The Rise of the Muggles at Hogwarts

Chapter 204 Dumbledore?Got rich?

"But overall, life has improved a lot for the rest of us since you defeated He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Harry Potter survived, and the Dark Lord's spell was broken. It's a new beginning, sir. For those of us who thought the dark days would never end, Harry Potter shines like a beacon of hope, sir... And now, at Hogwarts, Something terrible is about to happen, or may have already happened, and Dobby cannot let Harry Potter stay here, because history is about to repeat itself, and the Chamber of Secrets is opened again!"

Dobby was stunned, his face turned frightened, and then he rushed to the bedside table, grabbed Harry's water jug ​​from the cabinet, then smashed it on his own head, and then staggered away. .

A second later, it slowly climbed onto the bed again, with its eyes facing each other, muttering in a low voice: "Bad Dobby, very bad, very bad Dobby..."

"Stop Dobby!" Hermione yelled, then ran over and snatched the remaining pieces of the jug away from it.And restrained its skinny wrist.to prevent it from continuing to harm itself.

"Wait! How did you know that the Chamber of Secrets was about to be opened? No - how did Malfoy know, the Dark Lord? What does Voldemort have to do with this?"

"Ah, sir, don't ask any more! Don't ask any more about poor Dobby." The elf stammered. His eyes were as big as copper bells in the dark. If Hermione hadn't pulled his hands, it would have turned towards Hitting the edge of the bed. "There's a conspiracy going on here, and Harry Potter must not be here while it's happening. Go home, Harry Potter. Go home. Harry Potter must have nothing to do with this, Sir, it’s too dangerous——”

"Okay, Harry, this little guy's information is a bit out of date." Anthony shook his head and looked helplessly at the farce in front of him.

"Dobby, let me ask you questions now! Of course, I won't ask you embarrassing questions such as: What conspiracy does Lucius have?"

"Sir~" Dobby shuddered and looked at Anthony with some horror. He was probably frightened by Anthony pronouncing the name Lucius.

"Let me ask you, where have you been from September last year to now?"

"Sir, Dobby doesn't understand."

"Where have you been?" Anthony adjusted the question and continued.

"Last year, Dobby was in a certain city in the United States. The buildings there were really tall. This year, Dobby went to many places, including Paris and Milan. Dobby only returned to the UK in February." The elf lowered his head. , answered hesitantly.

"Really? Then you do go to a lot of places." Anthony touched his smooth chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.That's no wonder Dobby's information has such a big time lag. It's almost April and he's still busy with the secret room.

Lucius went to so many places throughout the year?

What conspiracy is this guy up to?

Is it related to those super companies again?

"Okay, Dobby, nothing happens here. Your worries are unnecessary. The secret room has been discovered. Dumbledore killed the basilisk with one sword. Last year, the basilisk was completely dead. ”

Although Anthony did not know who killed the basilisk, this did not prevent him from passing the pot to Dumbledore.

"What? Is this true?" Dobby looked at him in surprise, snot and tears welling up at the same time.The two bat-shaped ears trembled slightly.

"It's true!" Harry on the bed replied irritably, "We saw with our own eyes that the entire body of the basilisk was hollowed out by Snape."

"Snape? Basilisk?" Hermione let go of Dobby's hands and stared at Anthony, Harry, and Ron with a suspicious look on her face.

What did these three guys do while she was away?

At this time, there were many footsteps again in the corridor.

Dobby was stunned for a moment, and after the four of them said goodbye, they disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the door to the infirmary was pushed open, and it turned out to be everyone from the Gryffindor team.

They walked in with smiles and said they were going to hold a banquet here.

The noisy sound soon disturbed Madam Pomfrey. She was wearing a pajamas and a jacket. She walked in angrily, and then scolded Wood, George Fred and the others severely. After a pause, they were kicked out.

And Anthony and the others followed the flow of people and left the medical room.

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On Monday morning, when Anthony opened his eyes, he saw the late spring sun shining brightly into his bedroom.

He met Harry during class in the morning. His arm grew well overnight and he was discharged from the hospital early this morning.

Anthony couldn't really say anything except lamenting the horror of the potion.

Twisted arms!Twist...

one night.What a pervert!

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Hogwarts seems a little different today.

After the Transfiguration class, they met Percy head-on in the corridor.

At this time, Percy was holding a booklet, followed by many adult wizards. Judging from the same clothes and badges on their bodies, these people should belong to the same organization.

Harry and Ron saw this and quickly protected Anthony. They probably thought that these people were here to arrest Anthony again, but the real situation was that they ignored them at all and walked past them. Looking at the direction, it seems to be heading towards the fourth floor.

Originally they thought these people would leave soon, but unexpectedly, Anthony and the others met the group again during lunch in the auditorium. Dumbledore was talking and laughing with them, and seemed to be discussing something.

In the afternoon, many young wizards saw the figures of those people again, in the open space of the school, in the greenhouse of the castle, in the corridor on the fourth floor, and by the fountain in front of the courtyard.

