Popular Web NovelsChapter 630 The magic shop, no, it's an arms dealerChapter 630: Trick Shop, no, it's an arms dealer
Behind the shop is a storage room, a room that is spacious enough but somewhat dimly lit. Push the door and go in. There is a large wooden square table in the center of the room, surrounded by It is a neatly arranged display rack, with boxes of Jiji Workshop products on top of the rack.
Going into the back room, closing the wooden door, the noisy laughter in the shop subsided, and the three of them sat down around the square table.
"Seriously, Professor Luping, you look like you haven't had a good night's sleep in a week." Loren looked at the dark blue under his eyes, smiled and asked with concern, "What's bothering you recently?" Is it something?"
Lu Ping glanced at the slightly immature faces of the two people and said with a smile: "You will know in the future, adult wizards have new worries every day."
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"This is in George and Fred's joke shop. They must disagree with you." Loren looked around, "There are things everywhere that can make people happy."
" Momentary happiness can't cover up the bad reality." Lu Ping sighed, then shook his head and said, "But at this time, it's good to be able to forget the troubles for a short time...Forget it, let's talk about what happened recently. It's something about..."
Loren saw that his frowning eyebrows relaxed and he sat there and listened quietly.
"It all started when you took the exam last semester..."
Lu Ping slowed down his speaking speed, organizing his thoughts as he spoke, "Two months ago, I received Letters from the Magical Congress of the United States and the Werewolf Organization. Their investigation revealed some abnormal situations. Some people are absorbing dark wizards and secretly bewitching werewolves. There are even signs that...someone is using the Imperius Curse to enslave them..."
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"Is it Voldemort's work?" Hermione guessed immediately.
Lupine nodded: "After receiving the letter, I immediately went to New York to investigate and found traces of Greyback, or a group of werewolves that had escaped from the UK. They recruited dark wizards and enslaved werewolves. , some of them were transferred here to deal with the Ministry of Magic's offensive, and some of them were stranded in the United States, and seemed to be planning something. But Greyback was too stubborn, and he refused until he was taken into the Manhattan bedrock at the bottom of the building. Revealing Voldemort's purpose..."
"Manhattan Bedrock..." Loren repeated.
"It is the death chamber of the Magic Congress of the United States of America, located on the bottom floor of the Woolworth Building. There is a death potion pool there, which can quietly display the memory of the condemned prisoner. We see through his words before death I saw some scenes in the memory silhouette..."
Lupine explained calmly. No one thought that Greyback's most precious memories were the life before he was infected with werewolf disease. Because of this, Mingming understood that It is even more unforgivable to pass this pain on to others.
"Part of the footage shows that they have been lurking in Ilvermorny for a long time, and did not even leave when Voldemort attacked the Ministry of Magic."
"What are they doing?"
"I don't know. MACUSA notified Ilvermorny immediately. Principal Fontana invited many experienced wizards to investigate, but there has been no result so far."
Lu Ping shook his head, " The Aurors examined other werewolves, who they said were hunting down Igor Karkaroff, but this did not explain their sojourn in New York and Ilvermorny, as they had been on the banks of the Mississippi six months earlier. The body of Igor Karkarlov was found."
"Igor Karkarlov..." Hermione sighed as the goatee wizard appeared in front of her eyes, "He. If he had not escaped, it might have been safer under the protection of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore."
"Greyback is lurking in...Ilvermorny...Voldemort..." Loren frowned slowly, and various clues gathered in his mind, sketching a vague picture, "Is Voldemort plotting against Slater?" Lin's wand? The wand that turned into a snake tree on Mount Greylock."
Hermione didn't speak for a while, looking thoughtful.
The snakewood wand is a wand made by Salazar Slytherin himself. It uses Slytherin's unique magical skills. Like other treasures he left behind, this wand obeys the commands of Parseltongue. .
At the beginning of the 17th century, Aesop Seal stole the snakewood wand held by his aunt Gormley Gaunt and came to Ilvermorny, founded in Massachusetts.
Later, he was approached by Gormlai Gaunt, and he went through a series of thrilling and cliched adventure plots with twists and turns, and finally Aesop Seal won. The price was that the snakewood wand was ordered to sleep, and she could not use it because she did not speak Parseltongue.
