Chapter 272 Hufflepuff: I Don't Like Sweets

"Muggles have come up with a lot of novel desserts and drinks, like this." Les waved his wand and filtered out all the residues in the cup of coffee handed to Hufflepuff to avoid affecting the taste.

"I've drunk this stuff, and it has a good refreshing effect. The effect of taking it a few times before is almost as good as potions." What surprised Les was that Hufflepuff had actually drunk this magical Muggle drink.

"Hundreds of years ago, Abyssinian shepherds on the southern coast of the Mediterranean refreshed themselves by chewing coffee berries. I drank it a few times when I was traveling there - this drink is more used in religious places. Locals think that if they want to get close to the gods, they have to overcome their sleep desire." Hufflepuff also briefly introduced the origin of coffee to Les.

"Okay," Les shrugged, "but you must have never eaten those amazing desserts."

As he said, Les took out a small box filled with various desserts he had prepared in advance - under the protection of magic, these desserts were as fresh as if they had just come out of the oven.

Hufflepuff picked a piece from it at random and put it in her mouth. After just two bites, her eyes widened.

"Too sweet!!!" Hufflepuff did not give too high a rating to the dessert provided by Rice, because she felt that this thing was too sweet and choked her.

Compared with people in the tenth century AD, modern people eat a little too sweet.

"You'll get used to it." Rice said lightly.

"I think the amount of sugar should be reduced by at least half." Hufflepuff still felt that the taste of this thing was too strong.

After exchanging opinions on the dessert, both of them felt a little tired and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest. Before returning to the room, Rice remembered something and took out a simple-looking wand from his arms.

"Helga, do you still remember this wand?" Rice handed the wand he bought from Ollivander's Wand Shop to Hufflepuff.

"Oh?" Hufflepuff took the wand and looked at it twice, and the dusty memories of the past came to his mind.

"It's hard for you to find the descendants of that wand maker."

"His descendants are still making wands, and they have become the leading wand makers in the magic world." Rice briefly told the story of the Ollivander family, and Hufflepuff nodded repeatedly.

"So what's written on their signboard may be true?" Hufflepuff looked at the wand in his hand and suddenly felt a sense of "heaviness" of history - it was accompanied by the wand making skills that have been passed down for thousands of years, and it was the crystallization of the wisdom of dozens of generations of wand makers.

"It is very likely that their family's history of wand making can be verified for a thousand years, or even earlier." Rice used his own and his friends' personal experience to prove the history of the Ollivander family.

"But now Ollivander is a bit self-contained. They only use three kinds of wand cores to make wands. Although they are stable, they lack some changes, just like the current magic world."

They all pursue the existence of 80 points for all members, unlike ancient wizards, some can get 100 points, and some can only get 60 points.

After returning the wand to Hufflepuff, Rice went back to her room to sleep, while Hufflepuff stayed in the corridor to get used to her "new" wand. Although she had reached a state where she didn't need a wand much, she still carried a wand every day out of habit. A wizard without a wand is incomplete.

Not to mention, the craftsmanship of the Ollivander family's ancestors was really good. The wand didn't feel awkward at all in her hands, and it was very comfortable to use.

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Two days later, after another toss, the four returned to London.

Until she walked out of the airport, Hufflepuff still had a look of shock on her face: After a thousand years, how could Muggles have developed to this point? !

On the plane, she once doubted who could do magic. Even the old venomous snake would find it difficult to make a similar alchemical creation? Can it carry hundreds of people and fly comfortably in the sky for thousands of miles, and provide meals?

She had asked Rice on the plane, and the answer she got was: It's very difficult, it takes a long time, and even if it's made, it's just an imitation of the works of Muggles.

If he was asked to create something original, he would never think of this style of creation. If the same demand was given to himself who had never seen an airplane, he would probably end up making a flying house.

What's even more outrageous is that Muggles can mass-produce this kind of alchemical creation. When Hufflepuff saw more than a dozen similar creations on the tarmac of the airport, she was stunned.

The development of Muggles has brought her a huge impact.

"We are far behind in transportation." After learning that modern wizards still rely on flying brooms to travel, Hufflepuff said with heartfelt emotion.

"Not really, we still have things like door keys and floo networks, but they haven't formed a complete system." Rice introduced these two new things invented by wizards to his friends in detail.

"These seem to have been invented a hundred years ago. What happened in the wizarding world in the past hundred years? Why can't we see any progress at all?" Hufflepuff immediately grasped the key point: From Salazar's description, she found that the development of the wizarding world seemed to have stagnated?

This made Les frown: Helga was telling the truth. A hundred years ago, the magic world and the non-magic world had not yet opened such a big gap. The truly shocking inventions were born in the last hundred years.

"It may be the influence of the Statute of Secrecy that made wizards miss an era of great development." In the end, he could only blame it all on the Statute of Secrecy

"Maybe we should do something."

"That makes sense. Go back and ask Rowena."

The two reached a consensus in a very short time.

"By the way, do you have a place to live during this period? How about settling down with me first?" Les had the idea of ​​Hufflepuff. He wanted to bring this wizard who was proficient in food magic to his own dessert shop.

Hufflepuff naturally had no objection: she didn't have the money of a modern wizard, and she just needed a way to make money and a place to stay. It was naturally great to be able to use the residence of an old friend for free.

The two immediately said goodbye to sisters Daphne and Astoria, and then went straight to Diagon Alley.

After entering Diagon Alley, Hufflepuff was not dazzled by the bustling alley. The first thing she did was to write a job application letter to the current headmaster of Hogwarts.

"You are so impatient." Les couldn't help but complain.

In his opinion, Helga was wasting her time, but to his shock, the owl brought back the reply within ten minutes of the letter being sent out - and it also included an interview invitation!

"Salazar, do you know where Rupert's Dessert Shop is? Albus Dumbledore asked me to interview there."

Les: ...

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