It wasn't until night that they learned the truth from Percy.

"Huh? Dumbledore wants to renovate the entire Hogwarts Castle?" Anthony was stunned when he heard the news, and then asked subconsciously: "Did he win the lottery?"

"No!" Percy said flatly in the Gryffindor lounge. There were volumes of drawings piled up in his hands, which were all the results of one day's drawing this year.

The Wizarding World also has something similar to a lottery, such as the Golden Galleons Prize of the Daily Prophet.In the summer of 1993, Weasley's father was lucky enough to win the Golden Galleons Prize, with a total prize of seven hundred Galleons.

The Golden Gallon Award is held once a year, and the winner is determined by lottery.

There is also the "Daily Prophet" competition award, and the way to win this award is to collect cards.Collect a card called hocustoken.It was printed in the Daily Prophet, and you needed to subscribe to the newspaper to have a chance to win. Anthony remembered that this year’s prize was: a day trip to Paris.

snort!Really stingy.

But the great thing about this prize is that it has a large amount of prizes. Wizards who have subscribed for a long time can almost win the prize. The unscrupulous merchant takes part of your subscription money for a year and creates a prize for you to win... It is really a good game. means!

What’s next: Rita Skeeter’s idea of ​​the annual ugliest-dressed award, the Daily Prophet’s bestseller list, the Daily Prophet’s Owl Mailman of the Year Award, and more.

However, no matter what kind of award they are, their common feature is that the awards are quite cheap. The most valuable Golden Galleons Award is only [-] Galleons.

Seven hundred galleons!

To renovate the entire Hogwarts Castle, it is only a drop in the bucket.

"With so much money from him, the Hogwarts principal doesn't get much salary in a year! It's impossible for him to lose all his salary for so many years! And it's not much."

"Don't you know?" Percy suddenly looked at Anthony.

"Should I know?"

Seeing that Anthony was indeed not very clear, Percy was no longer prepared to hide it. He took out a piece of white and shiny paper from the pile of parchment at hand.

Before it was handed to Anthony, he had already seen the huge emblem on the paper, the Queen's emblem.

After he browsed it carefully, he knew where Dumbledore's financial source came from...

In short – it’s a government grant.

But instead of pounds it's...

"Gan! 1 short ton (0.907 tons) of gold, they really can take it!" Anthony looked at the units on the paper, his eyes were red. As a prince, he couldn't get even an ounce of gold. They gave it to the school. The funding is so generous!

We are not afraid of inflation choking the magical world.

Although Anthony didn't know what the ratio of British gold galleons was to gold, he thought that the value of this kind of precious metal, which even wizards could not create (except for Nick), must be very high.

However - with such a huge amount of gold pouring into the market, the goblins from Gringotts were not aggressive enough to lower the price, so his name was written backwards.

You must know that gold galleons are actually the gold coins of fairies.Each galleon has a series of numbers on its rim, representing the currency number engraved by the Gringotts minting goblins.

Even if you have gold, you can only exchange it at Gringotts.

"what?"

Anthony's cry aroused the curiosity of the little wizards around him.

"What 1 short ton of gold?"

"The British government allocated 1 short ton of gold to Hogwarts. The first batch of gold has been sent to Gringotts."

"Merlin's beard! How much does it cost?" Ron shouted absently.

Most of the other little wizards had the same expression. At their age, they had never heard of so much money.

Harry even imagined a castle made of gold. Will they sleep on a gold bed in the future?

Hermione was the most restrained among the people. She looked around with a somewhat hollow look in her eyes.Although she was very smart when she first thought about it, 1 short ton of gold was too exaggerated, and she might have been confused for a moment.It was like someone had hit his head with a gold nugget.

"Your family is really rich, Anthony." Ron couldn't help but sigh after a moment.

"Huh? What about our family?" Anthony was stunned, and then immediately realized what Ron was going to say.

"That's the British government, not our family! It's just a short ton of gold, it's not a big deal. It's just tens of millions of pounds. The UK now only has more than 1 long tons of gold reserves, which is considered a national reserve, but we have You don’t need gold to buy things. What you spend is pounds. The UK’s GDP last year was US$300 trillion, and that bit of gold is nothing compared to this.” Anthony said disdainfully.

"The total value is about 200 million Galleons. The damn goblins were crazy about lowering the price. We only got 180 million Galleons. They were greedy for more than 20 Galleons. Black-hearted guy, a nuisance." Percy continued. He yelled and cursed as if the money belonged to him. (Trouble! One gram of gold is equal to two gold galleons... or so. I saw an analysis on Baidu that one gram is equal to nine gold galleons. It’s too exaggerated. Let’s just say two!)

Also, for the Weasley family, it was crazy to lose even one penny, let alone 20 gold galleons.

"In addition to these, there is more!" Anthony continued, holding the government document: "All the materials for the reconstruction, expansion, and renovation of Hogwarts are funded by the government. This does not mean that Hogwarts has given away 180 million in vain. Gold galleons?”

