Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 241: Canon, Galleon
As December enters December, it snows more frequently in Scotland.
Hogwarts Castle and the surrounding forest are covered in snow, and a thick layer of ice has refrozen on the surface of the Black Lake surrounding the castle. A new round of skating craze has set off on the lake. Albert has been there once, and met Katrina, the skating killer, this Miss McDoug still has not given up the idea of learning to skate.
I don't know if it's because of her poor talent or other reasons. The smart Katrina just can't learn to skate.
Albert, however, isn't too worried about encountering the skate killer while skating. Because he seldom goes back to the Black Lake for ice skating, most of his spare time, Albert has been looking for a winter specialty - snow fungus in the woods around the school with several roommates.
Snow mushroom, also known as cedar mushroom, is a type of mushroom that only appears in winter when it snows. The number of pine mushrooms is scarce, the taste is good, and it has high medicinal value.
Of course, this stuff is not easy to store. After leaving the cold snow, it is easy to spoil and rot. Usually, after picking the snow fungus, it must be processed as soon as possible.
Of course, it can also be directly made into food. Grilled snow mushrooms are quite delicious and memorable.
Last year, Albert sliced and roasted the snow fungus he dug up and ate it, almost making a few roommates feel bad.
In pharmacies, snow mushrooms are extremely precious medicinal materials, but it does not mean that the snow mushrooms they dug can be directly sold and sold at high prices.
It's cruel to say that, but the pharmacies in Diagon Alley don't accept raw snow mushrooms, and even if they are processed, the merchants won't want to buy them if they find out that you're not a potions expert.
Processing snow fungus is a technical activity, and the wrong method will directly lead to the decline of the quality of snow fungus powder, which will seriously affect the effect of the produced medicine.
The black market does not lose a sales channel, and Mundungus can definitely make a small profit by asking Mundungus to help sell it on the black market. However, in Albert's view, this approach is a loss-making business.
In the period of commodity circulation, middlemen are always the most blood-sucking links, especially in the black market.
Albert is not willing to suffer a big loss, not to mention that it is a stupid practice to directly sell magic raw materials. If the raw materials can be processed into finished products, they will be able to obtain greater profits.
"Store the snow fungus powder first." Albert put the snow fungus he just picked into a wooden box filled with snow, and mentioned it to his roommates again: "I don't agree with it. Selling the raw materials directly is definitely the most loss-making business. If you want to sell your share of the powder, I can help you contact Mundungus and ask him about the price of buying the powder. But don't expect How many Galleons can I get from Mundungus."
The four of them worked in the woods for half an hour and only found five snow mushrooms.
Of course, the main reason is that the number of snow mushrooms that can be found outside the Forbidden Forest is rapidly decreasing after a few people's efforts.
Albert doesn't approve of going deep into the Forbidden Forest, so they've been on the outside.
However, the four of them are not just looking for snow mushrooms, Albert is also taking the time to draw a map of the forbidden forest, and roughly marking the location of the snow mushrooms on the map, it will be easier to pick snow mushrooms next year. efficient.
Fred and George were very entangled when they heard Albert's proposal. According to Albert, even if they sold Albert's processed snow fungus powder, they might not get much bonus. Long, at least the canon that should have been obtained will shrink by 50 to 80%. The black market price is indeed very expensive, but that is the price of black market merchants who are cheating customers, unless they are willing to go to the black market to sell in person, and can also find snow mushroom powder in urgent need. Customers, otherwise only the shares of being slaughtered.
Albert never likes being slaughtered, he prefers slaughtering other people's wallets, so he doesn't approve of cheap sales.
Both Fred and George were hesitant. In their opinion, as long as they could sell a few Galleons, it would be worthwhile to find the snow fungus by themselves, but they also understood Albert's mind and thinking. They know better what to do and how to make a lot of money than they do.
They finally agreed that Albert would handle the stuff, and another reason was that Lee Jordan also agreed with Albert.
"Albert would rather bake the snow fungus he dug up and eat it than let himself suffer!" Li Jordan once said to the twins in private.
Actually, Albert had thought about selling the powdered snow fungus to Dagworth, the potion master, but he simply gave up after thinking about it. Dagworth has many channels to get snow mushroom powder, and he is also a little embarrassed. After all, he has no experience in processing snow mushroom powder, and the quality of snow mushroom powder currently stored can only be regarded as average.
The two are friends, and there's no need to mess up the relationship just because of that.
Being familiar is something that many people liked to do in the past life, but once this kind of thing is done, the friendship between the two sides will basically come to an end.
Of course, there are people who would like to sell it for a good price, but after careful consideration, Albert still thinks it is not worth it, so he never mentions it.
"Go back, bake and eat these snow mushrooms." Albert suddenly suggested on the way back to the castle.
"I feel sorry for you." Lee Jordan couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Albert, but he didn't object, turning to say in a weird tone. The taste of snow mushrooms is really good, and several people have found a lot of snow mushrooms this winter.
"It feels wasteful," Fred muttered, preferring to put Galleon in his pocket over delicious food.
Although George didn't say anything, he probably thought the same thing. There's nothing more real than Galleon~IndoMTL.com~ Don't worry, there will be Galleon sooner or later. "Lee Jordan comforted. At this moment, Lee Jordan's mind was clearer than Fred and George.
How to turn things into wealth is a skill, and if you want to earn Galleons, you must use your brain to find a way.
And Albert is obviously better at this than they are, so it is undoubtedly the most appropriate to leave it to him.
After all, a bottle of Buffy Brain Refresher can be sold for ten Galleons, and several students have secretly asked if they could help get a bottle in private.
If the snow fungus powder is made into a potion, the price will naturally be more expensive.
In fact, Albert really knows how to use snow fungus powder to further refine potions. After all, he has a good relationship with Dagworth, and he quickly got the formula for the energy recovery agent.
The preparation of the energy recovery agent is actually not difficult. It is rare that the raw materials used in the potion are very expensive magic materials. Therefore, the price of a small bottle of energy recovery agent is almost equal to the Fuling agent, and there is no market for it.
As for the effect of the energy recovery agent, just like its name, it replenishes the energy consumed by people and restores physical strength quickly.
Of course, it also has the effect of invigorating the kidneys.
If only I could get the common sense of snow fungus like the mandrake.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing really only depends on the face.
At this time, a dog bark suddenly sounded in the distance, and then they heard footsteps running towards them quickly.
"What was that sound just now?" All three stopped and turned to look in the direction the sound came from.
"Does the dog bark?" George muttered.
"Anyway, there must be nothing good, hurry up and leave." Albert had already guessed what was going on, and he urged the three companions to leave.