I, Hogwarts Second Week

Several people walked into the store, which was full of customers.

The students who had originally come to Diagon Alley to buy supplies for school, now all gathered here, crowding in front of the shelves, taking out their pocket money to buy Fred and George joke merchandise.

On the left side of the store, cardboard boxes are stacked to the ceiling. These are quick-acting truant candies developed by the twins in their last year before graduating from Hogwarts. The most popular of them is Nosebleed Nougat, and only the last one is left on the shelf. A squashed box, along with several boxes of magic wands, the cheapest of which can turn into a rubber chicken or pants with a wave, while the most expensive ones can inflict blows on the neck and head if the user is unprepared. Take a beating.

There are also boxes of quill pens, including automatic inkjet, spell-check, quick-witted, and other varieties.

"They spent all this time at home producing these things." Ron sighed.

"Is there help here?" Hermione said, glancing at Owen.

"I only provide ideas."

As the crowd pushed forward, Ron and Harry rushed to the counter on the other side, where a group of teenage children were watching excitedly as a wooden figure slowly climbed up the steps and climbed towards a realistic set of noose rack.

These two things are on top of a box. The box says: The executioner can be used repeatedly. If you can't spell it out, hang him. The executioner is a Scrabble toy, usually consisting of a gallows and a little man. If you participate in the game If a person makes certain mistakes in spelling, the villain will be put to the gallows and executed.

"Patented Product: The Daydream Spell."

Hermione finally squeezed to the counter. In front of her was a huge display cabinet with some brightly colored pictures: a handsome young man and a beautiful and enchanted girl were lying on the clouds, surrounded by It's a sky full of stars.

"As long as you chant a spell, you can enter a high-quality, extremely realistic thirty-minute daydream. It is suitable for ordinary school classes. The operation is simple and absolutely unnoticeable. (Side effects include dull expression and slight flow) Saliva). Not for sale to anyone under the age of sixteen."

"Interesting, is there such a curse?" Hermione said with interest. She planned to buy one and analyze the mechanism of this curse.

There were many boys and girls gathered around her.

Everyone stared at the painting eagerly.

"Oh! God, this spell is wonderful," said one of the wizards.

"It's more useful than a love spell. I want to buy one," said a witch.

"I want it too, I want to date someone." A boy said embarrassedly, but his friends did not laugh at him because they probably wanted to date the same person.

"Hey, Hermione." Harry squeezed over, "Well - this witch, why do I feel that she looks a bit like you?"

he said, pointing to the pictures in the cupboard.

"What?" Hermione was stunned for a moment, then looked at the painting carefully, "It's a little bit similar."

"Oh my God - it's Hermione."

"Hermione Granger?"

The little wizard on the side seemed to be in a state of shock. Only then did everyone notice that the famous girl from the stars was beside them.

Thanks to the Star Shower above Berlin a week ago, Hermione's name has become a hot topic among wizards throughout the UK. Although the Muggle photos did not reveal the wizard who cast the stars, everyone still preconceived that it must be Hermione. Sensitive.

"I" the wizard who just wanted to buy the Daydream Spell immediately blushed. He was beside Hermione, hesitating and speechless.

"Hi-" George came over at this moment.

He squeezed away the nymphomaniacs on the side.

Turning to Hermione, he said, "Sorry, this spell will not sell you and Owen."

"Huh?" Hermione turned to look at him, "Why?"

"Why?" Fred came over and said, "Daydream curse, daydream! For you two winners in life, what else is there to daydream?"

"But -" Hermione wanted to defend herself.

"If you don't sell it, you won't sell it." George said forcefully, "This is our aim. This product is only sold to single people over the age of sixteen. Thank you."

"single?"

"Of course. Why else would they buy it?" Fred pointed at the boys and girls beside Hermione. They all blushed and didn't dare to look at him.

"That's disgusting." Ginny came up from behind Fred. In her hand she held a pygmy cattail.

"What is this?" she said.

"It's not disgusting at all, okay? Daydreaming is everyone's freedom!" Fred said, "Dwarf cattails, two galleons."

"It's still disgusting!" Ginny said with a look of disgust, "It's so expensive, can't you get a discount?"

"As if you have two galleons." Fred continued, "Ron, it's on you!" He looked towards the glass where Koatl was standing with a bunch of flowers on it. Ron said in front of the showcase.

It's a very magical thing. The rose in the flower pot will slowly wither, and a new one will suddenly grow when the fallen petals fall into the flower pot.

"Okay." Ron didn't even raise his head.

After a moment, I realized something.

"Hey - that's your sister!" he shouted to Fred.

"Two galleons!" said Fred.

"We still have to pay when we buy something?"

"Two galleons!"

"Damn greedy man!" Ron yelled, swearing and making an international gesture towards Fred.

