Chapter 333 Black Magic Detector Rod: This High-End Game

For Hufflepuff, she also hopes that the Ministry of Magic will adopt the installment payment method rather than paying the full amount at once, because to her, there seems to be no difference between 10,000 Galleons and 100,000 Galleons. How can she and her friends buy the treasure that she and her friends can't get with gold?

The real top treasure cannot be bought with money.

But this money is very meaningful to Hogwarts. She will leave this school one day, and she hopes to leave a rich enough legacy for future generations before leaving.

The gold Galleons deposited into the account monthly and the subsequent maintenance and maintenance of the automatic combat dolls are the best legacy, just like a hen that lays golden eggs.

One is willing to accept installment payments, and the other is happy to buy things with installments. The two hit it off.

"How about paying 10% in advance and paying the rest in 50 years? This is a very cost-effective deal." Helga gave very generous conditions.

If the Ministry of Magic intends to buy a puppet worth 100,000 Galleons, they only need to pay 10,000 Galleons first, and then pay 150 Galleons every month - equivalent to only adding three grassroots employees but enjoying the combat power increase of more than ten Aurors.

In fact, the conditions offered by Helga are far more generous than she imagined, because she has no idea of ​​the concept of "depreciation".

The currency of the magic world, Galleon, is actually slowly depreciating, just like the currency of the non-magical world. Galleons appeared in the mid-13th century, and the purchasing power of one Galleon at that time was roughly equivalent to the purchasing power of 6,000 Galleons today - the currency of the magic world is depreciating at a rate of 1.2% per year.

That is to say, fifty years later, the Ministry of Magic still pays Hogwarts 150 Galleons per month for the purchase of puppets, but 150 Galleons at that time is only equivalent to 82 Galleons today - which means that Helga gave the Ministry of Magic a 55% discount without knowing it.

But you can't blame her. It's really hard to expect a witch living in the Middle Ages to understand economics. Not to mention Hufflepuff, few contemporary wizards have this knowledge.

Bones is the same. Although she knows nothing about economics, she still has some simple arithmetic skills.

After she did a little calculation and found that she only needed to spend 150 Galleons a month, her eyes lit up.

"Can I pay in installments?" She asked, and then she said a little embarrassedly that she could accept a partial increase in the price of the doll based on the original price.

Helga didn't have any objections. She didn't expect to make too much money from the Ministry of Magic, and making money still depended on the orders of major magic families.

Seeing Professor White give in, Bones was overjoyed: this way she could buy many advanced equipment with very low starting funds, and such a high budget cost would seem insignificant when spread out over decades.

As the most powerful director of the Ministry of Magic, Bones naturally had ideas about the position of Minister of Magic, and the Dementor incident completely ignited her ambition.

After watching Fudge's experience at the gate of Hogwarts, Bones felt that the time was ripe.

There were quite a few people in the magic world who were dissatisfied with Fudge. He could contact them secretly and then launch an impeachment against Fudge and drive him out of office. After taking office, he could buy a batch of Professor White's puppets with zero down payment. If those puppets were really as good as Professor White said, they would become her achievements.

This was all part of the plan.

After reaching a cooperation with Professor White in private, Bones left the office with a happy mood. Next, she would meet with the leaders of the pure-blood families and have a good talk about what they would do to support her.

Since the day the Dementors broke into Hogwarts, the magic world was like the sea level before the storm. On the surface, it was calm, but everyone knew that the storm was brewing in secret...

Time quickly came to the end of October, and the students gradually forgot about the game in the storm and the "Parents' Open Day" the next day. Instead, the hot news was the upcoming Principal's Open Day.

Students in the third grade and above at Hogwarts can go to Hogsmeade village on the premise that their parents sign a permission form - there was no such rule at first. Students could go to Hogsmeade at any time without any time or age restrictions.

But later, with the development of Hogsmeade village, the village became mixed, and many products that were not suitable for young students to buy emerged. In order to strengthen management, Hogwarts finally controlled the qualifications of students to enter and leave Hogsmeade village.

Of course, it was difficult for Rice to understand the difficulties of the headmasters of later generations. In his opinion, the children were just drunk in places like the Three Broomsticks. Is it really necessary to be so strict? Is it making a fuss?

However, doubts aside, rules must be followed. Rice's way of going to Hogsmeade was completely in line with school rules. He asked his "guardian" Rupert to sign the application form for him.

So he was able to walk out of the gate of Hogwarts and go to Hogsmeade in the end of October.

After being surrounded by parents once, Fudge rescinded the order to station Dementors around Hogwarts and instead sent Aurors and Smiters to be stationed outside Hogwarts to ensure the safety of the school.

In his opinion, it was a bit unrealistic for a few wizards to catch Sirius without the help of Dementors. But failing to catch Sirius would only affect his position in the future. If he continued to send Dementors, he would have to step down now, so Fudge compromised.

But only Fudge was unhappy. Others were happy to see the disappearance of Dementors.

A female Auror with colorful hair checked Rice's application form. Although Rupert on the form and Rice in front of her were obviously not the same surname, she did not ask any questions. She just took out a thin metal stick and planned to let Rice and others go after the security check.

This metal stick used to detect dark magic made a sharp explosion when it swept over Rice, and the whole stick became extremely hot.

Rice:?

Tonks:? ? ?

"What's the situation? Is it broken?" Tonks took the stick aside and shook it to make it quiet again.

Rice looked at the metal stick thoughtfully.

"Sorry, the department hasn't updated its equipment for a while - but this situation is really rare." Tonks smiled apologetically at Les, thinking that she must have scared the poor child just now.

Sure enough, when the probe swept over the child's body again, there was no abnormal sound.

"Okay, have fun~" Tonks turned sideways and let Les and the others out of the campus.

"What's wrong, I seemed to hear an alarm just now?" Kingsley walked over from not far away.

"There was a problem with the things sent by the department."

Kingsley sighed: "I'll talk to Stringer later to see if a batch of equipment can be updated."

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The second update is here, I will continue to write, everyone can read it in the morning~