Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 36 Revolutionaries

Lucius was finally taken away.

Furthermore, due to the use of vigilante justice against Gringotts staff, he was fined another 1,000 gallons and sentenced to two months in prison.

Murphy felt deeply sorry for him and hoped that he could become friends with the Dementors in Azkaban and be reformed.

As for Lucius's accusations against Murphy, they were all overturned due to insufficient evidence.

Meanwhile, Murphy's vault was restored to normal operation, and no one questioned the so-called source of funds anymore.

In return for Locke's defection, Murphy hired the fairy as his full agent to manage his funds in the wizarding world.

Subsequently, Murphy faithfully fulfilled his promise to donate to the Ministry of Magic and give the Minister's "small" gift, earning widespread praise.

In the days following the Wizengamor trial, Murphy became one of the most popular people in the Ministry of Magic.

Milison personally processed his VIP visit permit, meaning he would be able to Apparate into the Ministry of Magic at any time without prior application.

Thinking back to a few months ago when he could only use a temporary passage to get to work, Murphy couldn't help but feel a little ironic.

I worked diligently, which is why I suffered so much injustice.

I have no scruples, so I can go anywhere without hindrance.

Since this is the rule of the world, can you blame me for becoming like this?

A few days later, the "Supreme Potions" shop opened in Knockdown Alley.

Renting a shop, decorating, purchasing raw materials, and buying some potions to make the shop look nice, all of it cost Murphy less than a thousand Galleons in total.

Because it was so cheap, Murphy opened another branch in Diagon Alley.

He didn't care about the money from selling potions, but it was good to be able to annoy Malfoy.

On opening day, we're having a grand sale on Supreme Potions! All potions are 30% off, and members get an even better discount of 10%.

And the campaign will continue until Slag & Giggs Pharmacy goes out of business.

It's just burning money, I can afford it.

Given the current profitability of Umbrella Corporation, it could easily burn through cash for a year or two, or even indefinitely.

Murphy felt that using internet marketing techniques from over thirty years in the future to deal with a small wizard's pharmacy was a bit of a waste of talent.

It doesn't matter, as long as it works.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Potion Shop began recruiting, aiming to hire a total of thirty potion makers.

These shop assistants are certainly not there to mind the shop; they will be immersed in the production line of the Beauty Potion, beginning their own mundane work.

Murphy hasn't yet found a non-magical method to make the Beauty Potion, so this is the only way to increase production.

Murphy wasn't worried about not being able to find people.

The job market in the wizarding world is incredibly competitive. Even if he cut the salaries in half, applicants would still line up from the Leaky Cauldron all the way to Ollivander's Wand Shop.

Looking back at his job search failure from a capitalist's perspective, Murphy now sees it as inevitable.

The existence of magic means that most shops don't need to hire employees at all.

Tasks like washing dishes and tidying up tables can be done with magic, and done quite well, so why hire waiters?

Magic is so convenient that it has rendered some low-skilled jobs completely worthless.

Looking around Diagon Alley, almost every shop is run by a single owner, because tasks such as organizing goods and cleaning can be easily handled by magic.

In fact, the versatility of magic has not only reduced the number of jobs.

From a broader perspective, this omnipotence also inhibited the large-scale division of labor in society.

A wizard who has mastered magic can easily have all his needs met, including food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Let alone cooking a meal, cleaning, or tailoring clothes, even tasks like building a house, which might require many people working together for many days for a Muggle, can be easily accomplished by a wizard simply by waving his wand.

The productivity leap that Muggles achieve through social division of labor and standardized production chains can be achieved by wizards simply by mastering a little more magic.

This results in wizards having a much lower need for material exchange and mutual benefit than Muggles.

Therefore, wizards are far less in need of society than Muggles. They do not need to be social beings; they are closer to and more willing to live a self-sufficient life based on family units, like the agricultural era in the Muggle world.

That's why wizards seem so eccentric, capricious, naive, and self-willed.

Because society doesn't really have that much of a constraint on them.

That's why Diagon Alley, a shopping center for the British wizarding world, is only a few streets long.

Because they don't need that many shops, they don't have that much demand.

This is why the Ministry of Magic's control over wizards seems so lax.

Because it is less a government and more like a commune, it doesn't have many reasons to guarantee coercive power.

This is why wizards would entrust the right to mint coins to fairies who were completely at odds with them.

To Muggles, this would be tantamount to handing a gun to one's enemy, but to wizards, it's not the same thing.

Even if the wizarding world's economy collapses, it's not that terrible for them.

They will not go without clothes or go hungry.

This is a utopia.

A society built on magic, completely different from the Muggle world.

In contrast, Murphy, who is used to the cutthroat competition of the Muggle world, seems somewhat out of place in this society.

In the original story, Hermione, who was hardworking, was seen as a freak, and this is also true.

She, like herself, came from Muggle society and was used to rolling around.

"I was too naive back then."

No wonder the potion shop owner disliked his method, even though he used more advanced and accurate measurement methods and the potions he made were more effective.

But progress is not the primary value of this relaxed society.

Stability and tradition are what matter.

Therefore, Ollivander is the best wand shop because it is the oldest.

Therefore, Hogwarts is the best because it has the longest history.

That's why some wizards seek out pure-blooded wizards, because that's the orthodox way.

A potion shop doesn't need an eccentric employee.

Therefore... his job search at that time was destined to fail.

This also explains Dumbledore's conciliatory attitude towards both Lucius and himself in the trial.

He was a moderate reformist, kind-hearted, and principled, yet he did not promote his own ideas. He was wary of evil and fought against it, but he was not vehemently opposed to it. Therefore, his actions sometimes seemed to be: "Just getting by is fine."

This seems rather strange to Murphy, but it's actually the general style of wizarding society.

Everyone maintained a gentlemanly harmony and lived their lives according to certain unspoken and implicit rules.

Here, reformers actually have little fertile ground.

Therefore, Grindelwald was destined to fail back then, and Voldemort later seemed like a joke.

However, now Murphy has arrived.

He wasn't like Hermione or Harry, who only spent their childhood in Muggle society, and therefore couldn't be assimilated into the values ​​of wizarding society like they were.

He was a time traveler; he arrived in the wizarding society already an adult.

His values ​​were already formed and unbreakable.

So after struggling to adapt to the world for several years without success, Murphy has now realized that if he wants to continue living, and to live comfortably, he must change the world.

He cannot be assimilated, therefore, he can only reshape the world to his liking.

He drew his magic wand.

That was truly his magic wand.

Aspen, 14 inches, phoenix core.

This is the magic wand of revolutionaries.

From the moment he transmigrated here, it was already destined that he would make a name for himself in this world.

(End of Volume One)

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