358. Making, restlessness, chance encounters
Scott looked at the shattered mirror and put down the board that had been used as a seal.
"Looks like I'm clever." He laughs.
Think about it, how many alchemists have studied the magic script since ancient times?
If there was such an easy way to replace inscriptions or writing scripts, it would have been his turn to figure out a way.
Fred and George laughed too.
"When we first tried it, we knew that there was little chance of success."
"But we're the same way, we have to try it before we're willing to do it."
Eddie frowned, "In that case, do the factories that produce magic items also need wizards to do this by hand?" This is too inefficient. ”
Eddie's father, Mr. Carmitchell, was a capitalist with several factories in his hands.
In his opinion, Muggle factories are now mechanized, but wizards are still mainly handicrafts, which is too backward.
Scott didn't care, he said in a flat tone: "Think about the population of wizards in the wizarding world, the craft industry is enough to cope with the small market of the wizarding world. ”
He has given up trying to be lazy.
He turned around and took another mirror, took out a quill, and honestly began to write by hand.
In fact, the combination of magic scripts required by [Magic Crystal Player] is much simpler than that of [Magic Mirror], and it doesn't take a lot of his time, he just hates such repetitive mechanical labor.
Since it was inevitable, Scott quickly changed his mindset in a short period of time and regarded this production as an exercise.
To be honest, it was still very good for him to master the magic harmony when he was proficient in the writing of the magic circuit.
That's what he should be practicing.
In order to satisfy his one-second alchemy transfiguration vision, he had to turn this skill into energy.
"Don't you want to think of anything else?" Eddie asked.
It may have been because Scott had given up on the attempt so easily, which surprised him a bit.
Scott was calm, and replied while writing carefully, "No, even if such a method may exist, it will not be studied in a short time." ”
With his current level of ancient magic and alchemy, there was really no other way to think of it except for the cleverness he had just tried.
Eddie really couldn't turn the corner.
"It's too much trouble." "If that's the case, it's not going to be good for us to control costs." ”
Neither Scott nor the Weasley twins ignored him and went their separate ways.
Eddie still muttered.
"Originally, there were relatively few students who took the Ancient Magic course at Hogwarts, and this course was mainly based on interpretation and translation, and even fewer wizards who were successful in learning and could apply it to alchemy."
"If I want to do anything in the wizarding world in the future, I can't recruit a wizard who can engrave the magic circuit."
Scott successfully activates the magic circuit on the mirror and hands it to him.
"Hurry up." He said to Eddie, "You're responsible for putting the plastic casing on the players and putting them in the box." ”
"Okay." Eddie reached for the mirror.
He turned around and took out a custom-made hard plastic shell from the cardboard box stacked in the corner and wrapped the back and four sides of the mirror, and wrapped the wrapped mirror in a white cardboard box.
These plastic shells and outer packaging were Scott's idea.
The plastic shell has four colors, corresponding to the representative colors of the four colleges, and is also printed with the emblems of the four colleges.
The packaging box is even simpler, the whole is white, and the name of the product and the words "joking utensils studio" are simply printed.
These things are all custom-made with the help of Eddie's business channels, and the prices are very cheap.
But after the packaging is good, it looks much more upscale and formal, which also makes them more reasonable to make money.
Scott took another mirror and continued to write, saying to Eddie, "You can't think like that, you can make luxury, a lot of Muggle luxury is handmade." ”
"You're right!" Eddie turned the corner, "My family's jewelry business also has a product line that is handmade, and of course, they are much more expensive than other products. ”
"The rich have more money." Scott smiled, "You'd better study how to make money from the rich people in the wizarding world." ”
Fred and George laughed too.
"You can make money specifically from pure-blood families."
"They always like to spend a lot of money to maintain decency."
Despite the speed at which Scott wrote the Magic Circuit, it was already past 1 a.m. by the time they had fully completed the order.
Stuffing all the packaged players into Eddie's backpack with the Traceless Stretching Charm cast, the four of them left the studio and made their way to the slide in the secret passageway.
