Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

Having made up his mind, Dursley took a deep breath, took two steps forward, and took the calm envelope from Penny's hand, without any extra clues.

The outside of the envelope is plain white, as clean as new without any markings. After receiving it, it is only a thin layer, no different from ordinary letters delivered by ordinary postmen.

However, just when Dursley stretched out his round and thick fingers, gently intending to gently push it away, an accident suddenly happened.

There was a "hissing" sound, and the originally thin envelope began to swell all of a sudden, bulging like a pufferfish that had been stimulated, as if it was about to explode in the next second.

"Vernon!!"

Penny, who had been paying attention to Dursley's movements, couldn't help but open her eyes a little wider, her heart lifted, and she subconsciously covered her mouth and called out her lover's name.

Before Dursley could say anything, the next second, with a loud "boom", the envelope exploded.

The sound was so loud that even Dudley, who was sitting on the kitchen table and feasting, was frightened and almost threw the food in front of him.

"Mom, Dad, what are you doing?!"

Looking up, the pig-headed face showed human fear and anger.

He turned his head suddenly, and then separated his attention from breakfast, and looked towards the direction of the sound, that is, outside the corridor.

However, he did not see Dursley and Petunia. In front of Dudley's eyes, there was only a thick white mist, covering everything around him.

From the opened envelope, white mist continuously spurted out from inside, and in just ten seconds, it covered everything around it.

Even though Vernon knew that his wife was only two or three steps away from him at the moment, he could not see her figure. Only her panicked shouts made him sure that they were still at home at this moment.

, and was not transported to other strange places like other novels.

"Vernon!! What happened!? Are you still there?! Honey, I'm so scared!!"

Petunia's voice was trembling violently, with a hint of crying. It seemed that she had been frightened to death by the wizard's terrifying magic.

"Don't panic! Honey, nothing happened."

Compared with his wife, Dursley clearly showed the calmness and responsibility a man should have at this time.

He took two steps forward, fumbled and grabbed Petunia's hand according to the position in his memory, and said in a deep voice

"Don't panic, I'm right here, nothing happened, it's just fog."

While calming his wife's emotions, he observed the situation around him.

Gradually, Dursley began to notice that the originally thick white fog around him began to show signs of dissipating, and the observable range began to become wider and wider. The corridors and rooms that had disappeared also reappeared in front of their eyes.

.

After about another minute or so, the fog completely disappeared, and instead, in front of them, appeared a man wearing a straight vest, a tie around his neck, a gentleman's hat on his head, and holding a

A civilized stick, just like an elf dressed as an old London gentleman.

"You're not..."

Seeing the sudden elf, Dursley's eyes widened a lot. He seemed to remember something, the little monster he saw in Harry Potter's room.

For a moment, I couldn't help but open my mouth, exclaiming and wanting to say something.

However, it was a pity that the person standing in front of him was not a living person, but just an image preserved by magic. He would not be given any feedback at all, and naturally would not listen to what he had to say.

Invisibly, a piece of cheerful and jumping music sounded from nowhere, interrupting Dursley's words. And the elf who suddenly appeared seemed to have been triggered by a switch and began to move quickly.

"Welcome to Charlie's Candy Factory~~"

He picked up the civilization stick, turned it in a circle in his hand, and began to step on the rhythm of the drums, and performed a tap dance skillfully.

While dancing, with a slightly shrill voice, he happily sang the self-written and directed songs using music forms that were popular before 1980.

“The best candy factory in the world just opened its door to you~~”

“We have gummy bears, chocolates, and countless toffees~~”

Dudley, who soon heard the noise, also moved his ears. With a curious look on his face, he moved his stool from the dining table and stood up. He walked to the door step by step and looked at the little monster singing and dancing not far away. His eyes flashed with light. He said "hum" twice, and his mouth faintly moved up into a smile.

You know, after staying at home for several months, he hadn't seen such an interesting thing for a long time.

The elf's performance continued, and then sang

…

"Now Mr. Black's magical factory is recruiting people~~I wonder who it will be, so lucky to be one of them?"

"Our treatment is definitely better than your company~ And the gold galleons every month is enough for you to drink two cups of butterbeer every day~~"

"Come and see~ Come and sign up~~ If you want to join us, please come to us at the following address——"

Suddenly, the vagueness came to an abrupt end, and the singing and dancing elf also stopped moving. The civilized stick pointed in the direction of Dursley. His eyes blinked mischievously, as if there was some kind of unique tacit understanding with the other party. .

Then, there was a "Boom!!" sound, and the image of the exquisitely dressed elf exploded, turning into white mist and floating around.

And in the center of the white mist, a recruitment notice fluttered down from the air, and finally fell peacefully to the floor.

At the bottom of the recruitment notice is the portrait of the elf just now. At this moment, he is taking off the top hat on his head, like an actor who has just finished his performance, facing the surrounding people with a bright smile on his face. The audience bowed in thanks and finally stopped moving.

It was a long time after the performance ended that Petunia and Dursley, with empty eyes, finally woke up from their daze.

They all lowered their heads again in unison, looking at the recruitment notice on the ground carefully, without saying a word for a long time.

"What's this!?!?"

