Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

How can we stop at discussing cooperation with various publishing houses and just put our names on the board of directors?

Wizards are so bored that they can read these third-rate magazines and pay for them, so what if they make some minor upgrades themselves?

When Harry went to the Burrow before, he noticed that there was a radio in the Weasleys' kitchen.

Obviously wizards are not so opposed to Muggle technology, but most of them don’t understand how to use those Muggle things.

This reminds me of what Blake talked about at 4 Privet Drive during Christmas, about the impact of the future Internet on physical industries and traditional news media.

Instantly, the part of Harry that was a believer in Woking began to cheer.

Praise Woking! What a vast blue ocean market this is!

Harry felt that if he didn't do something, he would be doing a disservice to the gold in his vault.

Harry was a little excited at the thought of finally being able to put the gold in his vault into motion.

So excited that Harry crossed out his plans to explore the Middle East with Lockhart this summer and instead prepared to visit all the wizarding families he knew.

And learn more about semiconductors and networks from Blake.

Thinking of this, Harry suddenly remembered that Hermione seemed to have mentioned something about semiconductors and transistors before... Maybe he could ask Hermione about it?

When Harry was thinking about his business plan, the replies from those publishing houses also made Harry determined to do something in the publishing or news publishing industry.

In their reply, most publishing houses said that they were looking forward to working with Harry and that they would send their best biographer, Rita Skeeter, to interview Harry.

Looking at this reply, Harry felt.

Or maybe Rita Skeeter is such a famous woman in the news circle that no one wants to compete with her for news.

Or maybe due to pressure from the Daily Prophet, most publishing houses outsourced parts outside of their core business in order to reduce costs.

After all, not all publishing houses can have a makeshift team consisting of only the boss and his daughter.

So in the end, this job will fall into the hands of the person who is most interested in this subject, Rita Skeeter.

Obviously, from the current perspective, this is a blue ocean market that cannot be any bluer.

The wizards' entertainment is still basically at the level of fifty years ago, with the most they have at home being a radio.

Harry had already thought about it. Even if he couldn't get a computer, which was relatively new to Muggles, it shouldn't be a problem to get a TV and a TV station.

The person in charge of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department in the Ministry of Magic, who is responsible for controlling Muggle items, happens to be Ron's father. From the last contact, it seems that he is different from other wizards who know nothing about Muggles. He is very interested in Muggles.

Looking at the good hand he held, Harry felt that he should even thank Rita Skeeter.

If she hadn't caused trouble, I wouldn't even have noticed that there is such a huge market here.

For this reason, when she can't make it anymore, Harry wouldn't mind giving her a camera job and letting her work for him.

Just like those bards who chose to bow down to the Church of Woking.

But Harry had a more important thing to do now.

That is the Gwent cards that had been designed and delivered to the printing factory and were ready to be printed at the end of this semester.

Harry wanted to inform the printing house to start printing in advance, and take advantage of Rita Skeeter's report to put the book on the market as soon as possible while making himself the focus of public opinion.

In order to make Gwent an instant hit, Harry planned to take advantage of his own popularity. Not only did he buy advertisements claiming that this was a game he had 'invented', he also wanted to include his own cards in the first release of the card pack with a probability of 0.02%.

Wizards who have so much free time that they can even read The Quibbler and write to themselves after reading The Daily Prophet will buy a pack even out of curiosity.

And they would be fooled if they bought it... It was a good deal, after all, Gwent would be included in the Hogwarts textbooks next semester, according to Harry's experience.

As long as anything is associated with origin and forms a fan base, the price will soar after a period of silence.

Those wizards who bought the first edition of Gwent will thank themselves for their decision in ten or eight years.

So Harry, who was ready to take advantage of his own popularity, caught Draco's labor and immediately designed a 'Bassilisk Slayer Harry Potter' card for himself.

He also sent a letter to Lucius, explaining his plan to him and hoping that Lucius could cooperate with him.

Soon the letter was delivered to Malfoy Manor by a Hogwarts owl.

"Lucius, I didn't realize you were working with Harry Potter. What is this Gwent card?"

A black-haired boy with scarlet light in his eyes stood in the hall of Malfoy Manor, holding Harry's letter and speaking to Lucius, who was sitting in a high-back chair next to him. His face was pale and dazed, and his hand holding the quill was still on the open diary on the desk in front of him.

"It is... a teaching aid invented by Harry, Master..."

Lucius, leaning back in his chair, spoke breathlessly.

"Hmm...teaching aids..."

The black-haired boy touched his chin and walked over to Lucius.

"Congratulations, Lucius, you are going to make a fortune again."

"Master... Master... I am loyal..."

The black-haired boy reached out and patted the top of Lucius' head.

"Don't be nervous, Lucius... Of course I recognize your loyalty. Just follow the agreement between you and Potter. I can't affect your ability to make money, right?"

"Master...Master..."

The weak Lucius could not understand what the boy meant at all and could only look at the black-haired boy with a pleading look on his face.

