Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 144 Gray Matter Center (5K words, two chapters in one)

"Professor Flitwick has put a protective spell on this chair so that it will not fly away inexplicably due to strong winds and other reasons."

Fred explained, pointing to the bench that was used as the entrance.

"It's easy to get in."

George sat in the middle of the bench, took out his wand, and said clearly, "Password."

"Password?"

William felt a little puzzled.

Immediately afterwards, the bench suddenly split into two sides, revealing the deep passage hidden below, and George fell down with a "whoosh"—"password" is indeed a literal password.

"Honestly, this is only limited in strength over 123456a."

William thought of the passwords he had used on many websites in his previous life, which had some similarities with the passwords being "passwords".

"Let's go there too, the wind is really too strong."

Fred urged William and Penello to be together, and they all sat on the bench, "Password", Fred called out the password.

William felt his body fall rapidly, but when he was about to hit the ground, he was miraculously suspended - he saw himself floating in front of a very tall metal door, which was vertically divided into five layers.

"Professor Dumbledore personally cast the invisible extension spell, we can hardly imagine how he did it."

Fred explained.

He and William consulted on how to cast the invisible extension spell, which is indeed a relatively difficult spell, which is usually only encountered in NEWTs-level courses, and the space it can expand is actually limited by many conditions .

"Before that, you know what the most important thing is, this big baby needs a big name now!"

George urged excitedly, pointing to the top metal sign of the gate, which was bare and waiting for William to fill it in.

After a short thought, William confirmed his thoughts.

"I guess, let's call it the gray matter center."

The name, of course, partly comes from one of his favorite American shows ever, and Heisenberg founded the company when he was young, but William believes that the name "Gray Matter Center" fits his idea very well.

"We will not completely rely on white magic in the future, but we also do not belong to the category of black wizards. We will use various means to create magical substances, and this is of course just a center and a beginning."

He explained his idea to several people.

"That sounds interesting."

Penello nodded slightly.

"Yes, at least it sounds better than Weasley's Wizard's Wheezes."

Fred also nodded in agreement.

"Hey! Don't forget, the two of us came up with that name together! You're one of the Weasleys too!"

George slapped Fred's arm hard, said pretending to be angry, and then turned to William, "It's your moment to name it, isn't it? If it wasn't for you, it wouldn't have been born."

"So."

William took out his wand, and engraved its "grey matter center" on the huge metal plate in neat golden letters.

"Go in and have a look."

Fred rubbed his hands and said excitedly. He tapped his wand on an area in the upper left corner of the iron door, causing a faint white fluorescent light to appear there—it dissipated in the air, revealing the bright and vast space inside.

It was as big as an entire Quidditch pitch, and at least three or four hagrids high.In the square, according to the opinion of the architect Mr. Anderson, there is a tall stone pillar at a certain distance as a load-bearing support, so that it will not be destroyed.

These areas borrowed from the design concept of Hogwarts. Professor Flitwick gave them a sun that looked the same as the outside world. At night, a lot of gentle light clusters will be magically lifted into the air. , providing stable lighting.

The magic spell, which is the answer to the version, also solves the ventilation problem of the enclosed space—there are large movable vents on three sides of the area, which directly lead to the edge of the cliff, and the circulation of the internal and external air is accelerated at all times through the magic spell.

The wizard who invented the spell "Whirlwind Sweeping" would never have imagined that one day hundreds of years later, his spell would be used as an air conditioner and exhaust fan.

"Honestly, I'll never forget the wonderful time when I cast the Explosion Charm wantonly here."

Fred sighed.

"No one will ever have the opportunity to do such a great job at Hogwarts."

George echoed in a low voice.

The Gray Matter Center is almost perfect in turning William's ideas into reality, and even more - in such a vast space, the Gray Matter Center has three full floors, and William has different plans for their functions.

Area A: "Magical Creatures and Herbal Medicine Industrial Park".

Usually, Professor Hagrid Kettleburn will take care of this place, and he will be responsible for the cultivation and harvest of rare and valuable miraculous biological materials. Area A currently has two projects that are running smoothly, that is, the Ash Snake and the Basilisk, and will introduce the Mandrake provided by the Malfoy family.

In the future, William will try to introduce other magical creatures, such as 35 gold Galleons a pint, or allow Hagrid's nature to develop - William has already clearly realized that as long as Hagrid is left alone, he will always find a way Get all kinds of cuties that are not suitable for keeping in castles and forests, with fierce appearance and deadly power, fire breathing and explosion in most cases.

In the future, District A will replace the shops and the Forbidden Forest in Diagon Alley, and become the source of raw materials that William relies on most.

Area B: "Standardized Potion Industrial Park".

Unlike District A, which largely maintains the original "flavor" of wizards, in William's plan, the Potion Industrial Park will introduce a large amount of wisdom from ordinary people, modernize, standardize, and industrialize traditional potions. remodel.

