many things on mind to notice something like this.
With that Winky is completely free and she is not longer bound to the servant contract of house elves. But with this contract removed the binding she felt a stronger binding that is connected to her race origin.
She can feel it and need to know what is actually binding her like this. With the binding gone she can move to other places without needing to worry about her master knowing her whereabouts.
She smoothly entered Hogwarts and started to read books in the library in invisible form using the invisibility cloak. The soul present cannot notice her as she was very careful about this matter.
Naturally she borrowed the invisibility cloak of Harry to visit these places. She did not go to the place where Dumbledore rests. Don't think that Dumbledore knows everything. Dumbledore is just a simple scheming person but not a god.
Winky read through the books more and more and the year is passing by quickly. Winky has a clear sense of the location of the big serpent basilisk because she specifically set some simple alarms just in case.
Knowing the habits of Barty crouch senior and his family Winky moved when others would not call for her for a little over few hours just to let her move around to get what she wanted and read books with peace of mind.
Winky doesn't care and continued to investigate about her origins. Entering the Ravenclaw common room is very easy for her because she is intelligent and can answer the questions of the metal bird door knocker.
She tried to find but the books here did not have the information she wanted. So she can only go to the Hufflepuff house dorms to check and see if there are any hidden secrets. The search went on and on. Soon it was the Quidditch match at Hogwarts.
Winky is also careful enough to not get noticed by Dobby during her movements as Dobby would be closely watching Harry during this time and it is dangerous to be caught by him and cause trouble about her information.
Dobby is stupid and he would reveal about her without a second thought. She doesn't want something like that to happen. It is still the second year of Hogwarts for Harry that is related to the chamber of secrets. The students here are around 17 years old.
In the original plot Winky would not appear till the fourth year. Appearing early would directly expose that she is a player. She doesn't want that to happen and others should think that she is just a normal character of this world.
Staying in the dark under the cover is the best protection she can have in this place or in any other place. So she put on her act and covered her tracks carefully without letting anyone know and using her capabilities as an elf to the fullest.
But in just few days the terrible thing happened that is the victims of basilisk grew. At the same time a house elf called Giffy came over from a declining wizarding family. He published that he knows what is happening at Hogwarts and knows of a way to solve it.
Actually he is the house elf of one the students at Hogwarts. So he was given a chance to talk but that did not mean that others would praise him for being intelligent. Also that student is a woman that is in the fifth year.
Based on the understanding of Winky from the eyes of the girl that is looking at this Giffy, she knows that Giffy has already taken this woman to bed and turned her into liking him. Only this way he was able to come here easily.
Well whatever the case Dobby will not interfere instead he would only watch the show. If things did not go in his way then he can only send this Giffy back to hell without a second thought.
With the words of Giffy they quickly found that the monster attacking them is actually the basilisk. Giffy even took people all the way to the bathroom to show the location where the basilisk would come out to hunt.
As for how to open this place to enter the passage, Giffy told them to use snake language to say the words. He pointed at Harry potter that can speak the snake language. He did not point it at Ginny because he wanted to ride Ginny in the future.
So he wanted to have some good impression with her. With his thought he actually dug his own grave. As soon as the matter touched Harry the situation changed to a different one.
Dumbledore has spent so many years and money to make an infant appear as the savior of the world. If Harry were to speak the snake language and if this news burst out now it would be no different than wasting all of his efforts.
In the original plot it did came out but that did not come out by the hands of others but accidentally by Harry. But if others accuse this situation then it is a different story. So Giffy was immediately suspected to be someone from the remnants of death eaters.
With that he was directly taken by Auror. Dumbledore don't mind others dying. He is already so old and he doesn't mind even his own death. Why would he care for a simple house elf? With that both the house elf and the student behind it were taken for interrogation.
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