Chapter 104: Halloween Eve of the Second School Year

Aside from Hermione's accident, nothing else unusual had happened in the first month of school.

In the midst of the busyness, time flies. Just after September, the icy cold spell began, and Hogwarts did not use its magic to change the natural weather, so that a wet chill permeated the exterior of the castle.

Hogwarts and the surrounding area have been subjected to a large cleansing spell that removes a large amount of polluting gases from Muggle factories, making the air around Hogwarts exceptionally fresh, but it seems to have made the weather in Hogwarts, which is closer to nature, much colder than in Muggle cities and even in the countryside.

Sometimes people with umbrellas get wetter than people without umbrellas, and the same is true at Hogwarts. Occasionally, many of the students who were outside during the classroom had caught a cold, but Harry and his team had braved the cold wind and even freezing rain to train Quidditch outside, but few of them had gone to the hospital when they got sick.

In order to treat the students' colds, Madam Pomfrey at the school hospital prepared a large number of refreshment agents. The effect of the pick-me-up on the chill is immediate, but the ears will smoke for hours after drinking.

It looks like this medicine is good, isn't it very much like meditating and cultivating internal strength, you can shoot martial arts movies directly without adding props, how convenient!

After seeing the speed of Slytherin's new Broomstick Wheel 2001, Gryffindor's captain, Wood, became even more depressed and frantically trained, choking the players. In this case, the Weasley brothers finally took out their new broomsticks without concealing it, but instead of the latest Halo 2001, they bought the same Halo 2000 as Harry.

After a month of frenzied sales at the Ollivander store, the cheapest two low-grade Tess wands were bought for nearly two hundred, but the store didn't have to worry about market saturation at all, because the wands were starting to break down in less than a month due to the overload of Hogwarts students.

But no one complained about it, because the instructions for use had already been reminded at the time of purchase, and the lowest wand was only two silver wands a piece, which was too cheap compared to a real wand.

Seventy-five mid-level Tess wands were sold, each approaching half a Galleon and eight silver sicos.

Twenty high-grade Tess wands were sold, one Galleon each.

As for the VIP's Tess wand, five were sold, two Galleons each and seven silver sicos.

Ollivander is also working hard, but in fact, it is not as much as the profit that Maple makes from the eight-eyed giant spider in a week.

One year's sales did not affect the price fluctuations of the eight-eyed giant spider, because after establishing a solid supply channel, those customers of Montungus are also active. In order to maintain the high price, they only sold a small part of the British wizarding world, and then smuggled a large amount abroad.

Smuggling from Britain to other magical nations in Europe was more profitable than buying from chaotic Africa.

Moreover, the price of venom smuggled and imported from Africa is clearly added to the loss of human life in the process of obtaining the venom.

Because compared to the Forbidden Forest next to Hogwarts Castle, the primeval forests of Africa are infinitely more dangerous, and the magical creatures inside are all untamed in the wild. At the level of the group of wizards in Africa, except for the Egyptian wizards who have the relics of the ancient pharaohs, it is common for other wizards to hunt the eight-eyed giant spider and lose half of the casualties.

Compared to Britain, which is the most powerful and the most tightly managed, it is obviously more profitable to smuggle venom into other countries. However, the most lucrative place for smuggling is not France, but the territory of the former Soviet Union.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the wizards of the former Soviet Union, who had been barely brought together, also parted ways. The population of the secular world is an important criterion for measuring the population of the wizarding world, because the population of the wizarding world is less able to withstand the ravages of war than the secular world, so it is a fact that Muggle-born wizards have become the main source of the population of the wizarding world.

Although the countries of Europe do not consider Russia and the former Soviet Union to be part of Europe, and the people in the wizarding world have a similar attitude, this does not prevent them from doing business with wizards in these places.

Not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was a time when the wizards of the wizarding world who joined the small countries were at a loss, and in order to protect their own safety, they would not be taboo at all to use the three indiscriminate poisons. So much so that the wizarding world in the former Soviet Union is the hottest place for the sale of eight-eyed giant spider venom in the whole of Europe, even if the price here is several times that of the United Kingdom, it is still in short supply, and there is no market.

Channels are kings of sales, and these cattle who can sell venom to the former Soviet Union can make more profits than Maple, the person who provided the supply.

Although the food is not the fullest, it does not prevent Maple from squandering -

The sale of Tes's wand is a trickle, and the current speed of making money is still not enough, so Maple directly donated 100 gold Galleons to the Auror Disability Fund in the name of the Tes's wand dealer who cooperated with Ollivander, so that they could solve their urgent needs.