Fred didn't care at all. He shrugged and looked at Owen who was standing next to a row of dazzling pink products.

"Do you still need this kind of thing?"

"You know nothing." Owen said without blushing, "Do you understand the little things in life?"

Love potion does not create love. What it creates is an emotion of attachment. If a man and a woman already love each other, it can amplify that feeling and last for a very long time.

Are there any lubricants in ordinary life?

This kind of product should not be sold to the group of young wizards who don't have boyfriends yet, but to married couples.

Because it can protect the love between two people, the Seven Year Itch will never appear at all.

Owen stepped forward and whispered to Fred for a moment.

And the other party's eyes immediately lit up.

"Oh - you're just a genius Owen," Fred said.

"I know, I'm a genius."

"There are things you like in the store, so feel free to take them. You also have a share anyway, oh - by the way." He suddenly whispered, "This batch of 'Magical Witch' products are effective for twenty-four hours. We still have It has not been tested between men and women who are already in love. Remember to tell us the time limit." Fred showed a look that you know.

Irving can take whatever he wants once he hears it.

Ginny immediately became unhappy.

"Ron has helped you a lot, why are you still charging him?"

"Huh?" George pulled away from a large number of customers, "I didn't know your relationship with Ron was so good?"

"Also, your Daydream Spell is so disgusting. Don't you know what those guys bought this Spell for?" Ginny added.

"This is our invention. I can buy it for whoever I want. What do you think, Owen? How about our Daydream Spell?"

"Ah?" Owen raised his head and glanced at the display cabinet next to Hermione, "A greater invention than the Killing Curse. With this curse, you two will definitely leave your name in the history of magic."

"Owen! You-" Ginny looked at him in disbelief.

"I know what you are thinking." Owen said, "I didn't say anything. Why are you so angry? Why are you afraid that someone will date Harry in your dream?" He lifted the broken hair from his forehead, "This kind of thing There is no way to avoid it, and besides, the Harry in the dream is part of the caster's consciousness, so it is considered a date with himself."

"and"

Just next to Owen, a group of excited girls were chattering and laughing. They looked at the love potion and the daydream spell display cabinet in the distance with fiery eyes. From time to time, they would raise their heads and glance at him secretly.

On the side of Daydream Curse, there were also many young wizards secretly looking at him, regardless of gender.

"I think your worries are completely unnecessary."

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Ginny took all this in her eyes and looked at Owen again with more sympathy in her eyes.

"Besides, your thoughts are too dirty."

Owen said seriously, "This spell is obviously an artifact used for involution. When you go to bed at night, cast the spell on yourself, and then review what you learned today in your dream. This is the normal use, okay?"

All of them are young, but they always think about such lewd things. Is Hogwarts a place for blind dates? "

The little wizards around him blushed.

Ginny was also a little confused, and it took her a moment to realize that this spell could indeed be used to do things like reading.

Hermione's eyes lit up as she walked over.

What a powerful spell.

She can use it.

"Okay, don't think about Miss Granger." Just when Hermione began to recall all the effects of the draining spell, Owen immediately interrupted, "Dreaming every day will affect the quality of sleep."

"Haha——" Gemini let out a slight snort of disgust. The two guys in front of them were paying less and less attention to others. They were showing off their affection all the time. They were so angry.

"Stop—you two, go home and continue your work." Fred interrupted them, and then said, "Now let's talk about something really good."

He led the little wizards deeper into the shop.

"Look at this." Fred took out a hat from the shelf at hand. "We call it a detective hat. If you wear it, if a wanted criminal from the Ministry of Magic appears in a place where the hat can see it, it will send you a warning. Of course, you can hear this warning, and it will not alert you at all. ”

It was a very ordinary wizard hat, and there was no difference in appearance.

"What's the range of recognition?"

"Three hundred meters!" said Fred.

"Oh! That's really good. All directions? Is the line of sight blocked by a building?" Owen asked again.

"No. We added the function of the looking glass."

"It's great! It should be very profitable, right?"

"One hat can earn three gold galleons. It's like robbing money. Our cost is less than eight silver galleons. Some time ago, the Ministry of Magic bought 500 hats for all their staff. Until now. , and we continue to receive large orders.”

"Good guy, I'm rich!" Owen exclaimed.

"More than that." George took out another cloak. The same appearance was indistinguishable from the regular cloak. "The advanced protective cloak has a set of ancient runes attached inside and is made of dragon skin. It can resist the crushing curse. All the following low-level curses and curses, including the Crushing Curse and above, can be blocked six times. We have tested that it has good defense even against some black magic."

"Ouch!"

"The price is eight gold galleons. The cost is higher, but Charlie has internal channels, and the dragon skin can be sold to us cheaply, but it also costs three gold galleons to make one."

