HP's Platinum Temptation

In the third week of November, the activities of the Violet Club entered a daily rhythm.All members are used to coming to the activity room in their free time.Compared with the library that everyone will use, the activity room is obviously much more spacious and comfortable.

After discussion, it was decided that each grade should elect a common team leader to be responsible for organizing everyone's usual study.If there is only one person in the grade, you can only be lonely for a while.

The members of the first grade are the most, all add up to fourteen people.Given that Clarence is currently the one with the best overall performance, the team leader falls on him.Jeffrey, Daphne, and Cindy originally expected Clarence to perform well during the group study and discussion, so that the good reputation of the Violet Club would spread from the mouths of the other group members.

But what makes them very depressed is that Clarence seems to have been out of shape these days.

First, on Saturday, I broke away from the members who were discussing enthusiastically, and ran aside, not knowing what I was researching.In the following two days on Sunday and Monday, Clarence was often found in a state of fugue by Jeffrey.Finally, on Tuesday morning, Jeffrey found that his eyes had finally returned to their previous sharpness. After Clarence finished all the homework as quickly as possible, he hid aside to write and draw, and did not participate in the discussion. homework discussion.

If it weren't for the fact that the new members were so surprised that Clarence completed the homework much faster than them, and completely lost the ability to respond, everyone might be dissatisfied with this irresponsible team leader.

The weekend of the third week coincided with the Quidditch match between Gryffindor College and Hufflepuff College.Theodore, as Hufflepuff Academy's top hitter and team captain, was naturally going to play.So all the members ran to cheer him on.

Clarence went to cheer Theodore before the game officially started, and slipped back to the activity room alone.

When Daphne found the activity room because she didn't see Clarence in the auditorium, she found a first-year Slytherin who was thinking and writing rapidly facing a table of various materials.

"You're so abnormal this week!" Daphne sat opposite Clarence and said angrily, "You don't even participate in group discussions, and you don't even go to see Theodore's game!"

"I'm sorry, it's my fault. I encountered a little unexpected situation, and I'm trying to get it resolved this weekend, and then I will participate in everyone's discussion next week." Clarence looked up with an apologetic smile, and finished speaking He bowed his head and continued the work at hand.

Daphne stretched her neck and looked at the pieces of paper on the table. She was very curious about what could make Clarence look cautious: "What are these? Can I see them?"

"Okay, let's see, it's all the information I collected from various places this week, and it has nothing to do with learning. But it's rather messy, and you may not understand it." Clarence said generously.The information is all about business in the wizarding world and some pure-blood families, most of which come from the contributions of Yvette and Old Rist.There are also some information from the Muggle world sent by Terrence.Although to some extent, it can be regarded as a secret involving business alliances.But Clarence didn't feel the need to hide from Daphne.

"Hmph, don't underestimate me!" The competitive Ravenclaw girl was quite dissatisfied when her abilities were questioned.She picked up the piece of paper closest to her and worked hard to study it.

"This is the information about the shops in Diagon Alley. What are you going to do?" Daphne first carefully read three or four lines, and then entered the state of ten lines at a glance.It's not difficult, but it's boring: "Here's the business name, number, and owner information. Are you doing your family a favour?"

"Well, yes." Clarence nodded: "The one you saw is the table of contents, and there are other more detailed information, but they are scattered. My job now is to sort out the information and then analyze it. "

"Can you still analyze these materials? I don't see anything else that can be analyzed, isn't it already detailed?" Daphne picked up the other papers and browsed: "It's strange, how do your family To have a first-year wizard do this kind of thing feels like an adult wizard would do it."

"I asked for it myself. I want to help them. And before I entered Hogwarts, I learned about these things from tutors."

"Does Theodore have to do this too?" Daphne frowned and asked, "Do you children from big families have to learn this?"

"No, Theodore is not interested in this. It should not be necessary for all families to do this, but I guess Jeffrey must learn it in the future, because he is the only child in his family."

"I'm the only child in my family! But I definitely don't need to learn this. My father works in the Ministry of Magic, and my mother works in the Daily Prophet. They didn't ask me to do anything in the future." Daphne pouted and said, " They let me decide to do what I like, but I haven’t made up my mind yet. You have so much information, can one person sort it out? Let me help you, although I may not be familiar with it.”

