The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts
Chapter 577: kneeling for a long time
Link and Dumbledore looked at each other.
Both of them laughed.
The difference is that Link's smile has a different flavor.
It was as if he was saying to Dumbledore, "Didn't you say: If you can find clues by shopping, why don't you wait for the Sombra Man to choke to death?" Now the clue comes, what do you say?
To be honest, such a smile was a bit dazzling in Dumbledore's eyes.
Fortunately, he was also thick-skinned, so he coughed and turned to the shopping guide:
"What exactly is the process of customizing a wand? Let's take a look."
The shopping guide was a little confused.
She didn't quite understand why the old man was still proposing that the noble man not get a custom wand, but now she took the initiative to find out more.
But it doesn't matter.
It is good to be able to open.
"No problem, then, please come with me."
The shopping guide bowed and made a gesture of invitation, and the smile on his face became even brighter.
……
This open-minded shopping guide is definitely a professional shopping guide.
Perhaps it was because Link and the others were equally curious about the Zangwill wand shop itself.
So along the way, I also made a lot of introductions to the Zangwill wand shop for Link and others.
That's why Link and other talents finally realized that this magical building with a height of more than ten stories is actually the comprehensive headquarters of Zangwill Wand Shop, which integrates wand making, sales and marketing, and administrative affairs.
The floors above the third floor are the office floors for the staff of the Zangwill wand shop.
The rest of the first floor is the reception hall and the showroom for mass-produced wands.
The second floor is a partitioned box that provides customized services.
The third floor is the reception room for VIPs to rest.
Those who are eligible to enter the third floor are either rich or expensive. Except for the invited national nobles, other guests who want to qualify need to be verified as pure blood, and they also need to spend more than 1,000 gold in their store. Galleon.
This is a very strict condition.
After all, in the current magical world, the pure-blood wizards have largely disappeared.
Rich pure-blood wizards are not absent, but they are generally not very happy to accept the new wand of Zangwill's Wand Shop.
Now, those who are really willing to spend money are actually half-bloods and pure Muggle wizards who made a fortune by squeezing their fellow citizens.
This new wealthy class was eager to join the class circle formed by the old pure-blood wizard nobles, but they were turned away and despised.
Therefore, they began to form their own circles, and began to chase luxury goods to prove their status.
As everyone knows, in the eyes of many old pure-blood wizard nobles, their behavior is completely upstart!
So, in Link's opinion, Zangwill's Wand Shop's membership strategy is really stupid.
But what the shopping guide said was that their VIP reception room on the third floor was often full.
Thanks to the excellent environment, abundant snacks and salon parties held from time to time, many pure-blood wizards who are tired of shopping in Lionheart Street will come up to sit and drink a cup of black tea.
The shopping guide also suggested that if Link is interested, he can go up and take a seat later.
In fact, this is already a hint to Link that the price of the wand customization service he will perform later will definitely exceed 1,000 gold Galleons!
The shopping guide obviously said this on purpose.
This kind of talk is their usual temptation.
People with high emotional intelligence can hear her latent meaning with one ear.
Afterwards, people with confidence tend to be indifferent, while those who are not confident or stingy are different.
Although this type of person is not very easy to attack because the shopping guide did not express it clearly, they will show some dissatisfaction more or less.
This is more convenient for the shopping guides to estimate the probability of the transaction.
And Link, is the type who clearly understands such hints, but is indifferent.
This makes the shopping guides can't help but raise their open-mindedness a little higher.
But unfortunately, Link was still indifferent to this.
The group of them took the special guest magic elevator directly to the second floor.
At the moment when the elevator door opened automatically, everyone realized that the space on the second floor was even larger than that on the first floor.
And its overall decoration adopts the template of Link's previous commercial office building.
Under the package of giant floor-to-ceiling windows, a whole large flat is divided into multiple areas for different purposes.
This bright architectural style made Emily and old Clay's eyes instantly lit up.
After all, such a style is quite rare in the country.
Even Diagon Alley, the most popular clothing store for wealthy wizards, has an archaic architecture overall.
