Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

After the Ministry of Magic received Fudge's "approval" and bid farewell to Dumbledore, without any further hesitation, Charlie returned to his factory without stopping and began to prepare specific matters related to recruitment.

"Russell!"

The moment Charlie stepped into the factory, Russell suddenly appeared in front of him after hearing the news.

After appearing in an instant, Russell didn't say anything else, and then he couldn't wait to look at the extra shiny medal on his master's chest.

There was a bright light in his eyes, and for a while, a feeling of dignity surged from Russell's chest, making him couldn't help but straighten his waist. Then, he quickly looked away and put his eyes back again.

He looked up at his master, Charlie, and greeted him with a more energetic and high-spirited greeting than usual.

"Welcome back, Master!"

After the greeting, without waiting for Charlie to respond, he continued talking on his own.

"Congratulations! My great master. To be honest, you look really good with this medal, as if you are emitting some kind of dazzling light like the sun from the inside out! Uh, of course, you are the same at ordinary times.

It's so dazzling, but it's a lot more intense today..."

There was no time to listen to Russell Xu's ramble anymore. Seeing that the other party liked this medal of the Knights of Merlin so much, Charlie was too lazy to say anything more. He stretched out his hand to stop Russell's unfinished emotions and casually took off the medal from his chest.

, his movements were light and graceful, as if he was throwing some garbage, he took it out of his hand, drew a round arc in mid-air, and flew straight towards Russell.

"Give it to you."

However, compared to Charlie's indifference, Russell was suddenly frightened by this action. He quickly closed his mouth that was half-opened and was about to continue saying something. He hurriedly stretched out his hands subconsciously and pulled out the Merlin Knights.

The third-class medal was firmly placed in his arms.

"Master...don't you want this?"

Holding the solid medal in his hand, he quickly wiped it twice carefully and looked around. Seeing that the other party was not damaged, Russell finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised his head with some confusion.

He looked at Charlie with a confused face and asked cautiously.

Charlie took big steps and walked towards the inside of the factory. He shook his head and said indifferently in a somewhat tired voice, "The truly valuable things have been obtained. Compared with the tangible benefits, this kind of

Isn’t it that the honor that can be bought with money seems too useless?”

Russell didn't understand what his master meant by "tasteless", but based on the contextual analysis, he could understand most of it.

So, it held the medal in both hands and looked at the background of Charlie gradually walking away. It was stunned for a moment, but soon, it suddenly understood what it was, and its blank eyes flashed, and it hurriedly followed the trend.

He put the medal in his pocket first, and while chasing Charlie forward, he asked

"Master, is this the problem we discussed above? Have you already discussed a solution with Minister Fudge?"

"That's right, it's been solved."

Hearing this question, Charlie couldn't help but relax a little, and a smile appeared faintly on the corner of his mouth.

However, before Russell could make any huge reaction, the expression on his face had just brightened, and Charlie's next words made him shocked again.

"We are going to expand and hire people! Wait, you go call the heads of all departments to ask the office. We are going to hold a meeting to discuss these issues as soon as possible. After the discussion is over, we will start investing the next day.

Plan to send out recruitment flyers within a week."

"Recruiting?!"

Russell felt that his heart was beating a little harder due to excitement, and he subconsciously shouted out loud.

Not caring about anything else, he took three steps and two steps at a time, making his speed a little faster, and chased straight to Charlie's side. He couldn't help suppressing the uneasiness and worry in his heart, and spoke to comfort him.

"My great and wise master... Although as your loyal servant, I can understand the embarrassing dilemma the factory is facing today, but... is this a little too fast? Please forgive your stupid servant's reckless advice,

However, I think the other companions in the factory don’t seem to have much favorable impressions of humans other than you... Especially after the horrific incident like Dabu happened recently, such a decision is made at this time.

...Russell thought it was not a...particularly wise idea."

After listening to Russell's words, he glanced at the other person who was so anxious that he was already covered in sweat, but still endured his temper, beating around the bush, trying his best to give him face and express his thoughts at the same time. Charlie couldn't help it.

Smiling brightly, it was really hard for him.

Rather than continue to embarrass him, Charlie shook his head, and then explained in detail what he meant just now.

"It's not wizards...the people we want to recruit this time are Squibs and Muggles!"

"M... Muggle?!"

Russell's eyes widened and he murmured and repeated Charlie's words. After all the twists and turns in his heart, he felt something strange that was indescribable.

Even though he is not a wizard, he still knows the rules of the wizarding world.

If it had been the day before, when he had just woken Master Charlie from his sleep, and the master had said something like this to him, he would have just thought that his master was asleep and confused.

However, now, he had just returned from the Ministry of Magic and participated in the awarding ceremony of the Order of Merlin, Third Class. It seemed that he and Fudge had even successfully reached a certain condition, without any intention of joking.

This was enough to cause Russell's brain to shut down for a short time. At this moment, it couldn't help but start to doubt itself. Could it be that he stayed in the factory for too long? He didn't pay attention to the news from the outside world, which caused what happened to the outside world.

What major drastic changes, my family didn't notice it??? But, this shouldn't be...

While thinking about it, he opened his mouth and was about to ask something again, but Charlie's next words made him swallow all the questions he had not yet spoken.

Just listen to what he said

"I know that you must have a lot of questions... but it's not a short time. What you want to know, the remaining guys must also want to know. I plan to wait until you call them all over.

