"Fail less"

"It's not just a failure, it's a disaster." Mr. Weasley sighed. "These villages are beautiful and peaceful, but the problem is that all wizarding villages are beautiful, you know what I mean?"

There are only so many people in the wizarding world, and there are only so many people who have money and leisure to wander around.

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For these people, it’s actually the same wherever they live, and rather than go all the way to another village to live in “recuperation”, it’s better to live in their own manor: and their own cattle are better.

Lockhart was grateful for Mr. Weasley's explanation, but his plan was not that simple.

"Thank you, Arthur, but I'm talking about holiday homes for Muggles," Lockhart said.

The air in the club box suddenly became quiet, and the room was obviously not big.

But it seemed like there was an echo, and it was his last words that kept echoing in everyone's minds.

o Open for Muggles? "

"Yes, open to Muggles before people are allowed to enter."

"I must remind you,

Mr. Weasley repeated.

And only the wealthy and dignitaries of Muggles, the upper class Lockhart, explained his thoughts.

The Confidentiality Act provides that—”

\"It is stipulated that magic cannot be cast on Muggle faces: the existence of the magical community must also be concealed from Muggles, and magical activities that may attract Muggle attention are serious violations." Lockhart for Weasley Added the latter.

\"You know that," said Weasley in disbelief.

Although he has been quite "friendly" to Muggles in the magical world, he has never thought of taking the initiative to introduce Muggles into the wizard's own community.

"Isn't that all right?" said Lockhart plausibly. "As far as I know, Dingworth in Cornwall, Upper Frigley in Yorkshire, Ottery St Catchpole in Devon Village, and Godric's Hollow in England, these villages are mixed with wizards and Muggles... Ah, I almost forgot, Arthur, don't you live in San Catchpole."

"That's not the same. We will deliberately stay away from those Muggle villagers, and the house has been placed with a hidden charm, and they will not be discovered by daily magic, and those Muggles have also been cast by us with a simple Confusion Charm, so Not a big deal," Weasley argued.

"But I remember that you often exchanged your own magically grown vegetables and fruits with Muggle villagers for food."

Weasley shrugged: "It's not illegal. Molly often uses the patties she made herself to go to the villagers for ham and cheese. Muggles can't eat them anyway."

"So as long as you can control the consequences, it doesn't matter if you put Muggles in there, right?"

As Lockhart spoke, he summoned a roll of parchment and unfolded it in public.

After the paper was unfolded, everyone discovered that it was a statistical table.

"This is the result of my statistics for more than a month - in fact, even in Hogsmeade Village, the villagers don't use magic much in their daily life, mainly when cleaning and cooking. .

If we stipulated that magic items were controlled during the time the resort was open to Muggles, then things could be solved - or maybe it would be nice to have the villagers secretly cast spells in the basement. "

"But is this necessary?" Mr. Diggory couldn't help but ask, "to make so much money?"

"That's not a lot of money, Amos," Lockhart sighed. "We're targeting the fat-guy financial capitalists among Muggles who spend a dozen or so a year just playing golf. Wangalong... By the way, you reminded me that another golf course can be built around Hogsmeade. Anyway, golf originally originated in Scotland, and we hardly need to spend money to maintain the turf, just dig a few holes, mountain, The lakes are all there."

"Can you find so many guests?" Everyone expressed doubts.

Lockhart seemed full of confidence: "As long as the oil well is in operation, then we will have to deal with them, and when they realize the benefits of recuperating in the magic village, we will form a secret club for them, with an annual membership fee of at least From £100,000... To be honest, I don't know if I don't deal with them, the Malfoys have been secretly playing futures."

\"What are futures?"

"It's a deal with an agreed price early on - that's how you understand it. The Malfoys do grain deals, and they put grain from their land into the Muggle grain futures market to hedge their value - it's almost is cheating because

The yield of their land far exceeds that of Muggles

Although I don't understand what Lockhart said about futures, what everyone can understand is that there are people in the wizarding world who have been secretly trading with Muggles for a long time, and that is the Malfoy family.

Only then did they understand why Lockhart had brought them here.

If Lockhart wants to transform Hogsmeade into a 'wellness resort', everything from circumventing and hiding magical creatures around the village to banning the abuse of magic laws, to hiring professional healers from St Mungo's, and magical transportation Planning is indeed not something that Lockhart alone or the Division of International Affairs and Cooperation can accomplish.

This kid actually wants to pull us all into the water! This is a common thought in everyone's mind at this time.

Lockhart is not in a hurry to convince everyone at once. He only needs to bring his own ideas to the reception. As for the project, if he wants to launch, he has to wait until the end of the Triwizard Tournament.

The only problem is legal, he has to get enough leagues to push the project forward, because it's actually playing a secrecy law edge ball.

As for the source of customers, he is not afraid. As he said just now, the Muggle financial community lacks almost everything. If they were not worried about the decaying body due to hedonism, they would be more indulgent than they are now.

