Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

In fact, he had been leaning towards the Witch and Poison Press from the beginning, and he submitted his manuscript to the Daily Prophet Press only to get their willingness to accept it before negotiating with Carlo. Unfortunately, the editor of that publishing house did not know what was good.

He knew about the 'Witch and Poison Press' and was even more aware of the predicament of this publishing house. It can be said that Lockhart was the cause of its success and failure.

The popularity of Lockhart's books made them a lot of money and allowed them to discover a huge business opportunity, so they have been focusing on publishing Lockhart's books and are no longer as active as before in discovering new authors. It would be fine if they continued to cooperate with Lockhart like this.

Just a month ago, as Lockhart was about to release his next book, he made the call for a redistribution.

Lockhart is already a famous writer, so his worth will naturally rise. It is understandable that he wants to increase the share of the profits with the publishing house. Otherwise, he can change to another publishing house. Anyway, any publishing house will be willing to accept him with his fame.

It would have been fine if it was just a simple price increase, the main reason was that Lockhart wanted too much, so much that Witch and Poison Publishing House could not afford it at all.

Once the Witch and Poison Press leaves Lockhart, the financial sponsor, it will face bankruptcy if it fails to produce any decent works in a short period of time. The blame lies with the previous person in charge, who expanded too quickly, leading to a funding chain break.

If you take too big a step, you may easily hurt yourself.

"No, Mr. Dursley, it doesn't fit in there."

As Dudley expected, Carlo interrupted him impatiently as soon as he finished speaking.

Whoever is anxious will be at a disadvantage.

"The Quibbler Press isn't a formal place after all."

The Quibbler Press is the publisher of The Quibbler magazine, and it is indeed not a formal publishing house because this magazine never pays manuscript fees to its contributors.

"But I hear The Quibbler is selling better than The Daily Prophet."

"That's right, but"

Dudley tapped the table gently, interrupting Carlo. "It could fit in with 'The Quibbler.'

"Could also fit in 'Witches and Poisons.'"

"That's up to you, my Lord Carlo."

"The current situation of the publishing house is very bad."

Dudley put down his teacup and looked at Carlo quietly.

To be honest, even Carrow was under a lot of pressure under Dudley's watchful eyes, even though he was already in seventh grade.

Finally he let out a long breath.

Seen through.

Carlo thought somewhat dejectedly.

He is worthy of being Mr. Potter's brother. I really want to know how their parents usually educate them.

If Petunia were here, she would have told him that she had never taught Dudley anything and that he had learned everything on his own.

Now that consensus has been reached, it will be much easier to distribute benefits.

The share that Dali gets does not mean to make things difficult for the publishing house, nor will it cause him to suffer a loss. The publishing house can even use this opportunity to overcome difficulties.

Of course, there is a premise for all this.

If sales are good.

So the question is, will the sales of Dragonlance Chronicles be bad?

of course not

About three days after the contract was signed, Witch and Poison Publishing House began to build momentum.

A week later, the novel titled Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight was officially released on the shelves of major wizarding bookstores such as Flourish and Blotts.

Sales. As expected, it is extremely popular.

It was almost sold out on the same day.

The story of Ansalon continent deeply attracted every wizard.

"Jiayin, Jiayin, move!"

Following the yelling of the supervisor at the Witch and Poison Publishing House, the wizards working there began their crazy overtime routine.

Of course, they all get overtime pay.

It's an official rule that The Quibbler doesn't pay for articles. I really wanted to write for The Quibbler, but I found out that this magazine likes to get things for free, and it's really too much for them not to pay for articles.

Chapter 74 Because This Is Science

Before we knew it, it was Halloween Eve.

With the hot sales of "Dragonlance Chronicles", Dudley no longer has to worry about money issues in the short term.

But the Forbidden Forest still has to be visited. During this period of time, Dudley has been to the Forbidden Forest no less than twenty times, and has also drawn a small distribution map of the magical plants and creatures. There are many rare materials there that cannot be bought outside.

For example, the venom of the giant eight-eyed spider is not only expensive, with a pint worth one hundred Galleons, but it is also not sold outside the Forbidden Forest, so it is a product that has a price but no market.

The main reason is that the eight-eyed giant spider is too dangerous. A single ordinary wizard can deal with it, but if you find one eight-eyed giant spider, it means you have found a group of them. Its characteristics are carnivorous, highly intelligent, extremely aggressive, and rapid reproduction. Its eggs are listed as Class A non-trading commodities. Currently, the wizarding world has no means to tame this species.

A rather dangerous species.

But there are simply too many of these things in the Forbidden Forest, so many that they are almost everywhere in its sphere of influence.

When Dudley and other members of the training group returned to the castle, they smelled a sweet and tempting smell of roasted pumpkin in the corridor.

The roasted pumpkin tastes really good, especially the pumpkin grown by Hagrid. Not only are they huge in size, but they are also sweeter than those sold in the market.

If I have to evaluate it, just one word "colorful and artistic" is enough.