Telling you this will save me having to repeat it over and over again."

After the words fell, Charlie still walked forward, never stopping from beginning to end.

"Okay! I understand, Master, I will call them all to your office right away!"

Russell, who was full of doubts, nodded. After he finished speaking, he impatiently disappeared and began to search around the factory for the location of the other supervisors.

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Soon after, outside Charlie's office, in addition to Russell, several remaining supervisors responsible for various aspects of the factory also came one after another. It was rare that they all gathered here.

"Charlie didn't tell you anything, Russell?"

The first person to speak was a stooped, old-looking house elf. His thick snow-white beard was meticulously combed to the point that it was about to droop on the ground.

While he narrowed his eyes and seemed to be reluctantly supporting a wooden crutch that had been coated with pulp, he asked softly and softly.

"No, no."

Russell just shook his head and respectfully leaned his body forward towards the old elf of unknown age in front of him to express respect. He continued.

"The master said that we will not talk about this matter until we are all here, Grandpa Dulu..."

"That's it..." The old elf named Duru nodded. He opened his narrowed eyes a little, turned his attention away from Russell, and slowly looked around at everyone.

"I know that you may have objections to Charlie's decision... If you have objections, you can say that, after all, Charlie called you young people here just to discuss the problem... But in order to prevent any problems from going in later, I

I still hope that I can give you two words of advice: whether it is a human being or

We are elves, so we should be content and grateful. Charlie saved us, and it is not an exaggeration for us to remember his kindness for the rest of our lives. If we go in then, who will take advantage of this child's kindness and pat him in front of him?

The table is arbitrary and unruly, so don’t blame me for being rude..."

He spoke slowly and slowly, as if he were an ordinary old man who was about to die. He didn't sound threatening at all.

However, no one else who heard these words thought that the other party was just talking casually...

Because the person standing in front of them was Duru - a house elf who had actually stood in front of Voldemort and had a one-on-one confrontation with him, but was still alive.

Now, as the head of the security department of the factory, he is in charge of the only team of [security guards] in the factory.

Although he does not often go out because of his age, his reputation during the war is still remembered by everyone.

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"Don't worry, Grandpa Dulu. Mr. Black has never forgotten his kindness to us."

After a moment of silence, Chafucha spoke first, nodded, and said calmly

"That's right..."

"Even now, I am still willing to sacrifice my life for Mr. Black and have a good fight with those bastards!"

"Don't worry, Fodor has never been an ungrateful elf. Although I don't recognize Mr. Black as my master like Russell, my loyalty is not much lower than his."

As Chavcha's words came out, the elves in charge of the other departments also expressed their opinions one after another.

After hearing their words, Dulu nodded his head inaudibly twice, and his eyes that had just been opened for a few seconds narrowed again, as calmly as if he had fallen into a deep sleep while standing.

"Okay, why are you talking so much? It's all a life-and-death friendship. I have never had any worries about your master... Grandpa Duru just gave me a few words to be more relaxed..."

As if he was a little stiff after seeing the scene, Russell stood up, patted the shoulders of Chafucha and another elf with a hideous face and full of scars beside him, and said with a smile.

"Okay, if that's the case, let's go in!"

After confirming that everything was ready, Russell no longer waited and finally knocked on the office door.

"Master, it's me, Russell!" Russell shouted toward the door.

"And I, Mr. Black, head of the finance department, Chavcha."

"Head of the Technical Section, Peng Peng greets you, Mr. Black!"

"Security Section Director Drew."

"Fudo, the manager of the sales department."

"Ahem, there's also the director of the production department, Mr. Bryant, Black."

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When everyone's voices came in one after another, the door slowly opened.

Although it is not the first time to enter Mr. Black's office, even for most people, this place is already extremely familiar.

But when they thought about the issues they were going to discuss after entering, all the elves couldn't help but vaguely raise their minds a little.

The light leaked from the crack in the door, slowly shining on them, and became brighter and brighter with the angle of the door opening and closing.

"You're all here... Come on, come in quickly, I'll prepare seats for you right now."

Charlie's gentle voice slowly reached everyone's ears.

At this moment, he had just stood up from his office chair. He held his wand in his hand, with the tip of the wand pointing downward, and tapped it gently against the ground.

The originally flat carpet began to twist suddenly, rising and falling, floating like a liquid surface... Finally, after a series of expansion, contraction, stretching, and deformation, it turned into six sofa chairs facing each other in two rows.

After everyone walked in and the door slowly closed, Charlie's eyes suddenly looked at Dulu, who was trembling on crutches at the back.

So, he quickly stepped forward, leaned down, and gently supported the other person.

"Russell, what's going on? I even called you here."

While helping Drew to the sofa, Charlie complained softly and glanced at Russell with some dissatisfaction.

Just when Russell hurriedly opened his mouth to explain something, Drew shook his head with a smile and defended him.

"I thought of it... I was resting in the room, and I felt that Russell had been running back and forth in the offices of these boys in the factory. I guessed that it must be you who had something to do, so I stopped him and asked

Understood."

After saying that, Dulu also sat down safely, leaned his crutch to one side, leaned back, and slumped down leisurely.

After everyone was seated, Charlie returned to the desk and sat down.

Looking around, his eyes slowly passed over every face that was particularly familiar to him.

"In this case, let me tell you about this plan."