Then, with a stroke of the pen, he changed the Halo 2000 for all Gryffindors. Although it is not as good as the latest light wheel 2001, it costs more than 100 Galleons for one hand, but the four brooms add up to more than 300 Galleons.

In addition, in return for Ravenclaw's gift of a very useful treasure for Maple and Hermione, he donated two Halos 2000 to the Ravenclaw cadet team.

It is worth mentioning that Fred and George also specially asked Maple to send them brooms in order to pick up girls, and then they personally gave them to the girls in the team.

The two brothers also competed for the power to give Angelina a broomstick, and in the end, George won. And the last person in the original time and space to marry Angelina Johnson was also George, is this a coincidence in the dark?

The Gryffindor team was sponsored by the mysterious man and all the members changed the Halo 2000, which immediately caused a sensation in the school as soon as it was leaked. The Slytherins had the worst looks on their faces, even though they were fully equipped with the Halo 2001, which was much faster than the Halo 2000, made them feel like they were on the safe side.

While the other students were still looking for who this mysterious donor was, Hermione first determined the goal-

"Where did you get all that money?" When she chose to give Ravenclaw a broomstick in return, Maple guessed that this might happen, and Hermione immediately thought of him.

"I won't tell you the answer directly, but I won't stop you from investigating me or Fred George!" Instead of denying it, Maple said.

After all this spending, Maple's pockets were empty again, and he had advanced some of the money from the sale of the Eight-Eyed Spider from Mundungus.

This month, half of the venom that Maple obtained, Mundungus did not sell, but the profit from this part of the sale had little to do with Maple.

With the speed at which Maple hunted the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider, the profit he made in January now was far from the limit of what he could earn. But unfortunately, Mundungus has limited ability, and sometimes Maple is eager to whip him up, if his strength can meet the standards of the Aurors, Maple can get far more than these profits.

As for the werewolves, it's a bottomless pit because the damn wolf poison potion was invented. Moreover, after drinking this medicine once, after enjoying the harmless feeling of becoming a wolf, the medicine could not be stopped, and there was a small group of dozens of werewolves gathered in Tumbledown Alley. Before Maple learned how to prepare a wolf poison potion, the cost of one cup per person before the full moon was too high.

So the eight-eyed giant spider Maple who was sent to the werewolf didn't mention the matter of sharing, and let them keep the sales proceeds first.

The hand is empty, and it will give Montungus at least a month to clear the venom inventory on hand, which means that for the next month or so, Maple will not have any money.

At this point, Maple thought of the potions note Snape had given him, and perhaps he could give the werewolves the potions he had made and let them try to sell them and see how the market reacted.

Halloween was coming, and Maple had stopped doing other work. Because he remembers that the first attack was on Halloween, and the first time Quirrell did something last year was on Halloween. I have to say that when the professors are all involved, especially when Dumbledore also attends the banquet and cares about it, it is the best time to do things.

And before Halloween, Dumbledore also announced something that the students were all concerned about. After Dumbledore and the members of the Wizengamot negotiated with the Ministry of Magic, a preliminary decision was finally made on the psychic contract for the unicorn.

In order to facilitate the organization of the event and not attract the attention of the Muggles, channeling activities will be carried out in batches. After some haggling, Fudge agreed to Dumbledore's offer to the Hogwarts students to make a contract with five young unicorns, but the students made a contract with the remaining unicorns, and the Ministry of Magic would arrange for someone from the wizarding world to continue the contract with them.

In addition to this, Dumbledore promised the professors of Hogwarts that they would not be involved in the pact of the five adult unicorns of the wizarding world.

Due to the cold weather, the first contract event will not be held until a few months later when the weather warms up.

Upon hearing this exact news, almost all the students were excited and wanted to jump. On the eve of Halloween, everyone is no longer concerned about the festival itself, and the unicorn is enthusiastically discussed.

In this moment of laughter, Wood was alone in a sad place. At the same time as the event was being held at Hogwarts School, Professor Dumbledore announced that the school's Quidditch competition had been suspended this year.

Finally got the sponsorship, and all Gryffindor members changed the light wheel 2000, so that Wood saw the hope of winning again, but at this time, the house game was canceled, which made Wood depressed and wanted to hit the wall.

At the same time, Maple also notes that Celia Dolux is also one of the few students who did not show any special joy after the unicorn event was announced, which is out of place in the crowd and undoubtedly increases Maple's suspicions about her.

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