(Daphne's POV)
I was sitting in my room reading some books… it's been a couple of weeks since the summer break started. I offered Jonathan to come to my house to conduct some of his experiments, but I haven't heard from him yet. Actually, none of us have, he has been awfully quiet.
It kinda worries me a little. As I was sitting in my room, a black owl approached my window. It knocked on my window with it's beak, the owl was carrying a parcel. I didn't recognize the owl… but I got up and opened the window. It game me the letter and I opened it.
I opened the package, and it was filled with muggle devices, and it also contained a booklet and a letter from Jonathan.
It read "
To,
Daphne,
How are you doing. Hope all of you are well. Sorry for not replying to your letters, but I was a little occupied with work. I am writing this letter because of a business proposal that I have for your Father" and it went on to describe why he had sent these muggle tools to me and what is it that do. Honestly, it was pretty amazing for him to be able to achieve something like this at our age.
"You can test the products yourself, then you can ask your father about the proposal I have for him. Please reply soon.
Jonathan.
PS:- The owl is named Nimbus."
I was a little angry at him, he doesn't write back for days, and now he asks me to reply soon. I huffed and put the letter down. The owl looked at me and hooted, I petted him and said "Fordy!"
Fordy our house elf appeared in the room. He bowed and asked, "Yes, young mistress?"
I looked at him and said, "Get Nimbus something to eat." He bowed and took Nimbus with him.
I opened the booklet and read as to how to operate the "Disk man" It was a yellow colored round shape device I pressed the open button and the top opened, and I put the "CD" that he had sent me.
Put on the "Headphones" and pressed play and music started to play, but it was coming from the "Headphones" It was weird to see how it worked, the music pouring into my ears wasn't anything I had heard before it was fun after a few minutes I felt happy, and I started to move on my own.
(The song is "Try a little tenderness.")
I have never felt such a disconnect from the world before, It was as if I was the only one that existed.
I felt someone's hand on me and I faintly heard "What are you doing?" I was scared to death, I turned around and saw it was my sister Astoria.
She looked at me and was confused and asked again, "What are you doing?" I pulled the headphones down and caught my breath and asked, "What are you doing here?"
She tilted her head and said, "Well, I wanted to play with you, I called you so many times, but you didn't answer, so I came in and saw you were dancing."
I smiled and said, "I was testing something that my friend made. Do you want to see it?" She nodded I put those headphones on her ear and pressed played the music started. She was confused, and she asked loudly, "How is music coming from them!?"
I then laughed and explained how it worked, and she was impressed by Jon's invention. I then took all the prototypes to Father, I walked inside his office and he looked at me with a surprised expression and asked, "You look chipper today What is it? And what is in that box you are holding?"
I walked up to him and put the box down and said, "Father, I would like to talk to you about a business opportunity."
He looked curious, and he leaned back on his seat. I opened the box and then pulled out the muggle devices and explained how these muggle devices worked and without any interference from the surrounding magic. How all of them have practical uses and also explained how with the recent development that has been made with Radiofrequency, Jon's product could make us the riches.
As he saw the demonstrations of the devices, his eyes widened, and he leaned forward and asked, "Daphne, who is the maker of these?"
She looked a little happy and said, "It's my friend Jonathan Beeston."
He looked at me and asked, "The boy who is your year?"
I nodded, and he was still amazed, he cleared his throat and said, "Arrange a meeting with this friend of yours I will meet with him and discuss matters further."
I was excited, and I hugged him and left the room with the box. This boy is something special if he is coming up with these kinds of things. He is only going to get even better with time, I must secure this opportunity. I must know of his origins. Maybe the goblins can provide me with some information.
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(Jon's POV)
It was 22 July and I got a reply came from Daphne, she went on talking about manners, as to how I should have replied to her letters the later half of the letter she said that her father was interested in my products and wanted to meet me for business prospects. I was extremely happy and excited for it.
I was supposed to have my meeting with him today. So I wore a suit, it was gray and had a subtle shine to it. I wore an ostrich green tie with a snake tie pin, and I also had some emerald cuff links.
I had styled my hair with my hands, I went for slick back hairstyle. I wore black leather shoes, and they were the shiny kind. I might look like a shiny poll from far.
I said "Jeely!" and she appeared in front of me and I said "I have a meeting today, so I won't be back soon, so take care of the house and I will return shortly." Jeely nodded and went away.
I walked outside, I had booked a carriage ride. I saw the carriage, it looked like it was drawn by Thestrals.
It pulled up in front of the mansion, I got inside the carriage, and it flew away.
I arrived at the Greengrass. I walked opened the door of the carriage and I saw a house elf. He was waiting for me. I stepped outside and was invited in by the house-elf.
