Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 22: Summer Vacation Life
Schelling had a very fulfilling and happy summer vacation.

With the Philosopher's Stone and Flamel's address book, Xie Lin hid in his dormitory whenever he had time and quickly absorbed all the knowledge related to alchemy like a sponge. When he had any doubts, he would not hesitate to ask Nicole Flamel for advice, which made his alchemy attainment soar like a rocket.

His first work was a wizard's robe. He had long been envious of the multifunctional wizard's robe worn by Nicole Flamel that day. After he figured out the principle behind it, he asked Dobby to buy more than a dozen pieces of cloth for him, and put them in the laboratory to try to use alchemy to engrave the cloth with magical effects.

After a month of hard work and countless failed attempts, and of course the assistance of Time Glass, Xie Lin finally succeeded in engraving the magic effect he wanted on the fabric.

Xie Lin hurriedly took out the bird snake skin tight-fitting wizard robe he bought from Mrs. Malkin, and slowly improved it according to his original idea: first, he had to add the function of "appearance change", so that the wizard robe could change the color, pattern and tailoring style according to his own wishes;

Then some protective spells should also be engraved, such as Iron Armor Curse, Anti-Disturbance Curse, Shock Absorbing Curse, Mantra Standing, Safeguarding, All Protection, Li Song Jin Xie, etc. Although they cannot defend against truly brilliant black magic, they are enough to deal with most of the evil spells, especially useful when being attacked.

Later, Schelling also added a "charm halo" to the wizard robe, so that the person wearing the wizard robe can exude a charming temperament all the time, increasing the attraction to the opposite sex.Then add the function of "reducing gravity" to the wizard's robe, which can increase Schelling's running speed and agility for dodging and moving.Finally, the super strong water and fire inviolability spell is used to make the wizard's robe have a certain resistance to burning and moisture, and has a certain magic resistance to water and flame magic.

Schelling chose a cool name for this painstaking wizard robe - "Supreme Wizard Robe" (Supreme Robe), which currently has nine functions, namely: pocket space, spotless, waterproof and moisture-proof, constant temperature and ventilation, appearance change, charm aura, defense against curses, gravity reduction, and fire and water resistance.

Schelling's goal is not limited to this. Schelling also wants to add invisibility and breath-hiding functions to the Supreme Wizard's robe. However, the only real invisible item known in the wizarding world is Harry Potter's death invisibility cloak, and other invisible items are not perfect.The alchemy technology involved in Death's invisibility cloak has long been lost, and even with Nicole Flamel's erudition, he couldn't reproduce a second alchemy product that was perfectly invisible.

Xie Lin took this matter to heart secretly, and if he had the opportunity to study Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, he believed that with his own ability, one day he would make a perfect Supreme Wizard's robe that he could no longer be picky about!
[Supreme wizard robe (nine functions) obtained! 】

Another thing that made Xie Lin very happy was that because Xie Lin got the first place in the grade, the good-looking Lucius gained a lot of face in the pure-blood family gathering, and he generously gave Xie Lin a thousand gold Galleons as a reward.

Then Xie Lin also gave Lucius the dragon egg stolen from Quirrell, and asked him to help him get rid of it.Unexpectedly, such a dragon egg actually exchanged a thousand gallons for Xie Lin. It seems that Quirrell also spent a lot of money to break through the three-headed dog level, but Xie Lin took advantage of it in the end.

Xie Lin didn't think of the bad habit of hoarding Galleons in the wizarding world. As a Muggle in his previous life, he knew very well that only money that produced value could be counted as wealth.

Schelling first spent a little time recalling the development of the European magic world in the original book in detail, and decided to use Lucius' connections to invest the money—a total of two thousand Galleons—in a small broom company in the Black Forest of Germany—Ellerby and Badmore Broom Company.

It is well known that the market share of broomsticks is dominated by the Nimbus Racing Broom Company, with the Nimbus 2000 and Nimbus 2001 outselling all other leading broomsticks combined three times.

Followed by Comet Trading Company and Sweeping Broom Company, these two companies have seized the low-end consumer market with low prices and stable performance. Almost all Gryffindor Quidditch teams use Sweeping Broom Company’s Sweeping Five Stars or Sweeping Seven Stars; while the Slytherin Quidditch team prefers to use Comet Trading Company’s Comet 260.

