Hogwarts genius wizard

Chapter 16 A Fat Pig

The house is full of gold and jade, and nothing can keep it.Wealthy and proud, blame yourself.

- "Tao Te Ching"

William was also a little embarrassed. He couldn't remember the basic knowledge books, so he could only stare at the salesperson and said, "As you know, this is the first time we have come into contact with mysterious knowledge, and there is still a lot of common sense that needs to be learned. Can you trouble Would you make a list of the books you just mentioned and the textbooks for grades 1-4 of the magic school?"

"Grades 1 to 4? That's a bit much, and you seem to be too young. But I remember the boss said that if the little wizard's parents or guardians agree and promise strict supervision to avoid magical accidents, I think I can sell to you."

Roy the salesman looked at William, then nodded at Allen with a vague understanding.

Thinking that he could get a lot of commission today, he raised his hand and picked up the quill to write.

When the salesman finished writing, William picked up the book list and looked at it. In addition to the two books just mentioned, "Magic Theory", "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration", "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi", "Magic Potions and Potions" were added. ", "Monsters and Their Origins", "Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense", "Standard Spells", "Putting Through the Fog and Seeing the Future" and other 38 books are at the bottom of the list. The total cost is 237 Galleons.

William looked up at the salesperson and said with a little embarrassment: "Sorry, we haven't exchanged currency yet, please wait a moment."

Without looking up, he took his father Alan out of the bookstore.Roy wasn't angry either, and smiled farewell.

"Exchange currency?" Allen was dragged out of the bookstore by William, "Where to exchange?"

"It should be right ahead."

William thought hard about the wizard bank, but unfortunately he still couldn't remember it, so he asked a passing wizard: "Hello, where can I exchange Galleons?"

"Ah, a Muggle wizard? It's not far from here, please follow me."

The young red-haired wizard led Allen and William forward, then pointed to the white building not far away, and walked away without waiting for William to finish thanking him.

The father and son walked into the bronze gate, and when they passed the second silver gate, Allen looked at the inscription on the side of the gate with interest: "Please enter strangers, but please be careful of the consequences of greed..."

The father and son are like rural people who have just entered the city, looking east and west,

A goblin who seemed to have nothing to do raised his hand and said, "Good morning, are you two here to deposit Galleons, or to take Galleons?"

This kind of creature is called goblin in Europe and America, but in order to distinguish other goblins, Huaxia translates it as Goblin.

A magical humanoid creature with a greedy, cunning, evil and deceitful personality, fond of gold coins, diamonds and other possessions.

Contrary to the forest fairies, Veela, forest elves, etc., they are not loved by Chinese qi refiners.

"Hello, we are here to exchange Galleons." Allen walked forward with William.

"Well, according to our requirements, the exchange rate of British pounds to Galleons is 5:1. Although there is no clear limit, in order to avoid a large amount of exchange, Galleons will be lost too much. Each wizard is limited to exchange currency within 10000 pounds per year. How much is it in pounds?"

According to William's simple calculation, the average unit price of textbooks is about 31 pounds, which is about 62 US dollars, which is not high considering the preciousness of wizard knowledge.

The price level in the wizarding world depends on the production cost. Some materials are more expensive and the price is higher.

It wasn't until William became familiar with the wizarding world that he realized that the books he bought were actually very expensive.

Like the Daily Prophet for 5 nats, which is about 5p (£0.05).

But in fact, this conversion is not correct. The photos of the event in the newspaper alone require the use of special magic potions, and the printing cost is high.

In addition, the population of the British wizarding community is only a few hundred thousand, and the market capacity is small. If it really costs 5p a piece, the reporters of the "Daily Prophet" will starve to death long ago.

Therefore, the value of the currency in the wizarding world is much higher than the value of the corresponding British pound. Wizards will only exchange British pounds for Galleons, and will not exchange Galleons for British pounds.

Alan reluctantly took out the 1500 pounds from his pocket. After the ugly-looking goblin took it, he pulled the long rope of the bell. In less than a minute, he quickly exchanged the 1 pounds that Alan gave into Galleons.

This work efficiency really confirms the truth of "time is money"!

William thought that his cheap father was really poor. His mother bought him a house full of books, accumulating tens of thousands of pounds without blinking an eye. Can get it within a week.

Now is not the Internet age of later generations. At this time, the Israeli military has not promoted this self-defense technique to foreigners, and only conducts training in the country.

Since Israel is a country where all the people are soldiers, this is actually a training course for reservists.

Allen breathed a sigh of relief after he came out, those goblins always reminded him of the little devil in the legend.

He touched Garen in the bag, took out one and bit it, and found that it was extremely hard. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "What kind of gold is this? Those monsters are too ugly."

Ao Hai returned to his normal state again, ran out again and said in surprise: "My fork, the spout of the night pot is inlaid with gold rims, and it is coated with fine gold, these goblins are really willing."

What Allen doesn't know is that no wizard likes these greedy aliens.

Small, ugly goblins, their status in the wizarding world is similar to that of a certain commercial nation in Europe before World War II.