He walked towards me and said "Hello, Mr Jonathan I am Fordy the house-elf of Greengrass manor, my master has been expecting you."
I smiled and said, "Lead the way."
He then snapped his fingers and I arrived in a study room it was dark green and was furnished with brown oak furniture it had a small crystal chandelier two sofas which were in the middle of the room a corner desk which was in front of a large arch window.
A fireplace which was in the center-left side of the Study, the right side had a wall-to-wall size bookshelf which was filled with books most of them were related to the history of magic and the Greengrass family history.
I decided to sit on the sofa and wait for them, I didn't have to wait for long. In came Florian Greengrass. He was a good-looking person with long brown hair that came to his shoulders, he had a goatee, he was wearing a brown suit with a yellow ascot, he wasn't really wearing many accessories except his rings, one of which was silver and another of gold.
I got up from my seat, and he looked at me and said "Welcome to my house young wizard."
I smiled and said, "It's a pleasure, Mr Greengrass thank you for taking time out of your schedule for meeting me."
He then laughed, pointed his hand at the sofa and said, "Don't be silly Jonathan, you are my daughter's friend, and you have come to me with such wonderful products."
I sat down and said, "Thank you, sir."
He then leaned back and said "Frody!" Frody appeared and asked, "Yes, master?" Florian then said, "Get us some tea and some scones will you." Frody nodded and went away.
Florian looked at me and said, "Let me be honest with you your product is amazing it can revolutionize so many fields that it is amazing, and the recent discoveries made by the Ministry with Radiofrequency could very well change the Wizarding world… But there might be a problem you see many wizards could potentially harm you if they come to know that you are the creator of something this huge I don't think I have to mention many examples one might be enough the creator of The Pensieve. That is why there aren't many Pensieve available."
I nodded and said, "I know that sir, that is why I want to hide my identity as the creator until I am an adult."
Frody appeared with the tea and scones and muffins, he placed the tea and went away.
Florian took the teapot and poured some tea and gave it to me. I took the cup and took a sip, he then asked me "If you don't mind me asking why didn't you go to the goblins they are skilled in making jewelry, weapons and items imprinted with runes?"
I then put down the tea and answered "I would have but their philosophy of craftsmanship and ownership differs from ours, and I don't want my products to be associated with that… I don't them to go around digging graves looking for items now…"
He smiled and said, "That is quite rare to see a wizard who knows the reason behind the sour relation of Wizards and Goblins Jon, I am quite impressed."
He hummed and said, "Goblins are quite suborn and very rigid. You can't quite make a partnership with them. They are a little untrustworthy."
"But how do you know I am trustworthy?"
I simply looked at him and said, "Because you are more interested in making money and are the only family that remained neutral during the war… and that's a hard rope to balance."
He chuckled and sipped his tea, "So how does this rune work exactly?"
I answered him vaguely "It has 3 working components first rune absorbs the ambient magic second one converts it to a form of electricity that doesn't fry the circuit and the third is serial no. checker.
It checks if the make is from ours or not if it is not from ours it just doesn't work. Apart from that all the runes are written in parts and overlaps one another with some of the part just being useless and some being a part of the serial no. So even if some one tries to copy it they won't be successful.
And it is easy to make and if we use an assembly line sort of technique it can be made faster. " I didn't tell him, but there was a fourth part as well it tracked the location of the device 24/7.
He was impressed with the explanation and answered "Your product is amazing Jonathan. I am willing to sell it in my stores, but how will you produce them?"
I hummed and said, "I was thinking that we could employ some wizards under the magical contract under your name so that they don't cheat us and my name doesn't get out."
He smiled and answered, "Very nice thinking of you the cost of manufacturing will be lowered, and we will be able to sell it at a reasonable cost."
He then gave me a satisfying look, and he said, "I am willing to do business with you Jon… I can see a prosperous future ahead of us." He extended his hand to me.
I smiled and shook his hand and I got up from my seat and said "Thank you for meeting me sir, I will now take my leave." But before I left I asked him something.
He nodded and said, "Doesn't seem like a problem to me… but where will you live?"
I smiled and said, "I have a place in mind."
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Section with Cotton 🐍
Greetingsss Readersss,
Hey guys I hope you all liked the chapter. I have to ask about the last part of this chapter where Jon asks Florian's help to get out of the orphanage... is that ok? And another thing my semester exams have started so may not be able to upload much... I was able to squeeze this chapter in before they did start and I might upload more seeing that I already have chapter ideas.
So yeah, if you liked the chapter leave a comment down below and while you are at it throw some stones as well and I will see you in the next chapter. Bye