The wand was buried on top of Mount Greylock. A year later, a snake tree with powerful healing powers grew from the burial site.
Since he could not get his first choice of the Elder Wand, it was reasonable for Voldemort to turn to the wand left by Slytherin.
Lu Ping suddenly said: "Principal Fontana also suspected that his target was the snake tree. He had already sent someone to check it. The snake tree was just missing some branches and leaves. There was no problem overall, and the healing power was also intact. It hasn't weakened."
"That's strange..." Loren was very surprised, and Hermione frowned.
"Don't think about it, this is not something you should worry about." Lupine looked at the two young wizards who were deep in thought and chuckled, "It's better to pay attention to your personal safety, Loren, Voldemort absorbed him Dark wizards have recently attacked many people who are proficient in alchemy and know the ancient secrets of the Middle Ages..."
"Don't worry, school starts in less than two weeks..." Loren shrugged. If Voldemort wanted to get some secret information about alchemy and the Middle Ages from him, he would definitely not wait until now. "Compared to me. "Harry should pay more attention to safety, right?"
Lupine nodded and smiled: "Harry has moved out of the Dursley's house, and his current residence is not fixed. He travels back and forth between the Burrow and the Black Mansion. In rotation, Mad-Eye Moody led a team of Order members to hide near the Burrow, and Tonks led a team of Aurors stationed at Grimmauld Place. The most critical thing was that Scrimgeour ordered the Traffic Department to cancel the attack on the Burrow. Under the supervision of the Floo Network, no one will notice Harry's traces."
The Floo Network built by the Department of Transportation is really a great invention that has changed the wizarding world, and is almost equivalent to the network lines in the Muggle world. , the fireplace is connected to the Floo network, just like the fiber optic cable is connected to the home. Wizards no longer need to cross mountains and ridges to travel long distances, fly thousands of miles on broomsticks, and do not need to spend time and effort in continuous apparition. They only need to pay a trivial amount. Floo fans can transform themselves into signals to pass between Floo networks.
The address of the fireplace in Blake's old house is hidden after being connected to the Internet, so that others cannot view it and it is difficult for the Department of Transportation to monitor it.
The best network protection in the Muggle world is to disconnect the Internet. This also means that the Black Mansion, which is connected to the Floo Network, is not 100% safe. Loren has now seriously thought about it. If the Director of Transportation I saw that the fireplace of the Burrow is connected to an unknown address. A smart person can probably guess that it is the old Blake house.
Thinking of this, Loren subconsciously looked at the location of the fireplace in the magic shop. Unfortunately, it was summer and there was no fire in the fireplace. In addition, the fireplace was blocked by shelves and could not be seen.
Noticing his movements and expressions, Lu Ping followed his line of sight. Although he didn't notice anything unusual, he knew that this student was different and asked directly: "What are the protective measures?" Is there any loophole? Or is there anything that can be improved? Just say it."
"I have a rough idea to make the space channels of the Burrow's old house independently connected, without any connection to magic. The Ministry's Floo Network..." Loren pinched the pendant on his chest. In fact, he was not very worried about security issues. With Dumbledore alone to guard against Voldemort, the other dementors, werewolves and new Death Eaters were definitely not Mu. Di and others' opponents, but this transformation is an opportunity to try to use the space magic obtained from the planetary room of the Department of Mysteries.
Loren thought for a while, his thoughts gradually became smoother, and he told his thoughts bit by bit: "This connection is more private and safer, and I may be able to construct a common judgment Mechanism, when using Floo powder, the consent of the target fireplace is required before transmission..."
Hermione tilted her head slightly and looked at Loren next to her. Her eyes fell on the silver gem pendant on Loren's chest, and she showed a clear expression.
The things brought out from the planetary room last year should have yielded some results.
After hearing his idea, Lu Ping thought for a moment and said in a cheerful voice: "This will be very helpful for future protection work. I will discuss it with them when I get back and try to give you the fireplace for renovation as soon as possible."
Loren nodded slightly.
At this time, the door of the storage room was suddenly pushed open, and the twins said happily: "We also have projects for you to cooperate with!"