"Let's see where Filch and his cat are." Scott yawned and said to Fred.
Fred yawned as he pulled out the map and muttered, "Filch should have slept at this late hour." ”
"Filch's ugly cat never sleeps at night." George said, "Oh, and don't forget there's Peeves, who's going to deliberately yell if he spots us." ”
"I see." Fred answered, and whispered the incantation to activate the map, "I solemnly swear that I will not do anything good. ”
George held a lighted wand to illuminate him.
"I'll take a look......," said Fred, "oh, Filch is in his office, and the cat is in the basement, Peeves...... Oh, that guy is near the library......"
George took a closer look and suddenly exclaimed, "Oh! Dumbledore and Professor Binns are still in Professor Flitwick's office! ”
"Could it be that they've been working on those two things!" Eddie was surprised and said, "Maybe that box is a great treasure!" ”
George looked up at him, "You're saying we shouldn't hand it over?" ”
"Maybe it's worth a lot?" Eddie said in a regretful tone.
Fred also looked up, "But the chest was found at Hogwarts, and it belonged to Hogwarts. ”
"Okay, okay." Eddie shrugged his shoulders, "I'm just a little sorry. ”
"Nothing to worry about." Scott said.
He bent down and summoned a battered broomstick from the side of the slide and sat down.
He took off some distance and turned back to the other three and said, "Don't think about it, who knows if that thing will be a big problem." ”
At this time, he noticed that the other three were all looking up at him, not moving.
"What's wrong?" Scott asked.
"Scott." Fred said, "I remember you carrying a broomstick with you. ”
"It's still a light wheel 2000." George emphasized.
Scott laughed, "I'm used to riding a broken broom here, go." ”
He shrugged his shoulders and turned his head straight up.
The four of them returned to the castle, and Scott relied on his magical perception to take Eddie all the way to the Ravenclaw common room.
By this time, everyone had gone back to sleep, and the common room was darkly lit and empty.
Eddie cried out that he was hungry, so he lit the fireplace again, and took a tin kettle from the table next to him, ready to boil some milk.
He crouched down next to the fireplace, turned to Scott, and asked, "Do you feel that way?" Isn't there too much going on lately? ”
Scott, who was sitting on the couch, raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?" ”
"All." Eddie whispered, "We often talk about what we want to do in the future, but we all know that the wizarding world is going to be completely unsettled, aren't we? ”
Scott nodded.
Several of them had seen the footage secretly taken from Little Hangethon Village and understood the seriousness of the matter.
Although the wizarding world remained calm on the surface after that day, they all knew that it was only the surface.
Secretly, where they can't see or hear, they don't know how many dark tides are happening.
With Eddie's sensitivity to gossip, it's normal for him to be able to sense the coming storm.
"Rest assured, no matter what's going on outside, at least Hogwarts is safe." That's all Scott can say to Eddie.
Eddie pouted, "But if we continue like this, maybe we'll have to take refuge in the Muggle world when we graduate." ”
Scott lowered his eyelids and his voice was flat, "There's no point in thinking about this now. ”
"Well, you're right." Eddie looked at the flames in the fireplace, "We're all students, we're underage, we can't do anything, it's better not to know so much." ”
Scott was a little amused, "Is that what you use to comfort yourself?" ”
"So what can I do?" Eddie said with a bitter face.
At this time, there was a gurgling sound in the tin kettle, and the milk was already overheated.
Eddie quickly took two cups, cleaned them up with a spell, and lifted the tin pot and poured two cups of hot milk.
He took a sip of milk from his glass and continued, "While I'd love to know what happened or what the Ministry of Magic did with the people who were taken last time, we obviously can't fit the panorama telescope into the Ministry. ”
Scott also lowered his head and took a sip of hot milk, and when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but smile and didn't answer.
"Maybe you're right." Eddie added, "What we sent to Professor Flitwick's office may be a real nuisance. ”
"Don't worry." Scott said, "Headmaster Dumbledore said he would tell us the results, and I don't think he would break his word." ”
Eddie sighed, "I just hope that there won't be more big things that will affect the entire British wizarding world, and the things in the wizarding world will also affect the Muggle world, and maybe we will have to emigrate to be safe then......"
