Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 218 Beginning

After hearing Mike's voice, Harrison's body stiffened suddenly, and he lowered his head and returned to the podium reluctantly.

Mike's eyes scanned his face back and forth. The more he looked, the more familiar he felt. He couldn't help but ask, "Have we met somewhere before?"

"Boss, we met in Diagon Alley at the beginning of the month."

Harrison's expression was very complicated, with helplessness mixed with a hint of as expected, making him look a little pitiful.

Mike only realized at this moment that this Harrison was the kind-hearted man who reminded him of the robbery in Diagon Alley before.

"Hahaha, it's you! We are really destined to meet!" Mike laughed and patted Harrison's shoulder vigorously and said, "You are very good. I think you still have room for improvement!"

Harrison was not tall, and was almost as tall as Mike, who was over 1.7 meters tall. Although he was still very nervous at this moment, he could only force a fake smile to be patted on the shoulder by his boss Mike so 'intimately'.

Mike didn't care how fake his smile was, and continued to say to the audience, "Do you know why Harrison was asked to come up first to collect his salary? Because he is our outstanding employee this week, and his piecework bonus is the highest in the factory, reaching 5 gold galleons!
Therefore, in order to recognize Harrison's outstanding contribution to the Dolphin Magic Drink Factory, I decided to give him an additional bonus of 1 gold galleon as a reward! "

As soon as Mike finished speaking, Shuke snapped his fingers again, and a golden Galleon flew into the hands of Harrison, who was a little bit incredulous.

When the people in the audience saw that Harrison really got the gold Galleons, a huge sum of 14 gold Galleons in total, their greed for money overwhelmed their fear again, and they regained some energy and started talking about it.

Most of them were looking at the pile of gold Galleons on the stage with anticipation, because later they would also go on stage to receive their own salary.

But there is still a small number of people who still distrust Mike, and these people are constantly lobbying others to join them.

Mike knew that dealing with these people would take time and hard work, and finally, as time went by, most people would return to his arms, but he would not show mercy to the very few who were hopeless.

"Okay, from now on, the person who earns the most piecework bonuses each week will receive a bonus of one gold galleon, so you don't have to be jealous of Harrison." Mike waved his hand and said, "It's getting late, continue to call the names!"

Following Mike's command, the people whose names were called ran up to the podium happily. After receiving the coins given by Shuke and Beta, they excitedly ran back to their original seats and began to share their joy with their companions around them.

Those whose names had not been called yet looked at those who had received the money and were showing off, and they were scratching their heads in anxiety.

Finally, when the last person received his salary and returned to the team, Mike came to the center of the podium again.

At this moment, the attitude of the people in the audience has changed drastically under Mike's combination of kindness and force.

Originally, these people did not have much respect for Mike and the Weasley brothers, but this was normal because both Mike and Weasley were underage wizards.

No matter who you are, if your boss is a child who is not yet an adult, you will not accept it.

Now it’s different. Mike has fully demonstrated his abilities (strong power and huge wealth) to these employees and conquered most of them with them.

Mike looked at the silent crowd in the audience and nodded with satisfaction.

This was a good start. He didn't care how many people below him pretended to obey him, because human beings develop habits, and some things would happen countless times once they happened for the first time.

"I believe everyone has received their share of salary. Now that we have finished talking about the happy things, I will start to tell you some bad news." Mike's expression suddenly became serious. "First of all, it's about clothing. I know that when you are working, it is inevitable that you will get stains on some materials, so everyone is working in their own old and unwanted clothes, but this looks really ugly, so I prepared uniform work clothes for everyone!"

After saying that, Mike took out another bag of the Traceless Stretching Spell and poured out a large number of uniforms from it.

Although they are called uniforms, they are actually common casual wear in the Muggle world, and the color is uniformly black.

The only difference is that the words "Los Santos Irresponsible Unlimited Magic Company" are printed on their clothes, pants and shoes.

Everyone in the audience breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the styles of the clothes.

They were all Muggle-born wizards, so they had a deep understanding of the Muggle world. To be honest, they were really afraid that Mike would take out a bunch of work clothes he wore on the construction site and give them to wear.

"Next, judging from your performance today, you are very lax and don't even respect me as your boss!" Mike took out a piece of parchment and continued, "So I have decided that all employees in our factory must abide by the following rules from now on:

When you see the boss, that's me, you have to bow!

No talking while eating in the cafeteria!
From now on, you must wear work clothes at all times in the factory!
……

The above are all the rules. If you break the rules, you will be fined! The amount of the fine is temporarily set at 1 silver Sickle per time! "

Mike Balabala talked about a lot of rules, and the faces of the people in the audience turned pale.

"Um, Boss. I think..."

An employee in the audience couldn't help but want to persuade Mike, but Mike interrupted him before he finished speaking: "I don't care about your opinion! I care about my feeling! You have to remember, I am your boss, you must obey my orders!"

Mike silenced the employee, but he was still unsatisfied and continued, "Oh, by the way! You didn't raise your hand or salute when you spoke just now. Fine me 1 Sickle. Fred, remember this."

Now the employee's face turned completely black.

Mike's actions undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction among many people below. A young man with a childish face, who looked like he had just graduated from Hogwarts, shouted loudly: "I quit! This place is simply a prison! No! Azkaban is ten thousand times better than this place!"

His roar was particularly obvious in the silent auditorium, and instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.

However, before Mike could say anything, a middle-aged wizard stepped forward and grabbed the young man, whispering in his ear: "Calm down! Don't be impulsive! This is the best job we Muggle wizards with no skills and no background can find! If you act impulsively now, you will regret it later!"

The young man's expression froze when he heard that, but then it obviously relaxed a lot.