George and Fred ran in with hurried strides. They didn't know how much they had heard. The three people talking didn't pay much attention. Anyway, the fireplace of the Burrow was about to be renovated. There was no way they could hide it from them. .
"What is the cooperation project you are talking about?"
Facing the puzzled looks of the three people, Fred explained: "We mentioned it to you a long time ago, you We will use our superb alchemy skills and magic potion skills to develop and produce products, and we will be responsible for promoting and selling them."
George chuckled and said, "You can give us whatever you want, whether it's 37, 28 or 19... we will do it. I believe in your alchemy and potions."
Loren thought for a moment, shook his head and refused: "Forget it, I am not short of money now, and more importantly...for prank products, than Technology is more about thinking, alchemy and potion are just tools to realize ideas. I may occasionally come up with a few good ideas, but they are definitely not as popular as the prank products you design. This is your unique talent."< br>
The twins never cared about other people's evaluation of their achievements, but they took advantage of such praise.
"The purpose of Weasley's Wise House is to bring happiness to customers!" George and Fred said in unison, and the next moment they laughed happily, "But the cooperation we are talking about is not a prank product! "
"What is that?" Hermione asked curiously.
"It's a black magic protection product. In your Muggle terms-" George looked proud, "It's a military product!"
"We have just developed these more serious products. That's really interesting to say..." Fred muttered and came to the display rack and took out some things from the carton. Compared with the goods on display outside, these products seemed relatively low-key. "It's unbelievable. Working in the Ministry of Magic People...including many senior Aurors, can't even recite a decent Iron Armor Curse."
"That's right, we originally thought the anti-curse hat was just a funny thing." George showed off an ordinary felt hat. "Wearing this kind of hat, you can keep an eye on someone when he is being cursed." The curse will bounce out of your face. It was originally used to tease your companions. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Magic purchased 500 pieces!"
"So we took the opportunity to develop a series of products! , such as anti-spell cloaks, anti-spell gloves, etc..."
Fred spread his hands to show off the products, "By the way, I selected some products from other countries. Look, the invisible smoke bombs imported from Peru, Charlie According to the introduction, he once tamed a Peruvian Venomous Tooth Dragon, bait bombs, props to divert attention when the fire dragon loses control..."
Loren became interested and looked at the products in front of him.
Bait bomb is a gadget that looks like a black owl. Judging from the materials and craftsmanship, the alchemy inside is not complicated. This thing will make a loud noise immediately after being thrown out, and Escape quickly; the invisibility smoke bomb is worse than the phantom spell, but the instant burst of smoke is very effective...
As for other curse-release products, the basic principles are the use of the Iron Armor Curse, and the effect is... better than Merlin's Blessing.
"You don't have to think about it to know that they don't have much effect on the Unforgivable Curse. They can only prevent some less deadly and less powerful curses..." George's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, " But these things are simply a cash cow!"
The two looked at Loren with shining eyes: "We plan to fully enter the field of Defense Against Dark Arts, and now we officially invite you to join, Loren!"
Loren raised his eyebrows: "It sounds interesting, but I have different views on the share you proposed..."
George and Fred cried sadly: "We only share Isn't it enough? "
"I really don't want you to take even 10% of it..." Loren smiled, "Listen to me, two bosses of the Weasley Arms Company, I don't plan to spend a lot of time as a supplier, refining things and selling them. It's too troublesome, so I have a suggestion..."
"What suggestion?"
"I am responsible for the research and development work, develop the product and draw the drawings, record the refining method in detail, You can refine it and sell it yourself, just pay me the patent fee." Loren paused, "The patent fee is a price negotiated by both of us. It can be a direct buyout, or we can consider sharing it, which is equivalent to paying more for you. Work harder and make more money."
George and Fred looked at each other, cheered in surprise, and took two steps forward to hold his arm and lift him up.
Loren quickly avoided it.
Just at this time, a young witch with short blond hair opened the door and walked in. She was also wearing a magenta store uniform robe.
George and Fred immediately changed their goals and happily ran over to high-five her:
"Verity! We are going to get rich!"
(End of this chapter)
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