Chapter Seventy-One: The Mirror of Eris

A few days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Daisy and the others have put the matter of making bombs on the agenda, but even with a lot of money to open the way, it is not a day's work from starting construction to making the first batch of ammunition.

Rome wasn't built in a day, Daisy and they found a professional person in charge, and it was expected that production would officially start in a month. The output of ammunition will not be too high, because the pattern depiction of the magic array needs to ensure absolute accuracy, once there is a defective product, it is the best situation if there is no power, and it is even possible to explode directly in the Vulcan cannon, that is, to explode.

Once this happens, it is Seamus himself who is most seriously injured, so each finished product needs to go through many inspection procedures. Even so, the productivity of modern industry surprised Seamer, who calculated that it was able to produce about 5,000 munitions per day.

The eight-eyed spider venom in his hand is now configured as "ink", which is only enough to make about 5,000 pieces, and it seems that he still has to find a way to bring a letter to Lupin and ask him to buy more eight-eyed spider venom in Africa.

This experience made Seamus discover a very important thing, the Golden Galleon may not be so useful in the wizarding world, it is not that you can buy things with money, there are many scarce materials, and there is often no market.

Because wizards have always been relatively closed, and because of the level of communication and secrecy, many wizards can only have access to the wizarding world in their own country in their lifetime, while there are less than 10,000 wizards in Britain. Although because of Gringotts, the currency of wizards in the whole world is the same, and they all use Galleon, Sico, and Nath as currency, but there is not much trade between countries.

For example, the Ministry of Magic will only approve the import and export of magical materials such as dragon liver, which is used in large quantities, and as for the eight-eyed giant spider venom, which is only used by some potionsmen, it is basically impossible to obtain through import and export, and most of them are obtained through private smuggling.

The problem is that most potions masters are otaku, and there are very few potions that require the venom of the eight-eyed spider, which means that there is basically no eight-eyed venom in the UK.

The trade of live magical beasts is even more difficult, in addition to official activities and special events, if the people want to bring back magical beasts from abroad, or bring magical beasts into other countries, they need to have a series of very complicated procedures.

Moreover, it is relatively troublesome for wizards to go abroad, and they need to report the wand and the reason for their visit to the destination country in advance, and once they do not pass, then it is illegal entry. This kind of procedure is not difficult to handle, but because there are not many people in the wizarding world, and there are not many automated processing methods, it often takes a long time to handle these procedures in the normal way.

Sending a letter to Lupin, who is far away in Africa, Seamus is a little embarrassed, and it is really troublesome to let an owl cross the ocean, unless it is an owl that is good at long-distance flights, it may not be delivered at all.

Although LaVine flies extremely fast, it is not suitable for long-distance flights, and short sprints are its home turf. In the UK, LaVine's flight distance is far sufficient, but if he wants to fly to Egypt, where Lupin is now, a long journey of nearly 4,000 kilometers, LaVine simply can't do it.

After thinking about it, I could only entrust a special owl mail company to send a letter to Lupin, although the time was a little slower. For foreign mail, the owl mail company will often gather a certain amount of mail before sending it abroad.

At first, the White Owl Post Office Company had the owls fly abroad in formation, but there were always unexpected situations that caused individual owls to disappear along with the mail. As a result, there were always complaints about them, which led to the poor reputation of their foreign mailing business, and finally they changed their methods, and a few specific salesmen took the mail abroad, and then handed it over to the local White Owl mail company for unified distribution.

Those specific salesmen were all reported by the company for a long time, and there was no need to worry about being determined to enter the country illegally, so the White Owl Mail Company expanded its business abroad, gradually expanding from the United Kingdom to the rest of the world.

Seamus writes a letter to Lupin, telling him to do his best to buy the eight-eyed spider venom and send it back in the safest way possible. Eight-Eyed Spider Venom is not scarce in the African market, partly because of the flood of Eight-Eyed Spiders there, and partly because Eight-Eyed Spider Venom is originally sold as a commonly used magical material in Africa.

If Lupin buys too much, once it is checked by the British Ministry of Magic, the consequences will be more serious, because the difference in the price of goods between the two places is enough to constitute a major smuggling case. Although the laws enacted by the Ministry of Magic are full of loopholes and often contradictory to themselves, more is better than less.

