The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

"Don't waste your efforts, John." Draco shook his head and said, "Do you really think I haven't read a book about centaurs? Those beasts believe in nature, and they hate everything that is unnatural. In other words, , it’s impossible for them to come and buy your garbage!”

As soon as Draco finished speaking, a centaur actually appeared in the dense forest in the distance, and was still walking slowly towards this side.

This shocked him so much that his mouth opened involuntarily.

A trace of surprise flashed across John's face.

Because the person who appeared in front of him at this moment was the black-haired centaur leader from before.

You must know that this guy was the loudest yeller before, and even threatened that he would rather be eaten by a spider than come to buy anything.

However, John quickly adjusted his mood and said with a smile:

"Hello, my dear centaur friend!"

"Hello, my little human pony. You are a good wizard, not arrogant, and know how to respect us and respect nature. You are qualified to move in our forest, so I will appear in front of you again. "

After the black-haired centaur finished speaking to John, he turned to look at Draco fiercely, "As for you! Damn 'human'! You'd better not go into the forest alone in the future, otherwise..."

Draco couldn't help but shudder and shivered again.

And the smile on John's face became even brighter.

In fact, he had already expected that the centaurs would come back.

This is easy to understand. After all, even if they are not here to buy things, the centaurs who regard the Forbidden Forest as their own territory will not let these two little wizards wander in the Forbidden Forest.

So surveillance is bound to happen.

This is why he spent a long time arguing with Draco about 'centaur character' and 'wizard supremacy'.

And now it seems that this works very well.

With Draco as a foil, he, a person who 'does not discriminate against centaurs' and also appreciates 'centaur character', has obviously gained the favor of the black-haired centaur in front of him.

And now, since the other party can obey John's call and come out of the dense forest, there is a high probability that he is ready to make a deal with John.

Sure enough, the black-haired centaur finally pulled his vicious gaze away from Draco, turned around and said to John with a guilty conscience:

"You just said that, right? You said you have... beautiful jewelry here."

"Aha! Of course!"

John snapped his fingers happily, and then pulled out two necklaces from the stall, "Let's take a look at this. They are made of sterling silver, each weighing about 20 grams, and the pendants are made into sun totems and moon totems respectively. This should be more suitable for you, after all, I remember that you are very good at astronomy and astrology."

The black-haired centaur nodded repeatedly, looking at the two necklaces with sharp eyes, but there was still a lingering hesitation on his face.

Seeing this, John took the last shot and said:

"The most important thing is that these two necklaces are completely handmade by ordinary people. Just like my skewers, no Muggle high-tech or magic is used during the process, it is absolutely natural! And it is also a couple's model! You should Do you understand what a couple means? Well, just understand. Just imagine, you are wearing this sun pendant, and another beautiful..."

John emphasized the tone on 'absolutely natural' and 'couple style'.

Upon hearing this, the hesitation on the black-haired centaur's face disappeared instantly.

"do not talk!"

His eyes widened, he gasped and said excitedly, "I'll buy it! Buy two! Look, are these enough to exchange for? If not, I'll go back and get them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a leather package was stuffed into John's arms.

John opened the cloth bag and discovered that all it contained were Billywig worm needles!

This thing is a material for making various magic potions such as sobriety potions. If used alone, it will make people dizzy and float.

It is sold in Diagon Alley for 39 galleons per bottle (7 sticks).

There are at least 70 sticks in this small bag right now.

In other words, he sold those two rubbish silver necklaces for more than ten galleons?

John took a deep breath, suppressed his inner joy and continued:

"That's enough! That's enough! My dear centaur friend, I'm not greedy, and I don't want to deceive you. You did make me a lot of money!"

"You deserve this. We centaurs are always generous to our friends! And to our enemies..." The black-haired centaur paused here, then turned to Draco and said fiercely, "I treat my enemies... It will be colder than the north wind!"

Draco wasn't frightened this time.

