Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 155 It's Halloween
There are trees on both sides of the road, and the red leaves are gradually falling. As time goes by, autumn has passed and winter has ushered in.

And the Christmas release date that was originally booked is getting closer and closer, with only about two months left.

Charlie also sat in the office for longer and longer hours.

From the very first morning, to now it is even possible not to step out of it for two or three days.Even Russell, who is a personal assistant, rarely sees his master except for breakfast and lunch.

While being moved, Russell couldn't help worrying about it, for fear that something might happen to Charlie due to overwork.

But fortunately everything is normal, nothing happened.

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At this time, in the office, the heavy curtains were slowly pulled up again, covering the floor-to-ceiling glass windows tightly without revealing any gaps.

The entire room has lost its previous brilliance and brightness.

The surrounding area is pitch-black and dim, as if it has become a space that isolates everything. If you don't look at the ticking clock on the wall, no one will be able to tell whether it is day or night.

Here, only the pewter burning quietly on the brass candlestick on the desk became the only light source.

The melted wax oil flowed down, and gathered in the groove of the base of the candlestick to form a smooth and shallow wax nest like water stains left after rain.

The weak flame burned quietly on the wax core, flickering slightly from time to time due to Charlie's somewhat excessive movements.

The candlelight continuously sends faint and dim light to the outside, with a bit of imperceptible warmth, shining on the desk, on the stacks of documents, and on the paper that has been writing continuously. The resting quill was also shining on the desk, Charlie Black did not have the delicate face of the past...

Probably because it has not been taken care of for a long time, the golden hair is no longer as soft as before, and there is no sunlight floating on it.

Sparse stubble grew on his cheeks, taking over his jawline.A faint tiredness surrounds the brows, and even the eyes can faintly see a little bloodshot.

On his body, the original temperament also changed accordingly, more and more vicissitudes and roughness of a middle-aged man.

But he still couldn't stop... Because in a certain way, the documents in front of him basically covered all the planning scope of Charlie's Candy Factory next year.

At the same time, it also represents the determination of all appropriate specific directions for the next year.

Whether it is the decision-making and implementation of candy vending machines, or the welfare protection and post-planning of Muggle employees.Or the sales strategy of the two candies, as well as the quarterly reports provided by various distributors—including distributors in the Muggle society, or many shops in the wizarding world and partners.

These all need to be handled by him personally. Even Russell and several other supervisors have no way to give the slightest help on these issues.

It all depends on Charlie to look bit by bit, think bit by bit, and then give appropriate decisions to all documents.

It can be said that at the moment Charlie Black is sitting here, the two fingers holding the handle of the pen can decide the life and death of many people, and it can also make countless relevant practitioners feel the huge scourge like a tsunami .

Because he is the so-called "leader", at least in the entire European dessert industry, the actions of Charlie's Candy Factory often indicate the specific trends of the entire industry in the next year.

Even Charlie can be sure that when Sniffing Violet Candy and Snow Lemon are officially on the market, it won't be long before there will be such things as "Magic Violet Candy", "Delicious Violet Candy", "Fire Lemon", "Water Lemon" And so... and so on, countless corresponding products went online like a blowout, and they all divided up the market.

Therefore, at this time, Charlie must devote all his energy.Put on the most solemn and serious attitude to face every document in front of you.

This is to ensure that no mistakes will occur.Let Charlie's Candy Factory continue to drive safely according to the route planned by Charlie Black, avoiding turbulence...

Although this process is undoubtedly painful and tortured, fortunately, a process like this only occurs this month of the year.

On other days, he could still be as usual, happily stroking Vivien, looking for a production line aimlessly, and wandering around in the name of checking work.

"Lane...?"

After an unknown period of time, Charlie's quill rarely stopped. He rubbed his sore eyes, looked at the signature on the latest document under his hand, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

It was not the first time that Charlie had seen this document appear on his desk.

It can be said that almost every time Ryan passes, he submits it as a habit and asks for his own consent.

Documentation is not a very important thing.It's just a discussion about whether a sandwich candy called "Melon Zile" can be sold in Muggle society.

The so-called "melon zola" is not a new candy.Many years ago, as the main product of Charlie's Candy, it has become popular in the wizarding world and has been loved by the majority of wizards.

And Ryan is one of the lovers of this candy.

Therefore, he has communicated with Charlie many times, hoping to register "Melon Zile" in the market of Muggle society.

However, facing Ryan's proposal, Charlie had to consider an important question.That is, in "Honeydew Melon Zile", a magical plant that only exists in the wizarding world has been added-"Bubble Pod".

On the assembly line, the elves grind the dried bubble pods into powder, and then add them to each candy in proportion as a material to add taste.In a sense, bubble pod powder can also be said to be the key core of the popularity of "Honeydew Melon Zile".

Therefore, for this reason, in order to prevent unnecessary trouble from being caught by the Ministry of Magic, Charlie finally chose to refuse the proposals submitted by Ryan several times.

However, up to now, perhaps because the form has gradually changed, the Ministry of Magic has a certain acquiescence to Charlie's Candy Factory's intention to draw in the relationship between Muggle society and the wizarding world.Faced with this proposal, Charlie already had a different idea...

