Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 232 The taste of being crushed
"Nico Flamel?"

Listening to Principal Dumbledore's words, and taking another look at the Sorcerer's Stone in front of him at the moment, Charlie couldn't help but shiver slightly, and his originally relaxed expression began to become serious again.

He first savored the name carefully in his own mouth, and then fell into some kind of thought.

The office was silent for a moment, and Dumbledore was not in a hurry. With the same leisurely smile on his face as before, he lowered his eyelids and continued to taste the candies in the drawer.

The time passed little by little in a calm atmosphere, only a few awakened portraits were still whispering, which became the only sound in the room at this moment.

"Look... the Black boy is here again..."

"Hmph... This is probably the most ashamed thing in his life, and that is to be your descendant."

"Weasel skin! What do you mean?!"

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After a while, Charlie stopped his thoughts, looked at Principal Dumbledore in front of him, and broke the original tranquility.

"Why do you want to come to me?" While talking, Charlie spread his hands and said sincerely
"After all, I've never been to France, and every time after Christmas and approaching New Year's, it's also the peak time for the candy factory to be busy. I'm afraid..."

He organized his language, trying to make his refusal appear tactful, but before he could continue to speak the words he had thought of, he was interrupted by Dumbledore.

"It's Nicole Flamel, he wants to see you."

After eating the last candy in his hand contentedly, Dumbledore clapped his hands contentedly, then raised his head to look at Charlie again, and then said abruptly.

"what?"

Charlie was taken aback for a moment, but couldn't help laughing the next second.

"You mean that legendary master alchemist wants to see me?"

Dumbledore did not speak, but nodded calmly, indicating that it was as he said.

Charlie smiled and waved his hands, thinking that the principal was joking with him, shrugged helplessly, and continued:

"Stop making trouble, principal... As far as I know, Master Flamel has refused to see guests since more than ten years ago."

As he said that, Charlie paused again, and carefully looked at the face of Dumbledore in front of him. Seeing that the other party was still the same as usual, with no change in his smiling posture, he had no choice but to continue talking.
"Although, I admit that the name Charlie Black is unparalleled in terms of talent in business or candy, but presumably there is no qualification for him to make an exception. After all, he is an alchemist Master, you're not a sugar master... eh?"

Dumbledore rested his elbows on the table, crossed his fingers, and quietly listened to Charlie's soliloquy.The white beard, eyebrows and hair are motionless, reflecting the gentle light, as if it is the light itself.

The two principals, who were fighting each other above their heads, stopped in tacit understanding, looked down, and curiously and gossiped about the information in the conversation between the two.
"Nico Flamel, is that old guy still alive?"

"Hmm...it's unbelievable. I heard that old guy once hugged my grandfather."

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It wasn't until Charlie finished speaking that Dumbledore finally opened his mouth and slowly explained
"Not long ago, I had a letter exchange with him. In the letter, I mentioned the alchemy item you made to him, but I didn't expect that he was very interested in your design and whimsical ideas. interest…………"

Hearing this, Charlie's eyes finally began to change. Even his sitting posture couldn't help but look a little more serious. He looked at Principal Dumbledore with a slightly strange gaze. He didn't speak, but continued to listen to the other party.

"It's not my intention to ask you to send the Philosopher's Stone back this time." Dumbledore said, his quiet and calm eyes took a deep look at Charlie in front of him. "It was requested by Nicole Flamel himself."

"And, in fact, he sent you a small gift, I hope I can give it to you."

"small gift?"

Charlie was even more surprised. For a moment, he didn't know what to say. After all, a legendary alchemist like Nicole Flamel should spend his whole life as a candy merchant. They couldn't have any intersection, but they never thought about it, but now they are miraculously connected through Principal Dumbledore by accident.

It's really...unexpected.

While he was still in a daze because of this, Dumbledore had already put the small gift from Nicole Flamel on the desk, and placed it side by side with the Philosopher's Stone in front of his eyes.

It was a seamless round sphere made of mithril, and on top of it were countless exquisitely arranged, obscure and complicated mysterious characters.Feeling slightly cold in his hand, Charlie picked it up to his eyes, pursed his lips and carefully observed every detail of it, and then couldn't help but gasped.

Isn't this the "magic world version grenade" that I worked hard with Peng Peng and others in the factory? !Not only that, compared to the products in my own factory, the one in front of me is more than one grade higher in terms of material craftsmanship and the priority sequence of the magic symbols arranged.

"This…………"

Charlie gently pinched its shell with a few slender fingers and kept turning it, carefully observing every detail and every corner of it, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.This alchemy item that was less than the size of the palm of his hand, even if he used extremely picky standards, he couldn't see the slightest deficiency. In his mind, there was only one evaluation that could match it - perfect!
After reading it over and over in such an unbelievable way for a long while, Charlie finally compromised in frustration and admitted that at present, no matter how you look at it, it is probably the most perfect state of this alchemy item, with more overflow and less deficiency. , everything is within the so-called "just right" range...

"You..." Charlie raised his head again, looked at Principal Dumbledore in front of him suspiciously, and asked, "What did you tell Nicole Flamel at that time?"

It seems that it has been a long time since Charlie Black, his best student, showed such a devastated expression. The playful Dumbledore was in a good mood for a while, and couldn't help laughing loudly with a red face.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…………"

After laughing for a long time, he finally wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, made a strange expression, and replied:
"I just mentioned that it is round and can release powerful power in an instant... Other than that, there is nothing else."

Well... At this moment, Charlie Black, who has always been a genius who crushes his peers, has to admit that this feeling of being crushed by a big boss is not very good
(End of this chapter)