The right way to attack Moriarty

There is a line of words engraved on the back of the statue, which is exactly what appeared when the contract was formed just now.

Name: Pickett

Category: Bowtruckle

Grade: n

Origin: West of England

Function: Unlock

The Bowtruckle in the five-star formation moved its hands and feet, and slowly raised its emerald green front paws, as if it didn't quite understand the situation.

Newt couldn't help but be overjoyed. He squatted down and waved to the Bowtruckles in the five-star array.

"Pickett, come here."

The green Bowtruckle didn't seem to be able to get used to his name very well. He tilted his head and thought about who Pickett was for a while, before bouncing towards Newt's hand.

Supporting Picot, Newt checked carefully up, down, left, and right, and found that there were indeed no scars left, so he nodded: "It's not bad."

Pickett understood this time, and nodded along with Newt.

The moment Picot nodded, Newt heard a very subtle childish voice in his mind, and said crisply and crisply, "Well, it's not bad."

Newt couldn't help laughing, stuffed Pickett into his jacket pocket, and exited the courtyard with his new shikigami.

After Newt returned, he frantically studied spells, potions, and magic lessons. His sudden enthusiasm frightened Helen. Helen even wrote a letter to Theseus, asking how to deal with this matter.

Theseus took advantage of the Christmas break to have a long talk with Newt. After learning that it turned out to be a Bowtruckle, Theseus lamented that Newt's belief in becoming stronger So unexpected, on the other hand, he sighed deeply.

"I thought you'd be a Slytherin, but you're a Hufflepuff."

"I won't stop you from learning magic spells, but I won't give you any help either. You need to work and pay for all your expenses during the learning process,"

It was two years later that Jim Moriarty saw Newt for the third time.

Eight-year-old Newt was working as an apprentice in a wand shop in Diagon Alley.

It was a new type of wand shop called Stuart's Wand Shop.

This wand shop is very special.

On the storefront of Stuart's Wand Shop, there is a large promotional banner. The handwriting on it is always moving irregularly. Only when someone looks at the banner, the handwriting on the promotional banner will be orderly. It is the slogan of Stuart's Wand Shop written in magic ink - "Only you can't think of it, nothing we can't do; as long as you dare to think, we will dare to do it."

Focusing on "wizards have the right to choose the wand that suits them", it puts forward a new concept of "the wand is the half body of the wizard, and the wizard has the right to participate in the production of the wand", which is similar to the old wand shop - Ollivander Wand Shop It's completely in the opposite direction.

However, it was this difference that made Stuart's wand shop quickly attract many wizards trying new things.

The choice of wand wood, the choice of wand core, and even the materials used for splitting and bonding wands, all wizards can choose by themselves, which is unique in the entire wizarding world.

The wizard is no longer standing in front of the cabinet to select the finished product, but can participate in the production of the entire wand. In addition to specifying the material of the wand core, the type of wand wood, and the amount of various other additives, the wizard They can even specify the cooking time by themselves - this can even be called a "how to make a magic wand" popular science conference, and soon, the reputation of this new type of wand shop spread throughout the wizarding world.

Many wizards came here especially.

The more curious wizards who have money and leisure, the more interested they are in this new type of wand shop.

For nothing else, this newly opened wand shop is expensive!

In fact, due to the outlandish concept of this newly opened wand shop, the wands in Stuart's wand shop are not only a little bit more expensive than Ollivander's wand shop.

Newt, as a helper apprentice, saw with his own eyes every day that all kinds of messy materials were used as raw materials and thrown into the wand furnace. Sometimes Stuart secretly showed off to Newt: "This group of mindless guys, completely I don’t know that the furnace can be disassembled, so the so-called failed refining materials ended up in my pocket?” Of course, Newt still respects Stuart as a master, and aside from being greedy for petty gain, Stuart Tuart is considered a good teacher, and he does his best to Newt. Newt has been working here intermittently, for almost a year, and for a year, if he is placed in another place, he probably can't even touch the edge of his master's ability. , but it can be placed here with Stuart, Newt has already learned the basic principles of wand making. In the hands-on part, due to the various requests from customers, Newt's current wand can barely be seen.

Not every wand can be used normally. According to the news in the Daily Prophet, the average scrapping rate of Stuart's wand shop is terribly high, which directly caused the high consumption level of this new-style wand shop. Experts estimate that if you want to get a suitable and working wand from Stuart's wand shop, the more reasonable budget is 28 gold Galleons, which is exactly four times that of Ollivander's wand shop. 'As a result, owning a new-style wand from Stuart's wand shop has almost become an important indicator of a wizard's wealth.

Even if they just bought one and went back to watch it, many people came here admiringly.

What's more, every customer who has bought a wand from Stuart's shop is full of praise for the wands from Stuart's wand shop. Many people have reported that the wands from Ollivander's wand shop have a much higher degree of fit .