"There are also anti-curse gloves and anti-curse boots over there, with runes attached to them." Fred said happily, "They don't have much effect on the Unforgivable Curse, but they can deal with some small magics, small evil curses, etc. …”

"In addition to the clothing series of protective spells, we also made invisible smoke bombs. The smoke materials are imported from Peru. This thing is very easy to use and does not need to be lit. If you want to get away quickly, it is very convenient to use. Just hit it hard." It fell to the ground," George took over.

"And our decoy bombs, this is a new product that just came off the shelves, look -" Fred pointed at a lot of weird, black owl-like things, they looked like they were ready to run away at any time, "As long as Throw one out secretly and it will flee quickly and make a lot of noise, diverting others' attention when you need it."

Gemini's products are completely profitable.

Especially in this current situation.

But what makes Irving curious is, will they have time to produce it?

If they were allowed to give birth one by one, it would take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Faced with Owen's doubts.

George and Fred smiled slightly, "We have learned from the advanced experience of Muggles."

"What experience?"

"Assembly line!" they said.

"Under the shop in Hogsmeade Village, there is our magic factory. We found many house elves to produce goods. Each one is only responsible for one component of a product, and finally they are assembled together in a unified way. This way - the production speed I don’t know how many times faster it is.”

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Upon hearing this, Miss Granger immediately changed her face.

Owen also sighed softly.

"It's true that if you don't learn the good things, you will learn the bad things once you learn them," he said.

"What's wrong?" George and Fred asked confused. They originally thought they would get Owen's approval.

"Although assembly line production will greatly improve production efficiency, in essence, it is a cruel exploitation of the working class by capitalism. When a worker no longer occupies the entire production process, then he has no control over the means of production. The influence will be reduced to a minimum and become replaceable parts. Of course, the ultimate goal of capital is to completely drive workers out of the factory. They will continue to pursue complete automated production and completely crush this class. "Irving opened his mouth and it was a big one. There were a lot of esoteric terms, and the little wizards on the side all looked confused, not understanding what the inner crises he was talking about were.

"Forget it. The current magical world is still in the era of feudal aristocracy. A little capitalism can be considered progress."

"I'm afraid that in a few decades, wizards will become cyberpunk"

"Well." After realizing that he had said too much, Owen changed the subject and said, "Just remember to pay the house elves a salary. Don't become a capitalist, but regress into a slave owner."

"Oh - of course - although they were unwilling to accept it, we still paid each elf a salary of ten silver sikols per month."

"Ten silver Sickles?!" Hermione was shocked. After all, the profit of all the products here was how many gold galleons each one had.

"Leave us alone, Hermione." The twins surrendered immediately, "If there are more, they won't be willing to come to our factory."

"Hmph - I will investigate their working environment and all their treatment." The little witch glared and said angrily, which made Owen on the side sincerely happy. Look - this is Tinder.

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After spending an hour in Gemini's store.

The little wizard just left.

This time, they didn't meet Malfoy and his mother.

Nor did he go to Knockturn Alley and bump into the Death Eaters discussing how to repair the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts.

After all, the magical world today has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Voldemort's ideas cannot continue to move forward according to the original work.

In the new semester, his main goal should still be to seize the magic power of the alien gods in the God's Grant Tower. Hogwarts is not in his plan.

This year at least is going to be a pretty dull year at school.

Another week at the Burrow.

During this period, Owen bought a lot of things, most of which were beautiful clothes. He hadn't bought this kind of regular clothes for Hermione for a long time.

The outside world is still chaotic, but much better than in previous weeks.

Bill would still write letters home to inform his parents about his situation. Although most of them were words of comfort, the fact that he had time to write also indirectly proved that the problems in the outside world were not too big.

Time passed little by little.

Finally, summer vacation is over.

The little wizards packed their luggage in advance, and their departure the next morning went much more smoothly than usual.

When the Ministry of Magic's car arrived in front of the Burrow, they were all waiting there - originally it didn't matter, but after the Berlin incident, Rufus Scrimgeour became interested in them. , Miss Granger's reputation has a tendency to surpass Harry's.

In the living room, all of Hermione's things were in Owen's sack.

Hedwig, Ron's owl piglet, and Ginny's new purple dwarf Pooja that she bought from Fred and George were all kept well in their cages.

After loading all the things you need into the car.

The people responsible for picking them up and dropping them off were two unfamiliar Aurors. I didn’t know Owen anyway and didn’t appear in the original novel, but Mr. Arthur did, and the two of them exchanged safe words.

The car moved forward, and as soon as it stopped in front of King's Cross Station, two bearded Aurors wearing black Muggle suits, sunglasses, and stern expressions came forward. Without saying a word, they covered them from left to right. They entered the station.