[Ellie's P.O.V.]
After the fire, I gave the rooms where I had been holding the troublemakers a minor renovation and locked four of them in there. Rowling wanted me to hand them over to the police but I didn't want to. They were mute and were only following orders after all. And with their leader already willing to admit things and work with us, the other four didn't have a reason to go against us anymore.
After thinking about it for a few days, I came up with an idea, which was to let them stay in the manor and work for me. I'd been planning to renovate Cecil Academy after this matter was settled, and that meant I would need more manpower soon.
"What are your plans now?" The leader of the troublemakers was eating when I posed this question to him.
He sneered and said, "Are you going to let me go? If you do, I will probably either go to prison and wait for death or find a job to support my brothers and me."