After writing the letter, it was already completely dark, and it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and Seamus hurried out and ran to the owl shack. Raven has been a little angry in the past two days, so let's not let it send letters for the time being, and I have to cultivate more feelings.

On the top floor of the West Tower of the Owl Shed, where all the Hogwarts owls live, the beautiful greedy owl often comes these days, but every time he finishes eating, he never stays long, for fear of being caught by Seamus to deliver letters.

Seamus can only climb the tower now and go to the owl to deliver the letter, if he sees the greedy owl, that is, the April Snow Mountain, thanks to Seamus also gave it a name, let it send the letter a few times, and then run away when he hears the name, even if he uses the owl food, he can't be tempted back.

The owl shack is a windowless place, as long as it wants to run, Seamus can't catch it, and it is impossible to use magic to force the owl to send letters, so it can only be when all the owl food is thrown into the water, anyway, Ravan doesn't eat owl food, only raw meat.

After a long time, I finally came to the owl shack, and as soon as I walked in, dozens of pairs of big shining eyes stared straight at Seamus, and now was the time when they were most active.

There was only one owl, except for one owl, who saw Seamus enter the owl's hut and immediately emerged from the cave where he was perched, flew out of the window and disappeared in an instant.

That is, of course, the April Snow Mountain, the laziest owl in the whole of Hogwarts, its feathers are smoother and more beautiful under the nourishment of Seamus's premium owl food, but no one can make it send a letter anymore.

When it realized that it could eat well without sending letters, it seemed to have awakened something strange, and every time it distributed letters, it would hide in Seamo's dormitory to eat, and then leave immediately after a while, and the chicken thief avoided all the work.

Seamus found an owl at random, fed him a handful of owl food, and sent the letter he had just written to the White Owl mailing company. That's not just the UK's largest owl mailing company, it's also the world's largest owl mailing company, with more than 90% of all correspondence sent by this company.

Glancing down at the watch on his wrist, it was nine o'clock in the evening, he had to hurry back to his dormitory, the curfew at Hogwarts was ten o'clock in the evening, and although he could easily avoid Filch, there was no point in playing a game that didn't yield anything.

Pulling his fur hat together, Seamus glanced at the sky, although it was not raining, the sky had always been covered with clouds, and tonight the moon and stars were gone, and now Hogwarts was completely immersed in darkness.

Walking down the steps of the tower, Seamus was surrounded by a ball of light, the owl shack was at the very top of the west tower, and their dormitory was at the easternmost edge of the castle, and the Quidditch pitch was outside the dormitory window, so it took a long time to come back and forth, so he didn't come here very often.

Seamus relied on his memories to walk back to the dormitory, but after walking for a long time, not only did he not return to the dormitory, but he also came to an abandoned classroom. Desks and chairs were piled up against the wall, there was a wastepaper basket on the floor, and on the opposite wall was a mirror that did not seem to belong to the classroom, as it was as clean as new, not dusty as the other items in the classroom.

It was a very magnificent mirror, with an ornate golden border, that reached to the ceiling, resting on two claw-shaped bases, with a string of inscriptions carved on them.

Seeing the inscription, Seamus suddenly reacted, and in front of him was the Mirror of Eris. When I opened the map, I saw that most of the Hogwarts maps had already been recorded in the map, and he had deviated from the direction since he got off the tower, walking straight to the west of a castle.

This was the seventh floor of the castle, and the headmaster's office was not far above, and it must have been Dumbledore, if it weren't for his reading habits, he might have walked in front of the mirror and not reacted.

The inscription, read from left to right, is a string of garbled characters, but when read from right to left, it forms a sentence, "What I show is not what you are facing, but what you desire in your heart." ”

The habits brought by his previous life made him find that when he couldn't read smoothly from left to right, he would naturally look from right to left, which made him get rid of the state just now.

Dumbledore somehow had brought him to this place in order to see what he longed for the most, so that he could peek into his heart.

But this is not an opportunity, and now that he has reacted, he can completely calculate and see what will be in the Mirror of Eris?

If everything is normal, tell the truth, and if there is really something terrible, you can only be vague and see if you can get away with it.

But he really doesn't have any intention of becoming the Dark Lord, or is it that Seamus himself doesn't know what he's looking for.

Wealth, beauty, fame, or immortality?

A person often can't really recognize himself, and he also wants to take this opportunity to see what he desires the most.

Seamus stepped away and walked over to the Mirror of Eris, which revealed ......