Compared with these three industry giants, Ellerby and Badmore Broom Company are relatively unknown. Co-founder Abel Badmore was a talented broom designer. He made the Tinderblast in 1940 and the Swiftstick in 1952.

However, Schelling, who was familiar with the original work, knew that at some point in 1, one year later, Abel Badmore’s son, Randolph Badmore, would outshine everyone and make a world-shocking work——Firebolt.

The Ellerby and Badmore Broom Company was a small, unknown handicraft workshop with a market capitalization of only four thousand Galleons. Schelling exchanged two thousand Galleons for half of the shares, and was complacent about his decision.Although the original book did not explicitly mention the price of the Firebolt, it is not difficult to speculate from the conversation between Harry and Ron that a Firebolt would cost at least [-] Galleons. Even after the goblin strike reduced production in the later stage, it is not impossible for a broom to be fired to [-] Galleons.Schelling bought half of the company's shares at the price of two broomsticks, which can be described as a blood profit.

But Schelling's family sees it differently.

Lucius has been in business for many years, and such little-known small businesses have never caught his eye. He believes that Schelling's investment is just out of a child's mentality to show off his wealth, and that owning a stake in a broomstick company can indeed be used to show off among classmates, but he does not comment on this.

Firstly, it was because Schelling used the money he earned, and secondly, Lucius also wanted to take the opportunity to teach Schelling some business and investment methods. He believed that it was a good thing for children to get in touch with the business world in advance. Let’s take the two thousand Galleons as Schelling’s tuition for beginners!
No one thought that just one year later, everyone in the family would be shocked by Xie Lin's foresight at the moment.

[Ellerbee and Badmore Broom Company received half of the shares! 】

Half of the summer vacation passed like this, and the time came to August.

On this day, two unexpected guests came to the house.

The visitors were Arthur Weasley from the Ministry of Magic and an Auror named Kingsley Shacklebolt.As the "pure-blood traitors" in the mouth of the pure-blood families, the Weasley family has always had a difficult relationship with the Malfoy family. Schelling has heard bad things about Mr. Weasley from Lucius.It can be seen from Lucius' gloomy face that the two of them came all the way from London obviously with ill intentions.

At the gate of Malfoy Manor, Mr. Weasley showed the approval document in his hand signed by Amelia Burns, Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic.

The document stated that the Ministry of Magic received an anonymous report about the Malfoy family from a reliable source, claiming that the Malfoy Manor contained black magic contraband and black magic books that violated British wizarding laws, so Arthur Weasley, the director of the Office of Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items, was sent to conduct a search, hoping that the Malfoy family would cooperate with the Ministry of Magic.

Father Lucius's face was cold, but he didn't dare to openly defy the Ministry of Magic. He could only let his deadly enemy search his house. Only on the back of his hand that was covered with veins from clenching his cane too hard, could he see the monstrous anger in his heart at the moment.

Mr. Weasley seemed to enjoy the feeling of letting his enemy eat the turtle. He searched the manor carefully and back and forth several times, but unfortunately still found nothing.

Of course, these contraband are stored in the family's secret room, and the entrance of the secret room is cast with many hidden spells. It is difficult for people who don't know the location to find the entrance.

Until the evening, after the two Ministry of Magic officials left, my father broke his favorite teacup angrily, slammed his palm on the coffee table, cursed Mr. Weasley, and vowed to make him pay a terrible price.

Schelling, who is familiar with the plot, of course knows his father's so-called revenge plan, which is to frame the little girl of the Weasley family as the heir of Slytherin, destroy Mr. Weasley's reputation, and even make him lose his job at the Ministry of Magic.Unfortunately, he didn't know that his old master was not dead yet, and his behavior of sending out the old master's precious Horcrux would bring disaster to himself and his family.

Then, Lucius called Kakaro to the study, presumably to discuss how to dispose of some of the prohibited items in the family collection on the black market first—the purpose of doing this was nothing more than a show for some people in the Ministry of Magic, so that the Ministry of Magic would not pursue the Malfoy family fiercely.

In fact, Lucius has a good personal relationship with Minister of Magic Fudge, and the Malfoy family contributed a lot to Fudge's election as Minister of Magic, but Fudge's talent and prestige were not enough for him to firmly control the entire Ministry of Magic, so things like this happened against the Malfoy family.

As long as Lucius shows an attitude, and Fudge cooperates to put pressure on his subordinates, the turmoil against the Malfoy family will gradually disappear.

(End of this chapter)