Compared to them, the heartless Dudley was obviously more concerned about the magical performance just now, so after the elf disappeared and turned into an unknown piece of paper and fell to the ground, he became interested. He held his head high, dragging his huge body with all his strength, and used his hands and feet together, as if he had really turned into a little boar, and rushed towards the direction of Dursley and Petunia.

Then he stopped in front of the recruitment notice and without hesitation bent down to pick it up. While picking it up, he seemed to be worried that someone would snatch this magical thing from him, while he opened his mouth and shouted about his sovereignty.

"This is mine! I saw it first!!"

"Dudley! Put it down now!!"

Seeing her precious son's movements, Petunia, who loved her son dearly, was so frightened that she had no choice but to squat down quickly and grab this "magic" thing in her hand, for fear that Dudley would be hurt by it.

"Give it to me! What is that? I haven't seen it yet!"

Dudley choked, frowning and glaring at his mother angrily.

This deformed child who was almost spoiled stretched out his Michelin-like arms and desperately grabbed the recruitment notice in the direction of Penny's hand.

Although he didn't know what the thing was used for, in his eyes, everything interesting and fun in this home should be given to him as a matter of course.

"No! Honey, this is evil magic, you can't touch it!!!"

Penny screamed again, and the silence in the whole room was broken again, and it started to become noisy...

………………………………

In the end, Dabu couldn't resist Dabu's temper, and the recruitment notice fell into his hands...

However, Dabu suddenly lost interest after taking this recruitment notice and looking it up and down, confirming that it was just an ordinary piece of paper without any magic in it.

After handing it to his mother, he returned to the dining table and continued to deal with the remaining half of the soufflé as well as the preheated bacon burgers and fries.

On the other hand, Petunia and Dursley no longer had the desire to continue eating.

Without saying a word, they took the recruitment notice and hurried back to their rooms.

With a sound of "Peng!", the door was shut tightly, and Petunia ran for a while and came to the window again.

I stuck my head out from the window and looked around for a while. After seeing no one on the empty street, I quickly closed the curtains to prevent anyone from seeing me.

When all the preparations were finally in place, she finally came to the bedside and looked at Dursley, who was sitting on the bed with his head lowered and looking at the recruitment notice. His face was pale with an indelible look of fear.

"What to do!!! That devil, Charlie Black!! He didn't let us go!! He came again..."

Listening to his wife's words quietly, Dursley still didn't react. He looked at the recruitment notice over and over again without coughing, looking a little lost in thought.

"Dear!! Please say something! What should we do! Maybe we should move away from here...go somewhere else, find an uninhabited island, or just change the country!!"

Suddenly, as if she thought of something, Penny's eyes lit up.

"Yes!! Let's go to a country where Christianity is the religion!! Dabu will be highly respected there!!"

However, just when she cast an anxious look at Dursley, hoping that he would echo her words, Dursley, who had been silent for a while, finally spoke.

"You know, Penny..."

He raised the recruitment notice in his hand, pointed to the address marked in bold and large fonts, and said in a relaxed tone like a joke.

"Look, the address written above is very close to us. If I drive, it only takes half a day to get there..."

Penny listened to his words, her eyes widened in disbelief, and she screamed

"Dursley!!!" As if because she was too excited, Petunia directly called out his last name. You know, this situation has never happened before in their more than ten years of life together.

"What do you mean by that!?!? Are you going? You are going to apply for a job!! You are going to apply for a job at Charlie Black's factory!?? You are going to work for an evil wizard!?!!"

As Penny spoke, her voice got louder and louder, she became more excited and angry, and in the end, her tone turned directly into questioning.

"…………"

Dursley didn't refute anything. He put the hand holding the recruitment notice back on his knee and his eyelids drooped.

After waiting quietly for Penny's anger to dissipate for a while, he continued in a deep voice with a hoarse voice.

"Do you know what I think? Honey, I think Charlie Black is not letting us go... but intends to give us a chance."

Dursley paused, and seeing that Petunia's lips were pursed and showed no intention of interrupting, he continued.

"We have looked for too many people... praying that they can help Dudley. But you also know the result, no one succeeded! Although I can't understand it, I also vaguely understand that Charlie Black is stronger than all of them!

"

"I was a supervisor in my previous company! I have a lot of management experience. Not to mention other things, I can definitely surpass those wizards in this aspect."

As if he had mentioned what he was good at, Dursley straightened his waist a little, blew his beard, and continued.

"I can help him and help him make the factory better. When that time comes, I will make another request and ask him to forgive me for the mistakes I made before and to remove the magic from Dudley. I believe he will not refuse me.

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"...But have you forgotten? The Groning company you worked for specializes in the production of rhinestones. It has nothing to do with candy..."

Penny spoke again, but this time, her voice softened a lot, not as hysterical as before, and she seemed to have regained her senses.

"...Although the business is different, I can learn in advance. After all, the management experience is still there. I am confident that I can become a qualified candy factory employee in one month."

Petunia's eyes wandered, and she couldn't help but feel emotional when she heard Dursley's conclusive voice.

"My dear, you have paid too much for this family... In fact, even if Dudley cannot change, we will still love him. He will grow up like other children. I am willing to raise him like this for the rest of his life."

"No……"

Dursley shook his head slowly and said firmly

"You can't make any decisions for him. Dudley should have a healthy and happy life like other children. We can't support him for a lifetime. Even if he dies in the end and leaves him enough property, it will be a disservice after all.

he."