Whether it is William's "Improved Love Potion", "Coffee Companion", or "Awakening Potion" and other formulas, they will be split into many links, handled by different wizards, and finally put on the market as finished products.

The animal and plant raw materials provided by area A will also be processed in batches in area B.This will be the area with the largest number of participants, and also the area with the highest production capacity, because it is not only responsible for the production of goods for the wizard market, but also reversely exports wizard products into the world of ordinary people when the opportunity is ripe.

Of course, that would be properly hidden.

Although the Wizarding Secrecy Law prohibits wizards from selling magic items or potions to the world of ordinary people, it does not define such things in detail.After further diluting the "love potion" to a certain extent, William can apply for a patent for it and put it into the cosmetics production line.

It does contain very small amounts of potion ingredients, but many products in the common man's world also use other materials that wizards would consider magical beings.William believes that after obtaining the understanding of the officials, they will also realize that this is just a beautiful "coincidence".

"Snape can be the supervisor of Area B. Senior students over the sixth grade can practice in Area B after their grades are up to standard. In this way, I don't even need to provide them with wages—and those who perform very well can Issue an excellent internship certificate, and start the half-year internship directly after graduation.”

William felt that he was too kind.

Even the employees who are in the internship period have the opportunity to get in touch with the actual work, and can work the same as regular employees in advance.

Anyway, there is no five insurances and one housing fund in the wizarding world, let alone trade unions, labor bureaus, and anti-monopoly laws.

Area C: "New Alchemy Industrial Zone".

The "alchemy" here is more of a general concept.Because whether it is rune products, alchemy products, or other mystical crafts, they will all be industrialized here.

Whether it is the wand and broom making crafts that William obtained from Salazar Slytherin's collection, or the various recipes he learned from Nicole Flamel's manuscripts, they will be transformed into more efficient methods. Patterns of modern industrial production.

Although the craftsman spirit is very touching under the rendering of the media, after carefully comparing the cost performance, William still feels that the products produced by large machines are more convenient and easy to use.

In addition, the magic tricks created by the Weasley brothers, as well as the magic props under the "Grey Matter" brand, will also be produced here and be given a unified label.

The mission of Area C when it was born was to make almost the entire Diagon Alley shop meaningless, and it also shouldered the important mission of formulating industry standards and rules for the wizarding world in the future.At this stage, William will be directly responsible for the projects in Area C.When the time comes later in the day, Area C will be handed over to the Weasley brothers.

Area D: "Black box area".

The black box area will be the most unique one.

This is a testing area.

Projects in the research and development stage, very sensitive research that must be kept confidential, as well as the most cutting-edge enchantments, transfiguration, black magic and white magic explorations, will all take place in the "black box area" - here is the "black box" conceived by William. The brain and hub of the "gray matter center" because it is responsible for providing the intellectual support that other areas need.

All members allowed to enter Zone D must go through the most stringent background checks, the Veritaserum test with standard questions, and the Imperius and Memory spell tests for the anti-demon potion, and they can only enter the area assigned to their project.

As far as the current stage is concerned, there are only William's own projects in the D area, but he believes that after being provided with a suitable environment and resources, other wizards will also burst out with amazing creativity.

"Aside from other things, Snape has improved a lot of potion formulas during his school days, and even invented a very powerful offensive spell 'Shen Feng Wu Ying', and Fred and Those pranks that George and the others did—the wizarding world has never lacked talents, but talents will always lack resources and environments."

What William wants to do is to provide these talents with sufficient conditions to stimulate their creativity.

The usual manager of Area D is Barrow the Ghost Bloodman.

He who can enter and control objects is very suitable for working in this area, and guides people from different project teams to their respective areas, and William is not worried that he will be bewitched or influenced.

Whether it is the Confusion Curse, the Forgetting Curse, or the Imperius Curse, it is impossible for a ghost to take effect.

As for the main security method of D area, it is mainly a very classic white magic "Albus Dumbledore is flying", after applying enough security to the door, the entire wall and the outer frame connected to the wall After the protection spell, if there are still dark wizards who can break into Area D, then such enemies are no longer enemies that William can deal with.

"Of course, this is just my current idea. Of course, there will be some immature and perfect parts in the blueprint, but we have enough time to slowly adjust and adapt."

William carefully told his companions about his idea of ​​the Gray Matter Center. They had already visited Area D and returned to the metal gate that served as the entrance.

"To be honest, friend William, after you talked about Area B, I couldn't understand it anymore."

Fred said sullenly.

It was the first time he felt so clearly that he looked like a fool, like being given a "T" in Snape's class in front of everyone.

"So do I."

George also nodded.

