Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 216 Lockhart's Special Hobbies
In the afternoon of the same day, Mike contacted a special construction team and came here to discuss the construction of the factory.

This construction team is actually the same construction team that built the amphitheater for the duel competition before. Mike had asked Lockhart for their contact information long before the holiday.

The construction team called Jeno Construction is composed of wizards and house elves. Compared with ordinary Muggle construction teams, their fees are higher, but they are really worth the money.

Because their construction speed is quite magical, the quality of the things they make is also very good, and they still have a warranty!They will come to repair the building for free if there is a certain degree of damage to the building within a certain period of time.

The most important thing is that they can also enchant the building according to the customer's requirements.

There are all kinds of spells that can be selected, including the most common Muggle expulsion spell and concealment spell, as well as the quite rare counter-type magic mechanism and traceless stretching spell.Even, the person in charge of this construction team told Mike very cryptically that they can also add the strongest guardian spell to the house, the loyalty spell!

What is the Fidelity Curse? I believe friends who have read the original work carefully know that it is the spell that Harry's parents put on their house in order to protect Harry.

This is an extremely complicated magic that can hide a secret forever in the soul of a living person, and the living person who is selected to hide this secret is called a secret keeper.

When the secret hidden by the Fidelity Curse is the location of a house, unless the secret keeper reveals it on his own initiative, you will not be able to find out even if the house is right in front of you.

This effect looks similar to the effect of the Concealment Curse, but the effect of the Fidelity Curse is much stronger than the Concealment Curse.

You must know that even Voldemort found Harry because the secret keeper leaked the secret.

After Mike learned that the construction team could cast the Loyalty Curse, he chose to let them build his own factory without hesitation.

Although his factory doesn't need to be protected by such advanced magic as the Scarlet Loyalty Curse, being able to deploy the Scarlet Loyalty Curse can already prove the strength of the construction team.

After referring to the terrain and environment of the site, the construction team gave three construction plans.

The first type is an all-wood shed roof factory building.

This kind of factory building is extremely poor in terms of livability and sturdiness, but it is cheaper.

Since there are dense jungles all around, most of the materials for building the factory can be obtained locally. The quotation given by Jeno Construction for this construction plan is 1000 Gold Galleons.

The second kind is slightly better and is made of brick.

The third type is the best, a mix of masonry, stone and wood, a super large factory building plus a collective staff dormitory. The plan also includes a protective magic package and a refined decoration package, including a large version of many commonly used protective magic such as Muggle expulsion spells. .

However, the third option is also the most expensive, and its price is as high as 10000 Gold Galleons.

In this regard, Mike finalized the third most expensive plan without blinking an eye.

This is not because Mike is too wealthy, but because the construction funds can be paid in installments, and the interest is pitifully small.

The person in charge who came to negotiate after signing the contract on the spot was very happy. In fact, the operating conditions of their construction team are not optimistic. Firstly, the market in the British wizarding world is too small, and secondly, there are rich old players. Aristocrats generally have their own ancestral homes, while ordinary wizards choose to build their own houses or buy ready-made Muggle houses.

Based on this situation, their main customers are actually only those upstarts who have just made a fortune, and they belong to the type of not opening for three years and opening for three years.

Mike and Lockhart contributed two orders in less than a year, how could they not be happy?

After bidding farewell to Mike and others, the person in charge immediately used the port key to return to the company to arrange work, but when Mike, the Weasley brothers and the others were about to leave half an hour later, they found that many black people had appeared in the distant sky. At this point, after a closer look, it turned out that the person in charge had brought a group of construction workers to the site again.

So, under the watchful eyes of Mike and others, the person in charge directed the wizards in blue uniforms to take out various building materials from the traceless stretching spell bags they carried with them, and then quickly built a fireplace.

Immediately afterwards, a team of wizards began to level the ground, while more wizards kept coming out of the fireplace, carrying building materials back and forth.

