Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 584 Fat Sheep Potter

  For Harry, Hermione and Ron, it was undoubtedly quite difficult to make a deal with this stranger, Mundungus Fletcher. They have never had a similar experience, and they don't have any trust in this Mr. Thief. The possibility of the two parties finally reaching a deal is really not high.

After much hesitation, Hermione finally wrote to Mundungus Fletcher, and mentioned in the letter that she was a customer introduced by Albert, hoping to buy a small amount of bicorn horns and The skin of an African tree snake.

  When Mundungus Fletcher received Hermione's letter, he was actually in a daze. He didn't know Hermione Granger at all, and even suspected that the other party sent him an envelope with extra materials.

  However, from the contents of the opened envelope, it was discovered that the other party was actually a customer introduced by Anderson.

  Mundungus Fletcher held the letter in his hand, and whispered the items the other party needed: "Bicorn horn and African tree snake skin?"

  This seems to be the raw material for making compound potions?

  In general, these two raw materials are only needed when making compound medicines.

Of course, Mr. Mundungus, the thief, could guess at the first time what kind of potion Miss Granger, who wrote to him, needed these two ingredients to make, more because he had helped people find bicorns before. I had some trouble with the horn and the skin of the African tree snake, so I was very impressed.

  In the black market, it is not particularly difficult to obtain a small amount of bicorn horns and African tree snake skins.

  After all, in the black market, there will always be a few shady guys who like to use compound potions to disguise themselves.

  The thief Mr. Mundungus decided to accept this deal, which is considered a good deal. By the way, he will give Anderson a face. He has a good impression of the young Anderson. Every once in a while, the other party would ask him to help him collect some things. Although they were all weird things, they could always make him a small profit. Mundungus was naturally happy to maintain this kind of steady business.

  Mundungus first rummaged through his small suitcase to see if there were any stored bicorn horns and African tree snake skins.

  However, the rest of the raw materials in the suitcase were of little value.

  Mundungus closed the suitcase cursingly, wrote back to that Hermione Granger by the way, and offered a high price of 10 Galleons.

  If the other party is willing to pay, he is sure to help the other party get the raw materials.

   As for slaughtering fat sheep?

  Sorry, there is no reason not to slaughter the fat sheep sent up.

  The opponent is not Anderson, the guy who can always set the lowest line of his psychological satisfaction.

However, after releasing the owl, Mundungus suddenly regretted it again. He was a little worried that Granger would give up the deal with him because the price he offered was too high, and wanted to catch up with the released owl. He took the sent letter back and corrected it again, but the owl refused to give him the letter, and pecked Mundungus' arm, making him howl in pain.

   "I hope this business will not fail!" Mundungus murmured as he checked the wound on his arm.

Not long after, Hermione received a reply letter from Mundungus, but the other party opened his mouth in the letter and directly proposed a high price of ten Galleons, which made Hermione feel like her breathing was about to stagnate, and there was absolutely no money in her pocket. With so many Galleons, even with this amount of money, Hermione would not spend a lot of Galleons to buy bicorn horns and African tree snake skins.

   "That guy must be crazy." Hermione gripped the letter paper tightly with both hands, and murmured, "Harry must be persuaded to give up."

   "Convince me of what?"

   At this moment, Harry and Ron walked over here, sat down beside them, looked at Hermione who was clutching the letter paper suspiciously, and asked, "Whose letter, did Mundungus reply?"

  Hermione hesitated for a moment, and handed the letter she had just received to Harry.

  Ron and Harry put their heads together immediately.

   "Ten Galleons, must he be crazy?"

Ron felt that he was almost overwhelmed by the weight of ten Galleons. Those raw materials were not worth one Galleon at all. Just like what Albert said, the other party offered ten times the price and treated them as Fool.

  Harry is not short of money, but ten Galleons still make him feel pain.

   After all, no matter how rich he is, the inheritance stored in the Gringotts vault will still be used less.

  However, considering that the money was spent and there was no need to mess with Snape's Potions class, he finally agreed to pay the Galleon for the horn of the bicorn and the skin of the African tree snake.

   "Reply to him, I'll buy it!" Harry gritted his teeth and said.

   He, Harry Potter has money.

   "Don't worry about Harry, we'd better go to Albert for advice." Hermione quickly stopped Harry's decision, "I don't think you want to be slaughtered by the other party as a fat sheep!"

  Ron fully agreed with Hermione's proposal, thinking that they should ask Albert to avoid being tricked by Mundungus.

  Ten Galleons are too expensive, the bicorn horns and African tree snake skin are not worth the price at all.

  If it really cost ten Galleons, Ron would rather agree to Hermione's less reliable plan.

   After all, the money couldn't be divided equally among the three, and Ron and Hermione didn't have that many Galleons in their pockets.

   It took the three of them a lot of time to finally find the opportunity. During breakfast, they blocked Albert outside the hall and took the opportunity to ask for advice from the other party.

Albert read the reply letter from Mundungus Fletcher that Harry handed him, and commented, "It's expensive, a small amount of bicorn horns and African tree snake skin are not worth the price at all. Although it is not surprising to say that the black market is ten times larger, it is usually slaughtered as a fat sheep."

   "How much do you think it's worth?"

"Those raw materials are worth about one Galleon. Three to five Galleons, Mundungus Fletcher will definitely be willing to sell them to you." Albert thought for a while before giving Harry an estimate. price.

  Harry was very depressed, absolutely no one wanted to be slaughtered like a fat sheep, but if they couldn't get these two ingredients, they would need to risk breaking into Snape's office.

   "Thank you." Harry said gratefully, "otherwise I would have been fooled by him."

"You can go to Hogsmeade to trade with him. Talk face to face, pay with one hand, and get the goods with the other. Don't pay first, otherwise he will definitely not deliver the goods to you." Albert reminded kindly, "With Those guys need to be very careful when dealing with them, so as not to be fooled by them with fake products, which often happens in the black market."

"We can't go to Hogsmeade." Harry was very depressed. He found that buying things on the black market was more troublesome than expected. Will you encounter a situation where black eats black?

"There is a secret passage on the fifth floor of the castle that leads to the outside of the castle. Fred and George used the secret passage to go to Hogsmeade when they were in the first grade." Albert glanced at Hermione and continued: "If you are not in a hurry, you can wait until the next time you go to Hogsmeade, and let Fred and George drop by to help you deal with Mundungus Fletcher. They have experience in this area."

  The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, never thinking that there is a secret passage leading outside the school.

   "If you're in a hurry, you'll have to pay them some errand money to go to Hogsmeade instead of you."

  Ron heard Albert's words, and the expression on his face was extremely complicated. In fact, he also wanted the so-called errand fee.

  (end of this chapter)