Newt pursed his lips. Of course, the wand he chose must have a high degree of fit. If it wasn't for making himself a wand with a high degree of fit, he wouldn't have been an apprentice here for a whole year. God knows, he prefers nesting. In the bedroom, dissecting Hawklap - it couldn't be more fun!

Jim Moriarty led a group of small followers, pushed open the door of Stuart's wand shop, and talked loudly.

"Hey, boy, let me take a look at the magical wand shop you mentioned." Jim Moriarty walked into Stuart's wand shop, followed by a group of little wizards.

Newt wrinkled his nose very subtly, and turned his head in disgust. According to Stuart's request, he sorted out the wand materials selected by the customers one by one and preprocessed them.

"Oh, welcome," Stuart looked up at Newt, and greeted Jim Moriarty with a smile, "Charming little gentleman, here you can get any wand you want, or Choose any material you wish, including but not limited to wand core, wand wood, wand lacquer."

Jim Moriarty looked curiously at Stuart's wand shop. His eyes wandered from the furnishings in the room to Newt, lingered on Stuart's hand for a while, and finally looked at the rows in the wand shop. Facing the long queue, he showed a very charming smile to Stuart.

"Oh, anything I want to choose—?" Jim Moriarty's eyes fell on Newt indifferently, and for a moment, he showed a wicked smile, "Then, I assume, I can Choose a wandmaker?"

"Oh, Newt," Stuart kept moving his hands, and turned his head to give the little wizard under his eyes a knowing smile, "It seems that you already have followers who come here for you."

Newt frowned very subtly, a little impatiently, he looked up at Stuart.

"Can't you refuse?"

"Of course." Stuart put down the tools in his hand, put the wand materials prepared by Newt into the furnace in order, and showed a sly smile as he moved, "As long as you can offer a higher price .”

"Oh, Merlin's stinky socks," Newt muttered disapprovingly, clutching his purse.

He also plans to use his pocket money to buy a bird snake egg!Just across from the Fantastic Beasts store, he had been eyeing that bird snake egg for a long time!

Perhaps, he should add something to Jim's wand.

A group of young wizards behind Jim Moriarty have activated their taunting skills.

"Give it up, poor Scamander baby!" Burr sneered harshly.

"Even if you go bankrupt, it's impossible to give a higher Garen than Jim." Laika added.

"Oh, for Merlin's sake, poor Scamander probably doesn't know how much Galleons a month's pocket money Jim has as the youngest and most favored son of the Moriarty family. Oh, look For Merlin's sake, I think Scamander probably doesn't understand what pocket money is." Job sneered.

A group of young wizards behind Jim Moriarty laughed mockingly.

"That's probably more than your monthly salary. For Merlin's sake, if the child laborers are paid." A chubby little black-haired wizard added sarcastically. Newt knew him from the time the Bowtruckle had an accident. , this little black-haired wizard was once one of the wounded that Picot scratched, so Newt took a serious look at him several times, and confirmed that the little black-haired wizard Myron's face was very smooth without leaving any scars .

Newt felt relieved, and subconsciously touched his left jacket pocket—Picot always liked to stay there.

This little trick was not noticed by the little wizards, who were keen on mocking Newt at the moment.

"No, no, Myron, you're wrong," the blond-haired little wizard Ulysses turned around and smirked at the black-haired boy. He put his right hand on Jim's left shoulder casually, and put it close to Jim's ear. Acting intimately, "Jim's pocket money for a day is enough to bankrupt him. That's probably more than this poor little one's salary for a month. Isn't it, Jim?"

Jim made a smirk very casually: "Of course, my parents are always very generous to me, and my brother often gives me a lot of gold Galleon pocket money."

Jim Moriarty deliberately bit the word "brother" very hard, and a pair of black eyes swayed provocatively on Newt's face.

"What? Your great Auror brother didn't give you enough Galleons, so that you had to come out to work?"

"Okay, my boys," Stuart finally agreed to be kind, and looked up at his poor little apprentice. Of course, only Merlin's stinky socks that hadn't been washed for three days knew, Stuart He didn't come out to be a peacemaker, in fact, he just wanted to earn more Galleons.

"Who gets Newt's next time depends on your wallets." Stuart glanced at a group of little wizards behind Jim, and blinked slyly, "Of course, this is not a Confrontation against one, I believe that helping each other is a fine tradition in the wizarding world, isn't it?"

"Oh! Merlin's underpants can still be like this!" There was an exclamation from the little wizard.

"Oh, you really know how to do business," replied Jim Moriarty lazily, "but I like it."

"Oh, thank you for your compliment, then," Stuart took the finished product out of the melting furnace, "What do you think, sir, let's start now?"