The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 330 New Business (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
If only Headmaster Dumbledore could really kill Voldemort, maybe he could get a lot of deflection points at once. Ryan thought happily as he listened to the pleasant reminder in his mind. Because he changed the major event of Voldemort's resurrection, he got 38 deflection points in one go.

Of course, this is just a thought. Voldemort is so cunning that he will definitely hide himself tightly. Even if he wants to cause trouble, he will probably wait until he is fully recovered before doing so.

But Voldemort is still cautious enough. This time, Ryan can confirm that Voldemort has no hair on his body, which means that no one can use Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as him. So Voldemort's baldness is not only to become stronger, but also very likely to prevent others from becoming like him.

Ryan felt that his biggest problem now was that he had too much knowledge but had not fully integrated it. For example, he had obtained the transformation ability of the Faceless Man through the mercury lamp, but even after many improvements, he still needed the face of a person to obtain his memory. This meant that this method could not be used openly. In the future, if he had the opportunity to go out with other people, he would not be able to obtain intelligence even if he killed the enemy. There were many similar problems.

Therefore, even though Voldemort has been resurrected during this period, it still did not affect Ryan's previous plan. He still continued to analyze and integrate the information of extraordinary powers obtained from other worlds in his spare time. After all, only by further integrating the power he has mastered can he improve his own strength and gain more advantages in the next battle.

Fortunately, Dumbledore is now in full form and is fighting a severely weakened version of Voldemort without falling out with the Ministry of Magic. So this period should be relatively easy, and I can find time to do other things.

With the tacit cooperation of Dumbledore and Fudge, the news of Voldemort's return was kept secret. However, the kidnapping case and the dark network established by the vampires in Europe were thoroughly exposed in the newspapers. Rita Skeeter's writing style was indeed sharp enough. Her sarcasm, coupled with the detailed contents of the account books seized from the vampires, completely angered the entire wizarding world, and countless howling letters were sent to the Ministry of Magic.

This is not surprising, wizards have never regarded other intelligent creatures as equals to themselves. No matter what, they would not accept that noble wizards were eaten by such dirty and inferior creatures, especially when the target was a young wizard. Naturally, under such overwhelming public opinion, the suggestion proposed by Headmaster Dumbledore to launch an action to completely clean up the dark side of the wizarding world naturally won the support of most wizards at this time.

In the following period of time, obvious targets like Knockturn Alley were repeatedly searched by members of the Ministry of Magic, and even some pure-blood families had to hide their dark magic products to avoid disaster.

However, this storm did not affect Hogwarts except for providing some topics for discussion. The school continued to do its own things according to its own arrangements. Except for one thing that caused a sensation in the school: Crouch, the referee of the Triwizard Tournament, was arrested at St. Mungo's.

The fact that Crouch helped his son escape from prison was still exposed. This kind of thing can't stand up to investigation as long as one is determined. According to the letter written by Percy, it can be seen that Crouch was relieved when he was arrested. This may be because he always felt that this day would come after he saw the unconscious house-elf and his missing son when he returned home that day.

Percy also lamented his luck at the end of the letter: if he had worked under Crouch back then, he would definitely not be enjoying a good life now.

In addition, Percy asked the twins in the letter if they needed alchemical materials, because Percy and his team had recently raided many illegal places and seized a lot of alchemical materials that were normally difficult to buy.

According to the rules of the Ministry of Magic, a portion of the spoils from such risky operations will be distributed to the executors. The items that are easy to sell and have large quantities or high value will naturally belong to the Ministry of Magic, and these low-level clerks can only take some unconventional items with relatively simple uses. The Ministry of Magic can naturally exchange these items for gold coins, but the price they give is very deceptive.

So Percy, who has now become a team leader, came to ask the twins if they needed these materials. If they did, he could just get some benefits for his subordinates.

"How did he know we were opening a store?" The twins couldn't be sure, so they took the letter and asked Ryan, who had just returned to the common room after lunch. When Ryan was looking at the list attached to the letter, Fred asked curiously, because they had never told Percy that they were opening a store now.

"Percy and his friends have been patrolling Knockturn Alley in Diagon Alley recently. That area is very small. Your store is standing there with a bunch of people receiving and shipping goods all day long. It would be strange if he didn't notice it." Ryan stared at the list of materials and said, "At least your brother is doing much better at work. Even though he knew you opened a store, he didn't write to Mrs. Weasley."

"That's right." "Indeed, this job has made him improve." The twins said in an aria. "Okay, you two stop messing around." Ryan looked at the two people who were playing and said, "We can get 90% of the things on this list."

"But most of what we are making now doesn't require these." Fred asked Ryan: "We are certainly willing to help our own brother, but there is no need to lose money to help him."

"Who said we're going to lose money?" Ryan's eyes widened. "Don't you think this is a good opportunity to add new products and make money? You know, the Ministry of Magic is currently cleaning up the dark wizards, and a lot of staff who are not Aurors or strikers have been mobilized. Many of these people have not learned much about combat. We can sell them some labor protection products."

"Labor protection supplies?" George looked at Ryan. "What can we sell? It won't be clothes with armor spells, haha——"

He had just laughed a few times with his brothers when he saw Ryan staring at them with a serious look.

"You're not telling the truth, are you? There are a large number of people in the Ministry of Magic who can't even cast such a simple spell?" The two men restrained their smiles, and then Fred asked with an expression of disbelief.

"It's true." Ryan also showed a depressed expression. "Percy told me this in a letter. He said in the letter that among his five-man team, only three people, including him, knew how to cast the Shield Charm. One of the other two who knew how to cast the Shield Charm could only cast it during normal practice. He couldn't cast it when he got nervous when he encountered the enemy."

"My God, no wonder my father said he was the most powerful one in their department. Has the Ministry of Magic declined to this extent?" The twins were stunned by the news.

"Well, if I remember correctly, there seemed to be only two people in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department where Mr. Weasley worked. During the summer vacation, I heard him complain that his colleague was a very old man, causing him to spend a lot of time working overtime."

"That's not important." Fraser quickly changed the subject. "The point is that you said this will indeed be a huge market, but we are not prepared enough for the time being!"

"I have one here." Ryan said, taking out a small notebook. "I have been trying to make my copper bracelet cheaper. This is the result of my research, and I can use these raw materials."

"Cheapening? Will this affect the sales of your bracelet?" George asked worriedly.

"No, but in order to reduce costs and production difficulty, this product can only be considered half an alchemical product. The biggest problem is that the effect weakens very quickly with the passage of time. For example, a magic robe with a defensive function is only valid for one year. After this time, the magic on it will quickly fade and eventually become ineffective. But for something that only costs two Galleons, it is already very good to be able to reach this level." Ryan explained.

"Indeed, not to mention that if the stuff is good we can sell it again next year," the twins said in unison.

(End of this chapter)