hogwarts shady

Professor Flitwick encouraged Ryan a few more words before happily leaving the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

His beard trembled slightly, and he could barely suppress the smile on his lips - it didn't matter that this little wizard was a Hufflepuff, when he would stand as a duel champion in the future and give a speech to thank his teacher, he would not be able to say that. Does it have to be me, Professor Flitwick?

Pomona, you are so on guard, can you stop me, a duel champion, from trying to pry into the corner?

Ryan looked at the brisk-footed Professor Flitwick with some emotion and thought, except for the twenty-five-year-old Quirrell, the professors at Hogwarts are quite cute.

There is the cold-faced and arrogant Snape, the iron-faced cat girl Minerva, the kind-hearted Professor Sprout, and Professor Flitwick who has no secrets.

He wrote the extrasensory spell in his plan and planned to ask Professor Flitwick for advice next time.

Before taking his astronomy class, Lane took a trip to the Room of Requirement and copied the recipes for hair growth potion and polyjuice potion from the library there.

The former is for his own face, and the latter is also for his own face to a certain extent.

However, looking at the dense formula list, Ryan truly felt that his wallet was whining.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class on Wednesday, Justin finally couldn't help but ask: "Ryan, what's wrong with you recently? You're always in a daze. What's bothering you?"

Ryan glanced at Quirrell, who was being entangled by Gryffindor students, and replied in a low voice: "I'm thinking about how to make money."

"Are you short of money?" Justin was a little surprised. "There is nothing in Hogwarts that needs money, right? How about I lend you some?"

Ryan shook his head. He didn't know how to explain the Polyjuice Potion, so he made a haha: "I'm not short of money, and my pocket money is enough. I just want to find something to do. You see, in Hogwarts There’s no interesting entertainment, right? I just thought it would be nice if I could make some money.”

"Making money to pass the time?" Justin became interested, "Do you have any ideas?"

"Hmm..." Ryan came up with an idea and hesitated, "How about we set up a foundation?"

"Foundation?" Justin asked, "Tell me more about it. Maybe I can invest some money in it."

"A foundation to support little wizards' wallets." Ryan continued, "We can first let the little wizards with extra money deposit their money into our foundation..."

"How do you get people to give you money?"

"Use interest to tell everyone that if you deposit for a certain period of time, you can receive interest." Ryan had to spend some time to round out his words, "In this way, after collecting a batch of funds, we can lend the money out..."

"Then you charge higher interest rates?" Justin glanced at Ryan meaningfully, "Are you trying to do this with nothing? Be careful of illegal fund-raising."

"Wizards don't have economic laws." Ryan muttered, "Besides, we are just playing house for the little wizards."

"You also know that it is playing house!" Justin said, "You have obviously ignored an important issue, Ryan. Little wizards only have pocket money, but no stable income, and wizards do not have economic laws. You What should I do if I can’t get the money I lent back? Or what if someone regrets and refuses to pay the interest?”

"That's what I said." Ryan looked at Justin's high-spirited look and muttered to himself, he is really a business guy.

"I'm just giving some personal opinions." Justin rubbed his hands, "Of course, with your strength, Ryan, you can at least use force to force others to pay back the money! But the professors may not agree. Moreover, I don’t think many little wizards would buy it either.”

Ryan nodded. He knew that his casual plan would definitely fail, because the little wizards who could invest in funds could not see the interest, and the little wizards who needed to borrow money were unlikely to be able to pay higher interest rates. Interest.

It is impossible for me to really become a "debt collector".

"Compared to this, I think the Weasley brothers' method is more reliable." Justin said, "Their joke toys are quite popular. Also, I heard from Senior Cedric that some time ago, Weasley The Sly Brothers made a fortune off Butterbeer. But then they seemed to send Professor McGonagall to clean toilets."

"We don't seem to have anything to sell." Ryan held his chin.

"After all, we are still first-year wizards, and what we have learned is not enough to gain benefits." Justin spread his hands, "If Ryan can make those magic potions that you told me before-Elixir of Fortune, If you take Buffy's brain-reviving potions and love potions, you can definitely make a lot of money."

Ryan glanced sideways at him. The young man remembered it quite clearly.

"Not to mention the difficulty and success rate of brewing these potions," Ryan shook his head, "Just the materials needed for high-end potions, we both have enough money to buy them."

Moreover, the purpose of making money was to buy the materials for brewing potions. If he could only make money by purchasing the materials to make potions, wouldn't this lead to an infinite loop?

"So, it's better to give up this idea." Justin shrugged, "We don't have much expenses at Hogwarts. Instead of worrying about how to make money, we should spend more time thinking about how to have fun. Of course, if If you have the connections like the Weasley brothers, you might as well give it a try."

Ryan suddenly laughed: "What you said makes sense. However, I have to reserve a hand to avoid being targeted by Professor McGonagall."

Justin looked surprised: "You don't really know their connections, do you?"

"Of course, I have also discovered several secret passages leading to Hogsmeade Village."

"Hey, when did you find it?" Justin whispered dissatisfiedly, "Don't you take mine with you?"

Ryan deliberately showed disgust and complained: "Who makes you stay in bed until noon every weekend?"

Justin immediately showed an awkward smile and changed the subject: "Where are those secret passages?"

"We'd better not explore for the time being. I heard from Senior Cedric that Hogsmeade is heavily guarded. If we are discovered by the professors, we will be in trouble."

"Then at least you have to tell me where the entrance to the secret passage is." Justin said. The word "secret passage" obviously piqued his curiosity. "After class, let's go together."

Ryan nodded and did not reject Justin's proposal.After the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Ryan took Justin to the one-eyed hunchback witch statue on the fourth floor and demonstrated the method of opening the secret passage using "left and right separation".

Then, the two left the castle and walked along the grassland beside the Black Lake towards the Forbidden Forest.

"Le...Ryan?" Justin's voice was a little uneasy.

"what happened?"

"That secret passage is not in the Forbidden Forest, right?" Justin was a little unbelievable, but also felt that it was natural, because he knew very well that Ryan was not really as well-behaved as the professor thought.

"What are you thinking about?" said Ryan, "see that big willow tree over there?"

"Are you sure that's really a willow tree?"

"That's the Whomping Willow. The secret passage is over there. However, I don't recommend that you get close to it. That willow tree has a very bad temper." Ryan pointed to the thick branches. "It will whip the creatures that come close to it. .”

Justin glanced at Ryan incomprehensibly, with an ambiguous smile on his face.

"I read it from the book." Ryan interrupted Justin's bad fantasy mercilessly, "Am I the kind of person who has the rashness to send myself in for a beating?"

Justin sighed with regret.

The two stood far away by the Forbidden Forest, watching the branches of the Whomping Willow fluttering in the wind.At this moment, a thick voice came:

"Hey - what are you doing -"