Life changing adventure

Chapter 4

When they reached the shadow of the the giant stadium Hermione couldn't help but stare at large stadium in front of her . Hermione looked around and saw every others had the same reaction as her except Percy who looked curiously but not awestruck . Hermione observed " You didn't seem surprised by this vastness ? " causing Percy to look at her and said " My father's office is another ten times large than this , so it is not that big " . Hermione looked at him in disbelief and before she could ask  a Ministry witch at entrance checked their tickets and said ""Prime seats! Top Box! Straight upstairs, Arthur, and as high as you can go."

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Mr. Weasley's party kept climbing, and at last they reached the top of the staircase and found themselves in a small box, set at the highest point of the stadium and situated exactly halfway between the golden goalposts. About twenty purple-and-gilt chairs stood in two rows here, and Harry, filing into the front seats with the Weasleys, looked down upon a scene the likes of which he could never have imagined.

A hundred thousand witches and wizards were taking their places in the seats, which rose in levels around the long oval field. Everything was suffused with a mysterious golden light, which seemed to come from the stadium itself. The field looked smooth as velvet from their lofty position. At either end of the field stood three goal hoops, fifty feet high; right opposite them, almost at Harry's eye level,was a gigantic blackboard. Gold writing kept dashing across it as though an invisible giant's hand were scrawling upon the blackboard and then wiping it off again; watching it, Harry saw that it was flashing advertisements across the field.The Bluebottle: A Broom for All the Family - safe, reliable, and with Built in Anti-Burgler Buzzer ... Mrs. Shower's All Purpose Magical Mess Remover: NoPain, No Stain! ... Gladrags Wizard wear - London, Paris, Hogsmeade... 

 Harry tore his eyes away from the sign and looked over his shoulder to see whoelse was sharing the box with them. So far it was empty, except for a tiny creature sitting in the second from last seat at the end of the row behind them. The creature,whose legs were so short they stuck out in front of it on the chair, was wearing a tea towel draped like a toga, and it had its face hidden in its hands. Yet those long,bat like ears were oddly familiar...."Dobby?" said Harry incredulously.The tiny creature looked up and stretched its fingers, revealing enormous browneyes and a nose the exact size and shape of a large tomato. It wasn't Dobby- it was, however, unmistakably a house-elf, as Harry's friend Dobby had been. Harryhad set Dobby free from his old owners, the Malfoy family. 

Its voice was higher even than Dobby's had been, a teeny, quivering squeak of a voice, and Harry suspected though it was very hard to tell with a house-elf -that this one might just be female. Ron and Hermione spun around in their seats to look. Though they had heard a lot about Dobby from Harry, they had never actually met him. Even Mr. Weasley and Percy looked around in interest.

"Sorry," Harry told the elf, "I just thought you were someone I knew." "But I knows Dobby too, sir!" squeaked the elf. She was shielding her face,as though blinded by light, though the Top Box was not brightly lit. "My name is Winky, sir - and you, sir -" Her dark brown eyes widened to the size of side plates as they rested upon Harry's scar. "You is surely Harry Potter!" "Yeah, I am," said Harry. "But Dobby talks of you all the time, sir!" s he said, lowering her hands very slightly and looking awestruck. 

"How is he?" said Harry. "How's freedom suiting him?" "Ah, sir," said Winky, shaking her head, "ah sir, meaning no disrespect, sir, but I is not sure you did Dobby a favor, sir, when you is setting him free." "Why?" said Harry, taken aback. "What's wrong with him?""Freedom is going to Dobby's head, sir, " said Winky sadly. "Ideas above his station, sir. Can't get another position, sir." "Why not?" said Harry.Winky lowered her voice by a half-octave and whispered, "He is wanting payingfor his work, sir." "Paying?" said Harry blankly. "Well - why shouldn't he be paid?"Winky looked quite horrified at the idea and closed her fingers slightly sothat her63face was half-hidden again. "House-elves is not paid, sir!" she said in a muffled squeak. "No, no, no. Isays toDobby, I says, go find yourself a nice family and settle down, Dobby. He is getting up to all sorts of high jinks, sir, what is unbecoming to a house-elf. You goes racketing around like this, Dobby, I says, and next thing I hear you'sup infront of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magica lCreatures, likesome common goblin.