Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures Chapter 234: The wealth of the Black family
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Because of the full purchase of Firebolt, Sirius received Quidditch League tickets for all the competitions next year presented by the store owner, a full set of ten, all special seats.
The Quidditch League game is the abbreviation of the Quiddich Super League of England and Ireland. It is blocked by the 13 best teams of magic circle.
Different from the simple confrontation between Hogwarts four houses and Quidditch League is a professional game.
They are very competitive and recruit players from all over the world.
The biggest dream of Gryffindor Quiddich Captain Oliver · Wood is to join Puddlemere United after graduation and become a professional player.
When he was in school, he always brought everyone the latest game news of Puddlemere United. The articles submitted to 《Hogwarts Magic》 were all about this aspect, discussing the new tactical analysis adopted by Puddlemere United and so on.
Because I usually hear more from Wood, they also look forward to Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and want to see what the professional league looks like.
They checked the schedule for next year and found that in the New Year first day, there was exactly a Puddlemere United game against Wimbourne Wasps.
Because this is the first Quiddich game after Christmas, both teams have high voices to win the championship, and there are many reasons for the Quiddich World Cup next summer. The popularity of this game is very high, and one ticket is hard to find. Fortunately, Sirius got the package.
After discussion, everyone decided to watch this game before returning to school, and by the way invited the entire Weasley family.
Ivan walked down the stairs. These are the things he needs to accomplish in the remaining days of the Christmas holiday, of which the most important thing is to improve his strength.
The ground floor of the broken cauldron is in disarray, completely without the Christmas atmosphere of last night.
This bistro has been restored from a lively Christmas party place to a small, dirty look that seemed to have not been cleaned for centuries, almost overnight.
However, there is no unpleasant smell in the air, but it is full of food aroma.
Bar owner Tom is standing behind a dilapidated bar counter and is grilling a series of delicious sausages. After seeing Ivan, his face shows an ugly smile.
"Good morning, Mr. Mason!"
"Good morning!" Ivan greeted.
In the remote hall not far away, three people, Lupin, Sirius, and Hermione have already got up. They are sitting around a round table eating breakfast and happily discussing what.
It seems that Ivan will come the same, they prepared a breakfast for him.
"Come right, Ivan, we just said you!" When Ivan came in, Sirius waved his hand, motioned him to sit beside him, and said straight away, "I just heard Remus and Hermione say, you Planning to rent a house in Diagon Alley? "
"Yes!" Ivan nodded, not knowing why Sirius mentioned it. He took the milk delivered by Hermione and explained, "I have considered it carefully. If I want to further expand 《Hogwarts Magic》 sales Volume and influence, like "Daily Prophet", it is necessary to relocate the newspaper headquarters to Diagon Alley, which is also convenient for Professor Lupin to manage ... "
"Then you have chosen a good location?" Sirius asked, "The rent of the Diagon Alley shop is not cheap, this requires a large sums gold Galleon(s)!"
Ivan shook his head, in fact, this is exactly what he had a headache.
Although in the past two years, the 《Hogwarts Magic》 advertising fee income is very high, Ivan has made a lot of money from it, but at the same time his cost is also very large.
Not to mention the sponsorship fees for Fred, George, Hermione, and other young wizards magic research projects. Just relying on Flourish and Blotts to collect precious magic book(s) and buying potion materials in large quantities costs most of his income.
The funds available for Ivan are now around two hundred gold Galleon(s). This money can only be used to select a shop in a remote place, but I hope that the location is not too biased.
The most worrying thing is that he ca n’t spend all of this money.
Ivan must be left as a part of the daily turnover of the newspaper, and used to purchase the necessary magic test materials, and things that need to be improved ...
In the promotion of magic power, the amount of money spent is completely a bottomless hole.
Do n’t say two hundred gold Galleon(s), just give him two thousand gold Galleon(s), which is not enough for him.
Ivan sighed, no matter which angle he looked at, he had to find a long-term, massively profitable project.
Although the operation of newspapers can be profitable, it is far from enough. Operating newspapers is mainly to increase influence and control public opinion, but it is secondary in making money.
And the income of 《Hogwarts Magic》 has reached the bottleneck, it is difficult to make a big improvement in a short time.
As for practical profitable projects, Ivan currently only knows one.
That's the Weasley prank product developed by Fred and George. These things they made are very popular with other young wizard(s). If nothing goes wrong, you can even become magic circle's largest prank product brand, and making money is not a problem.
The problem now is that if you want to realize all the ideas in their heads and open the market, you still need large sum of gold Galleon(s) investment in the early stage.
Ivan does not have the money, Fred and George is even more unlikely. All their previous R & D expenses were almost sponsored by Ivan.
Also, if you want to open a joke shop, you also need to rent a shop at Diagon Alley.
All the problems are back to the original point. They do n’t have enough money to rent a suitable store at the right location in Diagon Alley.
The Weasley joke shop has been set aside, but the newspaper headquarters is imminent and must be resolved during the Christmas holiday days, and cannot be delayed until next summer vacation.
The Ivan has been calculated. For a shop that is not too remote, the annual rent is about 300 gold Galleon(s) to 500 gold Galleon(s) depending on the surrounding conditions and the number of people.
This means that at least he has to find a way to get two hundred gold Galleon(s).
Ivan plans to determine the specific store first, and the money on hand can be used as rent. If in the end there is really no way, in his personal collection, there are still many precious magic book and some already refined potion, you can sell some first.
However, Ivan does not do this.
He was thinking about a quick way to get two hundred gold Galleon(s). Even if he reached out and asked for it at home, his parents would not give him so much money at once.
If you want to borrow money, you can almost borrow it.
Whether it is the entire Weasley family or Lupin, Harry, Hermione, the economic level of these people around Ivan is relatively ordinary, and it can even be called difficult, unless ...
Ivan suddenly thought of Sirius. Although he was imprisoned in Azkaban for twelve years, as the sole heir of the noble and oldest Black family, he still has amazing wealth unimaginable by ordinary people.
From the fact that he casually bought Harry a Firebolt as a Christmas gift, he can see that he is not bad at all, and hundreds of gold Galleon(s) is not a problem.
As soon as Ivan shined, before he opened his mouth, he heard Sirius continue.
"I can help you about the house. If I remember correctly, the Black family has several shops in Diagon Alley. It is an ancestral legacy. If you need it, you can use it at any time." Sirius cares nothing Say, "Otherwise, if you are idle, you will have no time to manage or collect rent."
Hearing the words of Sirius, Ivan was stunned for a while. He had just raised this idea. The other party had already raised this matter. Obviously, he had already planned in this regard. It turned out that he had just said this to Lupin and Hermione. thing.
Ivan hurriedly thanked Sirius, but the other party said that these things do n’t have to be concerned about.
In Sirius's view, compared to the things that Ivan helped him to do before, the little busyness of providing a few shops is nothing.
Because the time is too long, Sirius cannot remember the specific number and location of the stores.
When Harry came, they discussed for a while and decided to look for those deeds in the Gringotts vault of the Black family after breakfast.
For the vault of the Black family, Ivan is also curious. He wants to see how amazing this pure-blood family has accumulated over the past thousand years. (To be continued.)