Harry Potter Raven's Claw

That afternoon, Mike contacted a special construction team to come here to discuss the construction of the factory.

This construction team is actually the same construction team that built the amphitheater for the duel competition before. Mike had already asked Lockhart to get their contact information long before the holiday.

This construction team called Geno Construction is composed of wizards and house elves. Compared with ordinary Muggle construction teams, their charges are higher, but they are truly worth every penny.

Because their construction speed is quite magical, the quality of the things they build is also very good, and they also have a warranty! If the building is damaged to a certain extent within a certain period of time, they will come to repair it for free.

The most important thing is that they can also add enchantments to the building according to the customer's requirements.

There are all kinds of magic spells to choose from, including the most common Muggle expulsion spells and concealment spells, as well as very rare counterattack magic mechanisms and traceless extension spells. Even the person in charge of this construction team told Mike very cryptically that they

You can also add the strongest guarding spell to the house, the Loyalty Charm!

I believe friends who have read the original novel carefully know what the Fidelity Charm is. It is the curse that Harry's parents placed on their house in order to protect Harry.

This is an extremely complex magic that can hide a secret in the soul of a living person forever, and the living person selected to hide the secret is called the secret keeper.

When the secret hidden by the Red Loyalty Spell is the location of a house, unless the secret keeper takes the initiative to reveal it, you will not be able to discover the house even if it is right in front of you.

This effect seems to be similar to that of the Concealment Curse, but the effect of the Red Loyalty Curse is much stronger than the Concealment Curse.

You must know that even Voldemort was able to find Harry only because the Secret Keeper leaked the secret.

After Mike learned that the construction team could cast the Loyalty Charm, he chose to let them build his factory without hesitation.

Although his factory does not need to be protected by such advanced magic as the Red Dane Loyalty Charm, being able to deploy the Red Dane Loyalty Charm can already prove the strength of this construction team.

After referring to the terrain and environment of the site, the construction team came up with three construction plans.

The first is an all-wooden roof-type factory building.

This kind of factory building is very poor in terms of livability and sturdiness, but it is better than the price.

Since it is surrounded by dense jungle, most of the materials for building the factory can be obtained locally. The quotation given by Geno Construction for this construction plan is 1,000 gold galleons.

The second type is slightly better and is made of bricks.

The third type is the best, a mixture of masonry, stone and wood, a very large factory building and collective employee dormitories. The plan also includes a protective magic package and a fine decoration package, which includes large-scale versions of many commonly used protective magics such as Muggle expulsion spells.

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However, the third option is also the most expensive, with a price of up to 10,000 gold galleons.

Mike decided on the third most expensive plan without blinking an eye.

This is not because Mike is too wealthy, but because the construction money can be paid in installments, and the interest is pitifully small.

The person in charge who came to negotiate after signing the contract on site was very happy. In fact, the operating conditions of their construction team were not optimistic. Firstly, the market in the British wizarding world was too small, and secondly, the wealthy old brands

Nobles generally have their own ancestral houses, while ordinary wizards will choose to build their own houses or buy ready-made Muggle houses.

Based on this situation, their main customers are actually only those newly rich people who are newly rich, and they belong to the type that does not open for three years and eats for three years.

Mike and Lockhart have contributed two orders in less than a year. How can they not be happy?

After saying goodbye to Mike and others, the person in charge immediately used the door key to return to the company to arrange work. However, when Mike, the Weasley brothers and others were preparing to leave half an hour later, they discovered that many black figures had appeared in the distant sky.

After a closer look, I discovered that the person in charge had arrived at the site again with a group of construction workers.

So, under the watchful eyes of Mike and others, the person in charge directed the wizards in blue uniforms to take out various building materials from the traceless stretching spell bags they carried with them, and then quickly built a fireplace.

Immediately afterwards, a team of wizards began to level the ground, while more wizards continued to come out of the fireplace, carrying building materials back and forth.

