Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

In the office, thick curtains with classic Baroque patterns blocked the light, making the originally quiet space appear a little darker.

Charlie Black sat behind the long table, leaning on a comfortable high chair. The slender fingers of his left hand gently held up a cup of steaming coffee, while the spoon in his right hand kept stirring, forming a small cup in the center of the coffee.

swirl.

He went back and forth with this mechanical and meaningless action, not even noticing that the temperature of the coffee was gradually disappearing.

Charlie's eyes were all focused on the newspaper unfolding and floating in front of him.

This is the latest issue of the Daily Prophet that was just delivered to him.

As the most official and authoritative media recognized by the wizarding world, the Daily Prophet is one of the important sources that Charlie uses to obtain information after arriving here.

Because on it, you can easily access all the recent major events in the magical world, as well as all the latest regulations promulgated by the Ministry of Magic.

And Charlie can easily find what he wants between the lines and the dancing pictures.

But today, the front-page headline of the Daily Prophet seemed particularly inconsistent with usual.

The words that were magnified three times, occupying almost the entire top position horizontally, clearly conveyed a message to people - "Mr. Harry Potter is about to turn eleven!"

By then, he will enter Hogwarts as a new student!!!"

After a moment of silence, he simply put the coffee cup and spoon in his hand back on the table, then stretched out his right hand and lightly snapped his fingers to the side.

"Snapped"

The voice fell, and then a light suddenly flashed next to Charlie, and a house elf appeared there out of thin air.

"Good afternoon! My great master Charlie, Russell has received your summons!" The house elf who called himself Russell bowed respectfully and greeted Charlie.

Charlie nodded, stood up from his seat, and told Russell, "Russell, come with me out in a minute..."

Before Charlie finished speaking, Russell immediately became excited after receiving the order. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Russell with emotion, and it seemed that his body could not help but tremble.

"Great Master Charlie needs Russell!!! Obey my great master, you know, as your loyal servant, Russell is willing to do anything for you... Oh, God, maybe I should go first

Prepare Floo powder..."

"No, no need."

It seemed that he was used to Russell's state, and Charlie was not surprised. He waved casually, walked out from behind the desk, picked up the top hat hanging on the hanger, and placed it on his head and feet.

He kept walking towards the door and continued talking.

"This time, we won't use Floo fans..."

After he finished speaking, he pushed open the office door.

Accompanied by a "squeaking" sound, the somewhat rusty brass door shaft let out a vague groan.

The door slowly opened, and the light from the outside spilled in through the cracks in the door, shining on Charlie's black windbreaker, passing through his golden hair, hitting the tall bridge of his nose, and awakening the azure blue under his eyelashes.

eye………

Then, a factory that could subvert anyone's imagination appeared in front of him.

With the magic pump as the most primitive power, it drives countless gears to rotate slowly. After the simple transmission structure is cleverly combined with magic power, a huge and rather precise production line forms the entire magical world, and even

The world's largest candy factory - "Charlie's Candy Factory"

In the assembly line, hundreds of house elves were carrying out the work at hand in an orderly manner. Each of them was wearing a uniform work uniform and had a cheerful smile on their face.

Hearing the sound from the office door, all the house elves involuntarily put down their work, raised their heads, and looked at Charlie.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Charlie!" Everyone greeted him almost in unison.

"Good afternoon to you too, my dear employees" he replied

As he spoke, Charlie smiled and nodded, raised his hand, and waved to hundreds of pairs of eager eyes, just like a star facing ardent fans.

While waving, he walked down the hanging staircase to the second floor. Only after all the house elves could no longer see him, Charlie put his hand down and returned to its original state.

"How is the development of the new product I mentioned earlier going?"

Charlie walked forward on his own, while Russell followed carefully behind him.

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, paused and asked.

Russell also stopped hastily and replied, "It went very well, Master Charlie! I left this matter to Tika... Oh, maybe you haven't heard of this name. The little guy is yours in August last year."

