Chapter 630: The Magic House, No, It’s an Arms Dealer

Behind the store is the storage room, a room that is spacious enough but somewhat dimly lit. Push the door and go in. There is a large wooden square table in the center of the room, surrounded by neatly arranged display shelves. On the shelves are boxes of tricks. product.

Walking into the back room, closing the wooden door, the noisy laughter in the shop subsided, and the three of them sat down around the square table.

"Seriously, Professor Lupin, you look like you haven't had a good night's sleep in a week." Loren looked at the dark blue under his eyes, smiled and asked with concern, "Have you been worried about anything lately?"

Lupine glanced at the slightly immature faces of the two people and said with a smile: "You will know in the future that adult wizards have new worries every day."

"This is in George and Fred's joke shop. They must disagree with you." Loren looked around, "There are things everywhere that can make people happy."

"Momentary happiness can't cover up the bad reality." Lu Ping sighed, then shook his head and said, "But at this time, it's good to be able to make people forget their worries for a short time...Forget it, let's talk about the recent past. What happened..."

Loren saw that his frowning eyebrows relaxed and he sat there and listened quietly.

"It all started when you took the exam last semester..."

Lupine slowed down his speech and spoke while sorting out his thoughts, "Two months ago, I received a letter from the Magical Congress of the United States of America and the Werewolf Organization. Their investigation found some abnormal situations. Some people were absorbing dark wizards there and secretly bewitching them. Werewolves, there are even signs that... someone is using the Imperius Curse to enslave them..."

"Is it Voldemort's work?" Hermione guessed immediately.

Lupine nodded: "I immediately went to New York to investigate after receiving the letter, and found traces of Greyback, or a group of werewolves that had escaped from Britain. They recruited dark wizards, enslaved and absorbed werewolves, and some of them were transferred to In response to the Ministry of Magic's offensive, some Americans still stranded seemed to be planning something. However, Greyback was too stubborn and refused to reveal Voldemort's purpose until he was taken into the Manhattan bedrock at the bottom of the building... "

"Manhattan bedrock..." Loren repeated.

"It's the death chamber of MACUSA, located on the bottom floor of the Woolworth Building. There is a death potion pool there, which can quietly display the memory of the condemned prisoner. We see some scenes through the silhouette of his memory before death. …”

Lupine explained calmly that no one had thought that Greyback's most precious memories were the life before he was infected with werewolf disease. Because of this, his behavior of clearly understanding the pain but passing it on to others was even more unforgivable.

"Part of the footage shows that they had been lurking in Ilvermorny for a long time and did not even leave when Voldemort attacked the Ministry of Magic."

"what are they doing?"

"I don't know. MACUSA immediately notified Ilvermorny. Principal Fontana invited many experienced wizards to investigate, but so far there is no result."

Lupine shook his head, "The Aurors examined other werewolves. According to them, they were hunting down Igor Karkaroff, but this cannot explain why they stayed in New York and Ilvermorny as early as half a year. They found the body of Igor Karkarov on the banks of the Mississippi River."

"Igor Karkaroff..." Hermione sighed as the goateeed wizard appeared in front of her eyes, "If he had not fled, he might have been safer under the protection of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore. "

"Greyback is lurking in...Ilvermorny...Voldemort..." Loren frowned slowly, and various clues gathered in his mind, sketching a vague picture, "Is Voldemort plotting against Slater?" Lin’s wand? The one that turned into a snake tree on Mount Greylock.”

Hermione didn't speak for a while, looking thoughtful.

The snakewood wand is a wand made by Salazar Slytherin himself, using Slytherin's unique magical skills. Like other treasures he left behind, this wand obeys the commands of Parseltongue.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Aesop Thel stole the snakewood wand held by his aunt Gormley Gaunt and came to Ilvermorny, founded in Massachusetts.

Later, he was approached by Gormlai Gaunt, and he went through a series of thrilling and twists and turns of an old-fashioned adventure plot, and finally Aesop Seal won. The price was that the snakewood wand was ordered to sleep, and she could not use it because she did not speak Parseltongue.

