BXBX NOVEL Chapter 107 - 107. Bad Business
It was the second day in Hogwarts. The normal classes started and the schedule was the same as before.
It was Sunday today and Magnus was just assessing the situation of Slytherin house. Lucius will be graduating this summer and after that, there will be no influential person in the house that could match him.
But he knew Lucius was not going to quit so easily. He would certainly tell his Slytherin gang to keep their act going and he would need to undermine the reputation and the power of the Slytherin gang.
~Hmm, I should start with helping kids with families in trouble. They will never forget this help.~ Magnus thought, as he wouldn\'t forget it either if someone helped his family.
But, he was having a problem communicating with other kids. They were too scared of him as many unwanted rumours had spread of him being an angry vengeful boy.
"Sev, Ragnar... Now it\'s your job to get close to the various kids in the house. Find out if they are having any school or personal trouble. I will help them. Even if it is academic-related, I will hold tuition every second day before dinner." Magnus told them.
"Ha? Why must we help you?" Ragnar made a tired face. He just wanted to study for now.
Magnus then explained in simple words, "Well, because you\'re a member of the round table. And I expect you to help in increasing our influence. Most students in Slytherin are from a rich or influential family, families that they will one day inherit. I\'d rather have them in my camp than enemy\'s."
"A very thoughtful decision, we should do this. Maybe we can recruit some smart ones this way. And why just limit ourselves to this house, we should be helping every student who needs it if reputation gaining is our target." Snape advised.
Magnus quickly agreed, "Yes, let\'s do that. Ragnar, you will handle the potion club. Potions are one of the most well paying industries in the wizarding world. Any potioneer going into the enemy\'s hand is not just a loss for a potential potioneer but also financial as his potions would make money for the enemy."
"What about me? I\'m also a potioneer." Severus asked.
"Umm... you are more of an overall student so you can help everyone. I will also help mostly everyone with extra focus on charms as they are my speciality. Maybe we can get Professor Flitwick to start the duelling club he\'s been talking about." Magnus decided.
"Ooooot... MEOW..." Both Chad and Summer also came to Magnus, asking to help as well.
Magnus patted their heads, "Hmm, Summer can be the queen of all owls. Maybe you can track all the letters they are sending. And Chad, well, you are too small to speak according to your grandma, so, you just focus on your speech."
Summer hearing the new work happily jumped into Magnus\' arms and snuggled there for a while, meanwhile, Chad sadly sat down.
*Knock Knock*
All of a sudden, their dorm door was knocked.
Magnus went ahead and opened it. It was prefect. "Professor Dumbledore is looking for you."
Magnus nodded and headed out after telling his friends, "You two start the work. I\'ll be back soon."
~Hmm.. why does he want to see me now?~ he wondered.
...
Magnus came to the gargoyle statue. He stood in front of it and wondered.
"Hmm, let\'s see... Lemonsquid?... No?" Magnus was trying to guess the password.
"Ummm... Lemonpop?" He guessed. But it was wrong again.
"Lemon tart?"
*Grrr...*
The status moved in a circular motion and finally showed him the passage to enter. He climbed the stairs and entered the office. Dumbledore probably knew when someone entered so he didn\'t bother to announce himself.
As soon as he entered, Fawkes launched himself at him and sat down on his shoulder. Then he started smelling his hair.
"Haha, what are you doing, Fawkes?" Magnus asked laughingly.
Soon, Fawkes\'s eyes widened as he smelled something very nice. Fawkes then looked at Magnus\' face and tried to communicate in his language.
Magnus tried to understand him but couldn\'t, just then Dumbledore came and translated to the best of his abilities. "He smelled something good on you and is asking what it is."
"Is it pancakes?" Magnus asked by trying to conjure a smoke from his wand in the shape of a pancake.
Fawkes shook his head. Magnus tried to think very intently and showed a lot more patterns, but Fawkes patiently denied them all.
Then finally he had success. He created the shape of a phoenix.
"REEEE..."
Immediately Fawkes started flapping his wings and cried loudly. Magnus immediately understood what Fawkes wanted, he wanted some action.
Dumbledore looked at his pet, "Poor Fawkes, he doesn\'t know that finding more phoenixes is near to impossible as not many are left."
Magnus didn\'t correct him and turned to Fawkes, "Fawkes, I will get to meet a pretty lady phoenix, but you must keep her location a secret until your death. Even from this old man."
Fawkes, as if understood him, turned his head to Dumbledore. Then, he swung his head away as if saying, "Hmph..."
Then he started rubbing his head on Magnus\' face, while making a cute happy noise.
