Chapter 252: My Lady of Merlin!
How to sell magic wand?
Harry was like a confused monk.

As a dark wizard, if you want to buy a wand, shouldn’t you go to Knockturn Alley?

Then he looked down at the wand in his hand, then at his black cloak, and finally he understood.

It should be said that the wands produced by the Weasley twins are so classic that they are indistinguishable from the real ones.

With such a bundle of wands placed in Ollivander’s Wand Shop, I’m afraid even Ollivander himself wouldn’t be able to tell the real ones from the fake ones.

but……

No matter how realistic it is, it is still fake after all. Once you inject magic power into it and try to use it to cast a spell, it will turn into a quacking rubber duck.

This is a fatal flaw.

Thinking of this, Harry lowered his voice and said, “Five Galleons, but this is just a disposable wand.”

He was indeed not lying, the toy wand was indeed disposable, so the Weasley twins only sold it for four Sickles – the cost of one Sickle, plus the labor fee of three Sickles, it was not expensive at all.

“A disposable wand?”

Hearing Harry’s words, the dark wizards’ faces lit up with joy.

Oh, a one-time one is good…

“How many have you got?” asked the dark wizard. “Show me a wand first. I want to try it…”

“Just like I said.”

Harry rolled his eyes and came up with a plan.

As he spoke, he took out the wand of the dark wizard that he had seized earlier from his wallet and secretly set a trigger spell in it – as long as someone used the wand, the wand would self-destruct.

After finishing the job, Harry handed the wand to the dark wizard.

“You may try, sir—but you must pay for it.”

The dark wizard waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry, as long as it meets my requirements, money is not a problem!”

After that, he took the tampered ‘disposable’ wand that Harry handed over.

“Lumos!”

The tip of the wand lit up red, and the dark wizard smiled with satisfaction when he saw the spell take effect.

He swung his wand again, aiming it at the leaves nearby.

“Winguardium Leviosa!”

This time, however, his spell did not work.

The wand made two hissing sounds and turned into ashes in the satisfied eyes of the dark wizard.

“Good! Very good! Great!”

The dark wizard praised repeatedly, not sparing his compliments at all – even though he was a little at a loss for words.

Wouldn’t such a magic wand be of maximum help to the great cause that they would soon be carrying out?

Think about it, a disposable wand that burns after use, and there is no need to worry about being tracked down by those damn guys in the Ministry of Magic…

Could there be a more perfect wand?

“That’s exactly what I need – so, how much stock do you have in total? I need a lot, a lot -” he said to Harry very sincerely.

Harry calculated carefully…how many did the twins bring out in total…Charlie took five, Ron took six, and he had five…in total there should be at least thirty or so.

Thinking of this, he said to the dark wizard: “I only brought five here. You know, this thing is quite sensitive.”

“I understand. I understand.” The dark wizard had an ‘I understand’ expression on his face.

Harry thought to himself, you know nothing, but he didn’t show any impatience on his face.

He handed five wands to the dark wizard: “Twenty-five Galleons.”

The dark wizard readily took out twenty-five gold coins and stuffed them into Harry’s hand.

Harry put the gold coins back into his arms and said to him, “Wait for me here for a moment, I’ll go back and get some for you.”

“Okay.” The dark wizard nodded.

Harry walked left and right, searching the camp for a long time, and finally found the twins who were selling their goods.

It can be seen that this fake wand does not seem to be popular, at least the twins still have all the wands in their hands.

After seeing Harry, George waved and asked, “Why did you come back so soon?”

“They’re all sold out.” Harry spread his hands and said to the twins, “Twenty-five Galleons in total, here…”

He took out the gold Galleons from his pocket and handed them to the twins.

“You didn’t secretly get rid of the wands?” The twins asked suspiciously, “You sold all the wands so quickly? Merlin’s beard…”

“That generous client needs many more wands.” Harry said to them: “If you don’t believe me, Fred – you can come with me to take a look. Of course, you need to disguise yourself.”

The twins then noticed Harry’s strange attire, and being playful and playful, they immediately thought that there must be something fun waiting for them.

Thinking of this, they both said in unison, “That’s totally fine – wait a minute, I still have thirty of them… Ron and Charlie are having so much fun that they don’t even help me sell the goods. Not long after you left, they came back with their wands, saying they were going with the Malfoys to ask the Bulgarian team for autographs.”

“They are both so unreliable!” Harry followed up with criticism: “Then give me your wands – and who will go with me?”

“I’ll go with you,” said Fred. “Do you have any more black robes like this? They look pretty handsome…”

“You need to cover your red hair.” Harry added: “After all, we are going to do business with dark wizards, and your red hair… doesn’t look very dark.”

There is something wrong with what he said. For some reason, there are very few dark wizards with red hair. They are almost rare.

“Understood.” Fred made an OK gesture, took the black robe from Harry’s hand and put it on.

The two men wore hoods and masks, and they certainly didn’t look like good people.

They walked to the place where the dark wizard was just now, and he was still waiting there. Seeing the two of them coming, the dark wizard was alert at first, but after seeing Harry’s figure clearly, he relaxed.

He raised his head alertly, looked around, and asked in a low voice, “How is it? Did you bring the goods?”

“I have it.” Harry made an OK gesture, indicating Fred to hand over all the wands to the dark wizard.

The dark wizard took the wands, looked at them one by one, and felt the magic contained in them.

“Yes, very pure.” He nodded in affirmation: “Thirty-five in total? Okay, I’ll pay you in Galleons now.”

Harry thought he would refuse to pay, but the other party counted the money and handed it to them without hesitation.

“Check it out. There are a total of 175 gold Galleons.” The dark wizard said to them, “If there is nothing else, I will leave first.”

