Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts

A complete Hungarian Horntail dragon, if sold normally, could be sold for at least [-] to [-] gold galleons.

But the black marketeers in Knockturn Alley only gave Andre the price of [-] Galleons. Without other sales channels, they had no choice but to accept it.

Fortunately, this wealth should be enough to buy a store in Hogsmeade.

After a night's rest at the Leaky Cauldron, the two took the Knight Bus to Hogsmeade early the next morning.

As the only pure wizarding village in the UK, Hogsmeade has always had a very good business atmosphere. Although few foreign wizards come here to shop, the local residents of the village and the nearby Hogwarts student group , can support a large number of shops.

Andre plans to let Sophia open an alchemy props store here. In the early stage, he can buy some goods from Diagon Alley and sell them. Later, when his alchemy ability is improved, he can also develop his own products.

Just like the space pocket he made before, it must be very popular among the little wizard community.And maybe he can help sell the Weasley twins' prank props in the future. These two brothers have outstanding talents in alchemy.

After spending a long time, they finally bought a house that could be used as a store through the introduction of the proprietress of the Three Broomsticks, Ms. Rosmerta.

The location of the store is a bit remote, not on the main road of the village - the storefront in the good location has long been occupied.

What they bought was a two-story building next to the Pig Head Bar. The original owner moved his family to Italy a few years ago. It is said that his daughter married a wealthy wizard there, so this small building It was entrusted to Ms. Rosmerta to sell on her behalf.

The price was not expensive, three thousand gold galleons, which was completely affordable for Andre and the other two who had just sold a fire dragon.

It's just that the location is too remote. If no one leads the way, little wizards will generally not come to this path.

But Andre is not too worried about this. As a student of Hogwarts, he can help promote it in school.

"This house is full of spotted mangosteens and the like. We have to spend some time cleaning it up. Otherwise, before we can open, the house will probably be destroyed by these things." After looking at the upstairs and downstairs, , Andre said to Sophia with a headache.

With no one taking care of it for many years, the internal environment of this house is very worrying. Many magical creatures that like to live in wizards' houses have made their homes here. Andre even saw a nest of goblins.

These little people were like potatoes with legs. They were ugly, but they were all brave and fierce. As soon as they saw Andre appear, they came up to attack him with small wooden sticks. In the end, he used the wind spell to blow them all out of the house.

Sophia didn't have much dissatisfaction. She just smiled gently. For the first time after her parents died, she felt like she had a home again, even if it still looked very dilapidated.

It took a whole day for the two of them to clean up the filth and uninvited guests in the house.

The first floor was naturally used as a store. The glass display cabinets bought from the Muggle mall were taken out by Andre from the space pocket and assembled one by one.

However, there are no products on the shelves yet, and they have to wait for Owl to deliver the various alchemy tools they ordered from Diagon Alley before they can officially open.

There are three rooms on the second floor. The two of them each chose one as their bedroom, and the remaining one was a storage room.

Andre planned to dig a basement under this small building when he was free, so that he could use it as his magic experiment base in the future.

And if you go one step further and connect the secret passage under the Honeydukes candy store to your basement, it will be more convenient to enter and exit the school.

It’s just that the following days did not give Andre the opportunity to carry out this action. The opening of the store cost him a lot of time. It took several days just to receive and organize the previously ordered goods, and he also had to select and arrange these goods one by one. On the shelves.

Originally he just wanted to be mean, but he didn't expect Sophia to be extremely serious about this matter. Miss Witch, who had never disobeyed him since coming down from the Alps, lost her temper for the first time.

In her words, since you have to do something, you must do it well. How can you just throw away the work casually?

Looking at Sophia's pretty face that was flushed with anger, Andre realized that she might really regard this store as her career, or... life?

This incident actually had a very big impact on Andre. He had always subconsciously thought of the world as a game.

After all, to him, the future of this world has been known for a long time. Every character seems to be like an NPC, moving steadily forward on the timeline according to the established plot.

It is precisely because of this that Andre treated Sophia so badly at the beginning. Just like the Internet amplifies everyone's evil thoughts, the sense of unreality after he traveled through time also has the same effect.

But after returning from his trip to Paris, France, Andre vaguely realized his mistake. This is a real world, and everyone he meets is also a living existence.

Whether it is Sophia, her original grandfather Mr. Aubrey Adrian, or the French taxi driver who was unfortunately kidnapped by the Free Magical Union.

His choices affected these people, and their choices in turn affected him.

This was a vague concept, but until the moment Sophia got angry at him, Andre seemed to have a mirror in his heart that was shattered.

He began to face his own mentality. These characters who originally only existed in novels and movies were actually living people with their own thoughts and feelings.

Because of this understanding, even though he was a little impatient, Andre suppressed his temper and spent a few days helping Sophia organize the store.

He finally felt a little guilty about the witch girl he had captured. When he was in the Alps and Hungary, those shameless methods made him feel a little uncomfortable when he recalled it now.

When the Christmas vacation was coming to an end, Andre finally found a reason to leave here, which inexplicably made him feel relieved deep in his heart.

After buying this small building, Sophia seemed to have transformed in just a few days, from a dark wizard who could cast unforgivable curses on strangers to a woman who was used to sitting in the house every day. Behind the counter on the first floor, there is a housewife lady who is holding a book "Essential Magic Spells for Family Life" and studying it with gusto.

This also made Andre more and more uncomfortable, which was completely different from what he had originally imagined.But now he no longer has the courage to correct the other person's behavior, because Sophia seems to really regard herself as his cousin, and even starts to take care of his clothes.

I thought I had subdued a black witch's assistant, but now it turns out that Andre is being treated submissively.