"It seems like prosperity has returned here." Hermione said, people were coming and going on both sides of the street, and it did look much better than the depression a while ago.
"It's just Christmas." Ryan shook his head slightly and said. "This is some kind of vent after everyone was too nervous before. It doesn't fully explain the problem. If you want the situation to completely get better, I think unless this war
Only when it can truly end."
Just as they were talking, they had already followed the road to the entrance of Weasley's Joke Shop. To their surprise, there were not as many people here as expected, only one or two wizards in a hurry holding a paper bag.
Walked out of the store.
"Didn't you say that they have brought in a batch of goods to sell for Christmas? Why does it feel like there is no one there?" Looking at the deserted shops at the door, Hermione asked a little strangely. "I see those shops along the way, inside and outside.
There are people everywhere outside!”
"This is indeed a bit strange." Ryan walked to the door of the store, opened the door and made a gesture of inviting people in: "But we can just go in and ask what happened here. Anyway, we are already here."
After entering the store, Ryan found that the previously packed store now seemed even more packed. Half of the store was piled with packages of all sizes that had been wrapped in colorful wrapping paper, and Weasley
The twins and several employees waved their wands to wrap more boxes with the wrapping paper.
"What are you doing?" Looking at the wrapping paper flying under the influence of magic and the various products being packaged, Ryan asked the Weasley twins, "Why aren't there many people coming to the store?"
"That's because we don't have enough manpower this year to ensure operations." Fred stopped what he was doing and raised his head and said. "So we simply changed our approach this year and adopted a complete owl order method to sell Christmas products."
"Looking at the current situation, your new sales method is working well." Hermione said, looking at the piles of merchandise. "You are really geniuses in store management."
"Of course." George, who was busy, said proudly. "There are really a lot of orders from Hogwarts this year. This may be because Hogsmeade Day was canceled due to safety reasons. Everyone hopes to
Take advantage of Christmas and buy a handful. Of course, in addition, the new developing potion that Ryan researched before is also very useful."
"The new developing potion, what is that?" Hermione asked a little strangely. "I know that the reason why wizards' photos move is because they use a special developing potion, but what did you just say about the new developing potion?
Where?"
"Of course." Fred said, "Lane's newly developed potion can use those color films to develop color photos, so our advertising posters all use color photos. Now it seems that the wizarding world's first
The colorful magic posters are very effective, judging from the order volume, at least 1/3 of Hogwarts students have ordered products from us."
"Sounds very good." Hermione looked at the pile of goods piled aside and counted them before saying, "But Hogwarts alone shouldn't be able to sell so many goods!"
"You are right. Apart from Hogwarts' goods and some scattered orders, the bulk of the money here mainly comes from the newly opened bank." Fred said, as a member of the Weasley family, of course he
Know some inside information about that bank. "Because of Ryan's relationship, the bank ordered a large number of goods from us to give to its customers at Christmas, saying it wanted to give feedback to customers."
No wonder those pandas are considered to be the best at doing business in the Chinese magic world. They don’t even know how to win over customers by sending small gifts. However, the effect of this seems to be good, especially after receiving dozens of
After Gringotts' unsightly and difficult-to-handle service, wizards have a very good impression of the warm service of these pandas. At least judging from the information Xiong Duosu sent before, the number of people who have gone to the bank to deposit money recently increased during the holiday season.
With the situation rising steadily, many financial activities have begun to gradually unfold. The operation of the entire bank is on the right track.
"It seems there are a lot of things in here!" Ryan said and pulled out his wand, "Let us help you. Christmas is the day after tomorrow. Anyway, we'd better get rid of this batch of goods quickly."
After joining Ryan and Hermione, everyone packed the goods much faster. Finally, all the goods were packed before lunch, and then several employees used the levitation spell to float the goods like an owl post office.
.
"It's finally time to have a holiday." Fred said as he looked at the employees who were leaving. After mailing the things away, these employees would go home and prepare to enjoy the annual Christmas vacation. "Our mother is preparing at home this time.
We bought a lot of food and prepared a sumptuous dinner to reward us for our hard work in the past six months. Unfortunately, our younger brothers and sisters cannot come back this time."
"Ron and Ginny can't go home?" Hermione asked strangely, "I would understand if Ron didn't go home. After all, he has exams this year and may need to review at school. But Ginny is fine.
,Why doesn’t she go back?”
"Ron can review at school? Don't be kidding." George looked disgusted. "He must have taken advantage of this opportunity to have a lot of fun. I even suspected that he might rush to catch up on homework on the last day before the vacation.
"
"Then why don't he and Ginny go home?" Ryan also asked curiously, because he felt that in this situation, people should want to be with their parents and relatives instead of staying alone in Hog
In Watts Castle.
"Don't you know? By the way, it's possible that you don't know. After all, you have been fighting in the wild during this period and may not have received any news." George began to feel a little confused, but soon thought that Ryan had been
He is traveling around fighting and rescuing innocent people. It is normal not to know some news.
"It's like this. This year, Hogwarts requires everyone to stay in school during the Christmas break. This is a decision made for safety reasons." Fred explained, "Since the last time the Hogwarts Express was attacked,
After that, the school thought that the students should stay in the safety of the castle as much as possible instead of going outside to be exposed to the danger of Death Eater attacks, especially since the Death Eaters have now started attacking everyone indiscriminately like crazy.
People, even students, are not spared."
"I can understand the thoughts of the school professors." Ryan said, at least after the last Death Eater attack, they knew that there is no lower limit for Death Eaters to attack. In this case, the young wizards were scattered due to the holidays.
It is too easy to become the target of attackers. Especially because many young wizards live in enemy-occupied areas and cannot be protected at all.
"By the way, has anything happened in the school recently?" Ryan asked, because he and Hermione were going to Hogwarts Castle soon, and he was a little worried that they would not be able to enter the school due to the new security arrangements.
"There are no big changes." Fred said, "Except for the fact that with your help, the little wizards' wand problems and materials problems have been completely solved, and the teaching activities are on the right track, I have not heard that there are any problems in the school.
What a change worth mentioning.”
"At times like this, no change is the best change." Ryan nodded. "Hermione and I are going downstairs to have lunch, and then we'll eat together. After dinner, we have to go to the castle to do some things.
.”
"What a great idea. We're starving after a busy morning." George said, "I'm looking forward to your lunch now. Although our mother is very good at cooking, we have never learned how to do it. We eat from Three Broomsticks all day long.