Although this style is quaint and atmospheric, the lighting is generally not good.
If there is no comparison, it is nothing.
But compared with the current scene, the architectural style over there seems a little depressing.
"Guests, please come with me."
The gentle reminder of the shopping guide made everyone wake up.
Under her leadership, Link and the others walked straight into a reception room that was cut off.
A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes like a Wall Street elite was already waiting inside.
Seeing that Link and others came in, he hurriedly took two steps forward, bowed and greeted with a bright smile.
The most important thing is that he used wizard etiquette, not the handshake that Muggles usually use, but wizards, especially pure-blood wizards, are quite disgusted.
"All distinguished guests, please take a seat."
The man invited everyone to take a seat on the sofa beside him, while he stood and kept a humble posture of bowing slightly.
As for the shopping guide who accompanied Link and others up, he had already gone to the next door to prepare refreshments and brought them to Link and others.
It wasn't until all preparations were made that the middle-aged man said with a smile:
"Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Russell Zangwill, the senior account manager of Zangwill's Wand Shop. VIPs can also call me little Zangwill directly.
Of course, my name doesn't matter.
What really matters is our product. "
Little Zangwill blinked, took out an exquisite picture book from the cabinet behind him with a smile, "My high-end customization is for the most noble wizards in this world, that is, guests like you! Here is the Our work exhibition album, each work in it is the proud work of our staff maker, and it is only displayed here after obtaining the authorization of its users. You can take a look at it first.
Of course, at the same time, I will also give you a further explanation.
For example, we customize the wand experience, and custom measurement services...”
Little Zangwill was there chatting and talking.
Link and Dumbledore had already taken the album and started rummaging.
And this time, they had to admit it.
This shop called Zangwill Wand Shop is indeed a small knife to pull the butt, which gave them a big eye.
The strangeness of the wand in the picture book almost overshadows the word strange.
One of the most conservative cases is also highly mutated on the basis of the original wand.
For example, a pink beak wand with small wings, a hole drilled to tie it to your hand, teeth that can bite, and a meter long pink beak...
etc!
Why does this beak wand look so familiar?
Isn't this Sakura's wand?
But... this series of comics doesn't seem to have been drawn yet, right?
Link's expression instantly became distorted.
Seeing this, little Zangwill immediately stepped forward and asked:
"Guest, do you have any questions?"
Link looked up at the other party, pointed to the beak wand on the album, and said:
"This wand... Was it custom made by Neon?"
"Hey! Have you seen this wand, my guest? It's a great honor for me!" Little Zangwill exaggeratedly said, "This wand is indeed one of the magic wands that the great wizard Clow Reed made for him. It was customized by junior Hong, do you also need to get one?"
Link hurriedly shook his head and said:
"I don't like being so pink."
"That's okay, we have many other wands!"
Little Zangwill continued to say excitedly, "For example, sword-shaped, ax-shaped, lance-shaped... These are guaranteed to be powerful enough!"
"Riding a lance?" Link's expression was extremely strange. "You are talking about the kind of lance that was used by medieval iron barrel knights, which is generally three meters long?"
"Yeah! Guest, you are really knowledgeable! You even know this kind of Muggle knowledge! That's right, it's this kind of lance!"
Little Zangwill said happily, and by the way helped Link turn the album to the page of the lance and wand.
In the picture, there is an Arab with a big beard, holding a lance in his forehand and smiling proudly.
This made Link almost laugh out loud.
You know, the lance is the proud product of the cavalry of European countries.
And Europeans and Arabs are an absolute feud.
The brains of the people they fought around Jerusalem for hundreds of years are about to become dog brains.
But now, an Arab specially made a European-style lance wand, and proudly put the magic portrait of himself holding a lance in the exhibition album.
What if this was seen by Muggle wizards who still had feelings for Muggle society?
Moreover, ordinary wizards use magic wands to cast spells. Can such a large lance be wielded?
Link was skeptical.
