Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 157 A Completely Different Candy

"I told you all, and I asked you to change it when you copied it... It's fine now, and there is no chance to quibble. Two days later, on Halloween, they go to enjoy a big meal, and we can only clean the toilet!"

After class, Draco held the book in his arms, and glanced resentfully over Harry and Ron, with a bit of discouragement in his tone.It can be seen that although he doesn't mention it much, in fact, in his heart, he is full of expectations for the first important festival spent at Hogwarts.

But now, they never thought it would end like this... It's full of irony and helplessness.

Staring at Draco's gaze, Harry lowered his head in embarrassment, scratched the raised hair on the back of his head, and said nothing.

But Ron, still adhering to the excellent virtue of a dead duck's mouth, his cheeks flushed slightly, and he muttered dryly:
"How did we know that Quirrell would suddenly come up with such a trick! Obviously, no matter how perfunctory the homework was written before, there would be no problem, but it turned out to be this time..."

As Ron said, it seemed that he had gradually imagined in his mind that he was cleaning the toilet with tools while others were feasting on the dining table, and his mouth was constricted for a while.

"Professor Quirrell didn't know why his brain suddenly twitched... and he started to tell us some great truths."

When it came to the end, even he himself seemed to be unable to continue. He could only hang his head down, and the thousands of words in his heart finally converged into one sentence, "What a bad luck."

In front of the three of them, Hermione rolled her eyes speechlessly, and reprimanded like iron and steel
"Isn't it because you two are lazy? Professor Quirrell actually doesn't leave a lot of homework. Compared with Professor McGonagall's dissertation on the Transfiguration Curse, it can be said to be a world of difference! The two of you even have the Transfiguration Curse I don't know what you're thinking when you can turn in your papers, but end up playing around with your Defense Against the Dark Arts homework."

After teaching Harry and Ron, it seemed that it was not enough, and Hermione pointed at Draco again.

"And you, Draco...you can't keep borrowing their homework like this, look at these two poor guys—"

Hermione opened her palm and pointed at the two people who lowered their heads and slanted their hips.

"I took classes for a whole semester, but I didn't learn anything in the end! Apart from eating candy all day, I just went to play wizard chess! How can I do this, and it will be a heavy price to meet when the exam comes! !"

Draco raised his brows, his eyes followed Hermione's direction and cast a scrutinizing gaze. After scanning up and down for a moment, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Indeed...Harry looks a lot more sluggish than when he first started school, and Ron, not to mention, has been very stable, sliding towards the abyss of fools like there is no lower limit, and there is nothing to pull him up possible.

At this point, he also had to sigh, but for some reason, he inexplicably recalled his two previous followers, Gore and Crabbe...

Returning to the present from the memory, Draco nodded, took out a licorice stick from his pocket, broke off a section and put it in his mouth, and looked away again, saying

"Indeed...you are quite right."

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At the same time, in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was as usual, leaning on the back of his office chair in a soothing manner, staring straight ahead, with a kind smile on the corner of his mouth, from time to time Nod your head to show that you are listening carefully.

At this moment, in the center of the office, Dab was sitting on the high stool originally prepared for Hagrid, barely making his line of sight parallel to Dumbledore.

While shaking his feet subconsciously, he seriously introduced the project he just got to the other party.

"...as you can hope, to be able to bring something special to the young wizards of Hogwarts on such a special occasion."

Dabu took a deep breath, and while speaking, he reached into the small satchel he carried with him, and took out the box he had already prepared.

With a muffled sound of "Peng", Dabu jumped off the high stool, his dexterous legs flipped quickly, and he came to the desk in a few steps.

Then with some reluctance, he stood on tiptoe, stretched his arms, and sent the box to Dumbledore.

"What's in here?"

Dumbledore moved the office chair forward slightly, then stretched out his hand, carefully took the box from Dab's hand, and asked curiously at the same time.

"Mr. Black came up with the idea!"

Dab straightened his waist, quite proudly, and replied in a high-pitched voice.

"Based on the feedback from the candy vending machine, he selected five candies that are most popular among little wizards except for the wind-sniffing violet candy, processed them, and launched a limited edition for Halloween!"

"A limited holiday edition?"

Obviously, Dub's words immediately aroused Dumbledore's strong interest.

His white and thick eyebrows raised slightly, and a brilliant light shone in his eyes.

Indeed, as a person with an extreme sweet tooth, it is hard not to be curious and interested in Charlie's so-called limited holiday edition... After all, this has never been done before.

"Can I open this box and have a look?"

But even though he was so curious, Dumbledore did not open it immediately, but looked at Dub again, and asked politely

"Of course!"

Dabu nodded hastily, then took two steps back, returned from the desk to the high stool, and continued

"This is the sample that Mr. Charlie specially prepared for you. If you think it's good, wait until Halloween, and we will fill the candy vending machine with new products according to this pattern!"

"That's really great...Thank Charlie for me, for being able to meet my almost unreasonable request at this time."

As Dumbledore spoke, he opened the box with full anticipation.

The box, as usual, is the most common brown cardboard box used by Charlie's Candy Factory, so it doesn't take much effort to open it.

When it was slowly opened, a variety of candies appeared in Dumbledore's eyes.

"This is... licorice sticks, ice plum sweets, hazelnut chocolate, honeydew melon zola, fruit sorbet?"

