"Your parents and I had a very good relationship with Pandora, all four of us were Ravenclaw 1967 students, and Barty Crouch Jr. had a good relationship, but he was a little younger than us...... We were inseparable in class and out of school, we liked to delve into quirky things when we had nothing to do, Pandora and I liked to tinker with little inventions, Barty loved the dark arts, and your parents were more good at runivin and charms. ”

Mr. Lovegood recounted the old story, "Their achievements in the Rune language are indeed amazing, and they won the Merlin Ancient Magic Medal at the beginning of the seventh grade, and also received two Merlin Medals of the Second Degree, which was in the limelight for a while. ”

"The two of them are Ravenclaw prefects and presidents of the Hogwarts Co-Girls Student Council...... Loud names and honors are stacked together, and they are the best students on the Hogwarts campus. At this point, Mr. Lovegood was a little emotional.

Joel was silent, and he silently jotted down the information in his mind.

"It's impossible not to be jealous," said Mr. Lovegood, with a wry smile on his lips, "Pandora and I both consider ourselves no worse than your parents, and we feel a little sour when we see them in school." ”

Joel nodded, "I understand, Mr. Lovegood. ”

"Pandora and I pondered how we could surpass your parents in the discipline of Runiwen," Lovegood's empty eyes filled with a hint of nostalgia, "and now that I think about it, we seem to have been carried away by fame and fortune and the desire to win." ”

"We went through a lot of trouble to find a set of runic classics in Norway, a total of 7 ......"

Joel froze in place, as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt, and Mr. Lovegood was still immersed in his youthful memories, and continued: "There are many obscure words in this rune that Pandora and I have never seen, but we are sure that the content of this set of texts will cause a sensation in the academic world when it is released. ”

Indeed, Joel echoed the pomp and circumstance of Professor Babling's paper earlier this year.

"The two of us rushed back to school to look up the materials and study them carefully, and your parents came to borrow them in the meantime," Mr. Lovegood's tone was low for a moment, "Pandora and I really regard your parents as friends, and without much hesitation, we lent them a whole set of books to read for a day, and the next morning we will graduate and leave the school with Hogwarts Trek." ”

"I didn't expect your parents to run away with this set of ancient books," Lovegood said, "without even saying hello......

"It's a shame that the two of us trusted your parents so much before......" he muttered, his eyes hollow again.

Joel kept silent, and if the truth was as Mr. Lovegood said, then the parents of the original owner of the body were indeed treacherous and wicked, which would explain why the Lovegoods did not look for their friend's infant child after the disappearance of the Dorcas.

This campus friendship has long since vanished with a dishonest act before leaving school, and Joel lowered his head to take a sip of tea, the sour aftertaste filling his mouth.

Outside the window, Luna was holding a basket of potatoes in her hand and was jumping into the yard, with a smile on the corner of her mouth looking innocent and ignorant of the world.

Lovegood filled the teacups of the two, "This relationship ended completely in the summer of 1974, and I am not telling you this old story to ask for anything, when Pandora and I heard that the Meadows and his wife were missing, and we were also very sad, your parents' affairs...... IMHO, I can't help much. ”

"Luna is still young," Lovegood turned to look at Luna in the garden, who was mischievously kicking the weeds beneath her feet, trying to wake up the goblins underground, "Pandora left early, leaving me alone to take care of her, and I had to raise her." ”

When Luna returned, Mr. Lovegood asked him to stay for lunch, but Joel politely refused and left Lovegood House without staying long.

He couldn't figure out why the Meadows had defrauded the seven runes from Lovegood, and what their purpose was.

As Mr. Lovegood said, in the five years between graduation in 1974 and Joel's birth in 1979, why didn't the Meadows dig up the hidden materials in the ancient books and write a thesis?

He couldn't figure it out, in his opinion, Professor Babling's runiwen level should be similar to that of the original parents of the body, and the former could sort out a paper that shocked the academic community in half a year, so why didn't the Meadows do it? What's the secret?

Joel returned home and still couldn't figure out the answer to that question.