Mainly because the scenes happening in front of him had already exceeded the upper limit of his knowledge and acceptance.

At the moment, he seemed to be under a petrification spell, his whole body was extremely stiff, and he looked at John with a strange look.

And John didn't pay attention to him. He smiled and handed the kebab to the horseman:

"That's great. I'm not a stingy person either. Come on, come and try my craftsmanship. You won't be disappointed!"

The black-haired centaur frowned upon hearing this.

In principle, he didn't want to eat the food handed to him by the wizard.

But looking at John's sincere eyes, out of friendship, he still took the skewer and took a bite carefully.

Then, his eyes immediately widened.

"how is the taste?"

John asked softly.

The black-haired centaur didn't answer him, but grabbed the skewer and began to bite it fiercely.

While John continued to hand him skewers, the corners of his mouth slowly raised.

Because creatures like horse people live in the forest all year round and respect nature, their diet is quite light.

When it comes to food with a strong flavor like barbecue, there are generally only two situations.

Either it is completely unacceptable and discarded like worn out shoes.

Or the door to a new world will open from now on, and it will be out of control.

The black-haired centaur in front of him was obviously the latter.

After eating like this for almost half an hour, the black-haired horse reluctantly stopped.

He looked at the signs all over the floor, burped, and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Go back quickly, my dear centaur friend, there should be a beautiful lady waiting for your gift in your village, right?" John said with a smile, "Of course, I suggest you prepare it before giving it away. A jewelry box, put it in it and send it away. I won’t sell it to you. After all, when it comes to woodcraft, you centaurs are the real masters!"

As soon as he said this, the black-haired centaur's eyes became fiery again.

He patted John's shoulder excitedly and said:

"You have gained my friendship, my little human pony! From now on, you can go in and out of our forest at will. If you encounter danger, you can also blow the bone whistle at any time. I will rush to help you as soon as possible! This is my Bain’s promise to you!”

After saying that, the black-haired centaur walked towards the dense forest, turning his head three times at a time.

John stood there, watching him.

It wasn't until the centaur's figure completely disappeared that Draco, who had been hiding beside him just now, as dull as a stone statue, finally reacted.

"You... how did you do it?" Draco said in disbelief, "Centaurs are obviously very repulsive to humans. They don't even wear clothes, and their weapons are primitive bows and arrows. How could they buy you?" Muggle trash?!"

"That's why I said, you really don't understand anything."

John shook his head and chuckled.

It is true that horse people advocate being close to nature and reject humans, but this does not mean that they do not like a more convenient life and a better living environment.

This is biological instinct!

Driven by this instinct, or desire, there will definitely be some horse people who want to get in touch with human creations.

There is no doubt about this, just as there are bad guys and good guys in every group, there must be old-schoolers, new-fashioners and swingers in the centaurs' village.

And John’s cargo selection is also very clever.

What he brought over were all the groceries that someone had brought from the Muggle world in the past few days. There were all kinds of messes.

To a wizard like Draco, this was rubbish.

Because there's nothing magical about it, not a thing.

But it's different for the centaurs.

At this stage, the centaurs still have a sense of shame. While they want a better life first, they are also afraid that they will be ridiculed and insulted by their peers if they use human creations.

At this time, if John directly sells the other party's alchemical creations or technological creations such as game consoles, the other party will definitely not want it.

The difference is with light industrial or handmade products that have a relatively low degree of processing and can really improve their lives.

As long as John's so-called 'purely handmade, purely natural' words are added to this kind of thing, horse people will be very accepting of it!

The bottom line is that centaurs don't understand the true value of magical materials and these Muggle junk.

In their opinion, it is a very profitable thing to exchange the piles of magic materials that are everywhere for Muggle sundries.

For John, it was also very profitable to exchange worthless Muggle junk for precious magical materials.

This is a win-win situation!

Of course, John would not explain these things to Draco.

As soon as the centaur Bain stepped forward, John discovered that other centaurs were approaching his stall.