"Hmph! If you don't want to do this, just resign! There are people who want to do this anyway, one more or one less won't make a difference!" Mike snorted, "Anyone who doesn't want to do this can stand up, it just so happens that the salary has just been paid today! You can take your salary and get out!" The young man's face was full of resentment again, and his fists were clenched tightly. Strangely, he did not take the next step, but just silently lowered his head, it seemed that he had listened to the words of the middle-aged wizard just now.

The reactions of other people around were similar. The expressions on the faces of the younger ones were not very good, while the expressions on the faces of the older ones were more helpless and indifferent.

They are used to it.

Mike smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the reactions of the crowd below the stage.

Fortunately, there are no people born after 85s or 90s among this group of people. If it were the young people born after 90s in the previous life, they would have resigned long ago if Mike dared to yell at them like this.

"Okay, it's decided! You all line up and come up to receive your uniforms, then those who need to work go back to work, and those who need to rest go back to rest!"

Mike said this and stood aside. Then the employees in the audience came up one after another to receive their uniforms.

Everyone who received the uniform would salute Mike according to his demonstration when passing by him, and pat their heart with their right fist.

Mike noticed that most of these people were very stiff when they saluted, as if they were a little embarrassed. However, a few people did it very naturally, and a few even pounded their chests to make a dull sound, which made Mike gasp.

Mike silently memorized the appearance of these people. Talented people like this who are good at flattering must be cultivated well.

After watching everyone receive their uniforms and adjourn the meeting, Mike returned to the conference room, took out a pen and parchment and began to write a letter.

Mike had a lot of letters to write, including the price lists for supplies to various bars, restaurants and snack bars, mainly the letters to Lockhart and Rita Skeeter to start the operation.

Now that Dolphin Magic Drink has a stable source of supply, it is time to start advertising and distributing the product.

The soft copy manuscripts for Lockhart and Rita Skeeter have been written. Mike has read them and is very satisfied with them.

As soon as the two of them got the letter from Mike, the report about Dolphin Magic Drink would appear on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next morning.

At the same time, Lockhart will also start selling new books.

On the other hand, Mike has not been idle these days. He has run to almost every store in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade to persuade their store managers to buy Dolphin Magic Drink.

Of course, except for some stores that had already started cooperating with Mike and the Weasley brothers, other stores rejected Mike's request without hesitation.

Mike was not disappointed by this, and as a second choice, he requested that these stores be allowed to post magic posters of Dolphin Magic Drink for a long time.

These merchants originally did not intend to agree to this, but under Mike's financial offensive, most of them finally agreed to Mike's request.

This is enough. To be honest, Mike is already very satisfied to be able to do this.

He could even imagine that the day after he mailed the letters in his hand, every wizard who came to wizard gathering places such as Diagon Alley or Hosmeade would see overwhelming posters of Thorfinn's Magic Drink, and those wizards who stayed at home would also know the name of Thorfinn from the Daily Prophet!

Dolphin Magic Drink and Los Santos Company will become household names in the British wizarding world, and the cost of all this is less than 5000 gold galleons.

It’s a huge profit!

With such a huge publicity, Dolphin Magic Drink will definitely become a trend in the next period of time. Coupled with its relatively expensive price, Mike can almost foresee that Dolphin Magic Drink will become an item that those wizard families with a little wealth will compete with each other.

By that time, those stores that had originally rejected Mike's supply request will beg Mike to sell them goods.

Thinking of this, Mike sealed all the parchments he had already written. Finally, Mike came to the Owl Rental Shop in Diagon Alley and handed the letters to the staff, asking them to send them out immediately.

When seeing the large number of owls in the rental shop, Mike suddenly thought of Errol, the exploited old owl in the Weasley family, so he directly asked the staff to buy an owl.

However, to Mike's surprise, the staff actually rejected Mike's request and said that if Mike wanted to buy an owl, he would need to go to a nearby pet shop. The owls here were all excellent employees who had undergone rigorous training and were not allowed to be sold.

Mike didn't believe a word of the staff's explanation. Judging from the attitude of wizards towards magical creatures, owls, which are not even magical creatures, are at best just consumable tools for sending letters to wizards. It is absolutely impossible to say that they cherish them.

The only explanation for the clerks' behavior is that they have some unspeakable py transactions with the pet shop.

In desperation, Mike had to run to the pet store and buy an owl in its prime. The clerk assured Mike that the owl had been trained and could start mailing letters immediately after he bought it home.

This further deepened Mike's suspicion that there was a py transaction between the two stores.

Mike, who was not short of money, paid the money directly, took the strong owl named Carrot back to the factory and handed it over to the Weasley brothers.

The Weasley brothers are truly representatives of capitalists. When they learned that Mike wanted to exchange the young owl for their old owl, they agreed without any hesitation, and had no attachment to the owl that had worked for their family all its life.

In the end, Mike could only take Errol back to his home, feeling both amused and helpless.

When Mike returned home, the sky had already darkened, and many owls brought Mike's letter to the recipient.

As soon as Lockhart and Rita Skeeter read the letter, they began writing to bookstores and the Daily Prophet to ask them to publish their books and articles as planned.

In Diagon Alley and other large wizarding gathering places across the UK, shop owners who received the letters also took action and put up the posters that Mike had sent them long ago.

Diagon Alley had the most shops, so the entire lane was almost covered with posters. Meanwhile, Weasley and his friends also got busy. Together with Shuke and Beta, they used the Floo Network to deliver the Dolphin Magic Drink to the shops that had placed orders.

These Dolphin Magic Drinks were quickly put on the shelves, waiting for guests to arrive the next day.

(End of this chapter)