A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

Felix watched Ginny and Luna leave the classroom with a replica of the Goblet of Fire, which, to be honest, wasn't light, but he wisely didn't advise them to use magic.

They're all smart, they probably just don't want to, not really don't realize they can use the Levitation Charm to reduce weight... right?

...

The next morning, on the weekend again, he soothed the bedridden Sniff and walked across the office fireplace to Diagon Alley.

Felix walks on a long cobblestone road lined with huddled restaurants and shops, giant parasols in front of some shops, and the sign of Florin's Ice Cream in the warm yellow light sparkling.

Even if he felt it intuitively with his eyes, he could judge that the 'Future World' company was developing very well - along the way, he could often see the large and small magic lights through the shop windows, they were like a drop of water, blending into it. The center of London's wizarding world.

At the door of the future world company headquarters, he unexpectedly saw a large group of people crowded at the door, noisy and lively. At the same time, some people came out of it talking and laughing.

The two staff at the door were sweating profusely to appease the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, don't crowd, everyone can take their turn." He put one or two people in every now and then.

How is this going?

Felix stood by and stared for a while, then stepped forward, the crowd automatically separated, "Wait, this gentleman... Are you, Mr. Hepp?" The staff member who stopped in front said in surprise, and then used worship His eyes looked at him and led him into the vertical castle building.

"Mr. Haipu, please come in, I have to maintain order." The staff said respectfully.

Felix nodded, stepped up the stairs, and had a panoramic view of the scene in the hall.

It has completely changed here.

He still remembered that it was originally empty, with a dark floor. Looking straight up from the center of the hall, he could directly see the chandelier at the top, and the arc steps spiraling upwards on the side. layers are connected.

Felix's deepest impression is that he, Snape and Lupin fought here, and then sat together to discuss the company's development plan.

But the hall in front of him looked like a splendid museum, full of people.

The young witches pointed at more than a dozen showcases, which should be newly developed products by the company's researchers, and a few staff members in uniform next to them were busy.

"Professor Hepp," said a girl with long curly hair.

"Clivat," Felix said to the person next to him, "the company has changed so much that I don't even recognize it."

"This is the result of everyone's efforts." Penello said with a smile, at this time, they walked along the spiral staircase to the second floor. She introduced as she walked: "Opening the lobby on the first floor was Cremy's proposal. We put some products that are not fully finalized outside, and regularly invite outsiders to visit and try them out, and pick out useful suggestions for revisions."

"I see, you are doing very well." Felix nodded slightly and said with emotion: "Maybe I should give you a raise."

He stood at the railing on the second floor, looking down from above.

With the help of the staff, a young witch put on an emerald crown, and then there was an exclamation from the crowd. Her whole person shone with a crimson light, and her hair turned into a light frost color. Magical brilliance intertwined and extended down her neck. In the envious eyes of everyone, she put on a light princess-colored princess dress, with gorgeous flowers blooming on the edge of the skirt.

"How much is this! I want this!" cried the witch. She looks like a princess now, and every inch of her skin shimmers with dazzling sheen.

"This is not for sale, we are still in the experimental stage..." The staff had to explain with difficulty.

Twenty or thirty feet away, a curly-haired little boy with purple hair blew a sea-blue bubble, wrapping his one-year-old brother in it. The bubble looked very tough, and floated with the baby inside. feet in height. The baby sat in the bubble, stretched out a chubby little hand to a budding Clivia, but was blocked by the bubble. When the sea blue bubbles landed on the buds of Clivia, the petals bloomed little by little, and a thumb-sized flower fairy was projected from the bright yellow stamens, flashing quickly around the baby, causing a burst of "giggling" laughter .

Their parents carefully stayed by their side, double-checking if there were any problems...

Felix continued upstairs and asked, "How is Percy's job at the Ministry of Magic?"

"He?" Penello sighed, "He is too busy, he wants to make some achievements, and just in time for his boss, Mr. Crouch, to take a long vacation, he can only give instructions through the owl, which leaves him With full autonomy, many small things can be decided by himself... He is addicted to it..."

She said with some dissatisfaction: "He told me that he wanted to live in the ministry, but I stopped him."

Felix pauses, his impression of Percy comes from his hard work in studies and rigid stubbornness in everyday life, and a profound lack of humor. Although he doesn't like to tell jokes himself, at least he can hear it and is willing to applaud, but these behaviors are not seen in Percy.

According to Mrs. Weasley's original words, "The decision he made, ten cows can't pull back."

Felix looked at Penello thoughtfully.

"Can you persuade him?"

"Usually... yes." Penello was a little strange, but replied.

"Yeah." Felix nodded.

They came to the third floor and pushed open a door of solid wood. Inside was a spacious room. Lupin and several people stood together and had a serious conversation.

