A day at Hogwarts

It was 1992, and after Christmas, Charles either stayed in front of the TV to watch the news, or went back to practice after the opening of a nearby boxing gym. wheel.

The holidays of the Ministry of Magic are shorter than those of Hogwarts. After Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror office, greeted him, the centaur liaison office went through the process as quickly as possible, and Minister of Magic Fudge signed it without even thinking about it. Then someone from the Ministry of Magic came and handed Charles the letter of appointment, a bunch of forms and regulations.

Charles called Lupine and Petunia the day before school started and began to arrange work.

The first job was to fill in the employee form and go through the process. Lupine filled out his own, and Jack, who was watching the excitement, helped Penny fabricate a salary-paying identity.

Caroline Shaw, female, 32 years old, was born in Ireland. When she was 1 year old, her family moved to Australia to live. After showing her magical talent, she learned a little simple magic from an old wizard, but her level was too low to win. Kangaroo came to England not long ago to find a job.

The Ministry of Magic doesn't care much about this fringe department. It doesn't matter if people go or not. Lupine will handle the process.

Then everyone discussed work matters and determined the work process: Charles contacted Penny through an owl, and she purchased materials and sent them to a nearby warehouse; then Lupine sent the materials to the small building rented by Hogsmeade as a warehouse, and Charles Things from the centaurs will also be stored there; then Lupine sells things under the banner of Hogwarts, and gives Jack the proceeds after paying Hogwarts' affiliation fee.

Charles was a bit ambitious, and he gave Lupine a piece of equipment.

"It's a suitcase similar to Newt Scamander's," Charles said to Lupine. "It's made to order in Diagon Alley. It can hold a lot of things."

"When you sell special products around, you can purchase special products from other places. If you can take the opportunity to build a sales network, we will benefit greatly in the future."

Lupine said to him with some embarrassment: "But such work has already been done."

Charles shook his head and said, "They're not doing well enough, they're just doing business with one or two magic schools. This time Dumbledore accidentally opened up all the famous magic schools. We can take this opportunity to build a bigger one." platform."

"Anyway, try it, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work."

Lu Ping has just started work now, and he is a related household. It is not easy to refute the face of the new boss, so he agreed: "I will try it first."

Charles smiled and said, "Okay, how will you know if you don't try it?"

The trade with the horse people is on the right track, but the Forbidden Forest is still too small and the world is too big. If you can expand the scale of your business, you can not only make some money, but also get weird things from all over the world.

After Lupine and Petunia left, Charles called a nearby cake shop and asked the proprietress to make a box of creme brulee and pick it up in the afternoon.

"What?" Jack asked him curiously, "Did you hurt Paul again?"

Paul Ames is an ordinary kid who lives three streets away. He is 13 years old this year. He likes boxing as much as Charles. The two often fight.

Charles scratched his head and said, "Oh, I stopped it yesterday and beat him into a panda."

After hearing this, Jack just responded casually and left him alone.

In the past two years, Charles has often injured people during boxing practice, but every time he would bring some snacks to visit afterward.

Before he went out, Jack reminded Charles: "Be careful, don't mention wolf and similar words in front of old Mrs. Ames."

The old lady of the Ames family is over 80 years old this year, and she lies on a deck chair all day long. It is said that she was almost killed by a wolf in London when she was young, so she was psychologically traumatized.

It's just that the wolves in England were killed as early as the 17th century. Charles and Jack thought she might have been attacked by a werewolf and escaped.

Charles replied "Got it" and went out.

The Ames family knew that Charles was coming back. Mrs. Ames had already prepared tea and her best cookies. Paul was waiting at the door wearing a pair of big sunglasses. Everyone went to the living room to chat.

Mr. Ames was an army officer. He married Mrs. Ames in 1936. After being injured in the Normandy landing, he was in poor health and died of illness in the 1970s.

Now Mrs. Ames lives with her youngest son. When Charles was talking to her by the recliner, she still asked seriously: "Oh, it's Charles, have you become a king?"

Everyone in the living room is in a hurry. The old man is old and gets confused from time to time.

Charles echoed there: "In a few years, in a few years."

Mrs. Ames spends every day in front of the TV. After Charles chatted with her for a while, she continued to watch TV, and Charles chatted with other people.

Mr. Ames is a military officer like his father. He just retired a few years ago and now works in a trading company in London and often goes abroad.

He was a bit old-fashioned, dissatisfied that Charles went to an unknown middle school, and felt that it was a waste of talent.

Mrs. Ames didn't care, she kept persuading Charles to eat more cookies as usual.

Paul asked about Harry. He lost a game last summer and wanted to get back.

At this moment something unexpected happened, and old Mrs. Ames suddenly yelled in a panic, trying to escape from the couch, but her legs were not working well due to her age.

The Ames family hurried to appease the old lady, and Charles went to help turn off the TV. Who would have thought that the German Volkswagen was mentioned on the TV, and then Wolfsburg was mentioned, which aroused the old lady's fear of wolves.

In the past, at this time, the old lady would go to sleep after she calmed down, but today was different.

The old lady stretched out her hand and gently stroked her son's face, saying intermittently: "When the moon is full, don't leave the house, lock the doors and windows, there will be werewolves outside."

Paul said from the side: "Grandma, there are no werewolves in this world."

Charles wondered if I'd find someone to come and have tea with you, but what happened next took him by surprise.

Mrs. Ames said to her son: "Before Paul, my first husband, he was a werewolf."

The "Paul" she said was Paul's grandfather, but Mr. Ames never heard that his mother had another marriage before marrying his father, and the other party was a werewolf.

"Mother," said Mr. Ames in a low voice, "you are tired. Go and rest."

The old lady shook her head lightly, and continued: "His name is Wilfred Glanton, he is a doctor of botany, he brought back two plants in XZ that year, and he was also looking for that plant Plant werewolves bitten in the mountains."

"Wilfred has been studying the plants he brought back since he came back and ignored me. At that time, I met Paul."

"Later, Wilfred lost his mind and killed several people when he became a werewolf. In order to get back the plants he brought back from XZ, he killed the werewolf who bit him, and finally almost killed me when Paul took the police coming."

"The things left by Wilfred are in the boxes in the basement of the old house. I turned over a few pages. It is said that the plants he brought back will bloom under the full moon and moonlight, and can also restore werewolves."

The Ames family told the story as if they were old people, and Charles was dumbfounded listening to it.

When Charles came home and told Jack about it, the old man was also stupid.

"Go and find out." Jack said earnestly, "The old house of the Ames family is where his eldest son lives. I'll go there tonight."

That night Charles waited anxiously at home, and the old man didn't come back until midnight.

"How?" Charles asked anxiously, "Is it true?"

Jack replied helplessly: "The box is not well kept, and the things inside are turned into garbage. The only clue is the Himalayas."

After hearing this, Charles shook his head helplessly. After all, it belonged to his ex-husband, so it would be nice not to weigh it.

Jack sat on the sofa and thought for a while, then said, "I'll go to Hangzhou. Brother Xu and his family are from a medical family, so they may know."

Charles nodded, and went to help the old man prepare the materials for visa application.