Chapter 476: Weasley Joke Shop
A few people walked into the store, and it was full of customers.
The students who had come to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies were now all gathered here, crowding the shelves and pulling out their pocket money to buy Fred and George's joke merchandise.
On the left side of the shop, cardboard boxes were piled up to the ceiling, the quick-acting trumpers developed by the twins in their last year before Hogwarts were out of school, the most popular of which was the nosebleed beef candy, and the only box on the shelves that had been flattened at the end, as well as several boxes of juggling wands, the cheapest of which could be turned into rubber chickens or pants with a single swing, and the most expensive ones, which would have been beaten in the neck and head if the user was not guarded.
There are also boxes and boxes of quills, including automatic inkjet, spell checking, witty rush answers, and other varieties.
"At home all this time, they're all going to make these things." Ron sighed.
"Isn't there anyone else to help?" Hermione said, glancing at Owen.
But what makes Owen curious is, will they have time to produce?
"Single?"
"Hermione Granger?"
"A hat can make three gold galleons, it's like grabbing money, and our cost is less than eight silver cere. Some time ago, the Ministry of Magic bought 500 for all their staff, and until now, they have continued to receive large orders. ”
"Hey—that's your sister!" He shouted at Fred.
After all, the wizarding world has been turned upside down.
Nor did he go to Tumbledown Alley and bump into the Death Eaters to discuss how to fix the Vanishing Cabinet in the Hogwarts Room of Requirement.
"It's disgusting." Ginny walked up behind Fred. She holds a dwarf cattail in her hand.
"What is this?" She said.
It was a very ordinary wizard's hat, and there was no difference in appearance.
"Leave us alone, Hermione." The twins immediately surrendered, "No more, they won't want to come to our factory." ”
"Under the shop in Hogsmeade, there is our magic factory, and we have hired a lot of house-elves to produce goods, each responsible for only one part of a product, and finally assemble it together, so that the production speed is many times faster."
This time, they didn't meet Malfoy and his mother.
"It's really good if you don't learn it, but if it's bad, you will learn it." He said.
"You know the." Owen said without blushing and heartbeat, "Do you understand the little fun of life." ”
Hermione managed to squeeze to the counter, and in front of her was a huge display case with brightly colored drawings: a handsome young man and a beautiful girl were lying on a cloud, surrounded by stars.
"Two Galleons!" Fred said.
"Ron also helped you a lot, why do you still charge him money?"
"Besides, your thoughts are too filthy."
"Oh - you're a genius Owen." Fred said.
"Okay." Ron didn't even lift his head.
"In addition to the clothing line for protective spells, we also made stealth smoke grenades, and the smoke material was imported from Peru. It's very easy to use, it doesn't need to be lit, and if you want to get out quickly, it's very convenient to use, just hit the ground hard," George took over.
As the crowd pushed, Ron and Harry rushed to the counter on the other side, where a group of teenage children were watching excitedly as a small wooden figure slowly climbed up the steps towards a realistic gallows.
He squeezed out the nymphomaniacs on the side.
"It's more useful than a love spell. I want to buy one. A witch said.
Ginny was immediately upset.
After a while, I realized something.
George and Fred smiled slightly, "We've learned from Muggles. ”
The love potion does not create love, it creates an attachment emotion, and if the man and woman are already in love with each other, then it can amplify that feeling, and it will last for a very long time.
"Forget it. The current wizarding world is still in the era of feudal aristocracy, and a little capitalism can be regarded as progress. ”
"I know, I'm a genius."
In the new semester, his main goal should still be to capture the magic of the outer gods in the Divine Bestow Tower, and Hogwarts is not in his plans.
Owen stepped forward and whispered to Fred for a moment.
"What's wrong?" George and Fred were puzzled, they had expected to get Owen's approval.
Fred didn't care at all, he shrugged his shoulders and looked at Owen, who was standing next to a row of dazzling pink products.
When the Ministry of Magic's car drove up to the Burrow, they were already waiting there - it was fine, but after the Berlin incident, Rufus Scrimgeour took a fancy to them, and Miss Granger's reputation tended to surpass Harry's.
Both of these things are on top of a box that reads: Repeatable Executioner, Hang Him If You Can't Spell It The Executioner is a Scrabble toy, which generally consists of a gallows and a villain, and if the person participating in the game makes a certain mistake in spelling, the villain will be put on the gallows and be executed.
Facing Owen's doubts.
Gemini's products are completely profiteering.
"I only offer ideas."
Especially in the current situation.
"I want it too, I want to date someone." One of the boys was embarrassed to say it, but his friends didn't laugh at him, and it was estimated that the person they wanted to date might be the same person.