In the center of the room, stood a huge wormwood-colored canvas like a portrait, on which was a moving image——

Two delicate magic golems are engaged in a duel, with blue lightning and orange flames intertwined. The puppets are obviously controlled by people, and they often use the terrain to avoid attacks when there is no time to release, and their movements are natural and smooth. Several researchers below stared at the canvas, exclaiming from time to time, or inhaling in unison because of the intense action scenes.

Felix is ​​acutely aware that this is not a magic painting with a spell cast, but a live broadcast of some kind, as he sees Clémy Vera and Aric McKee surrounded by the crowd - they are canvassing The command puppet at the bottom of the screen, a huge thing like a camera is facing the 'battlefield' between them.

Seeing Felix approaching, Lupin walked over quickly. He complained, "If it wasn't for letters from owls all the time, I would have thought you were missing."

"Didn't I come here before?" Felix said awkwardly.

"Indeed," said Lupin teasingly, nodding, "let me think about when, if my memory wasn't altered, I saw you last week, no, that was through a sound mirror, yes Last week? That was your Patronus—the recipe for two alchemy ingredients. Or last week? I remembered wrong, it was actually Dobby…”

"Cough cough!" Felix's eyes rolled quickly, and he changed the subject: "Is that the space capsule I told you about? It's interesting..."

They looked at the other side of the spacious room together. A young researcher took out a capsule from a flat metal box, threw it on the ground, banged a cloud of white smoke, and threw various miscellaneous objects from it. things, canvas bags, kettles, clothes, and even a few pieces of firewood...

The researcher groaned in disappointment, "Oh~ still no..."

When it comes to business, Lupin turns serious. He looked back and said to Felix, "The Ministry of Magic won't let it go, you know, they have a very tight grip on the Traceless Stretching Charm."

"You don't have to worry about obstacles from the Ministry of Magic," Felix said.

Lupin stared at him. "That's not what the Magic Items Control Bureau said."

"Don't worry, Remus." Felix comforted him and said, "As long as they also allow the public sale of magical items that carry the Unmarked Stretch Charm, whether it's tents or anything else...Even if there is only one, the Future World Company will be able to sell it. Qualified."

"The only thing you need to pay attention to is to do a good job of preventing tampering. The purpose of the product must not be changed." Felix said, staring at the young wizard who was experimenting in the distance: "Living animals are not allowed, especially people." He thought Duoxiang added: "It's best to urge the Ministry of Magic to improve this part of the law and make clear regulations on the amount of space allowed for expansion..."

"It's as if you started the Ministry of Magic, and I'm not as confident as you," Lupin muttered, but Felix pretended not to hear. He took Lupin's shoulders and led him to a huge workbench with various scattered items on it.

Constant temperature locket, magic lamp, sound transmission mirror, emerald crown... There are so many things that make people dazzled.

"Okay, can you give me an introduction, what new products are there, and how is the company's recent development?"

"We have seventeen products at the moment, but twelve are still being developed, including those in the lobby...the remaining five, plus the Weasley twins' couple mirrors - we changed the name to Biography when we sold them externally. Sound mirror, because it can't transmit images over long distances - it's already on sale in seven stores."

"Not counting foreign orders..."

Lupin showed an expression of admiration, "The light show of the Quidditch World Cup was very successful. We received a large number of orders one after another, and the manpower was completely insufficient, so we had to cooperate with the Owl Post Office."

While talking, a brown owl flew in through the castle window. Circling around Lupin twice, dropping a letter.

He hurriedly opened the letter and glanced at it, then explained: "I asked about the launch date of the product. Your strategy is very effective. When we sent the magic lamp products, we also included a list of products to be launched... Many people wrote to ask."

He finally said: "Including those from abroad, Future World has more than 100 employees. Even the Daily Prophet does not have that many people."

Felix didn't think it was enough. "Continue to expand. We don't have enough manpower to continue recruiting."

Lupin looked at him hesitantly, "It's barely enough for now. Although it's been busy recently, this is because the company is still in the development stage. When the operation is stable in the future, there will be no need for so many people."

The number of companies in the magic world is actually quite small. Mainly because there are only 20,000 to 30,000 wizards in the UK, plus the convenience of magic, only a few skilled employees are enough.

And this kind of small company often becomes the industry of a certain family, and only recruits people every ten years. To a certain extent, his 'Future World' company is an alternative - if the current momentum continues, if the brakes are not stepped on, it may only take two or three years to surpass the Ministry of Magic in numbers.

Felix looked at Lupin, his light blue eyes met him, and he said calmly:

"For a long time to come, I hope that the company will be in the development period. As for the smooth operation... Maybe after you retire."