Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

From then on, Ballard Mason sat in the lonely and silent tower roof room, with no owl, no one coming to the door, and nothing else occupying his time and energy, just guarding the tattered parchment.

There was silence in the room. After a long silence, Gray suddenly spoke.

"We have to work up and get it right. Everything will come true. You will definitely see the crystal wand, and those French people will be arrested. Now we have to move forward, Mr. Mason, and I will help you. Go ahead and get it done, and from now on, it’s not about you alone.”

He held the brand new parchment in his hand tightly. He had never felt so strongly that this was what he had to do, that he had to pick this thing up again.

"There are three people now." Claire said suddenly.

Gray turned to look at Claire. He suddenly felt that this person was actually quite enthusiastic. However, when he thought about it, he didn't know whether Claire was touched by Ballard's words or simply to eliminate the French gang early. Let her have no worries.

"Thank you so much, Weisman." Mason nodded slightly, "Fortunately, like your grandfather, you are very proficient in these herbs and found a substitute for Philly weed... Otherwise, it would be basically the same as this today. There is no way out.”

Gray never expected that Mason would have such a temper to say the word "thank you."

"Don't you have to thank me too?"

Mason slowly turned his head, looking completely different from the way he looked at Claire.

"Why should I thank you?" he said angrily, "You should have discovered it earlier. This book has been placed in your home and you haven't seen it for more than ten years?!"

"..."

Gray didn't want to argue with him anymore, so he picked up the piece of paper and looked at it carefully, and found that there was an unfamiliar unit of measurement on it, "What does the "con" on it mean?"

"You finally asked some useful questions." Mason walked to the operating table with several crucibles and took out a small metal cup. "This is the measurement unit of the alchemy table. One cup is one pot." because. "

"So we just need to get more materials than this, right?" Gray looked at the old metal cup in Mason's hand, "After all, we can't use it to measure out the materials when we buy them, right?"

"As long as the things you bring back are not less than the standard of the formula, leave the rest to me." He cheered up and began to sort out the bottles and cans on the console.

"The unicorn tail hair, salamander blood and rune snake eggs are all available in pharmacies...the hair of the invisible beast?"

"Isn't there an invisibility cloak?" Mason said, "Haven't you seen that thing? That thing is made of the hair of the invisible beast. As long as you are willing to pay, someone will definitely sell it. The horn powder of the horned beast It’s the same thing. No one has trouble with money, those hunter wizards who are good at catching such dangerous creatures make money by selling this thing!”

"There are indeed some wizards who specialize in catching dangerous creatures and collecting rare materials to sell to make money," Claire said. "But they generally cooperate with fixed drugstore merchants and rarely communicate with scattered customers. As far as I know, these hunters have their own circle, and it’s very exclusive.”

"But hunters like money -" Mason said, "They wouldn't be so exclusive that they would exclude the gold, right?"

"I can try to find those people."

"No matter what, as long as you know there is such a way." Gray doesn't care whether they are exclusive or not, as long as he gets it, he still has a lot of savings after working for several years. "This matter depends on you."

"But my abilities are limited, especially now. After all... I have been targeted by the French gang." Claire said.

"Okay, let's get started. I, an old man, will not participate." Mason bent down and took out alchemy utensils one by one from the cabinet. "By the way, don't tell others that I am here. Since I haven't left this house since I first learned that the French gang was here."

Well, the current task is to obtain the raw materials to refine the Elixir yeast and make it into a crystal wand, so that things that once disappeared from the world for unknown reasons can reappear to prove the existence of the French Gang. The French Ministry of Magic will take measures against it.

As for those French people, Gray felt that if he pointed them out without any basis, the Ministry of Magic would not take it seriously. Even if they were tracing them, it would be difficult to make progress. After all, there were too few clues, and they didn't even know the appearance of the attackers. At present, they themselves can only be wary of suspicious characters appearing around them.

When he and Claire came out of Hogwarts, it was almost dark. Above the two of them was a sky of chaotic colors, empty and monotonous, and some shops in Hogsmeade had already turned on the lights.

"I have to go talk to Rufus Scrimgeour." Claire jumped from the carriage.

"That friend of yours has already reported the case, hasn't he? Since the matter has been in the newspapers, the Ministry of Magic will definitely send someone to investigate the case."

"But they don't know that this group of people has been rampant abroad for so long. Now it seems that they just regard it as a cunning lunatic attacking passers-by on the street," she said as she walked. "Now this group of people has caused trouble. Britain, and our people have been attacked, we need to make the Ministry of Magic aware of the seriousness of this matter. In order to find this Elixir yeast, the French gang threatened and intimidated, modified memories, forged accidents, and killed people—— Insidious, cunning, and ruthless.”

"Do you really think they will believe this? It can be seen from the attitude of the French Ministry of Magic that no one will believe it unless we can prove the existence of the crystal wand."

She stopped suddenly and looked at Gray seriously: "Think about it carefully, Gray, they are dark wizards. They are no better than the Death Eaters before. Rufus Scrimgeour will definitely realize this when he knows about it. That's all. If the Ministry of Magic doesn't take some measures, more people will be hurt in the future."

"Then I have to go with you."

He felt that the two men were obviously more convincing.

"The French gang already knows about me, Gray."

She thought for a few seconds.

"Since they know that I have inquired about this thing, it means that they themselves know that I know about Elixir's yeast. If I go to Rufus Scrimgeour now, there should be no big problem. Now the French help Attention is directed at me, not you, and if you are found out you know that Elixir's yeast is the big problem..."

Gray wanted to refute, but couldn't find a reasonable reason. Claire's point of view was correct.

"But you don't have too much hope in the Ministry of Magic here, they'll probably react the same way they did in France."

"You have to give it a try, right? We have to resolve this matter quickly..." Claire looked at the reflection of the two people on the shop window glass next to her, "It's best that only you and me know these things, and don't tell anyone else. .”

As she spoke, she took two steps to the open space in front of her, but then turned back and left a message to Gray: "During this period, we have to protect ourselves, you and I, you have to pay attention to this matter. Did Mr. Mason say that - 'our compatriots are still being hurt', referring to alchemists and wizards like you who know the crystal stone."

Before Gray could speak, Claire in front of him had disappeared with a sound.