The Blood Curse at Hogwarts

To sum it up, anything related to magic, even magic books, is not very cheap, and the trendy or hot-selling magic items are unreasonably expensive, but things that have nothing to do with magic are countless times cheaper than in the Muggle world.Such two-pole prices are combined into the official exchange rate of Gringotts: 1 gold galleons to 5 pounds. No one doubts how much black money the goblins make here.

However, the wizarding community around the world doesn't care and doesn't even think there's a problem.Oddly enough, since no one was watching, Chen Bin regarded Gringotts as a cash machine.He hired almost all the wizards in Diagon Alley and asked them to mobilize their families to line up at Gringotts every day to exchange pounds for gold galleons.For every thousand pounds exchanged, they would have a cut of two gold galleons.

Although two gold galleons are not much, if you add up every day, you will get sixty gold galleons in a month, and you only need to queue up to exchange it every day and hand the money back to a small shop in Diagon Alley. , the whole process takes less than half an hour.

Chen Bin seriously suspected that goblins were unable to integrate into Muggle society due to differences in appearance. They needed to separate the wealth exchanges between human wizards and Muggles. Otherwise, how could goblins monopolize the economy of the Western magical world?

After eight years of sending people to exchange, Chen Bin definitely scraped a layer of skin from the goblin, but compared with the customer vaults that the goblin embezzled from 1417 to the present, it pales into insignificance.

If the family has no legal heir, its underground vault will be permanently sealed, and management fees will be drawn from the vault every year. The account will not be canceled until the assets inside are no longer worth the management fees.

When Chen Bin thought of this, he could only say oh, hehe. Isn't that what Swiss banks are like? The goblin has an enhanced version in 1417. What else is in the vault without heirs? It is not the goblin who has the final say on how to value the precious items inside.

How many families disappeared during the witch-hunting war, and how many wizards died in accidents during peacetime without heirs or close relatives are also secrets of the Ministry of Magic, and complete answers can never be found from public information.

"Move forward now." A high-pitched voice said: "The sorting ceremony is about to begin."

Professor McGonagall came back to lead the new students away, and the ghosts disappeared through the opposite wall.Everyone walked through the foyer and entered the luxurious auditorium through a double door at the back.

Students from other classes were already sitting around four long tables, and there was another long table on the stage at the top of the auditorium, which was the seat of the teachers.

The storybook never mentions how many people there are in the British wizarding world, and the Ministry of Magic in this world treats population data as confidential.However, Chen Bin could guess the approximate size from the more than 30 freshmen.

Assume that there are only about 30 children enrolled in the only magic school in the UK each year, and that there are less than 5 reclusive families like Nama who usually do not enter Hogwarts School. Finally, assume that the average life span of wizards is 100 years old.

Taking factors such as war, economy, and lifespan as an error of 20, we can conclude that there should be 2520 to 3780 people in the British wizarding community, and the total number of students in Hogwarts should remain between 168 and 252.This should be the case at least within the next ten years, because it cannot be ruled out that the first Wizarding War's destructive effect on the population exceeded 20, which may have resulted in the current ultra-low number of new students.Factors such as death, immigration, low birth rates caused by pessimism, and the fact that the baby boom has not yet reached school age cannot explain it.

Of course, this does not rule out the fact that some ordinary wizards have extremely long lives. For example, Grindelwald's great-aunt, a historian, is still alive today, but Grindelwald is already over 110 years old.

How old is his aunt? You taste it carefully.

Therefore, Chen Bin can refute the false information provided by Isabel, a die-hard fan, after returning home.By the way, this guy once said that in the first part of the movie, the front page news of the Daily Prophet on a certain day was: "More than 3 million wizards are expected to attend Barry Winkle's 775th birthday party."

Let’s not complain about the 775-year-old setting. After all, there is also a Nicolés Flamel who lived to be 665 years old in the novel.However, is there any city in the world that can suddenly host 3 million foreigners and hold a party without being known to Muggles? Therefore, this is completely a little joke made by the crew on the props. Only this silly girl Isabel never question

In other words, the Minister of Magic leads a community with a population of 2520 to 3780, which can challenge the Muggle society with a population of 5700 million, and a village-level school like Hogwarts has cultivated people who can defeat Muggles in the navy, army and air force. the power of.

Awesome or not

The awesome General McGonagall, oh, wrong.The arrogant Professor McGonagall took the first-year students there and asked them to line up in a row facing the entire upper class, with the teachers behind them.The ghosts were also mixed among the students, shining with hazy silver light, which contrasted with the twinkling stars on the dark ceiling.

Professor McGonagall gently placed a four-legged stool and a pointed wizard hat in front of the first-year students, and the broken hat began to sing a song automatically.After Chen Bin pretended to be very interested in listening to the song, he clapped his hands along with the thunderous applause of the crowd. The magic hat bowed to the four dining tables one by one, and then stood still.

Professor McGonagall held a roll of parchment and said: "Whoever's name I call now will put on his hat, sit on the stool, and wait for the sorting."

