A day at Hogwarts.

Chapter 449 Shopping

Today is Ginny's first Hogsmeade week. Hermione took her to Honeydukes first. When they went out, they found that newly printed posters were posted everywhere.

“Let communication break all barriers”

This is the slogan Charles just came up with.

Phoenix Logistics is now spending money like water and even needs subsidies from the Dancing Grass restaurant. It urgently needs a hot-selling product to make up for the losses.

Therefore, the sales of communication notebooks were too rushed, and there was no dedicated sales department in the company, so it was not easy to hold today's press conference.

Charles had originally given up on pasting advertisements, but today he found that he could give it a try, so the bicycle became a motorcycle.

After all, Phoenix Logistics is still a start-up team.

Ginny was surprised to see Dumbledore on the ad, "Charles can actually invite Professor Dumbledore to do an ad. I thought the professor only appeared on chocolate frogs."

Hermione said: "I think Charles must have offered very generous conditions, otherwise the headmaster would not do such a thing."

Her judgment was correct. Charles promised to customize official books for Hogwarts and the International Confederation of Wizards free of charge, and there were other conditions before he invited this great man to take action.

Ginny said a little depressed: "It's too expensive. I don't have 6 Galleons."

She saw Harry had given her a copy last night and she wanted one too, but she had no money and no godfather like Charles, so she could only sigh.

At this time, Seamus and Neville came up from the back. Seamus said to the two girls, "Hermione, Ginny, hurry up and line up. If you're late, you won't be able to get in line!"

Hermione asked him, "What queue?"

Ximo said, "There's a lottery in front of the Dancing Grass restaurant. You can win a voucher to buy a notebook. You can give it to others if you win it!"

Hermione immediately pulled Ginny along with them.

The building next to the Dancing Grass Restaurant was also bought by Charles and converted into a store.

On the street stage, Celina Warbeck was introducing the usage and advantages of the communication notebook to the guests. She also invited a few lucky audience members to come up and try it out, and gave them a signed commemorative edition.

Ginny covered her eyes, she couldn't bear to see her mother jumping up and down on the stage to shake hands with her idol like a little kid.

Simo took them to the side of the new store's door. There was a tall object covered with cloth against the wall. No one knew what it was used for.

The trial session on the stage took more than ten minutes. Celestina Warbeck sang another song, and then the leaders came on stage.

Fudge took the stage first and praised Charles' contributions to society.

Then Dumbledore came on stage and praised Charles for turning knowledge into Galleons.

Then the director of St. Mungo's Hospital thanked Charles for his donation to medical cause.

After the leader's speech, there was a signing ceremony between Charles and the leaders of the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts and St. Mungo's Hospital.

Then Charles brought the leaders to Simo and the others, and a staff member pulled open the curtain, revealing a large vertical turntable.

The turntable is divided into seven-color grids, and different colors represent vouchers of different denominations from 1 Galleon to 6 Galleons and 12 Galleons. After Charles started it, the turntable spun rapidly at a speed of 1200 revolutions per minute.

Fudge and Dumbledore gave way to each other, and finally the Minister of Magic was the first to speak.

Fudge took out his wand and cast a spell on the turntable.

I saw a white light hit the turntable. After the turntable stopped, the red column emitted light, brilliant fireworks sprayed out from the back, and exciting music sounded. The box in front opened automatically, and a voucher for 12 Galleons floated into the minister's hand.

Fudge smiled like a child as he took the voucher.

Dumbledore smiled at Charles, only to find that he was pulling Seamus away, and worried that everyone would have nothing to play with. After the leaders played, it was the customers' turn. Hermione and the others were brought to the front by Seamus, and it was their turn soon.

Ginny drew 4 Galleons, Hermione drew 3 Galleons, and Neville drew 5 Galleons. Hermione had won one yesterday, so she shared her vouchers with them.

Harry and Ron, who arrived a little late, were very depressed. They only drew a voucher worth 1 Galleon each, and Ron had to grit his teeth and borrow money from Fred and George.

Seamus asked Ron, "Didn't you get paid for helping out with the stall during the summer vacation?"

Ron said gloomily, "Mom was afraid that Ginny and I would spend money recklessly, so she said she would give it to us before Christmas."

Now Molly has no idea where she and the other members of the fan club have gone.

Everyone started choosing notebooks in the store.

The notebook covers here come in a variety of styles, some with colorful patterns printed on them, which change when messages arrive.

The covers are also sold individually, with prices ranging from a few bottles of pumpkin soda to a fancy dinner, and customers can buy them and replace them themselves.

Harry bought a new cover, which would have a small golden snitch flying out to alert people when there was new news. Seamus chose a cover that would have a thumb-sized dragon flying out of it. Hermione finally decided to buy one that would have a flock of white doves flying out of it.

Ginny also picked out her own communication notebook, which was smaller than Seamus and the others, only the size of a palm, and the same color as Harry's eyes.

At this time, a large group of people came into the store, with Malfoy leading the way, followed by all the fourth-year Slytherin students.

Young Master Malfoy will pay the bill today, so please feel free to pick and buy whatever you like.

He now had 10,000 Galleons in his hand, and the remuneration for the commercial he had just received was paid on the spot, so naturally he did not take a few Galleons seriously.

However, Malfoy did not notice that there were two pairs of resentful eyes staring at him.

On the other side, Furong took Erica to the Fengya wizard clothing store.

Erica asked Furong, "You want to buy clothes?"

Fleur replied, "Charles asked me to help you pick out a dress."

Erica immediately shook her head and said, "No, no, how can I spend his money?"

If Charles was treating us to a meal, that would be fine, but buying an expensive dress in such a high-end store would be another matter.

She added, "I'm going to save the reward Charles gave me just now, so I'd better not spend it recklessly."

"No one invited me to the Christmas dance anyway, so it doesn't matter if I have a dress or not."

Furong said, "This is not Charles' money. Your friend earned his own money and gave it to Charles to buy you a dress."

Erica immediately knew who gave the money, and pouted her lips and said happily, "Marlene is really something. I told her not to spend money recklessly."

Having said that, she started picking out samples from the hangers.

As Fleur was helping, Erica suddenly whispered to her, "Where are you and Charles at?"

Furong's face suddenly turned red, and she shook her head and said, "I'm not his girlfriend."

Erica asked in confusion, "Is that so? Then how come he is so skilled?"

Furong's eyes suddenly became sharp.

(End of this chapter)