The wand was buried on top of Mount Greylock. A year later, a snake tree with powerful healing powers grew from the burial site.

Since he couldn't get his first choice, the Elder Wand, it made sense for Voldemort to turn to the wand left by Slytherin.

Lu Ping suddenly said: "Principal Fontana also suspected that his target was the snake tree. He has already sent someone to check it. The snake tree is just missing some branches and leaves. There is no problem overall, and the healing power has not been weakened."

"This is strange..." Loren was very surprised, and Hermione frowned.

"Don't think about it, this is not something you should worry about." Lupine looked at the two young wizards who were deep in thought and chuckled, "It's better to pay attention to your personal safety, Loren, the dark wizards absorbed by Voldemort have attacked many people recently. Someone who is proficient in alchemy and knows the ancient secrets of the Middle Ages..."

"Don't worry, school will start in less than two weeks..." Loren shrugged. If Voldemort wanted to get some secret information about alchemy and the Middle Ages from him, he would definitely not wait until now. "Harry should be more careful about safety than me, right?"

Lupin nodded and smiled, "Harry has moved out of the Dursleys. His current residence is not fixed. He rotates between the Burrow and the Black Mansion. Mad-Eye Moody leads a team of Order of the Phoenix members hiding near the Burrow, and Tonks leads a team of Aurors stationed at Grimmauld Place. The most important thing is The key is that Scrimgeour ordered the Department of Transportation to withdraw the monitoring of the Burrow's Floo Network, so no one would find Harry's trace. "

The Floo Network built by the Department of Transportation is indeed a great invention that has changed the wizarding world. It is almost equivalent to the network lines in the Muggle world. The fireplace is connected to the Floo Network, just like the fiber optic connection at home. Wizards no longer need to cross mountains and ridges for long-distance travel, fly thousands of miles on a broom, or spend time and effort to continuously Apparate. They only need to pay a little insignificant Floo powder to transform themselves into signals and transmit between the Floo Network.

The fireplace of the old Black house hides the address after connecting to the Internet, so that others cannot view it and the Department of Transportation cannot monitor it.

The best network protection in the Muggle world is to disconnect the Internet, which also means that the old Black house connected to the Floo Network is not 100% safe. Loren has now seriously thought about it. If the Department of Transportation always sees that the fireplace of the Burrow is connected to an unknown address, smart people can guess that it is the old Black house.

Thinking of this, Loren subconsciously looked at the fireplace of the magic shop. Unfortunately, it was summer now, and the fireplace was not lit. In addition, the shelves blocked the view of the fireplace.

Noticing his movements and expressions, Lupin followed his line of sight. Although he did not find anything unusual, he knew that this student was different, so he asked directly: "Are there any loopholes in the protection measures? Or is there anything that can be improved? Just tell me."

"I have a rough idea to make the space channel of the Black House in the Burrow independently connected, and not connected to the Ministry of Magic's Floo Network at all..."

Loren pinched the pendant on his chest. In fact, he was not very worried about security issues. With Dumbledore defending Voldemort alone, other Dementors, werewolves and new Death Eaters were definitely not Moody and others' opponents, but this transformation was an opportunity to try to use the space magic obtained from the Planetary Room of the Department of Mysteries.

Loren thought about it, and his thoughts gradually became smoother. He told his ideas bit by bit: "This connection is more private and safer, and I may be able to build a pass identification mechanism. When using floo powder, the target fireplace must agree to transmit..."

Hermione tilted her head slightly and looked at Loren beside her. Her eyes fell on the silver gemstone on Loren's chest pendant, revealing a clear expression.

The things brought out from the planetary room last year should have been studied out.

After listening to his idea, Lupin thought for a while and said happily: "This will be of great help to future protection work. I will discuss with them when I go back and try to hand over the fireplace to you for renovation as soon as possible."

Loren nodded gently.

At this time, the door of the storage room was suddenly pushed open, and the twins said happily: "We also have a project to cooperate with you!"

