The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 301 Pureblood and Half-blood (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)

The week before Christmas, a happy atmosphere permeated the whole school. Under such circumstances, the Weasley twins' joke product subscription business has achieved great development. Many owls brought them a large number of orders every day.

"We have hired two Muggle-born wizards as employees, so we can balance our studies and business." One day, Fred said to Ryan while writing a purchase order in the common room. "When we were hiring, we found out that most of the shops in Diagon Alley even secretly claimed that they didn't need Muggle-born wizards, but from our observation, there is no difference between Muggle-born wizards and pure-blood wizards in this kind of work."

"Yes, we wrote to our father and told him about this situation. He told us that this was a disgusting act of discrimination and as his son he would never allow us to do this," said George, who was checking the list nearby.

"Our father believes that the real nobility of pure-blood wizards lies in their powerful magic skills and noble qualities. It is really terrible for those who have family heritage but cannot even compare with the Muggle-born wizards without any heritage in terms of magic and interpersonal skills to rely on their family status and bloodline to seek a good job when applying for a job. If this continues, the wizarding world will be doomed sooner or later. For example, he thinks that old Crabbe and Goyle, who are now working in the Ministry of Magic, are two gluttons. There is nothing commendable about them except that they don't waste food at banquets."

"Of course, we think that father is a little extreme, and there are talented people in those pure-blood families. But my father is right in the general direction. It is terrible that pure-blood families take all the advantages but leave no channels for any half-bloods and Muggle-born wizards to rise. Especially when Hogwarts has cultivated more and more outstanding Muggle-born and half-blood wizards in the past few decades."

"So from now on, our store will prioritize character and ability when recruiting people. After all, even from a purely profit perspective, this approach is better than recruiting people based on bloodline, and it is also in line with the development trend of the world. Besides, those purebloods don't look down on a small store like ours."

It seems that pure-blood wizards are not unresponsive to the changes in the world, but only marginalized pure-blood wizards like the Weasley family are determined to adapt to the trend of the times. The pure-bloods who dominate the wizarding world just hope to maintain the current situation.

At this moment, Ryan suddenly thought of something: Voldemort was just a half-blood orphan back then, and the pure-blood families would not be fooled by a simple Slytherin descendant. After all, if the Slytherin descendants really had great prestige among the pure-bloods, the Gaunt family would not have lived so miserably.

Now it seems that the purebloods who ruled the European wizarding world were just using Voldemort as a cover. After all, after Grindelwald's defeat, the Ministries of Magic of various countries relaxed the restrictions of the Statute of Secrecy. Under such circumstances, the number of half-bloods and Muggle-born wizards in the wizarding world increased sharply, and the purebloods naturally wanted to clean up these guys who were competing with them for resources. Therefore, it was a normal idea to support Voldemort to cleanse these wizards physically.

It's just that the pure-bloods didn't expect that Voldemort could rely on enough strength and charm to seduce the younger generation of each pure-blood family, and then use various methods to kill the pure-bloods of his generation. In the end, he completely became the controller instead of a pawn of the pure-blood family. For example, Malfoy's grandfather died of dragon pox, but it is well known that people with dragon pox can be easily identified by their appearance. It is impossible for Malfoy's grandfather to be defenseless when facing patients with such an acute infectious disease, so this cause of death is more suspicious.

It is no wonder that the Weasley family became one of the biggest beneficiaries after the war in history. Having a clear-headed family head like Mr. Weasley who can understand the historical development trend as the family leader can indeed help the family avoid many mistakes.

"Ryan, Ryan, are you okay?" Ryan was thinking about these messy things when he felt someone shaking him. He came to his senses and found that the Weasley twins were staring at him nervously. "We were just talking and you suddenly became dazed. We thought something happened to you."

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired because I've been busy lately." Ryan took out two bronze defense bracelets and handed them to the twins. "I have to worry about restocking the store every night, so I sleep late every night."

"You're so busy, but you still remember this." George took the two bracelets with excitement. "I thought you wouldn't have time to do this after becoming a Warrior this year. By the way, will this affect your game?"

"No, don't worry." Ryan promised. "While making these bracelets, I can also change my thinking, which is equivalent to a rest." After chatting with the twins for a while, Ryan went upstairs to get the textbook. Because the next class is Professor McGonagall's class, if you are late, she will not give anyone face.

Heavy snow fell on the castle and grounds. The light blue carriage of Beauxbatons looked like a big pumpkin covered with frost in winter, and the little gingerbread house sprinkled with icing sugar next to it was Hagrid's cabin; the side of the Durmstrang ship was covered with a layer of ice, becoming smooth and transparent, and the sails were also stained with a layer of white frost.

The dinner that night included many hot stews and sweet puddings of various flavors. It must be said that the house-elves in Hogwarts Castle were really good at cooking. However, the British did not like spicy food, so Ryan did not see any cold-repelling food like spicy soup.

The students from Durmstrang and Hogwarts enjoyed the food, especially the students from Durmstrang, who were probably from cold places, and praised the high-calorie food. No wonder they were all big and strong, wearing fur cloaks and standing in the snow, looking like upright brown bears.

Only the French are still dissatisfied with these foods, after all, for them, taste and warmth are not as important as grace. They would rather be cold than be a little fatter.

On Christmas morning, Ryan got up very early. After counting the gifts, he went out to exercise as usual. This year's gifts were all normal, the only difference was that Hermione's gift was no longer an obscure book, but a bottle of men's perfume that didn't look cheap.

"Fortunately, I'm not so straight this year as to give away another book." Ryan thought with some relief as he ran around the castle. On the way, he met a group of Durmstrang boys who were running in the snow in vests and shorts. It turned out that not all wizards don't pay attention to physical exercise.

The Christmas dinner was, as usual, a pile of turkey, although Ryan still didn't understand why Hogwarts, with its long history, had to learn from the Americans in the New World and eat turkey on Christmas instead of the traditional roast goose.

In the afternoon, almost all Gryffindor members went to the playground to play snowballs, and Ryan naturally had to join in. However, after the Weasley twins used magic to direct snowballs to hit people, Ryan used an alchemy array to make a large number of snowballs and almost turned them into snowmen, the use of magic to throw snowballs was banned on the playground.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Hermione took Ginny upstairs with the other girls to get dressed. It seems that no matter what kind of world it is, no matter whether you are a man or a woman, getting dressed is definitely a big project.

"What, you need three hours?" Ron exclaimed in the direction Hermione and Ginny left. Ryan and Harry looked at each other after seeing this scene and shook their heads helplessly.

Because of the dance this year, there was no Christmas tea party. Ryan had a good time all afternoon and completely relaxed. It was not until 7pm when night fell that he went upstairs with others to prepare for the dance.

(End of this chapter)