"rest assured."

The dark-haired boy patted Lucius on the shoulder.

"I'm different from the others. I'm a very generous person. Earn the money you deserve and don't let Harry find out that there's anything wrong..."

Just as the black-haired boy was speaking, the gate of Malfoy Manor suddenly opened.

"Brother! I'm back!"

A Mind Flayer with tentacles waving from his face and wearing a mud-stained robe walked into Malfoy Manor.

Narcissa, who was following behind it, looked pale and frightened as if she had seen something horrifying.

Through the gate of Malfoy Manor, there were several carriages parked outside.

The pitch-black night made it difficult to see what was packed into the carriage.

"Oh? You brought them all?"

The black-haired boy looked at the carriage outside the door and a smile broke out on his face.

"Then let us begin..."

As the boy snapped his fingers, a rustling sound came from the carriage outside the door, followed by Narcissa's scream and the sound of wood breaking, and a red light appeared in the darkness outside Malfoy Manor.

110 Where have you been? Didn't you say you would go to hell with me?

The next few weeks were very pleasant for Harry.

For a follower of Vol'jin, there is nothing more gratifying than having two big projects in progress.

After communicating with Lucius, the matter of Gwent went very smoothly.

Three days before the release, Lucius spent a huge amount of money to place an advertisement on the front page of the Daily Prophet for three consecutive days to promote "Bassilisk Slayer - Harry Potter" and his Gwent cards.

It is also emphasized that this thing has been selected as an auxiliary teaching aid at Hogwarts.

Taking advantage of the youngest recipient of the Order of Merlin, First Class in history, and the popularity of "Harry Potter and the Dark Knight" which caused Harry to receive all kinds of strange letters for two weeks in a row.

Many wizards are waiting for the release of Gwent, wanting to see what Harry has come up with.

Thanks to Harry's fame and popularity, Gwent's sales were booming on the first day of its release.

Since it is used as an auxiliary teaching aid, the price of the Gwent faction basic pack is not expensive.

Whether it's Rome or Carthage, or the goblin rebels and the giants and acromantula who were assigned to the monster camp, the price of the basic pack is just the price of a single dinner in the Leaky Cauldron.

So after seeing the sales of the first day's orders, Harry rarely skipped his daily evening exercise that night and spent an hour praying to thank Woking for its favor.

And the next morning, at breakfast time.

Before Harry had time to eat, an email bombardment more terrible than the previous one almost buried Harry under the Gryffindor table.

When Harry went to bed last night, all the Gwent cards in stock, from the basic version to the expansion pack, were sold out.

So those who didn't buy it chose to write to Harry, and almost all of them used the same opening line: "Shut up and take my galleons."

Because these people just stuffed the gallons in the letter and sent it together.

Fortunately, the Charms professor Flitwick had some very handy little spells to help Harry sort out all the letters that had been sent to him.

They were tied together with a magic rope and mailed to the printing factory's receiving area.

Otherwise, given the number of letters, it would take Harry at least a week to deal with all of them.

It was not until that evening that Harry learned from Black and Ron, who wrote home, why this situation had occurred.

Since there is a lack of entertainment in the wizarding world, apart from wizard chess, which is similar to Muggle chess but has voice control function, there are only a few other games like Goblin Stone or Exploding Cards.

They are basically modified versions of Muggle toys, and they all have a feature that makes them not suitable for adults to play.

After all, it's normal for two people to have nothing to do in the bar and play a game of Wizard Chess.

But the scene of two adult wizards playing Crackling Explosion cards or Gaobuti on the floor of a bar suddenly became weird.

The level of wizard chess was fixed when we were still in school. Those who can win will not lose, and those who can lose cannot win. It lacks fun.

In addition, the wizard chess pieces will point fingers at the user's commands, causing blood pressure to spike after losing a game of chess.

For example, when Harry first played chess with Ron, he was so angry that he shouted at the chess pieces on the board, "I ordered you to attack! That was an order!"

Gwent does not have this problem. Apart from the movement of the characters on the screen, these cards do not make any comments or do anything wrong to the users.

Even though it's cards, you don't have to build a house of cards from scratch on the floor like you do with the crackling exploding cards.

Instead, he can draw the cards elegantly, put them on the table and play a game with his friends. "I admit that your Gellert Grindelwald is very strong, but if I take out Newt Scamander, how will you deal with it?"

In short, on the first day of the release of Gwent, those wizards who had nothing better to do tried two rounds and figured out how to play this thing.

I quickly became addicted to it, and in the Leaky Cauldron, the number of times I asked "Want to play a game of Gwent?" exceeded the number of times I asked "Boss, would you like a drink of XX?"

Harry found that he had stepped into a blue ocean market. He was not ecstatic, but he felt relieved.

While sending a letter of thanks and congratulations to Lucius, Harry began to study the expansion pack with Draco.

After all, due to concerns about sales, only one Hogwarts expansion pack was launched, which included some famous people from Hogwarts such as Dumbledore, Scamander, and Harry.