He understood every word William said, but when connected together, it became something completely incomprehensible—industrialization, processization, standardization, and advanced technology transformed into high-efficiency productivity.
For Merlin's bloomers sake.
Even though the Weasley family already knew the most about the world of ordinary people among the pure-blood wizarding families, they still felt that it was as incomprehensible as a bible, or even unimaginable.

"It's certainly a grand vision, and I think it's totally achievable. I'm actually looking forward to seeing your vision come to fruition, it's going to be beautiful."

Penello nodded thoughtfully.

Although William's thinking still seemed a bit difficult for her, Penello did his best to follow up, "But I still have a problem."

"what?"

William is resetting the password and method of entry for each area's entrance.

"With this gray matter center, what are you trying to do? You just mentioned what it's going to look like, how you're going to make it happen, but you never say why you're doing it."

Penello asked softly.

This simple question is not simple.

"Honestly, I've been looking for an answer to that question myself—but not knowing the answer doesn't really affect our actions, does it?"

William replied seriously, and at the same time swung his wand, opening the passage to the last floor.

Its entrance is also on that metal door, but at the bottom of the four areas—with a loud "rumbling" sound, the metal door connecting the previous four areas rises upwards, revealing the bottom one. Narrow passage.

This layer is the true secret of the gray matter center.

It is located at the bottom of all the areas, while crossing the edges of the four areas, extending to the top of the gray matter center, wrapping their steel frames in it, and connecting them with each other——extending from this layer are several straight lines Passage to the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade.

Here is the basement.

But it's not just the basement.

In addition to acting as a storage warehouse for the most precious items, William's personal study, laboratory, dormitory, and activity center, it also connects the entire Gray Matter Center, and wraps them with a fully enclosed metal shell.

William has always had a vision that can be called crazy.

When he has accumulated enough magic gold and linked them in a reasonable way, William can use this entire gray matter center as an extremely huge single magic item, and even make it float. Air, stealth, flight, attack and defense.

"What is a mage tower? What is a floating city? You still have to look at my gray matter center."

William had the urge to pinch his waist.

Although the current gray matter center is only a shell, he is convinced that he is on the right path.When William and the others gradually perfected the functions of several areas and introduced enough outstanding wizard talents, the Gray Matter Center would unleash a destructive force unimaginable by other wizards.

The output that can be realized here alone is enough to monopolize the needs of the entire British wizarding world, and when small workshops like Diagon Alley are overwhelmed by William's mass production model, wizards who already lack labor positions must either seek transformation, or Can only work for William.

The most terrible point is that William's model is unstoppable, this will be a gradual and gradual process of penetration.William will not launch a full-scale war to sweep the wizarding world like Grindelwald and Voldemort, he will only swallow a small part at a time.

Potions, alchemy potions, broomsticks, magic furniture, entertainment, culture, lifestyle... It's not a big deal for a "Mrs. Purnier" to close down in Diagon Alley. This kind of thing will always happen.

But when wizards have adapted to the products and services provided by William, and even started to work for him, and those decadent traditional wizards finally realized that their status is being seriously challenged, William has accumulated enough The power and influence to rival them.

He doesn't need to use off-the-board moves to defeat his opponent, he just needs to prevent the opponent from using off-the-board moves to put pressure on himself.

With Dumbledore and Harry Potter at his side, William wasn't worried about his opponent's dirty tricks that weren't on the table.What's more, as a time traveler, if you compare the lower limit, no matter how you think about it, he is much lower than these old-fashioned wizards.

The pure-blood family can rely on the way to compete with his gray matter center, only in the same track, overtaking him at a corner.

They must rely on the creativity of excellent wizards and follow William's model, but excellent wizards are often hired by William himself before graduation-because the Gray Matter Center is located in Hogwarts, the best wizarding school in Europe, The cradle of wizarding talent.

Is there a stronger industry-university alliance than this?
William suddenly thought of a sentence in the Gospel of Matthew:

"Whoever has, more will be given, and he will have a surplus; and whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away."

People sum it up as the Matthew effect.

Ravenclaw's name literally translates to "Raven Claws", and they are ravenous looters of knowledge.

"That's right! That's right! It must be like this!"

He clapped his hands excitedly and startled Penello and the two Weasleys who were following him.

William thought about the night he had just arrived at Hogwarts.

In the Ravenclaw common room, he heard the strange voice, and later found an old copy of Beowulf in a small alcove in Ravenclaw.

The voice had told him a string of words.

"Lalhiait Asewg Zts Rn Yh RR Sa."

At first, William thought it was an unfamiliar language, or a strange spell or something, but as his understanding of magic gradually deepened, William became convinced that it was actually a compiled code.

To break this code, you need to rely on a specific number and the rules on which it was established.

　No matter how to divide this chapter, I feel awkward, so I don’t divide it at all.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)