"Just recite a spell and you'll be able to enter a high-quality, stunningly realistic thirty-minute daydream, suitable for a regular school class, so simple that it's absolutely imperceptible. (Side effects include a dull expression and slight drooling). Not for sale to juveniles under the age of sixteen. ”
"Roar!"
"Huh?" Hermione turned to look at him, "Why?" ”
It's going to be a pretty uneventful year for school, at least.
It's still chaotic on the outside, but it's much better than in previous weeks.
There were many young men and girls gathered around her.
Because it can escort the love between the two, the seven-year itch will not appear at all.
"What?" Hermione paused for a moment, then looked at the painting carefully, "It's a little bit like it." ”
Little by little, time passed.
He said, pointing to the picture in the cupboard.
He led the young wizards deeper into the shop.
"There's something you like in the store, take whatever you want, and you're in a stake anyway, oh—yes." He suddenly whispered again, "This batch of 'Wonder Witch' products, the effect has twenty-four hours, we haven't tested it between men and women who are already in love, remember to tell us the timeliness" Fred showed a familiar expression.
"Not disgusting at all, okay? Daydreaming is everyone's freedom! Fred said, "Pygmy Pu, two Galleons." ”
"Well." Realizing that he had said too much, Owen changed the subject, "Just remember to pay the house-elves." But instead of becoming a capitalist, he has degenerated into a slave owner. ”
Ginny took it all in and looked at Owen again with more sympathy.
"Do we have to pay for something?"
"Stop—you two, go home and get back on your way." Fred interrupted them and continued, "Now let's talk about something really good." ”
"Oh—of course—though they wouldn't take it, we paid each elf a month's worth of ten silver sike per person."
"Huh?" George pulled away from the crowd of customers, "I didn't know you had such a good relationship with Ron?" ”
"Interesting, is there still such a spell?" Hermione said with interest that she was going to buy one and explain the mechanism of the spell.
Finally, the summer vacation is over.
"You still need something like this?"
"No, it won't. We've added the speculum function. ”
"Two Galleons!"
"I know what you're thinking." Owen said, "I didn't even say anything, why are you so angry." How can you be afraid that someone is dating Harry in their dreams? He ruffled the broken hair from his forehead, "There's no way to avoid this, besides, Harry in the dream is part of the caster's own consciousness, so it's a date with himself."
What a powerful spell.
Everyone was staring at the painting.
The little wizard left.
He said to Hermione, "I'm sorry, but this spell doesn't sell you and Owen. ”
The little wizard on the side seemed to have exploded, and everyone noticed that it was the famous star girl next to him.
If they are allowed to produce one by one, it will have to be the Year of the Monkey.
"Heh-" The twins let out a disgusted snort, the two guys in front of them are becoming less and less attentive to others, showing affection all the time, and they are simply angry.
Another week in the Burrow.
"I," the wizard who had just tried to buy the Daydream Charm, immediately blushed, and he was beside Hermione, speechless.
"Oh roar! That's really good, all-round? Obstructed by a building? Owen asked again.
"Good fellow, you're rich!" Owen sighed.
"If you don't sell, you don't sell." George said strongly, "That's our aim, this product is only sold to singles over the age of 16 thank you." ”
"Ten silver Xike?!" Hermione was shocked, after all, the profit of all the goods here was a few gold Galleons for each item.
"Oh! Oh my God, this spell is awesome. A wizard said.
"But—" Hermione tried to argue.
"And our decoy bombs, which are new from the shelves, look—" Fred pointed to a large pile of weird-looking, black owl-like things that looked like they were ready to run away at any moment, "just throw one out of the way, and it will run away quickly, making a loud noise, and distracting others when you need to." ”
And on the side of the daydream spell, there are also many little wizards who are secretly looking at him, regardless of gender.
"What experience?"
"Look at this." Fred took a hat from the shelf at hand. "We call it the Scout Hat. When you wear it, it will warn you if a wanted Ministries wants person appears in the hat's sight, and of course you can hear it, and it won't startle you at all. ”
Hearing this, Miss Granger's face immediately changed.
"Owen! You-" Ginny looked at him in disbelief.
“.”
"Pipeline!" They said.
"Hey, Hermione." Harry squeezed over, "Well-this witch, how do I feel like you?" ”
Bill would still write home to inform his parents of his situation, although most of them were comforting words, but the fact that he had time to write letters also indirectly proved that the outside world was not too problematic.
"Of course. Or what did they buy it for? Fred pointed to the boys and girls next to Hermione, who were all blushing and afraid to look at him.
"It's our invention, and I can buy it from whoever I want. Owen, what do you say? How about our daydream spell? ”
"Hey—" George walked over.
The lubricant in ordinary life is wood.