With that, he looked up at Scott, "Oh, I'm sorry, but you let your parents go abroad because you were afraid that trouble from the wizarding world would come to your home. ”
"No way." Scott put down his glass and stood up, "There are a lot of people who hate me, hate me, and have the potential to take revenge on me. ”
The next day.
As a result of sleeping late, Scott was a little listless throughout the morning.
Of course, in the morning Charms class, Professor Flitwick also seemed a little out of energy.
Although he is still trying to lift his spirit to teach everyone, there is still a gap between his performance in the usual class.
One lesson, Scott was terrified, and he was afraid that Professor Flitwick would suddenly fall asleep and roll off the stack of books.
Professor Flitwick turned around and hurried away after class, and Scott didn't get a chance to ask him about the results of a night of research with Dumbledore and Professor Binns.
Eddie, unlike Scott, has been busy handing out the finished [Magic Crystal Player] according to orders and collecting money since the morning, and he has been very busy.
Not surprisingly, [Magic Crystal Player] and the Ravenclaw House promotional film "Extraordinary Wisdom" became a complete hit at Hogwarts.
Especially the college promo video.
Because Scott's player was the only one that could be played, and the video was played on a loop in the auditorium all day on Sunday, the students at Ravenclaw College were out of the limelight and walked with the wind.
Scott, a Ravenclaw student who was already well-known, once again attracted a lot of attention because of the production of promotional videos and players.
At the noon dinner table, Milton told Scott, "Even Professor Trelawney mentioned you in this morning's divination class. ”
"Oh?" Scott suddenly felt a little creepy, "What did she say?" ”
"She said......" Milton laughed, "she said that although you are good, you can't get better if you don't choose to take her class." ”
"She's right." Scott nodded, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you worried about? Are you afraid of Professor Trelawney? Roger, who was on the side, looked at Scott in surprise as if he had discovered a new world.
"I just don't want to hear her say how I'm going to die and something like that." Scott said.
Roger laughed, "Everyone knows that most of the time she can't take what she says seriously. ”
Scott nodded, sneering inwardly.
Most people don't know about the horrors of Trelawney.
If he hadn't read the "original", Squat wouldn't have known this.
Memories from his previous life told him that Trelawney was a terrible person, and that the words she often said casually came true.
On the other hand, perhaps Professor Trelawney's mouth may not be a prophecy, but a curse.
I don't know what kind of luck it was, but Scott, who had gone through this little fright at noon, actually ran into Professor Trelawney head-on that afternoon, which he didn't want to see.
It was on his way to the Forbidden Forest after the afternoon class, where he met Professor Trelawney in the back garden of the castle.
The divination professor had long, messy hair, thick glasses, and the smell of alcohol, and looked a little crazy.
"Good afternoon, Professor Trelawney."
Although he didn't want to meet, since he did, Scott politely greeted the professor who never left the divination classroom easily.
"Good afternoon, Scott? Trollope, poor child. ”
Trelawney's eyes widened behind the lenses, and she looked at Scott with a look of horror.
"Tianmu told me that I had to leave my classroom in the North Tower today." "But I didn't expect to meet you here," she said in a pretentious voice, oh my poor child! ”
She looked at Scott with pity, and held out a withered hand, as if to pat him comfortingly on the shoulder.
"Oh!"
The moment her hand approached Scott's shoulder, she quickly withdrew her hand as if frightened, exclaimed, and took a quick step back.
"I'm sorry...... Child...... I'm sorry......" she looked very sad, "I just found out ......"
Scott looked at her expressionlessly and asked very calmly, "Is there anything wrong with you, Professor Trelawney?" ”
"Oh no!"
Trelawney was about to say something when she suddenly burped, and then, her expression changed suddenly.
At this moment, Scott also sensed something, and his face changed dramatically in an instant.
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