The population is only a few million, but they are good at doing business, rationally using various rules, and occupying the huge wealth of European society.

According to data recorded in later generations, the German dictatorship received nearly 1200 billion Reichsmarks from them, which was equivalent to 1935 times the total output value of Germany's national GDP in 1.3.

The German government successively used 7107 trains to carry and confiscate all kinds of gold and silver, antiques, securities, currency, etc. It is impossible to calculate how much of it was taken away by soldiers and officials during the confiscation process.

7107 trains, what is this concept?

As for the confiscated other real estate, factories, buildings, etc., there are countless.

This real estate, cultural relics and antiques, gold and silver jewelry and other property, even if sold at a low price, supported one-third of Germany's war expenses during World War II.

At that time, Germany was in the midst of a global economic crisis, causing mass unemployment to reach 600 million people. They were starving to death, but this group of ethnic minorities controlled prices and plundered wealth frantically.

Not to mention the source of this great crisis, the shearers behind the Wall Street stock market crash in New York are precisely the financial oligarchs among this group of people.

So you really thought it was just "racism"?

Thinking too much, this is a redistribution of social wealth under the guise of a racial movement, a super big red envelope snatched by the dictator with the support of all the people, it is a European version of "Heshen falls, Jiaqing is full"!

"You'll have to pay it back sooner or later." William glanced at the goblin at Gringotts and thought sympathetically.

He didn't think wizards were all pure white wizards like Dumbledore, who could endure Gringotts' manipulation of the financial industry and plundering wizards' wealth.

After tossing all morning, William spent all of Alan's 300 Galleons, which made Alan very distressed.

In addition to more than 30 textbooks, a wand made of dragon nerves, an owl, and some commonly used magic medicines, such as cold medicine that can emit smoke after drinking.

As for the broomstick, it starts at 200 galleons, and the rocket crossbow costs as much as 2000 galleons.

Sitting in the car, William flipped through the books he bought.

Although Aohai can speak English, he doesn't know the vocabulary, so he doesn't know anything about it.

However, he has some common sense about potions, and he shared with William: "Old thief, what do you want to buy these magical potions? They are only effective for qi refiners to drink. These medicinal materials are not suitable for ordinary people. , is a more powerful poison than poison."

"Why did this happen?" William thought to himself that this should be normal. If the potion was useful to ordinary people, the potion with quick effect would have been known long ago, and there would not be so many disabled people in the world.

It doesn't matter if you lose your hand, just drink a potion that only costs a few dozen Galleons and it will grow back!

Fracture, or comminuted fracture, it doesn't matter, just replace it with a new bone!

"It's related to mana. The specific reason is not clear. It is said that the body of a qi refiner is very different from that of an ordinary person." Ao Hai paused for a while and said, "For example, your body eats as much food as Alan's every day. Three times as much, but not fat at all."

"That's because nanorobots can help digestion, transport nutrients, and perform special strengthening and maintenance on muscles and other tissues, so that I can evolve into a superman." William muttered to himself.

"Being able to fight at close range and at a distance is an all-around flawless defense." William thought happily.

The speed of going back was far faster than the speed of the car when he came, and William knew that this was because his father was eager to tell his family about the miraculous knowledge he had seen in the morning.

William spent the afternoon in the large living room of the main building of the farm under the strong watch of the three elders.

Catherine couldn't wait to ask her son to try a spell. William didn't use any of the basic spells in the textbooks, such as levitation spells, door opening spells, petrification spells, and flying spells.

Instead, the fluorescent spell made the wand shine for a while, and it was quickly mastered after a few times.

Allen patted William on the shoulder and encouraged: "Son, it seems that magic is more difficult, but it doesn't matter. With your cleverness, you will soon become a powerful wizard."

The fat owl named "Partridge" in the cage didn't know whether it was ridicule or cooing in approval. It was not until Catherine let some nuts into the cage that the owl calmed down.

The author of the textbook on Charms still put a lot of thought into it. William easily understood the content, and learned a lot of elementary spells in one afternoon.

What he didn't know was that when the manager of Lihen Bookstore came back in the afternoon, he heard that the summer worker had sold a large number of magic books directly to a little wizard, and was so angry that he almost fired him on the spot.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Magic, in order to protect the personal safety of young wizards, these textbooks can only be purchased by adult wizards before they enter school, and then teach young wizards in person.

This is to prevent young wizards from trying spells beyond their age due to curiosity, causing magical accidents.

Therefore, the little British wizards can only get the textbooks of the first grade before entering school, and the sales of the super-syllabus contents above the second grade are strictly prohibited.

It's a pity that William and Allen have already left Diagon Alley. The bookstore manager was afraid of taking responsibility, so he could only modify the buyer's age on the registration and forged a false purchase order.

A few years later, both Roy and the bookstore manager claimed that they had illegally sold high-level magic books to William Smith in private, which was why this genius wizard was created.

It's a pity that they couldn't produce valid evidence, and William simply ignored them.

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