International students at Hogwarts

Chapter 223 Fred, You Really Show Me

Soon, Dumbledore left the infirmary. Before leaving, he asked Lu Ren about the location of the secret room. Lu Ren knew that Dumbledore might seal the secret room himself.In the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult for anyone to open the secret room again.

Two days later, Lu Ren was discharged from the hospital. At this time, the story that he won the special contribution award of the school and earned [-] points for Gryffindor at one time has spread.Fortunately, the things that spread were infinitely close to the truth, and he admitted it frankly: he uncovered the mystery of the secret room and defeated the remaining power left by the mysterious man.

This undoubtedly made him famous, but the negative effect is also obvious. He is now as conspicuous to Lockhart as a torch in the night sky. There is only gratitude in my heart.

What is self-sacrifice?This is!
The timing of Lu Ren's discharge from the hospital was very timely. He caught up with the first Quidditch match of the season: Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.

His discharge also encouraged Wood, because Fred's health was not good recently, and Lu Ren's performance in the previous training was extremely good, and he was enough to be Fred's substitute.

However, after learning that Fred's symptoms were nosebleeds and diarrhea without warning, Lu Ren frowned, feeling that things were not that simple.

Sure enough, after a whole day of targeted training arranged by Wood, Lu Ren was stopped by Fred and George on the way back to the castle.

"I'm really tired. What's the matter?" Lu Ren said weakly. His arm was sore and swollen. Wood asked him to try to hit the Bludger from various angles. It was not an easy task. task.

"Do you want to earn some Galleons with me?" Fred said furtively with his back turned to Wood.

Lu Ren:?
"Actually, the development of our magical prank props has encountered a bottleneck, and we lack the necessary start-up funds. In fact, we have a big plan..."

Fred told Lu Ren about his dream: to open a magic toy store. In fact, their products are enough and they have accumulated some word of mouth. What is lacking is the start-up funds for the leased store.

And the next Quidditch match is a good chance to make money - they set a game for the game!The key to the outcome is Lu Ren.The original Gryffindor team belonged to the "dream team", and they would probably win against Slytherin, but what if the powerful hitter Fred was replaced by the rookie Lu Ren?Lu Ren only played once, still as a Seeker, and the Slytherin team was equipped with a new broom "Nimbus 2001", so the number of wins and losses may not be easy to measure.

To put it bluntly, it is to show the enemy weak, and then find a way to make other people bet more and bet on Gryffindor to lose.

Lu Ren was dumbfounded when he heard this: This is really outrageous!
"Aren't you afraid of losing?" Lu Ren was really worried that they would end up in debt because he wasn't confident in his own strength after all.

Fred said meaningfully: "The dealer will never lose money."

It turned out that their game was a little different from the game Lu Ren imagined, that is, as the banker, they had to take 5% of the total funds for "operating".At the same time, only bet on the outcome, and the winner will share the prize pool according to the proportion of the bet.For example, after the drawing is completed, there will be [-] Galleons in the prize pool. Those who bet on Gryffindor and those who bet on Slytherin will each get fifty Galleons. Lu Ren bets ten Galleons. to twenty Galleons.

The rules are simple and straightforward.Fred and the others don't even need to wager to make a good profit.

After listening to this, Lu Ren just wanted to say, Fred, you really showed me off, it's too outrageous!Can come up with such a ghost idea to make money.

At this moment, Fred and George became more and more excited.

"We can also sell some prank goods to adjust the atmosphere before the game!"

"Yes, you can also sell some wine after the game, to celebrate success or relieve sorrow..."

The two quickly came up with a lot of crazy ideas, which made Lu Ren break out in a cold sweat.They even want to engage in an arms race!For example, telling Slytherin that Gryffindor has prepared a batch of "big babies"...

In the end, Lu Ren also joined the game.Fred and George took out the ten Galleons they had accumulated over the years, and Lu Ren also filled in the ten Galleons.Since the establishment of the bet, Fred and George have often traveled between various colleges to publicize the bet—of course, the banker of the bet is not the two of them, but this year's Hufflepuff freshman Alice.

When Lu Ren heard this name, he was relieved: After all, this child has finally made a move. If she keeps hiding, he will have to worry about it for a long time.

How could Alice not do something!It will be two months!This guy hasn't done anything yet, which made Lu Ren very flustered.Now she made a move, giving Lu Ren the feeling that a second boot had landed.

'Fortunately, it's just a white glove in the game of gambling. It's not a big problem, it's preventable and controllable. 'Lu Ren felt much relieved.

The little wizards of Slytherin House are naturally not short of money, and they quickly poured up the prize pool, and the little wizards of Gryffindor were not to be outdone, and followed suit one after another.In just a few days, the accumulated prize money in the prize pool has approached triple digits.This large sum of Galleons also attracted many young wizards from other academies.Interestingly, the little wizards of Hufflepuff mainly support Gryffindor, while the little wizards of Ravenclaw are more careful and careful. Some of them carefully weighed the strength comparison of the two teams, and then studded Leitlin, and some little wizards tried to bet on both sides, so that they would not lose money...

Soon, the Quidditch match became the center of attention.What was originally just a "household affair" between Gryffindor and Slytherin has now become the bread and butter of thousands of wizards.

The night before the game, all kinds of prank toys were sold out, such as dung eggs, Weasley whoosh-boom fireworks, decoy bombs and so on.Lu Ren even wondered if they would fight on the spot if they lost.He even saw Alice buying a whole set of joke products from Fred, and vaguely heard her words: This is military expenditure, it cannot be saved...

Lu Ren shivered suddenly. He thought it would be better to prepare a pill of Angongniuhuang pill for Professor Dumbledore.

Finally, Saturday came.Lu Ren woke up early and lay down on the bed for a while, because of the upcoming Quidditch match, he was a little nervous.The Slytherin team they're facing has the fastest brooms that folks can buy, which will close the gap in strength between them.

When he got to the auditorium, he found that the other members of the Gryffindor team had also come to the table earlier, but they also looked nervous, and it seemed that they had made a lot of bets.

(End of this chapter)