As a loyal user who is most familiar with Charlie's products besides the employees of the Charlie's candy factory, Dumbledore just glanced slightly, and through their respective shapes and colors, he can, without wrapping paper, It is easy to say their respective names.

After hesitating for a moment, Dumbledore finally chose the classic hazelnut-flavored chocolate as the first candy to taste.

Slowly pinch the finely cut pieces of chocolate and put them in your mouth.

His eyes also slightly closed, and he began to control his tongue, quietly savoring the difference between this piece of hazelnut chocolate compared to the past...

When entering the mouth, the burnt aroma of the roasted hazelnuts is still the first to emerge, and it begins to quickly fill the mouth.

The corner of Dumbledore's mouth curled into a smile, and he didn't say anything, but looked forward to the taste in his mouth even more.

Immediately afterwards, he was not disappointed. As the chocolate began to gradually melt in his mouth, the honey smell that should have been mixed with the burnt hazelnut flavor suddenly changed into a unique and indescribable taste .

The original thick and cloying sweetness was weakened to the extreme, replaced by a faint bitterness mixed with a faint sweetness, and even a faint fragrance can be tasted.

"Ok?"

Dumbledore made a sound that represented doubt, and his brows were also slightly frowned. It seemed that he began to think about what the smell came from.

However, what he didn't expect was that until the piece of chocolate completely melted in his mouth and finally disappeared without a trace, he also didn't expect what kind of peculiar taste it came from.

The closed eyes opened again, looking at the candy in the box, and after pondering for a moment, Dumbledore gave his evaluation.

"It's very interesting... It seems to be the exact opposite of the original taste of hazelnut chocolate. But I don't hate it, this other taste is very characteristic. I know, Charlie must have changed the honey in it, but the change What became, I don't know..."

Hearing Dumbledore's words, Dub also laughed happily, but he didn't say anything, as if he was planning to keep it a secret, and tell the other party what was added in it at the end.

Smacking his lips, feeling the taste of hazelnut chocolate remaining in it, Dumbledore seemed to be a little bit unsatisfied.

Soon, he stretched out his hand for the second time, and took out the licorice stick with the most distinctive shape from among the candies, and then slowly put it into his mouth just like before.

sweet.This time, Dumbledore felt the sweetness that had disappeared on the hazelnut chocolate...

Also changing the previous characteristics of the licorice stick, Charlie added a lot of honey in it to cover up its original fragrance and refreshing taste.

It can be said that if Dumbledore could barely find the connection between him and the previous candy from the hazelnut when he ate the last candy, then at this time, apart from the similar appearance, the two will really disappear half a connection.

Rather than licorice sticks, it seems that honey sticks or toffee sticks are more suitable for it...

When the licorice stick was chewed and swallowed by him, the smile on the corner of Dumbledore's mouth became bright.

This time he didn't speak, but went straight to pick up the third one and put it in his mouth.

By this time, he had been able to guess what made these five candies special as Halloween specials.

Their taste at this moment is a completely different experience from what they gave people before!

The original caramel-sweet hazelnut chocolate is endowed with opposite sweetness and bitterness.

The fragrant and refreshing licorice stick is full of sweetness like honey toffee.

Dumbledore's interest has been completely hooked.

It has to be said that most people, including himself, actually like this feeling full of unknowns, just like tasting strange beans, knowing that there are such things as "booger smell" and "vomit smell" This kind of strange taste, but I still can't help but pick up one and put it in my mouth, and hope that I can taste "strawberry flavor" or "pineapple flavor"...

Are weird beans really delicious?To be honest, it's very average, and if you just pick out the best flavors in it, none of them can compete with the products with the same taste in Charlie's brand.But it is one of the few candy products that can achieve good sales under the cover of Charlie's behemoth.

And the key to its success is this unique sense of anticipation...

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Dabu didn't say anything, just stood beside the high stool, waiting quietly with a smile on his face.

It wasn't until Headmaster Dumbledore swallowed the last melon zola and showed a satisfied expression that he finally explained the taste that Dumbledore hadn't tasted in the first hazelnut chocolate.

"Mr. Black said that he specially added sweet-scented osmanthus powder to the hazelnut chocolate to neutralize its original sweetness, and to mix some unique and special flavors on the basis of the original hazelnut aroma."

"very interesting……"

Dumbledore's eyes flashed like a child's light, and he sincerely praised
"I even think that this shouldn't just be a special candy for Halloween... Even in normal times, it will definitely be very popular."

While talking, Dumbledore picked up a piece of broken licorice stick again, put it into his mouth, and began to experience the extremely sweet taste of honey toffee again.

"Then..." Dub paused, raised his head to look at Dumbledore, and asked tentatively
"The next Christmas candy, do you do it like this?"

"Um"

Dumbledore smiled and nodded.

"Just do it like this! I believe little wizards will like these candies very much..."

After getting an affirmative answer, Dabu breathed a sigh of relief as if he had completed a difficult task.

"Don't worry! Dean Dumbledore, I'll go and tell Mr. Black right now. On Halloween, I will definitely send enough candies to guarantee those little wizards a surprise that suits the atmosphere!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Dumbledore to say anything more, Dab turned his head away, kicked up his legs excitedly, rushed out of the principal's office, and disappeared in front of Dumbledore's eyes. .

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbfounded.

Shaking his head, he slowly stood up from his seat, picked up a piece of hazelnut chocolate again, put it in his mouth, and carefully tasted the taste that he had never tasted just now.

(End of this chapter)