The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 425 Firenze

Professor Trelawney's dismissal is not entirely a bad thing. For example, Divination has now become the most popular course among the little witches at Hogwarts. It can only be said that most people in this world are obsessed with looks. Firenze has successfully aroused the little witches' interest in the course with his light blond hair, cornflower sapphire eyes, and somewhat melancholy and mysterious temperament. Or rather, interest in this handsome centaur.

Ryan and Hermione took some time to visit Firenze. Now Firenze's place was decorated like a forest: the floor was covered with soft moss, and there were many trees growing in it. After discovering that it was Ryan and Hermione who knocked on the door, Firenze showed a happy look.

"It's nice to see friends visiting the castle." Firenze asked Ryan and the others to sit on a tree stump, then took out two glasses of red juice from behind the tree and handed them to them. "Try it. A kind of raspberry in the Forbidden Forest has ripened recently, and the juice made from it tastes good."

"I didn't expect that you would be the professor of divination class in school this time!" Ryan said with a smile after taking a sip of the sweet and sour juice.

"It's not easy to get out this time." Firenze flicked his tail. "You know there are many conservatives among the centaurs. They think working for humans is a betrayal."

At this point, Firenze looked at Ryan and said, "Thanks to everything you did before, most of my compatriots changed their views on humans, so I was able to reluctantly get permission to teach you. Of course, the person who played the biggest role here was your Aunt Betty. As a priestess of nature, her clear support really helped me a lot."

This should be much better than the original book, Ryan thought. After that, the three of them chatted for a while, and then Ryan and the others said goodbye because they had classes in the afternoon.

When seeing Ryan and the others off, Firenze seemed a little hesitant. Finally, he made up his mind, bent down and whispered an important news to Ryan and Hermione.

"A giant, is Hagrid crazy?" Hermione said excitedly in a low voice on the way up the stairs to the Transfiguration classroom. "Why would he want to cause trouble for himself like this?"

"Think about Hagrid's bloodline." Ryan's words made Hermione guess something immediately.

"This is really..." Hermione's facial expression became tangled. She didn't know how to express her inner thoughts at the moment. In the end, she could only sigh. "Maybe this is fate."

As expected, Hagrid's injuries increased. After all, taming a giant is not an easy task, otherwise Ryan would not have chosen such an extreme method to solve the problem.

But Ryan didn't have much time to pay attention to Hagrid and his giant brother, because the 0.w.Ls exam was getting closer, and even though Ryan was confident in this regard, he was still nervous. Of course, this could also be due to the environment: when everyone around you is nervous, you will naturally be nervous too.

However, the Weasleys Joke Shop made a lot of money during this period, because Ryan got a large number of tranquilizing and sleeping herbs from the elves in the world of "The Lord of the Rings" and made them into incense. After the effectiveness of this stuff was confirmed, it immediately sold like crazy among the fifth and seventh grade students who were about to take exams. After all, for everyone who is under great pressure, what can be more soothing than a perfect sleep every day?
Naturally, Ryan also reserved a batch of incense and sold it to the members of the reading club at cost price, because one should always give preferential treatment to one's own people.

"I think I might have a chance to get an O in Defense Against the Dark Arts this year." Looking at a silver-white marmot jumping around her, she finally smiled for the first time in a long time. This year's exams are really driving her crazy. If it weren't for everyone in the reading club trying their best to help each other, especially the guidance of members like Qiu who passed the OWLs exam with high scores last year. I guess she should be drinking tranquilizers from Madam Pomfrey now. Hannah is not the only one who benefits from the reading club. For example, Neville privately said that he would definitely pass all the courses this time. Ryan believes that he can do it, because he successfully brewed a pot of shrinking potion in the last potion class. Although according to Snape's evaluation, Neville's potion can only be used when there is really no other potion available, but this is also a strong encouragement for Neville: for him, if he can handle even the most complicated potion, what can't he do?
"By the way, how about we have another party during Easter?" Celia suddenly suggested. "We'll have nothing to do at school then."

"What do you think?" Ryan looked at the others and found that everyone nodded in agreement. Even Neville, who would definitely go to St. Mungo's to visit his parents during the holidays, said that he would come back early to join everyone's party.

"If my grandmother knew you were having a party, she would definitely kick me out early and ask me to come over. Just like she said, in order to make myself better, holidays can naturally be given up." Neville shrugged and said, "Of course, I also think it's much more interesting to be with you than to stay alone in the old house. My grandmother does care about me, but sometimes she's a little too strict."

"Okay, then we'll see you on Easter. I'll post the details on the school notice board." Ryan said before the party ended. This is the advantage of a legal organization: at least it is much more convenient to contact members and arrange venues.

Soon, time came to the last week before Easter as everyone was anxiously waiting. On Wednesday night, Ryan and Hermione read books in the library for a long time, and they did not leave until Madam Pince came out waving a feather duster to chase them away.

"Is your alchemy bottle useful? Don't waste my medicine." Hermione asked as they walked on the road. After learning that Ryan was studying werewolves, Hermione volunteered to help him. For example, she spent several days brewing a wolfsbane potion, and now the wolfsbane potion was placed in a crystal bottle newly made by Ryan.

You should know that one of the important reasons why wolfsbane potion is expensive is that the shelf life of this potion is very short, which means that a high-level pharmacist must start working on the wolfsbane potion several days before the full moon, and do this once a month. Considering the average income of a high-level potion master, you will know why the cost of wolfsbane potion is so expensive.

Ryan's solution now is to make a container that can store wolf poison potion for a long time. This is the only way he can think of to help the werewolves in a short period of time. It is much simpler than improving the potion or even completely curing the werewolves.

"It should be possible. This is a technique used by the elves to refine containers. Since they were able to preserve the Light of Elendil for such a long time, the alchemical bottles made using the same technology can't be too different." Ryan looked at Hermione and said uncertainly. "But to be honest, the original elf technology is too expensive. In order to make this technology affordable for those poor werewolves, I changed too many things to reduce the cost. I hope nothing goes wrong."

"How low can the cost be?" Hermione asked with concern. Looking at how Lupin dressed back then, she knew that werewolves generally didn't have much money.

"Thirty Galleons." Ryan saw Hermione's eyes widen and quickly explained. "This is not for one person. I made this bottle to hold all the medicine for 15 people in a year. It was originally for the werewolves on the farm in Norway to use together."

"Is that so?" Hermione nodded. If each person gets two Galleons on average, the werewolves should be able to support it. Moreover, as Ryan said, good things should be used by our own people first. After this group of werewolves enjoy the convenience, maybe they can attract more werewolves to join them.

After that, the two of them walked towards the Room of Requirement, preparing to check if there were any changes to the potions inside before going to bed.

(End of this chapter)