278. A generous gift from Bill
After a Transfiguration class and a history of magic class in the morning, Scott waited until after lunch to return to his dorm room before opening the letter from Bill.
The only part of the envelope that belonged to the letter was a piece of parchment, and the other thick stacks were Bill's elaborate drawings and photographs.
Scott quickly read the part of the letter.
As a Gringotts spell solver, Bill is actually serving the elves who control Gringotts.
Greedy and insatiable by nature, elves always have access to bizarre magical items, and Bill's daily job is to undo the dangerous spells on these magical items.
Egypt has a long history, and there are far more pyramid remains in that land than have been discovered by Muggles.
As the tombs of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, the pyramids were built at a time when wizards and Muggles mixed and even served the royal power.
Therefore, ancient sorcerers must have been involved in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.
Modern Egyptian wizards have discovered that many of the pyramid ruins contain the crystals of ancient magic, and the greedy goblins certainly do not let them go.
Of course, compared to goblins, wizards are the rulers of the wizarding world. The elves could not get past the Egyptian wizards to exploit the pyramid ruins.
But the shrewd goblins chose to cooperate with the Egyptian Ministry of Magic to develop together.
The complicated distribution of benefits between goblins and Egyptian wizards aside. In short, against this backdrop, Bill, who is a spell solver at Gringotts, is able to delve deeper into the pyramid ruins from time to time.
He had seen many ancient magical objects unearthed, and for the sake of his work, he could study them.
This time, Bill's letter mentions that the wizards of the Egyptian Ministry of Magic have recently worked with Gringotts to open a large pyramid ruins, and he has gained a lot from the ruins.
Of course, this harvest is not the harvest of material wealth, but the acquisition of insight and knowledge.
Those drawings were very generous to Bill sharing with Scott some of his research.
These include anatomical drawings of some ancient magical objects, some hidden records of ancient Egyptian scripts in the murals, and even some records of taxidermy of magical animals unique to Egypt, all of which are accompanied by photographs of the actual objects.
Scott flipped through the drawings and found that they were all very detailed, and Bill even carefully wrote down his own research results on the drawings.
It's a great gift.
Scott looked at it with some excitement.
He knew that if he hadn't done the Weasleys a great favor in the events of Voldemort's Diary and Peter Pettigrew, he wouldn't have received such a generous gift from Bill.
Due to lack of time, he only took a cursory look at it, but he also felt that these materials could bring him a lot of gains.
He packed them all into a sturdy document bag and kept them close to his body in a shape-shifting lizard skin pouch.
He then packed up his Defence Against the Dark Arts textbooks and notes for his Defence Against the Dark Arts class and left his dorm.
It's just that...... The first thing Scott heard when he came to the common room was Eddie's voice.
“…… So if you have any needs, you can come to me, come, get this product list! ”
Eddie was standing in front of several first-year students, handing them pamphlets.
"Remember, my name is Eddie? Kamitchell, Ravenclaw 3rd year, Hogwarts' most reliable underground merchant! ”
Scott tucked his textbook and notebook under his arm, walked up behind Eddie lightly, and reached out to pull a pamphlet out of his hand and flip through it.
The first-year students seemed a little frightened when they saw Scott, and quickly turned around and slipped away.
Scott paid no attention to them and continued to look through the pamphlet in his hand.
The cover of the booklet only printed the Hogwarts crest and no text, but when opened, it was very rich.
The first few pages contain a simple map of Hogwarts, highlighting the common rooms, auditoriums, and routes between the main classrooms.
The map is followed by a guide to school life, which is a very thoughtful summary of several pages of tips that are not clear to the new students.
And then there's what's called the catalog.
It contains prank props invented by the Weasley twins, a trinum-no-nothing potion tinkered with by Eddie, and even most of Hogsmeade's merchandise.
"You're trying to smuggle?" Scott asked Eddie with a smile.
"Is this called smuggling?" Eddie shook his head disapprovingly, "This is obviously a purchasing agent!" ”
He said confidently: "The first and second grade students can't go to Hogsmeade Village to play, and we, as senior students, provide them with purchasing services!" ”
"Hmmm......"
Scott smiled noncommittally and flipped the pamphlet to the end.
"What is this?"
He looked at the page in the booklet.
[Mystical arithmetic divination, the arithmetic divination service provided to you by a genius soothsayer from Ravenclaw!] ]
[Extremely accurate, he used arithmetic divination to find the lost boy's Ravenclaw crown!] ]
[100% satisfaction!] To book an arithmetic divination, please contact the service agent Eddie? Camichell, Fred? Weasley, George Weasley. ]
"How?" Eddie triumphantly asked Scott, "I made it with those two Weasleys, and of course, most of it was my brainchild!" ”
“……”
Scott glanced at the ad for arithmetic divination again, and suddenly felt that his compulsion had been lowered a bit.
"Is that your idea?" He shook the pamphlet in his hand.
"Of course!"
Edion looked up, looking like he was begging for praise.
"The content is pretty good." Scott handed him the pamphlet and said angrily, "But I don't think arithmetic divination services need to be advertised." ”
Eddie's expression was a little stunned.
Scott glanced at him, "I didn't intend to divinate too many people, and ......"
He lowered his voice, "The most important thing is that it destroys the mystery of divination, I didn't tell you, you can't treat this as a business!" ”
"Don't worry." Eddie hurriedly said, "This is our advertisement, it doesn't involve you, we will strictly check it for you, not anyone's divination request will be granted!" ”
Scott shook his head, "It's late, arithmetic divination has already become a commodity after it was printed in the booklet." ”
"That's okay." Eddie smiled flatteringly, rubbed his hands together and said, "As long as you can make money, right?" ”
"You have a point, but I don't accept it."
Scott gave him a smirk.
"I've decided to cancel the arithmetic divination service."
Eddie looked at him dumbfounded, "Oh! You can't do that, Scott, what are we going to do if you don't offer arithmetic divination anymore? ”
Scott smiled, "Of course, you're my friends, and if you ask me for help for your 'friends', especially the kind of 'old friends' who spend a lot of money with you, maybe I'll relent?" ”
"Oh......" Eddie's eyes lit up and he muttered, "Great idea." ”
Seeing him lost in thought, Scott tapped him on the shoulder and turned to walk into the college library.
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