Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 920 They are all profiteers

  By the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were getting together to rest and keep warm to pass the time. They talked about boring trifles one after another.

George pressed his body on the armchair, flipped through the recent "Daily Prophet", and found Rita Skeeter's report. After reading carefully, he said to Fred and Lee Jordan who were playing cards next to him: "I Recently, I suddenly like Rita Skeeter."

   "Don't really fall in love with her." Fred joked with a smile, "That woman is almost old enough to be your mother."

   "I mean articles."

  George continued to look down at the newspaper and read the latest front-page news. He felt that the amount of information in it seemed a bit large. Although Sirius has thrown out a lot of heavy news a while ago, the latest issue of "Defense Guide" has not yet been released, so we can only see what big news will be reported by the "Daily Prophet", and look for Bad news for Ludo Bagman.

  Ludo Bagman almost took away all the Galleons in their pockets. Without Albert, their dream would have ended before it even started.

   Fred and George never forgot this grudge.

   "That woman's articles are still so sharp, it would be bad luck for him to follow her."

Lee Jordan has also read Rita Skeeter's articles published in the "Daily Prophet" in recent days, and has to admit that there is some reason why the other party's reports are popular, although most of them are nonsense .

   But everyone loves gossip.

   "Sirius is really brave, he will definitely be in big trouble if he did that last time." George continued to flip through the newspaper, looking for more news about Bagman.

  Since that woman, Rita Skeeter, exposed Ludo Bagman's scandal with astonishing efficiency, the former head of the Department of Sports and Sports of the Ministry of Magic has suddenly lost her reputation.

   There is no way, there are many wizards who bet on Bagman in the World Cup, and people who lose money or win money are scolding him.

  Amidst the scolding of countless people, Bagman left the Ministry of Magic disheartened and lived a life of avoiding debts.

  Harry, who was playing wizard chess with Ron next to him, heard the three talking about Sirius, so he looked up and asked, "What's the trouble with Sirius?"

   "Don't know, but Fudge is not a generous man," said George.

   "Last time, I met Fudge at the Leaky Cauldron, and I think he's not bad." Harry didn't have much contact with Fudge, and his impression of him wasn't too bad.

"If I were you, I wouldn't trust politicians: those people only care about their own status and power, they are the dirtiest guys in the world, even the toilet is cleaner than them." George closed the newspaper and said to Harry , "This is the exact words of Albert, don't trust the morals of politicians, because they have no morals."

   "I think it might be more appropriate to use stinky socks." Fred threw away the wizard card in his hand and complained, "The toilets in some places are still very clean."

   Both Harry and Ron frowned. They never thought that Albert would hate Fudge so much. Even Fred, George and Lee Jordan had no respect for the Minister of Magic.

"I dare say that Mr. Minister definitely doesn't like certain truths to be known, which will damage his reputation and be detrimental to the next election of the Minister of Magic." Lee Jordan explained with a smile and shrugged his shoulders, "especially when people Knowing that Fudge accidentally caused Peter Pettigrew to escape from Azkaban, his situation will become worse, and now he probably has the idea of ​​killing Sirius."

  Harry opened his mouth in surprise, not knowing what to say.

He also knew that Fred, George and Lee Jordan always liked to talk about Albert and admired him very much, but he had to admit that Albert was right most of the time. People want to believe in Dumbledore.

  When Harry Potter had such a thought in his mind, he felt very absurd. Albert had already reached the height of Dumbledore.

Well, although Harry doesn't want to admit it, it seems... Albert is really powerful. If he is as old as Dumbledore, he may become the next Dumbledore. Even Harry has to admit it .

"What should the Triwizard Tournament do now? The officials sent by the Ministry of Magic to hold and manage the Triwizard Tournament are all finished. Will the tournament continue?" Ron changed the subject, always feeling that Fred Every time people discuss Albert, they are quite enthusiastic. It sounds a bit like Percy said during the summer vacation:

  Mr. Crouch thinks...I told Mr. Crouch so...Mr. Crouch thinks so...Mr. Crouch told me...

   Oh man, this is crazy.

   Having a Percy in the family is enough for him, and Ron doesn't want to see Fred and George become like this.

"It should continue. Albert said that the warriors have signed a contract with the Goblet of Fire, and they must not give up no matter what, otherwise they will not be able to bear the price of breaching the contract." Fred said without thinking, "I dare say Albert has already guessed It will be like this, so he doesn't care too much about the outcome of this game."

   "It's really a game full of disasters, maybe this is the last one." Lee Jordan began to clean up the wizard cards on the table.

   "By the way, when are you going to officially sell wizard cards?" Ron reached out and picked up an exquisite wizard card. After several years of accumulation, wizard cards have become more and more refined.

"next semester."

   "At that time, we will place advertisements, open an owl mail order service, and sell products to Hogwarts students, making final preparations for opening a store after graduation."

"Anderson really plans to help you open a store, like Zuko's Joke Store." Ron was full of envy, and he wanted such a good friend, "However, in addition to canary biscuits, you have prepared How many new products?"

   "I will never let you down, there are many interesting things."

   "Including wizard cards?" Harry asked curiously, "How much are you going to sell for this thing?"