“Okay, happy business.” Harry nodded.

Fred stood there in shock until the dark wizard left. He then stamped his feet in shock and shouted, “Oh my God! Merlin! God! Merlin’s Virgin Mary! You actually sold a wand worth four Sickles for five gold Galleons! Merlin’s black long johns! This thing only costs one Sickle. This is simply… simply a huge profit. It has increased by eighty-five times! A full eighty-five times!”

There was nothing wrong with his conversion, thanks to the wizards’ magical exchange rate. One gold Galleon was equal to seventeen silver Sickles, so five Galleons were indeed eighty-five silver Sickles.

“I’ve always felt,” Harry said, shaking his head, “that I’m actually more talented in business. What do you think?”

“How can you say you have talent?” Fred put his arm around Harry’s shoulders, and they walked back together: “That’s quite a talent – I’ve decided to give you a commission of four Galleons for each wand, my excellent salesman…”

“Oh, that’s not necessary.” Harry winked at Fred mischievously. “Your Weasley Tricks is still in its infancy, so your top priority now is to recover the funds. Besides, this wand is also your idea. If you really feel bad about it, you can give me 10% of the shares of Weasley Tricks.”

“Thirty!” Fred patted Harry’s shoulder heavily. “You are an important part of our plan. No amount is too much for you! It’s decided. How about it?”

“That’s great.” Harry nodded with a smile.

When they went back and told George about the eighty-five times profit, George looked at Harry as if he was looking at Merlin.

“You’re my god, man!” George said adoringly.

Harry looked humble and said it was no big deal.

They wandered around the camp for a while before seeing Ginny running over.

Just at this moment, a low and deep gong sound came from somewhere in the distance of the woods, and soon, thousands of red, green and yellow lanterns bloomed on the trees, illuminating the way to the stadium.

“Why don’t you go back?” Ginny said anxiously: “Dad has been looking for you, the game is about to start–“

“Okay, Ginny.” Fred waved the green Irish badge in his hand and said to Ginny with a smile, “Look what we bought? Look – Irish sports badge. Here, I’ll give you one.”

“Oh.” Ginny took the badge and pinned it on her chest.

“Let’s go,” she repeated, “Dad is getting so worried!”

“Relax, Ginny.” Fred rolled his eyes: “You really are becoming more and more like your mother, have you noticed?”

“That’s because you’re always a troublesome son!” Ginny said sarcastically. It seemed that this was not the first time she had used words to fight back against the two of them.

After they reunited with their families in the tent, they left the tent and headed to the Quidditch match venue.

Mr. Weasley and Sirius led the way, and everyone, clutching their purchases in their hands, walked quickly into the woods along the lantern-lit path.

They could hear hundreds of people moving about, shouting, laughing, and sporadic singing.

They walked through the woods for twenty minutes, talking and laughing loudly, until they finally emerged from the other side and found themselves in the shadow of a huge gymnasium.

Harry could only see part of the magnificent golden wall surrounding the arena, but he could tell that it could easily hold ten cathedrals.

“It can accommodate 100,000 spectators.” Seeing the astonished expression on Mr. Granger’s face, Mr. Weasley said to him with a smile, “Five hundred staff members of the Ministry of Magic have been busy for a whole year. Every inch of this place has been cast with a Muggle-repelling spell. During this year, whenever Muggles approach here, they suddenly remember the most urgent things and leave in a hurry… May God bless them.”

“But you can’t,” he added, “Muggle Repelling Charms have no effect on you.”

With that, he led everyone towards the nearest entrance, which was already surrounded by many shouting wizards.

“Special tickets,” said the Ministry witch at the entrance, looking at their tickets. “Top box! Go straight up, Arthur, to the very top – the box on the right is yours.”

The stairs leading to the gymnasium were covered with purple-red carpet. They climbed the stairs with the crowd, and slowly the crowd went into the stands on the left and right.

The party, led by Mr. Weasley, went up till they reached the top of the stairs and found themselves in a small box at the top of the gymnasium, directly opposite the golden goalposts.

There were about twenty purple and gilded chairs, arranged in two rows.

Harry followed the Weasleys into the front row and looked down. The scene was something he could never have imagined.

One hundred thousand wizards were taking their seats one after another. The seats were arranged in a stepped manner around the oval stadium.

From their vantage point, the field looked as smooth as velvet.

There were three shooting hoops, fifty feet high, on either side of the field; to the right of them, almost at Harry’s eye level, was a huge blackboard with golden words flashing across it, as if an invisible giant hand was writing on it in a frenzy and then erasing it.

Harry took a closer look and realized that the flashing words were advertisements for the stadium spectators.

Cornflower: The broomstick for the whole family – safe, reliable, with built-in anti-theft buzzer…

Mrs. Skoll’s All-purpose Magic Stain Remover: Remove stains easily! …

Fengya brand wizard uniforms – London, Paris, Hogsmeade…

George and Fred were staring at the advertisement on the big sign in fascination. They leaned on the railing and Fred nudged Fred twice with his elbow.

“One day, I’m going to have Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes advertised at the World Cup!” he said.

“Haha.” George reached out and patted Fred’s arm. “That’s what I hoped for, too. Of course, we can’t let Mom find out, at least not now.”

At the same time, in a dark box.

“Atkinson,” the wizard in shadow said, “How is the task I asked you to do going?”

“Don’t worry, Crouch,” said Atkinson. “I have found a more perfect wand – one that will do our plan perfectly!”

If Harry was in the box, he would definitely be able to recognize him.

This Atkinson is the dark wizard who just bought a fake wand from him.

(End of this chapter)