The three Weasley brothers were stunned, because ordinary fireplaces cannot be teleported, and they must be connected to the Floo network in order to teleport in.And Floo.com's application was extremely slow.Now the construction team has built a fireplace and it can be teleported immediately, which surprises them.

Mike was not surprised by this. The wizard construction team like them must have their own complete logistics system if they can operate for so long, and the high-quality and cheap Floo Network is of course the best choice.

As for why they don't need to apply for a new fireplace, it must be a classic power-and-money deal.

The efficiency of the construction team was very high. In just one hour, a rectangular foundation with a depth of 10 meters was dug out in the open space burned by the Weasley brothers. This made Mike feel a little surprised. You must know Putting this amount of work into the Muggle world for half a month may not be able to do it.

It was the first time for the three Weasley brothers and Arthur to see such a large construction site, so they watched with gusto.

But Mike was not interested in this, so he directly asked Shuke to take him back to his home.

Mike, who returned home, was not idle either, he had to go to Lockhart's again.

Lockhart still has a novel about him. Since he wants to promote the Dolphin Magic Drink that will be on sale soon, it must be in place at once, not just relying on the influence of the Daily Prophet, Let Lockhart also mobilize his brainless fans to buy it.

However, when Mike used the fireplace to teleport directly to Lockhart's home, he unexpectedly discovered that Lockhart didn't even have permission to teleport to him.

This is the bad point of Floo fireplace teleportation. Except for fireplaces in public places like the Leaky Cauldron, you need the consent of the other party if you want to teleport to a private fireplace.

So Mike could only go to Lockhart's house angrily.

……

It was already evening when Mike came to Lockhart's house at the address that Lockhart had given before.

Mike looked at the brightly lit large villa and the faint music and women's laughter coming from the villa, and the veins on his fist slowly emerged.

Although Lockhart's house was big, it didn't have too many defensive facilities. Mike kicked open the door of his house without even using a magic wand.

And when Mike found the voice and came to a huge room on the second floor, the scene in front of him made him, an old driver, sigh that Lockhart really knows how to play.

On the ceiling of the room, the magic lamp that was supposed to emit soft white light is constantly flashing with colorful lights at this moment, and directly below the magic lamp are dozens of men and women playing musical instruments suspended in the air. dance to the music.

On the floor of the room, a large number of empty wine bottles and clothes were scattered on the ground, and the air smelled of alcohol and deodorant mixed together.

It's all very similar to a disco in the Muggle world, the only difference is the dancing people.

Or rather, dancing creatures.

In the center of the room, various 'female' magical creatures in revealing clothes were writhing together with several wizards.

Among them, the largest one is a female centaur. At the moment, it is carrying a thin wizard with ribs and roots, dancing to the music, and making a shameless sound.On the other hand, the wizard on its back is only grasping the neck and cannot be described with both hands, as if grasping the saddle and not letting go.

In addition, Mike also found a veela with silver hair like Fleur on the dance floor. Its silver hair was shining brightly under the constantly flickering colored light of the magic lamp, and the two wizards were so fascinated that they almost burst out.

The strange thing is that there is no sign of Lockhart here. Mike walked in the dim room looking for Lockhart, and finally found him on the bar in a corner.

Lockhart was holding a goblet filled with red wine, talking to someone.

Due to the angle of view, Mike didn't see who the person sitting opposite Lockhart was, but based on Lockhart's constant hands and feet behavior, it can be inferred that it should be a woman.

However, when Mike walked around to the side, he realized that the one who was flirting with Lockhart turned out to be a female elf with a short stature, pointed ears, a big head, and gray skin!
Seeing the heavily made-up face of the female goblin and Lockhart's obsessed expression, Mike opened his mouth in shock.

It turns out that Lockhart's taste is so unique!

