Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 919: They are all profiteers
Chapter 920 are all profiteers
By the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were getting together to rest and keep warm to pass the time. They chatted about boring trifles one after another.
George pressed his body on the armchair, flipped through the recent "Daily Prophet", and found Rita Skeeter's report. After reading carefully, he said to Fred and Lee Jordan who were playing cards next to him : "Recently, I suddenly like Rita Skeeter."
"Don't really fall in love with her." Fred joked with a smile, "That woman is almost old enough to be your mother."
"I mean articles."
George continued to look down at the newspaper and read the latest front-page news. He felt that the amount of information in it seemed a bit large. Although Sirius has thrown out a lot of heavy news a while ago, the latest issue of "Defense Guide" has not yet been released, so we can only see what big news will be reported by the "Daily Prophet", and look for Bad news for Ludo Bagman.
Ludo Bagman almost took away all the Galleons in their pockets. Without Albert, their dream would have ended before it even started.
This enmity, Fred and George never forgot.
"That woman's articles are still so sharp, it would be bad luck for him to follow her."
Lee Jordan has also read Rita Skeeter’s articles published in the "Daily Prophet" in recent days, and has to admit that there is some reason why the other party's reports are popular, although most of them are talking nonsense.
However, everyone likes these gossip news.
"Sirius is really daring, he will definitely be in big trouble if he did that last time." George continued to flip through the newspaper, looking for more news about Bagman.
Since the woman Rita Skeeter exposed Ludo Bagman's scandal with astonishing efficiency, the former head of the Department of Sports and Sports of the Ministry of Magic has suddenly lost her reputation.
No way, there are quite a few wizards betting on Bagman in the World Cup, and people who lost money or won money scolded him.
Amidst the scolding of countless people, Bagman left the Ministry of Magic in despair, living a life of avoiding debts.
Harry, who was playing wizard chess with Ron next to him, heard the three talking about Sirius, so he looked up and asked, "What's the trouble with Sirius?"
"I don't know, but Fudge is not a generous man," said George.
"Last time, I met Fudge at the Leaky Cauldron, and I think he's not bad." Harry didn't have much contact with Fudge, and the impression he gave him wasn't too bad.
"If I were you, I wouldn't trust politicians: those people only care about their own status and power, they are the dirtiest guys in the world, even the toilet is cleaner than them." George closed the newspaper and said yes Harry said, "This is Albert's exact words, don't trust the morals of politicians, because they have no morals."
"I think it might be more appropriate to use stinky socks." Fred threw away the wizard card in his hand and complained, "The toilets in some places are still very clean."
Both Harry and Ron frowned. They never thought that Albert would hate Fudge so much. Even Fred, George and Lee Jordan had no respect for the Minister of Magic.
"I dare say that Mr. Minister definitely doesn't like certain truths to be known, which will damage his reputation and be detrimental to the next election of the Minister of Magic." Lee Jordan explained with a smile and shrugged, "especially But when people know that Fudge accidentally caused Peter Pettigrew to escape from Azkaban, his situation will become worse, and now he probably has the idea of killing Sirius.”
Harry opened his mouth in surprise, not knowing what to say.
He also knows that Fred, George and Lee Jordan always like to talk about Albert and admire him very much, but what he has to admit is how often Albert is right, that feeling It's like people want to believe in Dumbledore.
When Harry Potter had such a thought in his mind, he felt very absurd. Albert had already reached the height of Dumbledore.
Well, even though Harry doesn't want to admit it, it seems... Albert is really powerful. If he is as old as Dumbledore, he might become the next Dumbledore, even Harry would not Don't admit it.
"What should the Triwizard Tournament do now? The officials sent by the Ministry of Magic to hold and manage the Triwizard Tournament are all finished. Will the game continue?" Red and the others are quite fanatical every time they discuss Albert, which sounds a bit like what Percy said during the summer vacation:
Mr. Crouch thinks...I told Mr. Crouch so...Mr. Crouch thought so...Mr. Crouch told me...
Oh man, this is crazy.
Having Percy in the family is enough for him, and Ron doesn't want to see Fred and George become like this.
"It should continue. Albert said that the warriors signed a contract with the Goblet of Fire, and they must not give up no matter what, otherwise they cannot bear the price of breaching the contract." Fred said without hesitation, "I dare say Albert He had already guessed that this would happen, so he didn't care too much about the outcome of this game"
"It's really a game full of disasters, maybe this is the last one." Lee Jordan began to clean up the wizard cards on the table.
"By the way, when are you going to officially sell wizard cards?" Ron reached out and picked up an exquisite wizard card. After several years of accumulation, the wizard card became more and more refined.
"Next semester."
“At that time, we will place advertisements, open an owl mail order service, and sell products to Hogwarts students, making final preparations for opening a store after graduation.”
"Anderson really plans to help you open a store, like Zuko's joke shop." Ron was full of envy, and he wanted such a good friend, "However, apart from canary biscuits, How many new products have you prepared?"
"I will never let you down, there are many interesting things."
"Including wizard cards?" Harry asked curiously, "How much do you plan to sell this thing for?"