I saw that the stuck quill started to move again, slowly swipe down from Rhine's signature, crossed the content described in the square font on the document, and finally stopped at the blank space at the bottom.

Afterwards, the pen started to move, writing such a paragraph quickly and smoothly.

"Approved, please come to the factory to discuss the specific implementation plan at Christmas time."

After writing a sentence, a smile appeared on the corner of Charlie's mouth. I don't know if it was because he was in a much better mood, and the tiredness between his brows also became a little less.

After finishing processing, pick it up.Putting it on the thick stack of corrected documents aside, Charlie continued to look at the next one.

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Just when he was about to deal with the next document, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the office, which interrupted Charlie's original thoughts at this time.

Charlie subconsciously raised his head and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.After seeing that the numbers pointed by the minute and hour hands on the clock were not the meal time, he turned his head and looked at the door.

"come in."

Charlie spoke as usual, while speaking, he sat up straight and stretched a long waist.

He didn't know how long he had been working continuously, but based on experience, judging from the stiffness of his neck, shoulders and spine at this time, it should be less than five hours.

According to this progress...the thick pile of documents on the desk at present should be processed in a few days.

Thinking of this, Charlie couldn't help feeling a little encouraged, and regained his spirit.

The door opened slowly, and what appeared in front of Charlie was undoubtedly Russell's figure.

After all, in this special time period, only Russell can enter the office as a special case.

"Good evening! Great Master Charlie!"

Holding a piece of paper in his hand, Russell bowed slightly and greeted his master as usual.

"It's already night..."

Charlie pinched the position between his eyebrows and couldn't help sighing.

Just when he looked back at the piece of paper in Russell's hand, and was about to ask him why he came

Suddenly, a group of brown and black shadows, like an arrow flying from the string, galloped swiftly from a height, and rushed down along the gap opened by the gate. With a bang, he rushed into the office.

"Googoogoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Immediately afterwards, a familiar cry sounded, mixed with some kind of angry emotion.

Before Charlie could react, he saw Vivien landed steadily on the desk.Immediately, it stretched out its claws, with a fierce hatred like a deep hatred, and fiercely kicked at the stack of documents that happened to be placed on its usual sleeping position.

"Crash!!"

The papers were scattered in all directions, flying in the air. The documents that were stacked nearly one meter high were kicked away by two-thirds of them with its claws, leaving only dozens of sheets left. Still can stay on the table.

And the cool wind brought by it just after it came in also took advantage of the situation and blew out the burning candles, making the office return to darkness.

All of this happened in an instant, and Charlie, whose mind was already almost numb, naturally couldn't make the slightest reaction as before.

I could only watch all this happen, and then let Vivien, the "culprit" who had kicked down most of the documents, yelled twice in satisfaction, flapped her wings twice, and landed firmly on the top of the stack of documents. At the "ruined ruins", the feathers of the whole body were shrunk, rolled into a ball, and fell asleep directly without heart.

"Vivien!!!"

At this time, the first person to react was Russell who had not yet entered the office.

Seeing the sudden incident in front of him, Russell's heart suddenly tightened.His eyes widened, and he was so frightened that he almost jumped up from the ground.

Three steps and two steps hurriedly ran into the office, raised his hand, and thought of the documents floating around, he swung violently, and suddenly an invisible force began to gather in an instant, stopping all the documents that were originally floating around. into the air.

"Swipe la la la..."

The paper rustled in the wind, and with the change of Russell's gestures, it began to gather again, turning into a long dragon, and roaming out of thin air.

After confirming that there were no accidents in all the scattered documents, Russell finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With a "plop", the magic power that maintained the long dragon's roaming disappeared, and the files were stacked together again in another corner of the desk.

"It's getting more and more disobedient!!! You bad owl!!!"

After dealing with everything, Russell stared angrily, and angrily reprimanded Vivien who fell asleep with a few documents on the desk.

And Charlie's gaze also turned to Vivien.

"Ha, don't blame it. It seems that I have been working on these documents for the past few days. I neither put it in nor took time to accompany it, so I pissed it off."

However, he wasn't angry in his heart, he just shook his head amusedly, while speaking softly, he stretched out his hand, and stroked Vivien's feathers as he did in the past.

Vivien's wings were icy cold, with a few wisps of unmelted ice still condensed. It could be seen that it had just returned from the outside.

"Goo——"

The closed eyes still did not open, but subconsciously shook the feathers twice as Charlie stroked, let out a clear cry, and continued to sleep on his own.

"What day is it today?"

Suddenly, Charlie raised his head and asked Russell, who had already come before him, abruptly.

"Uh……"

Russell was stunned for a moment when he heard the sudden question, and then hurriedly returned to the road

"Today is October 25th, Master. It's October 26th in three hours."

"October 25th..."

Repeating what Russell said, Charlie slowly stood up from his seat, turned around and opened a corner of the heavy curtain.

Outside, it was still a lonely and empty night, above the sky, the moon disappeared, and even the stars were pitifully few, only a few of them were still shining faintly.

"Isn't it Halloween in a few days?" Charlie asked thoughtfully.
"Yes!"

Russell nodded hastily, then raised the piece of paper in his hand, looked at it twice, and continued
"Actually, Russell came here for this matter. On Halloween, Principal Dumbledore hoped that we could..."

(End of this chapter)