Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 434 The Essence of Laziness and Fishing

  Since Albert returned from Hogsmeade, he has been helping three roommates to better complete their homework.

  Fred and George have been nagging and complaining there for a long time, saying that Wood has completely become a training freak.

   "Stop complaining. After you finish your homework, I will tell you some good news." Albert flipped through the book while urging the three of them to continue doing their homework.

   "What good news?" Lee Jordan asked curiously, throwing a cocoa multi-flavored bean into his mouth.

   "Finish the homework first." Albert pointed to their parchment and reminded, "Isn't it better to finish it early and get relief?"

   "He must have sold the formula." Fred had obviously guessed what the good news Albert said.

  At the beginning, when Albert said he wanted to sell the formula of the Redness Eliminator, he didn't think he would fail. After all, Albert seldom did things that were uncertain, and it was completely normal to succeed in selling the formula.

   "Well, it's already sold." Albert nodded and admitted, "It's sold for five hundred Galleons."

   "As expected of Albert." George couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

   "Okay, concentrate on doing your homework, and I will tell you another good news later." Albert said with a smile. After speaking, he continued to focus on the book.

  The three continued to do their homework, only Ron, who was playing wizard chess with his roommate, was a little absent-minded, and seemed to be whispering something in his mouth.

   An hour later, the three finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked Albert to tell them the so-called good news. Albert smiled and took them back to the dormitory, showing the three of today's results.

George grabbed a handful of galleons and let the gold coins fall from his fingers into the pile of galleons. Hearing the crisp jingling sound, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I didn't expect it to be so easy to get five hundred galleons." It still feels a little unreal.”

   "However, there shouldn't be five hundred Galleons in this bag, right?" Fred asked, "This bag can only contain more than a hundred Galleons at most."

   "Well, no." Albert looked at the three roommates with a half-smile and said, "This bag of Galleons is indeed only one hundred pieces, and I prepared them for you."

   As he spoke, Albert stuffed the bag of Galleons into George's hand, "I prepared one hundred Galleons for each of you."

  The three of them were all stunned, unable to believe what they heard just now.

  George suddenly started to giggle, and after a long time, he stammered and asked, "Are you going to give me this bag of Galleons?"

"To be precise, it should be kept for you. This is the start-up capital for our future store opening." Albert smiled and stuffed the money bags into Fred and Lee Jordan's hands respectively, "Let me keep it and let you keep it There really isn't much difference, is there?"

  The three of them began to look at the money bag in their hands and giggle again.

   I don't know how long it took before Fred came back to his senses and asked suddenly: "Aren't you afraid that we will spend Galleons?"

   "Will you spend your hope of opening a store in the future?" Albert asked back.

Fred and George shook their heads together. They knew very well that their family's situation would not help them realize their wish to open a joke shop in the future. Just like Albert said, the money is for their future joke shop Hope, if it's spent, where are they going to get the money to open the store?

  The two of them will definitely keep their pockets tightly shut and will not waste their future hopes.

   "Thank you. However, the Galleons are still with you first." Fred handed the bag of Galleons back to Albert, "We don't need it yet."

   "You need to learn how to keep accounts and how to manage Garen." Albert said with a smile, "This is what we need to do when we open a store in the future, and you also need to learn these things."

George shook his head. He would never take Albert's money. After all, the Galleons belonged to Albert. They were moved, but the three of them would not keep the money no matter what, even though it was the largest galleon they had ever come into contact with.

After some mutual excuses, Albert successfully persuaded the three of them and gave them fifty Galleons each. Fred and George also needed the research funds to purchase raw materials for their research on joke props, while Lee Jordan needed In charge of organizing this year's wizard card competition and preparing prizes, Albert also used the excuse that opening a store needs to know how to keep accounts, taught them how to do accounts, and asked them to spend every Nat they spent record it.

  Albert's assignment made the three roommates extremely excited. They had already seen the embryonic form of a company.

  Although they are a bit suspected of being a housewife, Albert knows that the three of them will do their own things seriously.

  The excited Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were completely unaware of Albert's sinister intentions. This guy was completely preparing for his future as a shopkeeper.

   Albert trained them, isn't it just to let the three friends help him manage the company in the future, so that he can be lazy and fish?

  The name is to give them a chance to exercise themselves.

   Well, there's no one more reliable than him, is there?

   Moreover, this small group formed of friendship and interests will be very stable in the future. After all, wizards are not as fancy as Muggles.

  …

  In the evening, in the Gryffindor common room, Harry, who was doing his homework, suddenly heard Ron talk about the news he heard this afternoon.

   "You said that Albert sold a potion formula and earned five hundred Galleons?" Harry himself had no idea about Galleons, and he didn't react at all after hearing Ron talk about it.

   "You made five hundred Galleons by selling the formula?" Hermione was surprised. Although she didn't know much about Galleons, she also knew that it was a lot of money.

   "What formula did he sell?"

   "I don't know." Ron wished that the person who sold the formula was himself. He also sometimes dreams that he uses the Sorcerer's Stone to conjure a pile of gold and pays for a Quidditch team.

   "Don't think about those things, eat a candy!" Hermione shared the candy in her pocket with Harry and Ron.

   "It tastes good, where did you buy it?" Harry ate one and wanted to spend money to buy some.

   "Hogsmeade probably bought it." Ron said gloomily, "When Charlie was still in school, he would send Ginny and me some candies every year as Christmas presents."

   "When I met Albert in the library in the afternoon, he gave it to me." Hermione explained, "They said it was a return gift for a Christmas present."

   "Afternoon? Albert spent the whole afternoon reading in the lounge, teaching Fred and George to do their homework by the way, and I was right next to him." Ron raised his eyebrows.

  Hermione frowned slightly, she did meet Albert in the library, candy is the best proof, Ron obviously doesn't seem to be lying, could it be... There are two Alberts?

   But how is this possible?

  (end of this chapter)