"A pack of two sickles, and there will be five wizard cards in it." Lee Jordan introduced, "The wizard card deck is one Galleon."
"It's really expensive, it's a profiteer." Ron looked at the three people in front of him with strange eyes.
"Is it very expensive? No, you only need to spend one Galleon to buy a card set, and you can play." Lee Jordan looked at Ron with the eyes of a poor man and said, "It is not necessary to buy supplementary card packs. , and as long as you join the wizard card club and are willing to participate in the competition, we will give away some free card packs every year, to be honest, the cheapest wizard card is more than one Galleon.”
Ron opened his mouth and wanted to refute, so he heard Lee Jordan continue, "If you think this thing is expensive, then the things invented by Fred, George and Albert must be It’s even more unaffordable, they need two Sickles for any candy.”
"Are you crazy about money?" Ron looked at the Weasley twins in disbelief, "A candy costs two Sickles?"
"There is a reason why we dare to sell it so expensive." Fred and George looked at each other, put their hands on Ron's shoulders, and said with a smile, "If you want to get sick, our skipping candy is Can make you sick in no time."
"Sick minds want to be sick." Ron broke away from the twins angrily.
"No, there are always people who want to get sick." Fred shrugged and said, "After eating the skipping candy, we can guarantee that even experienced professors will feel that you need to go to the school hospital urgently. When you leave the classroom, you can take the other half of the antidote and quickly return to normal. Then, you can spend the rest of the time freely."
Looking at the stunned Ron, Fred and George patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and said, "We have tested it ourselves, and it is safe, fast and harmless."
"Sounds like a good thing." Harry muttered, "Give me a copy of all kinds of skipping candies."
If there was such a good thing back then, Harry would definitely be sick and hospitalized every time he took Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
"We are not ready to sell it to the outside world now, I am afraid you will have to wait until next semester." Fred explained helplessly, "Of course, if you want to book in advance, you can pay first and be the first to book in advance customers, we can give you a 20% discount, and others cannot enjoy such a discount."
"There are some inventions, or give me a copy of each!" Harry was very interested in the twins' inventions.
"Wow, are you sure Harry?"
Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all showed exaggerated expressions, and reminded, "This will cost several hundred Galleons."
"A few hundred Galleons, why is it so expensive, are you robbing?"
Harry and Ron were also taken aback by the high price.
"Of course it's expensive, a few hundred Galleons is still cheap, if you want to customize it, the price will be more expensive." George got a weekly magazine from somewhere and handed it to Harry.
"What's this?" Harry asked, taking the magazine.
"Our product catalogue." George explained proudly.
"It's all in there?"
Harry and Ron looked at each other, this number is too much.
"All of them, but some things need to be customized by Albert, and the price is expensive." Fred turned the magazine to the protective equipment column.
"There are several kinds of fireworks in this magazine. The cheapest one costs two Sickles, and the most expensive one costs 20 Galleons to buy a deluxe deflagration. There are also special customized versions, the price is negotiable. "Lee Jordan said to Ron, "So, the wizard card is really not expensive, and it can even be said to be quite cheap."
"You guys also sell invisibility cloaks?" Harry asked in surprise when he found that there were actually invisibility cloaks on sale.
"Well, sort of." Fred explained, "Actually, it's a traveling cloak with a disillusionment spell or blinding eyes. It can be invisible at first, but it will gradually lose its invisible effect after a long time. It's not easy to use, but it's definitely more than enough to fool Filch."
"However, why is there such a big gap in the price?" Ron found that the cheapest invisibility cloak cost fifteen Galleons, while the most expensive one cost three hundred Galleons, a full twenty times. "
"The quality is different. The three hundred ones belong to a very delicate cloak even if it loses its magic power. The material is silk, which is a special custom-made model, and you need to make an appointment with Albert." Fred shrugged Said, "Of course, the duration of the invisible effect is longer."
"I found out that Anderson is a profiteer!"
Looking at Ron’s entire product catalog magazine, the most expensive of them is the custom-made product, and a temporary appointment is required, and a deposit of 100 Galleons is required, and the cheapest custom-made product costs 100 Galleons, and the most expensive Others need five thousand. It is said that it is a whole set of protective equipment made of dragon skin, which can completely resist ordinary curses, and can also greatly weaken the power of black magic.
“How can you say that.”
The three looked at each other and said in unison, "Albert is a profiteer."
At this moment~IndoMTL.com~Hermione walked into the common room out of breath
"What's the matter, Hermione?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"Do you know where Albert is?" Hermione said urgently.
"I don't know, maybe I went to Hagrid." Fred asked suspiciously, "You have something to do with him?"
"Something bad happened." Hermione grabbed Harry's arm, pulled him up from his seat, and said quickly, "Harry, come with me."
"What happened?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Please, you come with me first, I'll tell you on the way." Hermione pulled Harry and walked out of the corridor, Ron got up and followed, leaving the three of them looking at each other.
"What's going on, Hermione?"
After Harry followed Hermione out of the common room, he looked at the nervous and impatient Hermione in confusion.
"Winky's broken," said Hermione tremblingly.
Call for shop names.
(end of this chapter)