Just as Link was frantically complaining, little Zangwill was staring at Link with the look of a puppy looking at his master.
You don't have to think about it to know that this is asking Link if he is interested.
Link cleared his throat a little embarrassedly and said:
"These weapon-shaped wands are too powerful and not suitable for me. After all, I am not Gandalf."
Little Zangwill naturally didn't know who Gandalf was, but he didn't ask, just continued:
"Then you..."
Link waved his hand, motioning little Zangwill to shut up, then took out his ebony wand and pressed it against his temple.
With the slow movement of the wand, a strand of silver-white light was slowly pulled out of Link's mind by the tip of the wand.
This ray of light slowly fluttered in the air, and began to rapidly deform under the urging of Link's magic, and finally turned into a sterling silver dagger inlaid with a huge emerald.
Little Zangwill was stunned.
Just from his surname, he should know that he is actually a member of the Zangwill family, and an excellent wizard who has seen the world and has received a good magical education.
It was precisely because of this that he could understand how amazing Link's hand was.
You must know that just being able to extract one's own memory from his mind is an ability that can only be mastered by masters of closed brain or masters of Legilimency.
What's more, Link did not chanting spells or waving his wand deliberately during the whole process from extracting the memory to directly concretizing this memory into a specific picture without borrowing the Pensieve.
This shows what?
This shows that Link is not only a master of closed-brain/legitimation, but also a senior master who has studied silent spells to a very deep level!
Originally, this was not a rare thing.
After all, those who can practice Occlumency and Legilimency to the master level are probably well-known great wizards, and it is normal to be able to cast spells silently.
Klink is really too young!
Look at this young and handsome face, I'm afraid everyone just graduated from the magic school, right?
At such a young age, he possesses such profound magical attainments.
Is this the talent that a true senior pure-blood wizard noble in the country can possess?
Sure enough, it is not unreasonable for those great pure-blooded wizard nobles to stand for thousands of years!
Our wizarding family in France is still a long way off!
"Uh... are you okay?"
Just when little Zangwill was madly fantasizing in his heart, Link's inquiry woke him up.
He hurriedly closed his mouth, which was opened due to excessive surprise, and said humbly:
"Forgive me, I was just shocked by your great strength. Oh! This is really rude, but could you allow me to take the liberty to ask, what is your surname?"
Link's face darkened.
The eyes of Dumbledore and the others beside him also froze.
In order to prevent them from being noticed by the shadow people, their trip is absolutely confidential.
In other words, they must not tell little Zangwill the surnames of himself and others.
But if you don't say it, or use a pseudonym, it's too easy to be exposed and looks suspicious.
Just when Link and the others were thinking about countermeasures, Old Kled suddenly stood up and said to little Zangwill with a sneer:
"What kind of thing are you, you still want to know the name of my young master? Ha! Even adding the Zangwill family behind you is not enough!"
These remarks are domineering and sidelined, and even have a strong sense of ridicule and contempt.
Link believed that he would never be able to endure this kind of grievance if he wanted to replace him as little Zangwill.
If anyone dared to speak to him like that to Link Foley.
The other party's brains were probably going to be punched out by him~lightnovelpub.net~ However, the scene that Link expected the young and middle-aged Zangwill to become angry did not appear.
Little Zangwill blushed when he heard the words, but instead of turning his face, he straightened and knelt down on one knee and said:
"I'm really sorry, young master, I was too reckless, please forgive me!"
Link and Dumbledore exchanged glances, and the muscles on their faces twitched a little.
They really didn't expect little Zangwill to react like this.
However, Link quickly adjusted his expression.
Because he wanted to understand.
The pure-blooded noble wizards of the country, when they treat non-national pure-blood wizards, probably have the same attitude as Old Kled.
This should be understood just by looking at the Malfoy family.
And most people who are treated like this will be angry.
As for why little Zangwill has such a humble attitude, it can only be attributed to the fact that the French wizard has been kneeling for a long time and can't stand up.
"Cough cough—"
Link coughed twice, "Uh, let's go back to the topic of daggers and wands."
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