"Look below!" Percy said calmly.

"Well -" Sure enough, as Anthony turned the page, a supplementary document from the Hogwarts board of directors appeared on it, "The British government has become one of the directors of Hogwarts?"

"You bought the smallest seat for 180 million? And you're filming behind the Malfoy family? It's a huge loss, okay?" Anthony yelled, holding his chest.

As we all know, the school board of directors is composed of several ancient wizarding families. Some of them will give up or sell their shares when they become lonely. For example, this is how the Malfoy family got involved.

Of course, the board of directors only has the power to appoint the principal, and the actual management is in the hands of the principal. It is a type of giving money and not talking.

I don’t know why Mr. Harker had to squeeze in!

Waste of money!

Might as well give it to me!

"The principal also contributed about one hundred thousand galleons himself." Before Anthony could continue to wail, Percy suddenly interrupted and continued.

"what?"

An exclamation came from the lounge.

This really scared everyone. The Muggle government had so much money, and they just sighed with emotion, but Dumbledore!Where did he get so much money?

If others don't know, how can Harry and Anthony not know?Sirius didn't ask for a salary as Professor of Dark Arts at Hogwarts.

Yes, Hogwarts has been unable to pay wages for a long time, and now all wages are subsidized by the Ministry of Magic.

Malfoy can be so arrogant in front of Dumbledore because he is rich!

Especially the headmaster, according to Sirius, Dumbledore only has one copper Knut a year (in a symbolic sense).

Ordinary employees only earn a few hundred to several thousand gold galleons a month.

Among them, Professor McGonagall has the most. She is the Transfiguration Professor, Head of Gryffindor and Vice-Principal of Hogwarts, and her monthly salary is less than 3000 gold galleons.

Logistics staff like Filch only cost seven to eight hundred gold galleons a month.

Unless Dumbledore has been running a side business all these years, he's got a hundred thousand gold galleons.

oh~~~

Anthony's eyes suddenly lit up. It was Dumbledore's fault for not letting the little wizard enter the Forbidden Forest!

All the good things have been embezzled by this bad old man! (funny)

"The school funded a trading company." Percy lowered his head and quickly flipped through a pile of parchment beside him, and soon found a thick piece of parchment with several chapters tied together with silk threads. Paper.

"Hagrid bought a batch of potions from the Forbidden Forest and some magical materials from other places to a group of American wizards."

"Hoo! So that's what he did during Christmas?" Harry exclaimed, "He's still unwilling to tell us about this, so I thought he was attacked by a dark wizard."

"So, Dumbledore is really getting rich! He is so confident that he wants to rebuild Hogwarts." Anthony handed the document at hand to Percy again, and then lay down on his back.

At this time, George and Fred, who had not spoken a word, suddenly became frightened. They held on to the edge of the armchair, stared at Percy and asked, "I have a question!"

"I have a question too!"

"Why did Dumbledore leave all these matters to you?" the two asked in unison.

After saying that, the two of them applauded in unison.

"Hmph! I knew you two would ask this." Percy seemed to have expected this. His face was indifferent. Compared with when he got twelve certificates like his brother Bill in the OWLS (Ordinary Wizarding Level Examination), The ecstasy was completely different.

He slowly took out a badge from his pocket.

It was a silver badge. The background color was the Hogwarts school emblem, with a string of small words printed on the edge. In the center were four little people holding hands. The four colors represented the four houses respectively.

"Student union president badge?" George said in disbelief, because the current male student union president is still there!Why was Percy suddenly elected student body president?

"Have you been appointed president of the Boys' Student Council?"

"Well, I just received the notification."

"What about William? He doesn't want his position anymore?" Fred asked in confusion. He was from Slytherin House. He would never believe that such a person would give up his rights.

"To be precise, he is still the president of the Boys' Student Union, but he doesn't care about it." Percy put the badge back into his pocket, "This work will last at least until next semester, or even next year. It's already April now, and he I'm about to graduate, so I'm not suitable for this job."

"That's right." Anthony nodded. Indeed, according to the original book, Percy will be informed of being the student union president this summer. Now it's just a few months ahead of schedule. There's nothing strange about it, and what he said is very interesting. reason.

However, due to William's status as the current president of the Boys' Student Union and his background in Slytherin College, Anthony had to think more about this.

He didn't know if Dumbledore knew it, but the last time Hogwarts was under construction, the Slytherin heir at the time used his power to change the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets to the girls' bathroom on the third floor.

The previous entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was not there. 1000 years ago, Hogwarts didn't even have a toilet. It's true. The wizards at that time found a place to solve the problem and used the Vanishing Curse to remove the traces...

Anthony guessed that the little wizards were unable to use this spell, especially the first and second grade wizards, so...

Around the [-]th century, Hogwarts underwent a renovation, and a sewage system similar to the underground pipes of the City of London was added to the castle.

Therefore, Dumbledore will now hand over the work to Percy, who was born in Gryffindor...