   "A pack of two sickles, and there will be five wizard cards inside." Lee Jordan introduced, "The wizard card deck is one Galleon."

   "It's really expensive, it's a profiteer." Ron looked at the three people in front of him with weird eyes.

"Is it very expensive? No, you only need to spend one Galleon to buy a card group, and you can play." Lee Jordan looked at Ron with the eyes of a poor man and said, "It is not necessary to buy supplementary card packs, and as long as Join the wizard card club and are willing to participate in the competition, we will give away some free card packs every year, to be honest, the cheapest wizard card is more than one Galleon."

Ron opened his mouth, wanting to refute, and then he heard Lee Jordan continue, "If you think this thing is too expensive, then the things invented by Fred, George and Albert must be even more expensive." Come on, they need two Sickles for any candy."

   "Are you crazy about money?" Ron looked at the Weasley twins in disbelief. "A candy costs two Sickles?"

"There is a reason why we dare to sell it so expensive." Fred and George looked at each other, put their hands on Ron's shoulders, and said with a smile, "If you want to get sick, our skipping class candy can make you sick." Immediately get sick."

   "Sick minds want to be sick." Ron broke away from the twins annoyed.

"No, there are always people who want to get sick." Fred shrugged. "After eating skipping candy, we can guarantee that even experienced professors will feel that you need to go to the school hospital urgently, as long as you leave the classroom , you can take the other half of the antidote and quickly return to normal. Then, you can spend the rest of the time freely." "

  Looking at the stunned Ron, Fred and George patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and said, "We have tested it ourselves, and it is safe, fast and harmless."

   "Sounds like a good thing." Harry muttered, "Give me a copy of all kinds of skipping candies."

  If there was such a good thing back then, Harry would definitely be sick and hospitalized every time he took Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"We are not ready to sell it to the public yet, so you may have to wait until the next semester." Fred explained helplessly, "Of course, if you want to book in advance, you can pay first, as the first customer to book in advance, We can give you a 20% discount, and no one else can enjoy such a discount."

   "There are some inventions, or give me a copy of each!" Harry was very interested in the twins' inventions.

   "Wow, are you sure Harry?"

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all showed exaggerated expressions, and reminded, "This will cost several hundred Galleons."

   "A few hundred Galleons, why is it so expensive, are you robbing?"

  Harry and Ron were also taken aback by the high price.

   "Of course it's expensive, a few hundred Galleons is still cheap, if you want to customize it, the price will be more expensive." George got a weekly magazine from nowhere and handed it to Harry.

   "What's this?" Harry asked, taking the magazine.

   "Our catalog." George explained proudly.

   "Is it all in there?"

  Harry and Ron looked at each other, this number is too much.

   "All of them, but some things need to be customized by Albert, which is expensive." Fred turned the magazine to the protective equipment column.

"There are several kinds of fireworks in this magazine. The cheapest one costs two Sickles, and the most expensive one costs 20 Galleons to buy a deluxe deflagration. There are also special customized versions, and the price is negotiable." Li · Jordan said to Ron, "So, the wizard card is really not expensive, and it can even be said to be quite cheap."

   "You guys also sell invisibility cloaks?" Harry asked in surprise when he found that there were invisibility cloaks for sale.

"Well, sort of." Fred explained, "Actually, it's just a traveling cloak with a disillusionment spell or a blindfold. It can be invisible at first, but it will gradually lose its invisible effect after a long time. Handy, but certainly more than enough to fool Filch."

   "However, why is there such a big gap in the price?" Ron found that the cheapest invisibility cloak cost fifteen Galleons, while the most expensive one cost three hundred Galleons, a full twenty times the price. "

"The quality is different. The three hundred ones belong to a very delicate cloak even if it loses its magic power. The material is silk, which is a special custom-made model, and you need to make an appointment with Albert." Fred shrugged and said, " Of course, the invisibility effect lasts longer."

   "I found out that Anderson is a profiteer!"

Looking at Ron's entire product catalog magazine, the most expensive of them is the custom-made product, and a temporary appointment is required, and a deposit of 100 Galleons is required, and the cheapest custom-made product costs 100 Galleons, and the most expensive one requires five thousand. It is said that it is a whole set of protective equipment made of dragon skin, which can completely resist ordinary curses, and can also greatly weaken the power of black magic.

   "How can you say that."

  The three looked at each other and said in unison, "Albert is a profiteer."

   At this moment, Hermione walked into the common room out of breath

   "What's the matter, Hermione?" Ron asked suspiciously.

   "Do you know where Albert is?" Hermione said urgently.

   "I don't know, maybe I went to Hagrid." Fred asked suspiciously, "You have something to do with him?"

   "Something bad happened." Hermione grabbed Harry's arm, pulled him up from his seat, and said quickly, "Harry, come with me."

   "What happened?" Harry asked suspiciously.

   "Please, you come with me first, I'll tell you on the way." Hermione pulled Harry and walked out of the corridor. Ron got up and followed, leaving the three of them looking at each other.

   "What's going on, Hermione?"

  After Harry followed Hermione out of the common room, he looked at the nervous and impatient Hermione in confusion.

   "Winky's broken," said Hermione tremblingly.

   Call for shop names.

  (end of this chapter)