Magnus didn\'t even try to hold back his laughter. "Bwahahaha... See this old man? His friendship has now ended with you, now I am his best friend."
Dumbledore sighed, "Don\'t make false promises to him that might break his heart."
Magnus scoffed, "Huh, I don\'t break promises, especially not to my friends. I will indeed find him a good wife."
"Rooooo..." Fawkes happily hugged Magnus\' head with his wings.
~Every day he\'s straying further from me.~ Dumbledore sadly thought.
But, seeing the sad Dumbledore, Fawkes couldn\'t take it and jumped over to sit on top of his head.
Magnus chuckled, "Hehe, it seems he has decided not to end the friendship with you."
Dumbledore took a fake sigh of relief. He knew that Fawkes would never leave him, he was just being goofy. Fawkes was, in reality, connected to Dumbledore and indirectly Hogwarts. Only when Dumbledore dies, would Fawkes leave his side and become a wild bird once again. But, a legend was that this Fawkes was highly connected to Dumbledor bloodline and Fawkes being immortal has lived with many Dumbledores in history.
"So, why did you ask me to come here, professor," he asked finally.
Dumbledore took his seat, looking silly as Fawkes was still sitting on his head.
"Yes, I wanted to talk to you about Mr Thomas. He wants to meet you again, he will come to your office later. But, I want to tell you that you did the right thing by helping him. If you had not healed his injury, he might have died." Dumbledore praised him.
Magnus nodded, and accepted the praise, "Thank you, Professor. Is his family alright?"
"Yes, my brother in Hogsmeade hosted them," Dumbledore replied.
Magnus took a sigh of relief knowing the man\'s family was fine. Seeing there was nothing else to talk about, Magnus decided to ask something he wanted to ever since the quidditch.
"Professor, I would like to offer you a business opportunity. This time, unlike the other one, you will get instant results and profits." He pitched.
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows, deciding to take everything Magnus says with a grain of salt.
"What is this business proposition of yours?" Dumbledore asked.
Magnus cleared his throat, "It is an amazing way to make big money. I have done some initial trials. Just imagine, you can have so much money to fund your fight against the terrorists. You can be RICH!"
Dumbledore was still not buying it, "What is this business, just tell me straight, Magnus."
Finally, after a long pause, Magnus spoke, "I want to sell Dumbledore flavoured underwear..."
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Dumbledore was left speechless. He was not even sure what emotions he should feel right now. And he was astounded by the shamelessness of Magnus.
*Cough*
"Please do not joke around like this, Magnus. No matter how much money it can make, it is not worth destroying my image." Dumbledore stated.
But Magnus had a serious face, "Come on, professor. Think about the money. What can you buy with the reputation? NOTHING..."
Magnus then suddenly took out a small pouch from his pocket and took 3 different pieces of clothes.
"Look, they are all premium quality, they come in white, blue and black. We can launch many more colours in the future. I\'m telling you, I sold a few in Slytherin common room, they sold like hotcakes, here is your cut." He revealed and put 100 gold galleons on the table.
Dumbledore was shocked because this was a lot of money. Who buys underwear so costly? "What was the price of one?"
"10 Galleons," Magnus replied.
Dumbledore\'s jaw was left hanging. ~Am I really that famous that people want to buy this at such an exorbitant price?~
He intently stared at the three underwears with his face on them. One of them was a female one, which was slightly smaller.
~If we can sell this in large quantity... NO! Albus, you cannot fall this low.~ He thought to himself and overcame the lure of money.
"No Magnus, you are from now on banned from ever selling anything with my face on it. You can take these away now." He sternly ordered.
Magnus sighed in defeat, "AH, nobody understands my genius business brain. Well, I guess I will be wearing these now. Bye then,"
He got up and left the office. Dumbledore just facepalmed himself tiredly, "Why does he have no shame? I wish he used his exceptional brain for better things."
...
Magnus went to the busiest lobby in the school and stood on the side. He had 5 big carton boxes behind him. He cleared his throat and started shouting.
"FREE! FREE! FREE!... Take Dumbledore Flavored underwears for free... Limited offer..." He started shouting.
Immediately, lots of students came running to him and took multiple underwears.
Magnus could only see all the money slipping from his hand, ~*Sigh* He said I can\'t sell them, I guess I can only give them for free."
"AH! Don\'t push around, there\'s enough for everyone... make a line... you want 5? No, you can\'t, I\'ve limited it to 2 per person, don\'t try to hog it and sell it later at a higher price, I know a scalper when I see one." He started shouting and organised his little shop like a good shopkeeper. But his heart was sad for losing this much money.
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