Chapter 159 I Can Eat Two

Snape didn't say anything, as if he was dismissive of the shop owner's comments on his potion.

But he didn't need to communicate about this matter, Sherlock was the one responsible for negotiation.

"Fifty percent is too little, we want seventy percent. Of course, the extra two percent is not in vain. If any of the following potions can't reach the level of intelligence-enhancing potions, then we won't charge a single knight for the production fee."

Sherlock had specially investigated the market before coming here. The 70% offer was actually a bit high, but it also gave the other party room for bargaining.

In the end, they settled on a production fee of 60% of the profit, but they needed to pay a deposit of ten galleons in the store first, which would be refunded after three normal cooperations.

After all, the potion materials were provided by the store, which was also to prevent them from taking the materials and running away.

After the specific matters were detailed, the store owner drafted a magic contract, and Sherlock and Snape signed it.

Even if they used pseudonyms, this contract would be binding on the two of them.

This kind of magic contract directly acts on people, and it takes effect on whoever signs it, just like the "Regulations Prohibiting the Use of Magic Outside the School During Holidays" signed by freshmen at the beginning of the school year at Hogwarts.

After everything was ready, the shop owner provided them with the materials for the first potion and agreed to deliver it three days later, and Sherlock suddenly remembered something.

He took out a bottle of colorless water-like potion from his pocket and handed it to the witch.

"Please help me see what price this potion can be sold at."

The witch took the potion from him, opened the lid and smelled it, but did not smell anything, and could not tell anything from the color.

"What is the effect of the potion?"

"Healing, it is very practical, as long as there is an injury on the body, it can have some effect, but for too serious injuries, it can only relieve the effect, and cannot be cured immediately."

This bottle of medicine is naturally made of the magic stone fragments to make a healing potion, which is a simplified version of the elixir of life.

Its manufacturing method is extremely simple. Just prepare a cup of water, put the fragments in for three seconds, and wait for the water to turn pink, and a bottle of healing potion is ready.

Although it does not have the amazing effect of immortality, its healing function is also very good. The truth serum that deceived Sirius was disguised as this medicine. He was beaten black and blue by Lupin, and he was cured immediately after drinking it.

But the evaluation of the potion is naturally not what Sherlock says, and the witch will not be stupid enough to taste it directly on the spot to test the effect. This requires a professional pharmacist to follow a rigorous process.

Simply put, it takes time.

"When you come to deliver the potion in three days, I will give you an answer. If its healing effect is good, we will give a reasonable price."

Sherlock naturally had no objection to this. The healing potion made by the Philosopher's Stone does not require any cost and technology. Even if the price on the market is low, as long as it can be sold, it is profitable.

Walking out of the potion shop with Snape, they wandered around Diagon Alley again.

Sherlock also bought two ice creams, and forced one into Snape's hand despite his contempt and refusal.

"I don't understand what you guys think? Why is ice cream the exclusive domain of children? Dumbledore is so old and still likes to drink lemon soda. We are in our twenties and thirties, so what's wrong with eating ice cream?"

Sherlock nags and condemns Snape's prejudice, and returns to the guest room of the Leaky Cauldron with him.

Snape finally didn't eat the strawberry ice cream that Sherlock bought for him. Before entering the room, he stuffed the almost melted ice cream back into Sherlock's hand.

"Don't disturb me when I'm refining medicine. Do whatever you want to do yourself."

He said with a cold face, closed the door, and hid in the house to be a otaku.

Sherlock held an ice cream in one hand and shrugged.

He felt that Snape's temper was very similar to those tsundere golden retrievers that often appear in Japanese comics, and in the end, Qingmei was defeated by the sky and became a loser. It was really miserable.

Just as he was about to go back to the house, he suddenly found that in the room No. 10 next to him, a gap had been secretly opened at some point, and a pair of big blue eyes were quietly looking at him through the crack of the door.

Sherlock looked at the eyes for a moment, and then handed over the strawberry ice cream that belonged to Snape.

"Do you want to eat it?"

However, the only response he got was the sound of the door closing with a bang.

Sherlock smacked his lips and bit the tip of the strawberry ice cream that was about to melt.

"If you don't want to eat it, forget it. I can eat two by myself."

He suspended the ice cream in the air, opened the door and walked into the house.

Snape wanted to make medicine to make money, and Sherlock was certainly not idle. He was now mainly studying the pocket watch on his neck that could be taken off.

In the time shuttle, after Sherlock forcibly terminated its journey, it became the kind of broken and rusty appearance again.

But it is obviously still recovering itself. When it is fully repaired, it will certainly continue to reverse time.