Before Muggle medical care had developed to that point, Lockhart had reason to believe that this particular nursing home would be favored by the rich.

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After planting a seed in the minds of his colleagues, Lockhart did not rush to let it germinate immediately, but chose to wait patiently and let it ferment for a while.

His debriefing report has been handed in, and it has been affirmed by the above, and then it depends on whether his requirements can be met.

"I'll get you the system you want, and it just so happens that there are still people who haven't been assigned to last year's graduates." Mr. Crouch said to him, "within two weeks she will go to you and report that you have to prepare her An office and a place to settle down.”

"She? Female intern?" Lockhart asked sensitively.

embankment. We asked all the eligible interns if anyone volunteered, and the lady said yes. ' Crouch answered his question.

If it was someone else, Crouch would definitely not make excuses, but he didn't mind making an exception for a subordinate who easily broke through in a month. Compared with the "original" Percy who had been working for more than half a year, he had not been accepted. In terms of the treatment of remembering the name, it is really a heaven and an underground.

But to be honest, Lockhart was a little unhappy about the fact that the intern he was about to be assigned was a woman.

This is not prejudice, because of magic, women in the wizarding world are actually not much different from men in terms of physical strength and physiology, but the perceptual mode of thinking always makes him feel a little bit disturbed.

Because he is a "thinking" creature, even if he falls into a certain emotion, he will quickly struggle out of it and maintain his ego and rationality, which also makes it difficult for him to indulge in a certain emotion.

"Is there no one else. I mean, it's not a good arrangement in life..." Luo

Hart couldn't help asking

Mr. Crouch's reaction immediately let him know that he had gone too far.

"It's hard to find an intern from a pure-blood family." Mr. Crouch raised his face, even if the expression was not much different from before: "As for the treatment, there is no need to be too reluctant, no one will be in this regard. Gossip... In fact, you don't need to worry about this issue."

Crouch had said so, and Lockhart had no choice but to no longer raise any objections, and planned to spend the day in the office and return to Hogsmeade after doing some private affairs.

Of course, compared with public affairs, he should be more conscientious in his private affairs.

He first informed his brother-in-law about the progress of the oil drilling company, saying that because of the sufficient data, Ai Ming's company is likely to dig the first oil well within a few months, and start trading oil within the year. Be careful.

Although a little surprised at the progress of the well development, William didn't ask much, because that was not his style.

It's just that when he saw the financial statements that Lockhart handed in, he couldn't help frowning.

"Don't the people on your side have professional accountants and lawyers?" He pointed to the report that Lockhart submitted and asked: "This kind of thing can't handle the tax bureau, let alone pass the listing audit."

"The tax office can't control our side for the time being." Lockhart said proudly, "My company is registered in the Virgin Islands, and the company there can provide all legal procedures as long as we pay."

William is of course well aware of this. In fact, his brother-in-law is not the only one who digs big corners. Among the people who have opened accounts at the bank, there are not 10,000 or 8,000 customers who do this. He has long been used to it. .

"But if you want to start a business in the UK, join the futures system and eventually go public, you have to have a qualified audit report. And if your company

If the company has no insurance, no professional legal advisers, and no tax and legal firewalls, no one will be willing to trade with you. You'd better prepare early. ' he reminded.

Lockhart is a little puzzled: video deletion, sauce cockroach =  gray word, Liao Qian hanging, huh. Although Ai Ming said that it will speed up later, but...is it necessary to start preparations so early?

"Of course, because listing requires auditing of three-year annual reports, the sooner you start preparing, the faster you will go through the formalities."

William explained it briefly, but he immediately thought of something: "But you can also choose to go public through the backdoor, but it will cost more money, and I personally don't recommend it."

In just a few words, Lockhart exposed the fact that he really did not know much about the financial market, so he could only leave it to professionals to take care of it.

However, William said that these are not problems, as long as he has money, no one in the financial center of London is willing to provide him with services.

Lockhart also thought about it, there is no need to save this kind of small money.

"Then please leave some refreshments and recommend to me the talents in this field... In addition, you can also communicate with the powerful people involved in oil futures and finance. If you have time, I would like to invite them to a private resort to play." Lockhart buried again - fruit page Chadingzi

"Resort? Could it be..." William had some guesses in his heart.

"Yeah, as you think, they'll have a great time there, and they'll thank you when they come back," said Lockhart, winking at him.

William agreed with a wry smile.

Lockhart wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to buy film film to continue to spend two more days in London, after all, the big city is still more fun than the country.

But the Ministry of Magic suddenly sent an urgent notice, saying that it was discovered by Hogwarts.

The traces of Sirius o Black were found, so he was asked to go back quickly and cooperate with the work of the Dementors.

Lockhart said in his heart that Blake was really strong enough to move, and he did it without even exploring the path.