Time flew by, and Joel's progress in deducing the wandless spell was hindered, and he felt that he should go to the World Tree again to find the feeling of wandless spellcasting, but since the invention of the Runi script in place of Odin, the World Tree has become dull again, and Nidhogg is still gnawing at the roots, which are already broken by a third.

Research on the Eternal Nightman marker is also progressing slowly, with Joel discovering that the marker becomes inactive after being separated from the living form, and no matter how Joel tries to activate it, it is to no avail.

Joel can only put these worries behind him, and now he is eyeing the investment industry again, and the money in his hand is not in vain, he has to make money and make a name for himself.

It's not that he can't trust Gringotts' entrusted investment agreement, but the interest rate offered by the goblins is really low - 4% guaranteed interest for 5 years, and Joel decides to go it alone.

Throughout August, he traveled to Diagon Alley, the largest shopping street in the British wizarding world, to scout the economic situation, and finally settled on two companies to invest in: the Daily Prophet and the Blotted Bookstore.

He came to the door with two large bags of gold gallons with the idea of trying it out, but was directly rejected by the Prophet Daily without accident.

"Let's tell you the truth," the editor-in-chief, Barnabas Guffey, a stern-looking old man who wore a pair of thick glasses and a cloudy gaze, "We are a newspaper with a long history of 250 years, and there is no shortage of investment, the Ministry of Magic, Gringotts, and the major British families are all vying to throw money into it, and we have a monopoly on the news all over the UK......"

And "Singing Against the Tune", Joel muttered to himself.

"With all due respect," Mr. Guffey concluded, "you are a well-known rookie in the British wizarding world, but you can't bring the corresponding resources to the Daily Prophet, and we won't accept an investment from a young wizard who has not yet graduated from Hogwarts just for the sake of Golden Gallons. ”

"I can understand, Mr. Gufe, then don't bother."

Joel nodded, but left the Daily Prophet office without hesitating to carry the money bag.

He can also figure out the truth, whether it is the Muggle world in the past life or the current wizarding world, the investment of enterprises is not a share, talking about resources and power is the default law, the first angel investment in Alibaba in the previous life was 5 million US dollars led by Goldman Sachs - those readers who want to be reborn and sell their houses to invest in Ali at the turn of the century can save their worries, Jack Marco can't look down on that little money.

Being able to think about the channel doesn't mean that Joel is not angry, he turned his head and went to the Blotte bookstore, the owner of the bookstore is an American, who usually travels all over the world and sees the end of the dragon, although he and the bookstore manager have cooperated many times before, but investing in this kind of big thing is still not something that he can do as a senior worker.

Joel returns to Godric's Hollow after shopping for books for the new semester in Diagon Alley.

He was not reconciled.

Joel plans to go it alone after a day of cooling.

He calculated an account: the price of a daily prophet newspaper is 5 copper nats (data from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), there are less than 10,000 wizards in the whole of England, and according to the fact that every household subscribes to the "Prophet Daily", it can sell about 3,000 newspapers a day, which is 15,000 copper nats per day, which is 30.42 galleons.

Then the monthly income is 912 Galleons, of course, sometimes the Prophet Daily will also receive some advertorial promotion for advertising fees, even so, the comprehensive income of a month is less than 1500 Galleons.

What if the labor cost is removed? Editors, photographers, journalists, columnists, paper, ink cartridges, owl food......

After all, Joel felt that the Daily Prophet could only break even, and that it would not make much money at all.

That's the good news.

After a busy summer vacation, life flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the first day of school, and Joel meets Cedric again on the knight's bus, but this time he is not alone, and there is a brunette girl snuggled next to him, it is Cho Zhang.

Joel sat next to the two of them for a while, and couldn't stand the tiredness of the two of them, so he simply stood by the window and watched the street scene whistling by outside.

He and Haylis haven't had a good conversation during the summer vacation, Joel acquiesces that this is a cold war, Haylis is dissatisfied that he hides things in his heart, and he video chats with him through the two-way mirror with a cold face and a bleak expression.

If only Haylis were as empathetic as Luna, Joel sighed.