The three Weasley brothers were dumbfounded, because ordinary fireplaces cannot teleport. If you want to teleport, you must connect to the Floo network. And the application for the Floo network is extremely slow. Now the construction team casually created

A fireplace appeared and they were able to teleport immediately, which surprised them.

Mike was not surprised by this. A wizard construction team like them must have its own complete logistics system if it can operate for such a long time, and the high-quality and low-cost Floo Network is of course the best choice.

As for why they don't need to apply for an application to build a new fireplace, it must be a classic power-for-money deal.

The construction team was very efficient. In just one hour, a rectangular foundation with a depth of 10 meters was dug out in the vacant land burned by the Weasley brothers. This made Mike feel a little surprised. You know

This amount of homework might not be possible even in half a month in the Muggle world.

It was the first time for the three Weasley brothers and Arthur to see such a large construction site, so they looked at it with great interest.

But Mike was not interested in this, so he directly asked Shuke to take him and apparate back to his home.

Even after returning home, Mike had no time to spare. He had to go to Lockhart's place again.

Lockhart still has a novel about him. Since he wants to promote the Dolphin Magic drink that will be on sale soon, it must be done at once, not just relying on the influence of the Daily Prophet,

Lockhart also needs to mobilize his idiot fans to buy it.

However, when Mike used the fireplace to teleport directly to Lockhart's house, he unexpectedly discovered that Lockhart did not allow him to teleport.

This is the problem with Floo Network fireplace teleportation. Except for fireplaces in public places like the Leaky Cauldron, you need the consent of the other party if you want to teleport to a private fireplace.

So Mike could only angrily go to Lockhart's house in person.

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It was already evening when Mike arrived at Lockhart's house at the address Lockhart had given him.

Mike looked at the brightly lit large villa and the faint music and female laughter coming from the villa, and the veins on his fists slowly appeared.

Although Lockhart's home is large, it does not have many defensive facilities. Mike didn't even use his wand and kicked open the door of his home.

And when Mike followed the sound and came to a huge room on the second floor, the scene that appeared in front of him made him, an experienced player, couldn't help but sigh that Lockhart really knows how to play.

On the ceiling of the room, the magic lamp that was supposed to emit soft white light was now flashing with colorful light, and directly below the magic lamp were dozens of men and women playing musical instruments suspended in the air.

dancing to the music.

On the floor of the room, a large number of empty wine bottles and clothes were scattered scatteredly, and the air exuded the unpleasant smell of alcohol and deodorant.

It's all very similar to a bar or disco in the Muggle world, the only difference is the people dancing.

In other words, a dancing creature.

In the center of the room, scantily clad 'female' magical creatures of various shapes were seen writhing together with several wizards.

The largest one among them is a female centaur. At this moment, it is carrying a thin wizard with exposed ribs, beating to the music and making shameless sounds. And the man on its back is

Wu Ze's hands were only holding the neck below and could not be described, as if he was holding on to the saddle.

In addition, Mike also found a Veela on the dance floor who had silver hair like Fleur. Its silver hair shone under the continuously flashing colored light of the magic lamp, which fascinated the two wizards to the point where they almost cried out.

The strange thing is that there is no figure of Lockhart here. Mike walked in the dark room looking for Lockhart, and finally found him on the bar in a corner.

Lockhart was holding a goblet filled with red wine and was talking to someone.

Due to the angle of view, Mike did not see who the person sitting opposite Lockhart was, but based on Lockhart's constant touching of the other person, he could infer that it was a woman.

However, when Mike walked around to the side, he discovered that the person flirting with Lockhart was actually a short female elf with pointed ears, a big head, and gray skin!

Looking at the female goblin's heavily made-up face and Lockhart's obsessed expression, Mike couldn't help but open his mouth in shock.

It turns out that Lockhart’s taste is so unique!