After a pause, she began to read the name. "Hannah Abbott"

Sister Aibo, who was the first among countless fans to appear, walked out of the queue with a rosy face.She indeed had two blonde braids, she stumbled as she walked, and her eyes were covered after putting on a hat.

Chen Bin has heard Isabel talk about many British and French fans, so he is very familiar with this paragraph. With his eyes closed, he can know what the Sorting Hat will say after he pauses for a moment.

"Hufflepuff"

The people at the table on the right applauded and cheered Hannah, and she quickly sat down at the table. The ghost she had just chatted with also waved to her.

"Susan Burns"

"Hufflepuff" shouted the hat again.

Susan quickly ran to Hannah and sat down.

"Teri Butt"

"Ravenclaw"

When each little wizard is assigned to a house, the students at that table will clap and applaud.

When Terry joined them, several Ravenclaws stood up to shake his hand.

Sometimes the hat called out the name of the college immediately, and sometimes it took some time to make a decision, but finally it went on in an orderly manner.

"Hermione Granger" article.zhuiwen.

Hermione trotted over to the stool and hurriedly put the hat on her head.

"Gryffindor" shouted the hat.

Ron snorted in disapproval.

Chen Bin saw Harry's face turn pale, and of course he knew that he was thinking wildly, but he didn't point it out.

When Malfoy's name was called, Malfoy walked over boldly.

However, an accident happened

The hat thought hard for a long time, and finally shouted: "Hufflepuff"

"Why is this happening?" Chen Bin petrified the story or changed it

Hufflepuff's selection criteria for students are loyalty and honesty, and aren't the students they train often considered innocent?

Chen Bin immediately looked at Dumbledore on the stage, but found nothing unusual about him, or that the old man had never been normal. "Did Lao Deng do anything? Why?"

Draco Malfoy also had a wrong look on his face. He sat on the stool and was stunned for a few seconds. He was rushed to the Hufflepuff seat by Professor McGonagall and was warmly greeted by his classmates.

His friends Crabbe and Goyle sat on the Slytherin side, staring blankly at Draco Malfoy.

At this time, there were not many people left, and finally it was the turn of "Harry Potter"

The crowd was buzzing and discussing.

"Potter, is she calling Potter?"

"It's that Harry Potter"

Chen Bin didn't pay attention to what people were discussing. He didn't even notice when Harry walked to the Gryffindor table. Prefect Percy stood up and shook his hand tightly.

The Weasley twins shouted: "We have Potter, we have Potter"

It wasn't until Professor McGonagall repeated Chen Bin's name twice that he noticed that it was his turn to be sorted. The young wizards behind him who hadn't yet been sorted into other schools were surprised that he was in a daze.

The hat was put on Chen Bin's head and he thought for a full minute, but there was no result, which made the students all become curious.

No one expected that Chen Bin was thinking: "It is impossible to learn magic, and it is impossible to learn magic in this life."

"Isn't it powerful enough? I, Chen Bin, will starve to death and die outside. Even if I jump from here, I won't be able to use magic to cook noodles. It won't be delicious."

"There are thousands of special tricks and curses. Safety comes first. If the spell is not used in a standardized way, your loved ones will burst into tears."

"Nirvana: I want everyone to know that this magic potion field has been taken over by you, yoyoyoyo, skrrrrr. Do you have free style to cast spells?"

The Sorting Hat waited and waited, and finally shouted "Hutch!"

"Yes, you can get into Hufflepuff just by pretending to be mentally retarded." Just as Chen Bin was about to take off his hat, the Sorting Hat immediately whispered: "Mr. Naama, the sorting ceremony is not over yet, and I was almost deceived by you. You have a very powerful brain." Occlumency.”

Chen Bin knew that the White Devil was a master of Legilimency. Of course he had been practicing Occlumency since he was a child, and he also knew how to turn it into a blood curse.

However, he had a bad premonition now, and Hat continued to mutter: "The person who deceived me last time also had the last name of Naama, and I still tried to trick her for 20 years. Well, you have bottomless magical power, and she Very similar, you should be able to get into Slytherin."

"I don't want it, it's very dangerous there." It's impossible to enter Slytherin. In this life

"Don't you want to go? You are very smart and very suitable for Ravenclaw, but you are too cunning. Well, you have a righteous heart. Hey, how can you have the heart to fight against the evil forces for more than ten years?"

Chen Bin rolled his eyes and thought: "Will I tell you that I was a policeman for more than ten years in my previous life?"

"Gryffindor"

"This is more dangerous." Chen Bin took off his hat angrily.

All the students in the audience looked at him in surprise because he just spoke in Chinese.

Chen Bin suddenly turned around and stared at Dumbledore on the stage. The latter's eyes instantly shifted to the starry sky in the ceiling, and he whistled softly.

"It must be because he is too old to do anything." Chen Bin became angrier as he thought about it, and walked towards the Gryffindor table with a solemn face, ignoring the cheering classmates.

Then, he suddenly smiled strangely and sat down gently.