However, Sherlock has already found a way to suppress it. He only needs to use a large number of high-level spells to destroy it every once in a while to delay its repair.

It was this pocket watch that brought them to this time, so if they want to go back, they naturally have to find a way from the pocket watch.

For the time being, he has no ideas. What is clear is that professional matters still need to be solved by experts.

The time converter is already a non-reproducible alchemical prop. Sherlock is not sure whether it is because of the gap in the skills or the lack of some alchemical substances, but there are still wizards in the magic world who are studying converters.

The place where the most high-level talents are concentrated is naturally the Ministry of Magic, especially the Department of Mysteries.

Prophecy, time and other things are all within the research scope of this department.

This is the only direction Sherlock can think of for the time being, and there is no better choice.

But even if there is an idea, there is no good direction for things to progress.

It is not easy to contact people in the Department of Mysteries. The employees there are called Unspeakables. Few people even know their identities, nor do they know what they are studying all day.

Sherlock, who has just arrived and is still using a fake identity, naturally has no way to contact these people.

However, the solution is thought up by people. He has just lived in the Leaky Cauldron for a day, so he is not in a hurry.

In addition, Sherlock also bought three months of the Daily Prophet from the second-hand shop in Diagon Alley to understand the current situation in the wizarding world.

The British wizarding world today is the time when Voldemort is the most rampant.

Hogwarts has become a talent supply base for Death Eaters. Every year, most of the Slytherins and a small number of pure-blooded students from the other three colleges are attracted by Voldemort's ideas after graduation and join their team.

No, they are attracted by Voldemort's ideas.

The basic power base that Tom Riddle built at the beginning has a sufficiently attractive theory.

The so-called pure-blood theory actually wants to emphasize that pure-blood wizards will have more powerful power than other non-pure-blood wizards.

The Death Eaters did not want to completely destroy all Muggle-born wizards at the beginning.

The standard for judging whether a wizard is pure-blood is to see whether there are direct Muggle relatives in his ancestors for three or five generations (the concept of pure-blood family is another kind).

As long as Muggle wizards continue to combine with wizards, they will be recognized by them after three or five generations.

But they extremely hate the combination of wizards and Muggles, believing that it pollutes the noble bloodline.

After requiring the magic world to implement the great pure-blood theory, the relationship between the magic world and the Muggle world will also be eliminated, and then the wizards can continue to control the world and Muggles will be the subordinates of the conquering era.

This was the theory when Voldemort first formed his team, and it is also the general direction of future actions.

From this set of theories alone, it is still very reasonable. After all, the main reason why Grindelwald did not let wizards become the masters of the world was that there were a large number of resistance forces within the magic world.

Voldemort was well aware of the principle of "pacifying the country before fighting against foreign enemies", so he first proposed the pure-blood theory and united the pure-blood faction in the magic world, which was small in number but had the strongest strength and influence.

After the internal struggle was successful, he used this to completely disconnect the magic world from the Muggle world, integrate the power of wizards into a whole, and finally invade the Muggle world to complete what Grindelwald had not accomplished.

A rational, organized, and perfect plan with the possibility of success

Although the plan was very good, it became more and more rotten when it was actually implemented.

As the number of pure-blood wizards under him gradually increased, there were more and more scumbags and psychopaths, and he became more and more unscrupulous in attacking Muggle wizards.

In addition, Tom's own brain seemed to have some problems, and he became perverted, crazy, and cruel.

What kind of leader you have, what kind of subordinates you have. The Death Eaters became more unscrupulous. Since 1970, they have carried out terrorist attacks in various parts of the magic world and resisted the rule of the Ministry of Magic.

It was at this time that Dumbledore founded the Order of the Phoenix.

In short, Tom had a reasonable and feasible theory at the beginning, but he did not act according to this theory at all. The violent and high-pressure terrorist attacks led to a backlash from the entire magic world.

After all, half-blood and Muggle-born wizards account for the majority of the magic world, plus a very small number of "traitors" from the pure-blood faction like the Weasley family, and finally count Dumbledore, the stabilizing force in Hogwarts Castle.

The Death Eaters, who use dark magic unscrupulously and have a nearly invincible dark wizard like Voldemort, are only in a small advantage in the current situation, far from forming a crushing trend.

But even if it is just a small advantage, the cruel methods of the Death Eaters make every wizard deeply afraid.

The Ministry of Magic uses coma, petrification and disarmament to capture Death Eaters.

The Death Eaters used Death, Cruciatus and Imperius to attack the Ministry of Magic.

It is clear which side has the greater deterrent power.