Everlasting Vision from Hogwarts

Steyning is a British town full of strong rural flavor. The people here take the town as the center and build their houses around it.

In a valley southeast of the town, there are many wooden or stone houses compactly located here. The strange thing is that the people walking inside are not wearing the clothes that are currently popular in society, but are wearing wizard robes. .

William was walking in the valley, surrounded by rows of wizard shops with open doors. These shops had a variety of businesses, almost similar to Diagon Alley.

After bypassing the familiar obstacles, William walked into a hidden shop. There were many animal stickers running on the door of the shop.

"Tom, has what I want arrived?" William shouted to the owner of the shop as soon as he stepped through the door.

Tom is an old wizard with skin folds that can squeeze out mosquitoes.

"Don't be so impatient, Andre, what you want is a rare thing, and you need luck to find it."

William, whose pseudonym was Andre, was not angry when he heard this, he just asked out of habit.

"Take out all the things you have in the past few days. I hope there is something I can use." William said.

Tom stood up from the wicker chair unsteadily, tapped the table in front of him with his wand, and immediately a bunch of strange things appeared on the table.

William wore sheepskin gloves and went forward to pick it up, while Tom stood aside with a cane.

"Death Vine Vine"

"Explosive Fruit Seeds"

"The teeth of the golden-haired megalodon"

"Unknown Feather"

William picked up a pure white feather and looked closely at it. It was pure white, without a trace of other colors of magazines. It was molded like a cup of pure milk. The feather seemed as light as nothing, but it was heavy in the palm of his hand.

He asked Tom, "What is this?"

"Based on previous wizard books, it may be the wings of a sky bird, which has a strong effect of clearing the mind and repelling negative states. I have always heard of magical animals like the sky bird, but unfortunately I have never seen it. He is a characteristic creature of other countries. He was once regarded as a god by ordinary people in that country, but has gradually disappeared in recent centuries.

If these are really the wings of a celestial bird, its value will be beyond imagination. "

William said noncommittally: "But it is not yet known whether it is the feather of a sky bird."

Put the feather down and look at the rest of the items.

About a quarter of an hour later, William finally finished looking at the last item. During this period, Tom kept standing. Although he staggered sometimes, he never fell down.

William would persuade him to sit down a few days ago, but now he no longer uses his words. Although Tom is a money man, his respect for customers is disgusting.

"Except for these few items, how much is the total price for everything else?" William stretched out his hand and divided the items on the table into two parts, with less on the left and more on the right. At this time, he asked the price for the right part.

Tom counted the items on the right with his bony fingers, calculating the prices as he did so.

"Chenghui is 195 Galleons, just give me another 30 Galleons. Last time I sold a few copies of the potion on consignment, and the price was exactly 165 Galleons."

William did not pay, but pulled out a feather from the items on the right, which was the white feather that was said to be the feather of a sky bird.

“What if you subtract it?”

"Then it only costs 150 Galleons in total."

"Can this one feather be used as more than four unicorn tail feathers? Are Sky Bird feathers so expensive?"

Tom shook his head, "It does not necessarily belong to the Sky Bird. It is estimated that no wizard in this valley has seen the Sky Bird with his own eyes. No one, including me, can determine its origin. But at least the characteristics of the Sky Bird's feathers recorded in the books, It has it all. So it's worth the price.

If we could be 100% sure that it was a Sky Bird, the price would be more than 45 Galleons. "

"Then how did you receive this thing? The original owner sold it to you so cheaply?"

Tom smiled vaguely with his cloudy eyes, "People who buy things may not know Tianniao, and people who sell things may not know Tianniao."

William nodded in understanding. It seemed that the feather came from something shady, and he was probably a shady person.

After thinking about it, he put the feather back on the right side. He was also very curious about the sky bird. He happened to need as much magical biological material as possible for his research, so he accepted all who came.

He asked Old Tom to pack and seal the items, while he reached into his clothes and took out thirty gold galleons that shone with "ineffective" light.It's actually taken out of the bracelet space.

Carrying the goods, William walked out of the store and looked back. Above the store was written: Tom's Magical Items Shop.

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After leaving Tom's Magical Items Shop, William did not go back to the hotel, but continued to stroll around the valley where wizards gathered.

The history of this valley is not long ago, only 40 years old at most, because Old Tom said that there were only a few wizards living here when he came.There was no wizard market of the current scale.

As the international situation in the magical world becomes increasingly closed, communication between wizards from various countries becomes increasingly difficult, which is no less than a disaster for many wizards.

There is almost no wizard who can't do research, and they have more or less contact with it.

The little wizard has been studying spells, potions, herbs, and astronomy since school...

Various studies not only teach wizards knowledge, but also cultivate a concept for them: magic can never be separated from research.

But research is not a dinner party, a night tour on campus, or sleeping in class. It cannot be so cheap, so readily available, so easy to achieve. Research is a technology, a technology that teaches you how to burn money.

Researching potions requires galleons, supporting facilities and equipment, countless raw materials, and expensive potion formulas.

Studying astronomy requires Galleons, studying herbal medicine requires Galleons...

The most important thing is the research on magic. He also has a need for Galleons. The reason why pure-blood families think so highly of themselves is partly because they are rich. Because they are rich, they have huge magic resources, so even the progress of magic is slow. Faster than the average wizard.

One business that many wizards often do is international repurchase, such as selling magic materials from the south to the north, and then bringing magic knowledge from the north to the south. Wizards who travel to and from different countries make money by eating the interest rate difference.

The money earned was quickly spent to support his own magic research.

Nowadays, Western countries are becoming more and more serious about cracking down on international reselling, but they fail to provide many wizards with an alternative way to make money, so the wizard market came into being.

Wizards Market has no leader. It is more like a joint-stock company. Every shop owner is a shareholder, and they all rise and fall with Wizards Market.

Moreover, every shop owner is a person with good hands and eyes, and there may be a boss from the Ministry of Magic standing behind someone.

On the surface, it cracks down on international reselling; behind the scenes, it silently supports cross-border transactions.