Wizards also celebrate Halloween, but the way they celebrate is a little different from that of ordinary people. There is no rule of trick-or-treating here.

Dudley heard from the little wizards passing by that Dumbledore had hired a skeleton band, and it seemed that he was preparing for a great party.

Counting it this way, this was Dudley's first holiday season at Hogwarts.

It would be better if there were no Charms class.

Ever since Dudley faked a 'fluorescent flicker' using 'illumination magic', Professor Flitwick has paid special attention to him and believes that Dudley has a very high talent for magic.

He had expressed his wish to have Dudley transferred to Ravenclaw more than once in class.

But all were rejected.

So I had to pay attention to Dudley's progress in the spell in every class.

"The content of today's spells class is to make objects fly." Professor Flitwick said as he gently waved the wand in his hand: "Levitation spell! This is a very useful spell. It can save you a lot of energy."

The podium, textbooks, quills, almost everything on the podium floated up one by one under Professor Flitwick's spell.

Professor Flitwick first demonstrated it himself, and then began to let the young wizards try it, but unfortunately they all failed without exception.

Dudley didn't try, he just stared at the feather as if thinking of something.

"Swish and shake. Remember, shake and shake. It's also very important to pronounce the spell correctly - don't forget the wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself lying on the floor with a bison on his chest."

Pronunciation is very important, especially for young wizards who are just starting to learn this magic.

"Wingardim Leviosa"

Professor Flitwick chanted the spell again, and the feather slowly rose into the air as he chanted the spell.

In fact, for young wizards, the levitation spell is still very difficult. It can be said to be the most difficult spell among the first-grade spells.

Many young wizards failed, basically had no reaction, and some even set their hats on fire.

As you know, Hermione has a bad habit of speaking very directly.

Without saying a word, he scolded the little wizard who was assigned to the same group with him. Yes, it was the guy who almost set Harry's hat on fire.

Seamus.

"Your pronunciation, your gestures and movements are all wrong!"

"You can't cast a spell like this at all."

"You sound so impressive, if you can do it, why don't you do it?!"

Maybe because he was used to being in the same group with Neville, Seamus retorted very unhappily.

"Wingardim Leviosa"

The first person to pronounce the spell correctly was, without exception, Hermione.

With a light wave of the magic wand, the feathers on the desk began to float up.

"Perfect, one point for Gryffindor."

Professor Flitwick screamed, pointing at the feathers in the sky.

At this moment, Dudley took advantage of Professor Flitwick's attention to Hermione, slowly took off his scarf, grabbed the feather on the table and rubbed it frantically until the feather stuck to the table, then grabbed the wand and began to rub it with the scarf in the same way until a slight 'crackling' sound was heard in the air.

The scarf around his neck was woven of wool.

then

"Wingardim Leviosa"

Same tone as Hermione, same standard movements, a completely identical and standard replica that couldn't be more standard.

Of course, we have to ignore Daddy's mountain-like size.

The feather actually "flew" up.

"Oh, my God."

Professor Flitwick screamed, pointing in Dudley's direction.

"Look, Dursley is doing better. I think he has mastered the essence of the levitation spell. He only needs to rise a little higher to fully master the spell."

"It's hard to imagine that a little wizard could master it so perfectly the first time."

Looking at Professor Flitwick's excitement, Dudley suspected that he would faint from excessive excitement.

"Two points for Slytherin."

It was very easy to get two points.

Dudley shrugged, as if it was all so casual.

The young Slytherins nodded secretly.

"As expected of Mr. Dursley, he subdued Malfoy, chatted and laughed with Mr. Carrow, and mastered the levitation charm so easily."

So the question is, does Dudley know the levitation spell?

the answer is.

What a hammer.

He doesn't know any levitation spell at all.

But he can also make feathers 'fly'.

This is easy to do, even without any magic skills.

Because it's science.

The secret lies in the wool scarf. Dudley rubbed the feather with the wool scarf, causing the wool scarf to lose electrons and become positively charged, while the feather gained electrons and became negatively charged. The feather then became negatively charged and adsorbed on the table.

When the wool scarf is rubbed against the magic wand, the magic wand becomes negatively charged, while the wool scarf becomes positively charged. The 'crackling' sound is the sound of the neutralization of positive and negative charges.

The feather and the wand have the same charges that repel each other, creating an upward repulsive force on the feather, causing it to float in the air.

It looked like the levitation spell had taken effect.

It's actually just a simple physical phenomenon.

Or it is called the static octopus phenomenon.

Dudley glanced speechlessly at the little wizards around him who were looking at him with admiration. Poor kids, they all suffered from their lack of education.

He doesn't know magic, but he knows science.

"Dudley you're awesome!"

Only Hermione looked at Dudley with a hint of amusement and said.

Apparently she recognized Dudley's trick, but she didn't report it.

Don't forget that Hermione was also the top student in her grade at Oxford Dragon Primary School, so simple physics phenomena were no problem for her.