After an hour in the Twins' shop.
"Damn greedy!" Ron shouted, swearing at Fredby with an international gesture.
"Three hundred meters!" Fred said.
And the other party's eyes immediately lit up.
"I'm afraid that in a few decades, wizards will go cyberpunk"
"Huh?" Owen raised his head and glanced at the display case next to Hermione, "An invention greater than the Killing Curse, and with this Curse, you two will definitely go down in history and forever in the history of magic." ”
"Although assembly line production will greatly improve production efficiency, but in essence, this is actually a kind of capitalist cruel exploitation of the worker-person-class, when a worker no longer occupies the entire production process, then his influence on the means of production will be minimized, become a replaceable part, of course, the ultimate purpose of capital is to completely drive the workers out of the factory, they will continue to pursue completely automated production, completely crush this class." Owen opened his mouth to say a lot of esoteric terms, and the young wizards on the side all looked confused, completely unaware of what these inner crises he was talking about.
Thanks to the Starshower over Berlin a week ago, Hermione's name has become a buzzword among wizards throughout England, and although the Muggle photos don't find the wizard who casts the stars, everyone still has a preconceived idea that it must be Hermione.
"It's like you have two gold Galleons." Fred continued, "Ron, count your heads! He said to Ron, who had stopped with Koyatl in front of a glass display case with a cluster of flowers.
"I think your worries are completely unnecessary."
“.”
In the living room, Hermione had everything in Owen's cloth bag.
——
During this time, Owen bought a lot of things, most of them beautiful clothes, which he hadn't bought for Hermione in a long time.
"Hmph—I'll look into their working conditions and all their treatments." The little witch glared and said angrily, which made Owen on the side sincerely happy, and voila - this is the tinder.
"There's also a spell-proof glove, a spell-proof boot, with runi characters attached to them." Fred said happily, "They don't do much against unforgivable spells, but they do ...... against some little magic, little evil spells, or something."
"Still disgusting!" Ginny said with a disgusted face, "It's so expensive, can't you give it a discount?" ”
"Oh my God—it's Hermione."
Owen said solemnly, "This spell is obviously an artifact used for involution. When you go to bed at night, cast a spell on yourself, and then review in your dreams what you learned today. This is normal use, right?
One by one, not very old, but always thinking about that kind of erotic thing, is Hogwarts used for blind dates? ”
Hedwig, Ron's owl piglet, and Ginny's new purple dwarf Poa Nan from Fred and George are all kept in their cages.
"Very good! It should be very profitable, right? ”
The little wizards packed their bags in advance, and their departure the next morning went much smoother than usual.
It is impossible for Voldemort's ideas to continue as in the original book.
The little wizards around him blushed a lot.
This kind of product should not be sold to the group of young wizards who do not have a boyfriend and girlfriend yet, but should be married couples.
Beside Owen, a group of excited girls chattered and laughed, their eyes fiery as they looked at the love potion and the daydream display case in the distance, and occasionally raised their heads and sneaked a glance at him.
Owen also sighed softly.
"Patented Product: Daydream Mantra."
"More than that." George took another cloak, the same appearance was not different from the regular cloak, "High-grade protective cloak, with a whole set of ancient runes attached to the inside, made of dragon skin. Resists all low-level spells and curses below the Crushing Charm. Spells above the Smash Charm can also be blocked six times. We've tested that even some dark magic has good defense. ”
"And"
"Also, you daydream spells, it's disgusting, what those guys buy this spell for, don't you know?" Ginny said again.
It's a magical thing, the roses in the pot will slowly wither, and the falling petals will suddenly grow new ones when they fall into the pot.
Ginny was also a little confused, and only realized after a moment that this spell could indeed be used for things like reading.
Hermione, who happened to walk by, was in the eye.
"How big is the scope of identification."
"Why?" Fred came over and said, "Daydream spell, daydream!" What a daydream is there for these two winners in life. ”
As soon as I heard Owen, I could take whatever I wanted.
"Priced at eight gold gallons. The cost is a bit higher, but Charlie has internal channels, and the dragon skin can be sold to us cheaply, but it also costs three gold gallons to make one. ”
She can be used for.
"Well, don't think about it, Miss Granger." Just as Hermione began to think about all the effects of the entire draining spell, Owen immediately interrupted, "Dreaming every day affects the quality of sleep. ”
After loading the items in the car.
In charge of picking them up and dropping them off were two strange Aurors. Owen didn't know each other anyway, and it didn't appear in the original book, but Mr. Arthur did, and the two of them got the safe word right.
As soon as the car stopped in front of King's Cross Station, two bearded Aurors in black Muggle suits and sunglasses walked up to the station and walked into the station without saying a word.
(End of chapter)