The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

In the days that followed, Tom focused mainly on carving the wand runes. In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed. He has initially mastered all the basic runes on the parchment, and the carved strokes are even enough and consistent in depth. His next job is to practice continuously to make the runes smaller and smaller.

Mr. Ollivander was quietly busy with his own business every time. He only came over to comment after Tom finished carving. Despite his calm appearance, Mr. Ollivander was actually numb: Tom's progress was too fast! It took him about the same amount of time to reach Tom's level. But he concentrated on learning sculpture. Tom worked in a bookstore while learning sculpture. There was a big gap.

Mr. Ollivander was very disappointed for a time. Sometimes he would ask himself in his heart, is his talent just average?

But thinking about the level of stick makers abroad, he regained his confidence.

However, as the day for admission of new students approaches, work at Flourish Blossom Bookstore has gradually become busier.

Although Hogwarts has not officially announced a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, other professors have already announced the textbooks for the new semester. So Mr. Lawrence began to purchase goods in large quantities, and at the same time gave Tom a new task: packaging textbooks.

Because Flourish and Blotts Bookstore is mainly for Hogwarts students, students in each grade need similar teaching materials. Every student in first and second grade needs exactly the same textbooks. From the third grade onwards, there will be slight adjustments depending on the elective subjects.

So Tom's task is to put the textbooks of each subject into cartons according to grade, and then code the cartons one by one. In this way, when students come to the bookstore, they can complete their purchases as quickly as possible.

Of course, the teaching materials required for elective courses are also placed in the most conspicuous position.

Everything is ready, all we need is defense against the dark devil.

One afternoon in late July, Mr. Lawrence received the owl letter that was his source of intelligence. He always knows the candidate for the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts and the teaching materials he chooses as soon as possible, and then purchases the teaching materials as quickly as possible.

This time when he opened the letter, his expression became strange: the new professor turned out to be Lockhart! Best-selling author Gerald Lockhart.

Mr. Lawrence didn't understand. Was there something wrong with Lockhart's mind? He couldn't even think of going to this sinkhole. You must know that there are not just one or two professors buried in the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts sinkhole. There are two-digit professors who fell into this teaching position.

And what kind of person is this? He asks students to buy seven books as teaching materials as soon as he takes office. This is too ugly. As a bookseller, Lawrence knew something inside. For every copy of Lockhart's books he sells, he can make a 20% profit, which means that for a 5 Galleons book, Lockhart can earn 1 Galleons in profit.

If each student buys 7 books, Lockhart can suck 7 galleons of blood from one student. There are hundreds of teachers and students at Hogwarts. It is conservatively estimated that Lockhart can make at least 3,500 gold galleons through textbooks.

Mr. Lawrence shook his head. Although he felt that what Lockhart did was unreasonable, he could not say anything more. Lockhart's doing this is also good for Lawrence: as the manager of London's largest bookstore, the more books he sells, the higher his commission will be.

However, his face froze, and he suddenly realized a key issue: he had promised in the contract to pack a set of Tom's textbooks! And Lockhart had to use seven books as teaching materials-these seven books were extremely expensive, each at five galleons, equivalent to Tom's salary for a week.

How many weeks did Tom work in total? Isn't this a disguised form of helping him double his salary?

Lawrence looked at Tom's busy back and had to admit: this kid is lucky. As for defaulting on your debt? He's not that stingy - he didn't pay for it anyway.

In the afternoon, a distinguished guest came to the bookstore: a senior official of the Ministry of Magic, the school director of Hogwarts, the son of Abraxas, and the contemporary patriarch of the Malfoy family: Lucius Malfoy II - 16 There is a Malfoy named Lucius Malfoy in the century, so in the genealogy, Draco Malfoy's father is actually Lucius II.

Incidentally, there is ample evidence that Lucius Malfoy I was a suitor of Elizabeth I, despite vigorous denials for generations to come. So if you want Draco Malfoy to break through the defense, you only need to say Elizabeth a few times.

Seeing Lucius arriving, Mr. Lawrence immediately stood up and showed a very flattering smile. He bowed his waist and said respectfully: "Hello, senior. Oh, if you want any books, senior, just send an owl to send a letter." , I will definitely send it to you."

Lucius smoothed his light blond hair in a stylish manner, then poked a cane on the bookshelf and said slowly: "The Malfoy family's thirst for knowledge has no limit, and it involves For books, it’s better to come and browse in person.”

Mr. Lawrence kept saying yes and was full of admiration.

"I need a set of textbooks for second-year students at Hogwarts." Lucius looked at Lawrence, who immediately bowed and went to sort the textbooks for Lucius himself. Lucius was also pacing the store, seemingly wanting to buy some books and go back to read them.

But no one noticed that when Lucius walked through a corner, he slipped an old-looking diary into the corner of the bookshelf while others were not paying attention. He came to Diagon Alley today for several purposes, one of which was to get rid of this diary.

Of course, he also had another purpose, which was to go to Knockturn Alley next to him to dispose of some collections at home. In early July this year, the Ministry of Magic issued an order requiring relevant departments to raid dark magic items and illegal items. Lucius didn't take it seriously at first. There had been similar searches before, but they had never been found on pure-blood families like them.

But this year was different. He heard the news and there was Arthur Weasley in the search team! Lucius recalled his relationship with Arthur. He couldn't say that he was sincere, but at least it was a double-edged sword on the physical level, so he felt that his family should not be able to escape.

What's even worse is that Barty Crouch, the director of the International Magical Cooperation Department, took the initiative to invite Arthur to his home to conduct a search in order to show his compliance with the law and improve his reputation. This was a bad start for the major pure-blood families - they had no reason to refuse Arthur's search from now on.

Therefore, seeing that the situation was not going well, Lucius decided to get rid of the potentially prohibited items in his home in advance. Lucius perfectly inherited the family spirit of the Malfoy family: you will never see a Malfoy family member at a crime scene. Even if the wand that committed the crime was covered with their fingerprints.

Welcome Baili Tongyun to become the operating officer of this book!

I also have operations, yeah!

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