The goblin's night vision ability is much stronger than that of humans, so when Mike walked around to the side of Lockhart, the female goblin sitting opposite him had already spotted Mike, and after being questioned by the female goblin, Lockhart Turning his head suddenly, he looked at Mike, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Mike! Why are you here!"

Facing Lockhart's inquiry, Mike felt a little embarrassed.

After all, he didn't come here with malice this time, but he ran into Lockhart's special hobby.

"I have something to ask for you, but the permission of your fireplace doesn't seem to be open to me, so I went directly to the door."

"Dear Mr. Mike! You should know, right? When you reject your application for Floo transmission by yourself, it means that he does not welcome you now." Lockhart slapped the table and roared, "Can't you Send me a letter first so I can prepare a little bit?"

The commotion made by Lockhart was so great that it even overwhelmed the loud music nearby, so it attracted the attention of the 'knight' nearby.

Apparently Lockhart also noticed this, so he dragged Mike into a bright room next door before he could reply.

Mike looked at the room which was decorated in pink as a whole, and there were all kinds of 'heavy toys' hanging on the walls. He tried his best not to let himself laugh out loud, but the corners of his mouth still twitched uncontrollably.

"Laugh if you want! A well-known best-selling author, a handsome guy with countless female fans, and a third-level Merlin badge winner! He actually likes being with goblins in private! How funny! Isn't it!" Luoha Te's face darkened, he walked up and down the room, dancing and said, "I will become the laughing stock of the entire wizarding world if this story gets out, and you are all to blame for this! Mike!"

Mike almost couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard the first half of the sentence, but after listening to the second half, especially when Lockhart started pointing at him, the expression on his face suddenly sank .

"Don't point at me with your finger that has touched something disgusting. If there is another time, I can guarantee that you will never use this finger in the future!" Mike knocked off Lockhart's hand. Hand said with a gloomy face, "Please figure out the current situation! I am the one with the upper hand!"

Lockhart sucked in the cold air and shook his aching hand from Mike's beating. At first he wanted to talk back, but when he saw Mike's cold eyes, his body immediately stiffened, and finally he collapsed on the floor with a gray face. That huge bed.

"Tell me, what do you want from me." Lockhart said desperately.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just your novel. It should be finished by now, right?"

"Yes, what do you want?"

Mike walked to the edge of the bed, looked down at Lockhart and said, "You can revise it for me and add some more advertisements about Dolphin Magic Drink. Do you understand the advertisement? Don't forget it, anyway, you just You need to boast about the Dolphin Magic Drink to your death. Then, wait for my notice when the book will be released, and I will tell you to post it before you post it, understand?"

After Mike finished speaking, the expression on Lockhart's face suddenly became dull, and Qi spread on the bed and stared blankly at Mike.

Suddenly, Lockhart sat up abruptly and raised his voice an octave and said, "Is that what you're doing?"

"Yes."

"Then why did you come here in person?" Lockhart looked straight at Mike, "Why don't you write me a letter?"

"I asked you if you could do it!"

Seeing that the expression on Mike's face was getting more and more distorted, Lockhart quickly reacted, nodded and answered yes.

Seeing that Lockhart was so obedient, Mike stopped talking, now that it was getting late, he needed to rush home to have dinner with Professor Flitwick and the others.

So under Lockhart's guidance, Mike deliberately bypassed the previous room that looked like a bar and disco, and came to a room with a fireplace on the side.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Mike grabbed a handful of Floo powder from the jar by the fireplace and walked into the fireplace, "You can continue to find your fairy girlfriend, but you must make sure that the manuscript is given to you before the day after tomorrow." I'm done. Do you understand?"

"Yes! I understand." Lockhart replied weakly to Mike, and then the expression on his face became awkward. He lowered his head and struggled for a long time before slowly saying, "That... today's incident... ...you won't tell it, will you?"

Lockhart lowered his head and waited for a long time without Mike's response. When he looked up, he found that there was no one in the fireplace in front of him, and Mike had already teleported away.

(End of this chapter)