The night vision ability of goblins is much stronger than that of humans, so when Mike walked around not far from Lockhart, the female goblin sitting opposite him had already spotted Mike. After the female goblin asked, Lockhart

He suddenly turned his head and looked at Mike, and at the same time, the expression on his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Mike! Why are you here!"

Facing Lockhart's question, Mike felt a little embarrassed.

After all, he didn't come here with any ill intentions, but he bumped into Lockhart while he was doing his special hobby.

"I wanted to see you for something, but the permissions of your fireplace didn't seem to be open to me, so I came directly to the door."

"Dear Mr. Mac! You should know, right? When you alone reject your Floo Network transmission application, it means that he does not welcome you now." Lockhart slammed the table and roared, "Can't you?

Can you send me a letter first so I can prepare a little bit?"

The noise Lockhart made was so loud that it even overwhelmed the loud music nearby, thus attracting the attention of the 'knight' next to him.

Apparently Lockhart also noticed this, so he pulled Mike to a bright room next door before he could reply.

Mike looked at the room, which was decorated in pink and had various 'heavy toys' hung on the walls. He tried his best not to laugh out loud, but the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch.

"Laugh if you want! A well-known best-selling author, a handsome guy with countless female fans, and a third-level Merlin badge holder! Privately, he actually likes to be with goblins! How funny is this! Right!" Loha

Te's face darkened, and he walked around the room, dancing and saying, "If this matter spreads, I will become the laughing stock of the entire wizarding world, and all of this will be your fault, Mike!"

Mike almost couldn't help laughing when he listened to the first half of the words, but after listening to the second half, especially when Lockhart started pointing fingers at him, the expression on his face suddenly darkened.

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"Don't point your finger at me that you touched with something disgusting. If it happens again, I'm sure you'll never need to use that finger again!" Mike knocked off Lockhart's finger.

Shou said with a gloomy face, "Please figure out the current situation! I am the one with the advantage!"

Lockhart sucked in the cold air and shook the hand that was sore from Mike's blow. He originally wanted to talk back again, but after seeing Mike's cold eyes, his body immediately stiffened, and finally he collapsed on the ground with a gloomy expression.

That huge bed.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?" Lockhart said desperately.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just your novel. It should be finished by now, right?"

"Yes, what do you want to do?"

Mike walked to the edge of the bed, looked at Lockhart condescendingly and said: "Please revise it for me and add some more advertisements about Dolphin's Magic Drink. Do you understand the advertisement? Forget it if you don't understand. Anyway, you just

All you need to do is praise the Dolphin Magic drink to death. Then, wait until I notify you of the time for publishing the book. I told you to do it before you can do it, do you understand?"

After Mike finished speaking, the expression on Lockhart's face suddenly became dull, and he lay on the bed and stared at Mike blankly.

Suddenly, Lockhart sat up suddenly and raised his voice an octave as he said, "Is that what you're doing for this?"

"That's right."

"Then why do you want to come here in person?" Lockhart looked directly at Mike, "Can't you just write me a letter?"

"I just asked you if you could do it!"

Lockhart saw the expression on Mike's face getting more and more distorted and quickly reacted, nodding his head in response.

Seeing that Lockhart was so obedient, Mike stopped talking. Now that it was getting late, he needed to rush home to have dinner with Professor Flitwick and the others.

So under Lockhart's guidance, Mike deliberately bypassed the previous room, which was like a bar and disco, and came to a room with a fireplace on the side.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Mike grabbed a handful of Floo powder from the jar next to the fireplace and walked into the fireplace. "You can continue to find your elf girlfriend, but you must ensure that the manuscript is given to you before the day after tomorrow.

I've finished writing. Do you understand?"

"Yes! I understand." Lockhart weakly replied to Mike, and then the expression on his face became awkward. He lowered his head and struggled for a long time before slowly saying, "That... today's matter...

…You won’t tell anyone, will you?”

Lockhart lowered his head and waited for a long time without waiting for Mike's response. When he looked up, he found that there was no one in the fireplace in front of him. Mike had teleported away long ago.