One of the house elves we took in was a very hard-working young man, and he was good at tinkering with new things... You said before that the filling in the Kaziz-filled hard candies was not smooth enough, and it was he who first thought of it.

Catnip is added to it to improve the taste."

"Great." Charlie nodded. "Russell, please lead the way. I want to take a look."

"With pleasure, dear Master Charlie."

Russell first bowed deeply, and then said with sincerity, "Please forgive Russell for walking in front of you."

"Of course, let's go."

Under the leadership of Russell, the two shuttled through the intricate factory, and finally came to an iron door.

On the top of the iron gate, the words "Product Research and Development" were written with some kind of magic paint. And below it, a wooden sign that read "No Entry for Unused Persons" was crudely hung.

"Master, let me open the door for you"

With that said, Russell came to the door and opened it.

The door opened, and what caught Charlie's eyes was a rather chaotic room, with a dazzling array of utensils placed randomly, and various bags of unsealed raw materials, which were also opened wantonly, making the whole room more chaotic.

The taste became extremely weird.

In the room, the six house elves seemed busier than the assembly line outside. Everyone was minding their own work, and no one was attracted to pay attention for a moment because of the opening of the door.

"What a bunch of rude mules." Russell's expression wrinkled, obviously extremely dissatisfied with their attitude.

He was about to say a few words of reprimand, but was stopped by Charlie behind him.

Charlie shook his head, and then continued to ask, "Which Tika are you talking about just now?"

The expression on Russell's face dropped and he pointed at one of the six people.

I saw that the house elf named Tika was sitting on a sack at the moment, reaching for some unknown raw materials in the bag beside him, and then stuffed them into his mouth.

Charlie raised his eyebrows and watched his actions with interest without interrupting.

Tikka closed her eyes and chewed the unknown raw material in her mouth.

After waiting for two or three minutes, he swallowed them all, then showed a surprised smile and shouted, "Tika likes the taste!! He can add it to the nut halva!!"

Just as he was excited, suddenly, a voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"What are you doing?"

The sudden sound startled him, and Tika broke away from his own world, and then subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.

"Oh! Mr. Charlie!!"

In an instant, he jumped up from where he was sitting and bowed to salute Charlie.

"You know, looking for an improved formula."

After listening to his answer, Charlie looked curiously into the sack containing the raw materials - yellow powder of different sizes, which seemed to be some kind of dried and mashed plant.

He gently stretched out his hand, twisted some of it and brought it to the tip of his tongue, closed his eyes and tasted it carefully.

A faint fragrance spread between his mouth and tongue. Although it was weak, it had a unique delicateness.

Tika, whose eyes were twinkling next to her, said in time.

"This is a powder ground from Osmanthus osmanthus. I think its unique taste can neutralize the sweetness in nut halva according to a certain proportion."

“nice idea”

Charlie opened his eyes, a smile appeared on his lips, nodded towards Tika, and praised his idea without hesitation.

After saying that, he gently flicked his fingertips stained with some yellow powder, and before Tika could be happy, he continued to speak.

"But this time I'm not here to check your work...I heard from Russell that you have developed a new product. Can you show it to me?"

Tikka scratched his head and subconsciously looked at Russell behind Charlie. Seeing Russell's winking and reminding expression, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have remembered something.

As soon as he slapped his forehead, Tika ran quickly with his slightly bloated belly supported by his two short legs. He suddenly rushed to an already full storage box on the other side of the studio and started rummaging through it quickly.

Charlie waited patiently for a moment, but after a while, he saw Tika shouting "Aha, here!"

After saying that, he excitedly returned to Charlie carrying a small package wrapped in brown paper and tightly tied with hemp rope.

"Mr. Charlie! Look, this is the new product you told me about last time."

As he spoke, he raised the small, unattractive package with both hands and held it in front of Charlie.

"great."