The Admiral of Hogwarts

The number of people heading to the new shop opened by the ship girls exceeded Hugo and the others' expectations. Perhaps because a sizable crowd had gathered in front of the shop, the Weasley family, who didn't have much to do, decided to join Hood and the children for a look inside.

Unlike the somewhat traditional shops around it, this shop run by Indomitable and her sisters was full of steampunk style: a large number of brass pipes, valves, and gears used as decorations spun non-stop on the walls of the shop, making pleasant metallic clanging sounds, and occasionally spewing out steam of various colors.

After the steam emerged from the gaps in the pipes and valves, it quickly formed items made of clouds in the air, and below these items were words composed of white mist, introducing the purpose and price of these commodities.

When Hugo and the others arrived at the front of the shop, they saw a large pile of glass balls emitting various colors of light hanging above the transparent glass door decorated with various seemingly mysterious golden runes in the archway decorated with various machines. These glass balls formed the words "Golden Harbor General Store."

"Wow—" The twins exclaimed in surprise after entering the door, because this place looked just like the shop in their dreams: the customers inside the shop even made it impossible for them to squeeze to the front of the shelves, and all kinds of cardboard boxes and wooden boxes containing goods were piled up to the ceiling.

These commodities are mainly daily necessities, such as insect repellent potions, special cauldron cleaners, and various daily magic potions. In addition to these daily consumables, there are also daily utensils such as rice cookers that can cook by themselves, wardrobes that can organize clothes, and boxes that can keep things fresh.

However, compared to those daily consumables, these magical daily utensils, which are likely made by Indomitable, are full of steampunk style. At the same time, when doing those works, they do not directly release magic power like the existing similar products in the magic world, but drive those machines to work through magic power.

For example, the rice cooker that can cook by itself, which is being demonstrated on a platform surrounded by people, is like this. This thing looks like a pot placed in an iron ring with three mechanical arms, which can be said to be unremarkable.

However, after simply injecting magic power to start it, you can see those two palms, like Doraemon's hands, transforming into various tools to automatically put the washed vegetables into this pot, and then cook them like that.

Considering the need to demonstrate the cooking level of this pot in as short a time as possible, Indomitable and her sisters are now having this pot stir-fry some American Chinese food, such as chop suey, sweet and sour chicken, or fried noodles.

Just as Hugo and the others were all squeezing into the shop, the hand beside the pot had just stir-fried a small pot of fried noodles, and then transformed the spatula into tongs to put the fried noodles into small paper boxes and distribute them to the surrounding customers.

In short, what is sold here are some daily necessities in the magic world. From the queue in front of the cashier, it can be seen that there are many more wizards who need these things than Hugo and the others had imagined.

Although many spells can help daily life for wizards, and even a wizard proficient in housework magic can complete all the housework with a wave of a wand. But the problem is that not every wizard has mastered the skills to release such housework magic.

For example, the simplest cleaning spell is like this. A wizard like Mrs. Weasley can naturally clean the stains on clothes or furniture, but if you change to an inexperienced guy, it is very likely that after chanting the same spell and waving the wand in the same posture, he will find that the stains and part of the clothes disappear at the same time.

In the past, although those traditional magic props could achieve the effect of casting spells, they naturally needed to invest a lot of materials in manufacturing because they were all completed by magic. In this way, it is difficult to put into practical application from the perspective of cost performance.

Now, in these magic props designed by Indomitable, magic power is only used as energy and core intelligent chips, and the remaining things to be done are purely carried out by those mechanical structures. In this way, the cost of making magic props is naturally greatly reduced, and they have more practical value.

"This product can effectively kill the nasty bugs in your vegetable garden, including rotten touch moths, phytophagous wasps, carnivorous slugs—this can deal with those carnivorous slugs, really?" Hagrid squeezed to the side of the shelf by virtue of his size at this time, and then took a blue bottle and walked to the cashier to ask.

"In this store, as long as the label says something's effect, then this thing will definitely have that effect." A girl under 20 years old standing in front of the cashier said.

This girl is not a ship girl, and looks like someone hired by the ship girls. "If it is invalid, we guarantee a full refund."

"If that's the case, then give me a bottle. If it works well, I might come back to buy it again." Hagrid said, taking out two silver Sickles from his pocket and handing them over, and said, "But to be honest, your potions here are seven Knuts more expensive than similar products I bought before."

"But you will find that the extra money is worth it in the future." The girl put the bottle in a paper bag and handed it to Hagrid, and said, "At least compared to the original potions, our new medicine is not only more broad-spectrum, but also has a shorter residual time."

On the other side, the Weasley family was picking out various items they needed in front of the shelves displaying various consumables, while Hermione and Venetto and the other girls found a corner in the store to chat. Taking this opportunity, Hugo and Hood came to a corner of the store and gathered with Indomitable and her sisters.

"To be honest, the shop you guys made is really good." Seeing Indomitable in a steampunk style, Hugo praised her in the first sentence. "Especially being able to open the shop to its current state in such a short period of time is a very remarkable thing."

"This is actually thanks to everyone's help. If it wasn't for everyone discussing what the market needed through the Admiral Network before, plus the joint efforts of the compatriots and those Muggle wizards recruited by Hood-nee, I think we might not even be able to open the shop now."

"So, the opening of this shop is also a manifestation of our collective strength—by the way, how are those voodoo master apprentices now?"

"They are now helping to make some commodities behind the shop, and their teacher is receiving treatment on Glorious's side." Indomitable replied, "Glorious said that she can restore this wizard to the level before he was injured by Lockhart, except for that deleted memory, but this process will take some time."

"It's good to be able to treat him." Hugo nodded. "By the way, how long will this process take?"

"Eight months to a year, after all, injuries to the soul are very troublesome." Indomitable shrugged and said, "By that time, we will be able to figure out what is going on with the magic he possesses regarding werewolf recovery?"