George and Fred ran in with hurried strides. I don't know how much news they heard just now. The three people talking didn't care much. Anyway, the fireplace of the Burrow was about to be renovated, and they couldn't hide it from them.

"What is the cooperation project you are talking about?"

Facing the puzzled eyes of the three people, Fred explained: "We mentioned it to you a long time ago. You can use your superb alchemy and potion skills to develop and produce products, and we will be responsible for promotion and sales."

George chuckled and said: "You can ask for any profit share, whether it is 37, 28 or 19... We believe in your alchemy and potions."

Loren thought for a while, shook his head and refused: "Forget it, I am not short of money now, and more importantly... For prank products, thinking is more important than technology. Alchemy and potion science are just tools to realize ideas. I may occasionally come up with a few good ideas, but they are definitely not as popular as the prank products you designed. This is your unique talent."

The twins never care about others' evaluation of their achievements, but they are very useful to such compliments.

"The purpose of Weasley's Trick Shop is to bring happiness to customers!" George and Fred said in unison, but the next moment they laughed, "But the cooperation we are talking about is not a prank product!"

"What is that?" Hermione asked curiously.

"It's a protective product for the dark arts. To use your Muggle words--" George said proudly, "It's a military product!"

"We just developed these more serious products. It's really fun to talk about it..." Fred muttered as he came to the display shelf and took out some things from the carton. Compared with the goods displayed outside, these products seemed to be relatively low-key. "It's incredible that people working in the Ministry of Magic...even many senior Aurors, they can't even recite a decent armor charm."

"That's right, we originally thought that the anti-curse hat was just a funny thing." George showed an ordinary-looking felt hat, "Wearing this hat, staring at someone's face when he is cursed, the curse will rebound. It was originally used to tease companions. I didn't expect the Ministry of Magic to purchase 500 of them! Now they are still placing additional large orders!"

"So we took the opportunity to develop a series of products, such as anti-curse cloaks, anti-curse gloves, etc..."

Fred spread his hands to show off the products, "I picked some products from other countries by the way. You see, the invisible smoke bombs imported from Peru were introduced by Charlie. He once tamed a Peruvian Venomous Tooth Dragon, and used decoy bombs to divert attention when the fire dragon got out of control. A powerful tool..."

Loren became interested and looked through the products in front of him.

The decoy bomb is a gadget that looks like a black owl. Judging from the materials and craftsmanship, the alchemy inside is not complicated. After being thrown, this thing will immediately make a loud noise and escape quickly; stealth smoke bomb , the invisibility effect is worse than the Illusion Curse, but the instant burst of smoke is very effective...

As for other curse-release products, the basic principles are the use of the Iron Armor Curse, and the effect is... better than Merlin's Blessing.

"You don't need to think about it to know that they don't have much effect on the Unforgivable Curse. They can only prevent some less deadly and less powerful curses..." George's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "But these things are simply Money tree!”

The two of them looked at Loren together, their eyes sparkling: "We plan to fully enter the field of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and now we officially invite you to join, Loren!"

Loren raised his eyebrows: "It sounds interesting, but I have different views on the share you proposed..."

George and Fred cried sadly: "Can't we only occupy 10%?"

"I really don't want you to take even 10% of it..." Loren smiled, "Listen to me, two bosses of the Weasley Arms Company, I don't plan to spend a lot of time as a supplier, refining things and selling them. It’s too troublesome, so I have a suggestion..."

"What advice?"

"I am responsible for the research and development work, develop the product and draw the drawings, and record the refining method in detail. You can refine it and sell it by yourself, just pay me the patent fee." Loren paused, "The patent fee is negotiated between the two of us. One price can be a direct buyout, or you can consider sharing it, which means you put in more effort and make more money. "

George and Fred looked at each other, cheered in surprise, and took two steps forward to hold his arm and lift him up.

Loren quickly avoided it.

Just at this time, a young witch with short blond hair opened the door and walked in. She was also wearing a magenta store uniform robe.

George and Fred immediately changed their goals and happily ran over to high-five her:

"Verity! We're going to get rich!"