Of course, he only dared to complain secretly, but in terms of face, he immediately complied with the above request, and immediately returned to the screaming shack from the fireplace of the Ministry of Magic.

When he got back, he found that Dobby was bathing Sirius.

I only heard Dobby complaining to the **** dog while washing, saying that it was running around again and came back with ashes.

Strange, I didn't see it rolling around in the house, why did it get ashes on its back as soon as it went out? "

Sirius said in his heart that if you go to a passage that has not been touched for almost 20 years, you will come back covered in ashes.

Seeing Lockhart's return, Blake knew that his own affairs had alarmed the Ministry of Magic after all, and he was secretly proud of himself.

During the three days that Lockhart was away, he took advantage of the night to reopen two of the three secret passages he knew leading to Hogwarts.

His progress was very slow, because whenever he came to a familiar scene, he couldn't help but recall the past, and he could only move forward after a while with emotion. He was almost re-exploring while immersed in the memories of his student days, and the speed naturally couldn't be faster.

Of course, Dobby's hard work is undoubtedly a strong support for his actions - if he hadn't eaten and drank during the day, and could sleep soundly on the soft carpet, he would never have been able to revisit the old place so leisurely.

The one closest to the Gryffindor Tower is undoubtedly the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor, but Sirius was not good at his apprenticeship. When he was about to reach the end, he found that the passage had collapsed and had no choice but to return;

The second one did work, from the screaming shack to the one under the beating willow

Well, Sirius judged by the thick dust in the passage that no one had passed by in more than a decade since Remus last transformed in the Screaming Shack in seventh grade.

In other words, he can completely regard this as an "absolutely safe" passage.

In addition, Sirius knew of a secret passage from Honeyduke's cellar to the corridor on the third floor of Hogwarts, but this secret passage was not easy for him to go through often, because the entrance was in someone else's house.

Fortunately, the owner of the Duke of Honey recognized this dog 7 and knew that it was Lockhart's recent caretaker, so he didn't bother him. Sirius is also not easy to force.

In the end, Sirius took the opportunity to sneak in when the dementors came to inspect and Froome was out to deal with the dementors.

Facts have proved that this passage can also be walked, but there are too many stone steps, it will take a little longer, and it is not concealed enough, and there is a lack of occupation exposed under the eyes of the boss of Honey Duke.

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But the advantage is that you can directly reach the castle, unlike the one in the screaming shack, you need to sneak in from outside the castle.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, there are a lot of secret passages from outside the school to the inside of the school, and it is not difficult to enter and exit freely.

After exploring the way to the castle, Sirius relied on the smell left in the corner and reconnected with Crookshanks in the castle.

Crookshanks told him in his own way that Ron Weasley, the red-haired boy, was very wary of him now, and that he couldn't get the rat.

And Blake also told it to let it figure out a way to get the password to enter and leave the common room, and the rest will figure out a way.

Crookshanks was a little distressed—because it wasn't smart enough to read the English alphabet, and couldn't repeat the students' passwords for Sirius to know.

But Black said it didn't matter, he would find a way to get Gryffindor to let students in through a new method.

So he did a big thing - he transformed himself into a corner in the dark of night, then came to the door of the Gryffindor lounge and woke the Fat Lady by yelling on purpose, and then pointed his wand at The fat lady at the door seemed to chanted a spell aloud, destroying the frame of the portrait.

After finishing this big thing, he was not in a hurry to sneak back to Hogsmeade immediately, but after a few circles, he returned to Hogsmeade from the beater willow, before Dobby woke up. The wand was put back into place.

Since the Fat Lady was already the entrance portrait of Gryffindor when he was in school, he was sure that the other party would recognize him.

Next, Blake quickly slept back into his kennel, pretending to have slept there all night, perfectly completing his alibi.

Next, Hogwarts may be in chaos for a while, and security is the easiest to make mistakes during changes. He just needs to wait patiently for Crook LU to help and find loopholes in security.

Peter Pettigrew... let's see! Take advantage of the last period of your life, hurry up and repent!

Chapter 189 I'm afraid that the reckless man will use his brain

After Lockhart came back, he didn't say anything. The first thing he did was to check his old wand, because he wasn't sure if Sirius had that kind of mind, so he destroyed the evidence in time.

He was very satisfied with the result—this guy's brain is really good, and the last few spells flashed by the Flashback Curse were all forgetting spells.

Seeing Lockhart check his old wand, Sirius was very proud—he first used a flashback spell to confirm that the last two or three spells applied by this wand were "forgotten". Only used it to cast a spell on the Fat Lady.

After casting the spell, he used the wand to empty several forgetting spells in a row, and then put the wand back to its original position.

Hmph, I'm afraid this confused Ministry of Magic clerk can't find anything?

However, despite Black's care, not only that the wand's box had not been moved, but that he had been carefully wiped when returning the wand, Lockhart's unintentional calculations were still revealed.