"Well, okay, you just pick out all the information related to the shops in Diagon Alley, and then mark the corresponding shop numbers on the upper right corner of the paper. You don't have to rush to decide what you want to do in the future, right? First grade It’s only just begun, and there are still seven years before graduation!”

"That's not the case. I read a book called "How to Be an Excellent Witch". It says in it that girls should figure out what they want to do early on. If they wait until they graduate, it will be too late to think about it. Awesome. Your peers have already surpassed us. You are also in the first grade, but obviously you already know what you want to do in the future."

"Haha, what kind of book is that, maybe Mrs. Virgil asked you to read it?" Clarence couldn't help laughing after hearing Daphne's sorrow.

"Well, no, I saw it in the school library. I haven't finished reading it yet. When I was at home, my mother didn't like me reading these books, but I found them quite interesting." Daphne curled her lips: " By the way, on Sunday and Monday you seemed not in good spirits and seemed unhappy, how are you now? I always wanted to ask you, but Jeffrey held me back."

"Ah, that, it's nothing, don't worry." Speaking of his emotional disturbance, Clarence was a little embarrassed, and it wasn't the first time for a little boy to fall in love at the beginning of love, and he was in a daze for two days after receiving a gift: "I know him, But someone who doesn’t know me gave me a birthday present. I was surprised. A little surprised, but also a little worried. Are you so stupid? When I come back to my senses, I can’t help but feel ashamed these days, Just plain stupid."

"Haha, I see!" Daphne raised her head with an excited smile, staring at Clarence: "Do you like the person who gave you the gift?"

"Uh, that's not it, don't think about it." Clarence denied with some embarrassment.

"Hee hee, if not, why are you blushing? If it's someone you don't care about, you won't be worried and surprised!" Daphne felt very happy that she had guessed Clarence's little secret.Completely ignoring that the personal pronoun Clarence just used was 'he' instead of 'she'.

"Really not!" Clarence emphasized loudly.Falling in love at first sight is really out of his style, and I can't admit it.

"Hmph, don't deny it, it must be so. I've checked it all, and it's called secret love! When Jeffrey gave Cindy a book last month, Cindy is what you are now, I I went to check it out!" Daphne happily shook her head.

"Huh? So Cindy likes Jeffrey?" Clarence instantly caught the information revealed in Daphne's words.

"Ah! It's over!" Daphne reacted abruptly, covering her mouth with her left hand that was not holding the quill: "I promised her to keep it a secret. It's terrible."

Seeing Daphne's little face flushed from nervousness, Clarence suddenly felt balanced: "Don't worry, I won't tell Jeffrey. They're still young."

"Why do you always sound like an adult? Aren't you as old as us! Huh, now I know your secret too! If you tell Jeffrey, then I'll tell Theodore that you like to give your The one who gave it to you. He must know who gave it to you," the young Ravenclaw girl shot back immediately.

Clarence looked at the smug Daphne speechlessly, and suddenly felt that he had stayed in the body of a child for a long time and was too slack.

No wonder receiving a gift can take an abnormal two days, seriously delaying the business.In this current state, it would be wishful thinking to compete with the helmsmen of the pure-blood families known for their shrewdness and cunning for the control of the wizarding world as agreed with Mrs. Thatcher.Lucius' gift this time is the most vivid lesson, never underestimate your opponent.

Thinking of Lucius, Clarence couldn't help feeling a little nervous again.

It can be seen from the old Rist's reaction that it is definitely not an easy task to conquer this character that he treats so seriously.

Lucius Malfoy is definitely not as harmless as he looks.Otherwise, how could he become the most important right-hand man of the Dark Lord?How could it be possible that after the Dark Lord disappeared, he could get out of prison and keep the entire Malfoy family safe and sound?

Without finding the person who provided the information to Lucius, Clarence couldn't be sure of the other party's attitude.It is time for the business alliance to encounter the most significant turning point since its establishment.Undoubtedly, if there is a slight carelessness in the layout re-made at this time, the result will be a complete loss.

"But it's okay, such an opponent is interesting. Otherwise, life would be too boring." Clarence murmured softly.

"Ah? What are you talking about? What opponent?" Daphne looked up suspiciously.

"It's nothing, I'm just talking to myself, don't worry about me." Clarence replied with a smile, but at the same time, the green eyes that looked at the paper in front of him were a little darker.

No matter the territory or the people, he will grab it with his own hands!