Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

"I told you, let you change it when you copy it... Now it's better, there is no chance to quibble. On Halloween two days later, they will go to enjoy a big meal, and we will have to clean the toilet!"

After class, Draco held the book and glanced at Harry and Ron resentfully, with a bit of discouragement in his tone. It could be seen that although he usually didn't mention it much, it was actually in his heart.

, full of expectations for the first important holiday spent at Hogwarts.

But now, I didn't expect it to end like this... It's really full of irony and helplessness.

Staring into Draco's gaze, Harry lowered his head in embarrassment, scratched the raised hair on the back of his head, and said nothing.

But Ron, still adhering to the good virtue of being a tough talker, his cheeks turned slightly red, and he muttered dryly.

"How did we know that Quirrell would suddenly do something like this! No matter how perfunctory the homework was in the past, there would be no problem, but this time..."

As Ron spoke, he seemed to have gradually imagined in his mind the scene where he was cleaning the toilet with tools while others were feasting on the dining table, and his mouth became severely deflated for a moment.

"Professor Quirrell didn't know why his brain suddenly twitched... and he started to tell us some big principles."

At the end of the sentence, even he seemed to be unable to speak anymore. He could only hang his head, and the thousands of words in his heart finally converged into one sentence: "What bad luck."

In front of the three of them, Hermione rolled her eyes speechlessly and scolded her as if she hated iron.

"Isn't it because you two are lazy? In fact, Professor Quirrell didn't leave a lot of homework. Compared with Professor McGonagall's paper on the Transfiguration Curse, it can be said to be a huge difference! You two even wrote the paper on the Transfiguration Curse.

You were able to hand it in, but you ended up being tricky on the Defense Against the Dark Arts homework. I really don’t understand what you are thinking.”

After teaching Harry and Ron a lesson, it seemed that it was not enough, so Hermione once again pointed her finger at Draco.

"And you, Draco...you can't stop borrowing their homework and copying it. Look at these two poor guys-"

Hermione opened her palms and pointed at the two people who lowered their heads and stretched their hips.

"I have been taking classes for a whole semester, but I have learned nothing! In addition to eating sweets all day long, I just played wizard chess! How can I do this? What will happen when the exam comes is bound to be a heavy price!

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Draco raised his eyebrows and cast a scrutinizing gaze in the direction guided by Hermione. After glancing up and down for a moment, he couldn't help but nodded with deep approval.

Indeed... Harry seems much slower than when he first started school, and Ron, not to mention, has been very stable in his performance, sliding towards the abyss of fools as if there is no lower limit, and there is nothing that can pull him up.

possible.

At this point, he had to sigh, but for some reason, he recalled his two previous followers, Goyle and Crabbe...

Returning to the present moment from his memories, Draco nodded, took out a licorice stick from his pocket, broke off a section and put it in his mouth, then retracted his gaze and said this

"Indeed... you are right."

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At the same time, in the principal's office at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was just as usual, leaning comfortably on the back of his office chair, staring intently ahead, with a kind smile on his lips, and from time to time

Nodding your head means you are listening carefully.

At this moment, in the center of the office, Dabb was sitting on the high stool originally prepared for Hagrid, barely keeping his eyesight parallel to Dumbledore's.

He subconsciously swayed and lowered his feet while seriously introducing the project he had just received to the other party.

"...just as you hoped, to be able to bring something special to the little wizards and wizards at Hogwarts on such a special occasion."

Dabu took a deep breath, and as he spoke, he put his hand into the small satchel he carried with him and took out the box he had already prepared.

With a muffled sound of "Peng", Dabu jumped down from the high stool, his dexterous legs jumped quickly, and he came to the desk in a few steps.

Then with some reluctance, he stood on tiptoes, stretched his arms, and delivered the box to Dumbledore.

"What's in here?"

Dumbledore moved his office chair forward slightly, then stretched out his hand, carefully took the box from Dabu's hand, and asked curiously at the same time.

"It was Mr. Black who came up with it!"

Dabu straightened his back, quite proudly, and replied in a loud and dignified voice.

"Based on the feedback from the candy vending machines, he selected five candies that are most popular among little wizards, except for the wind-sniffing violet candies, processed them, and launched a limited holiday version for Halloween!"

"Limited holiday edition?"

Obviously, Dabb's words immediately aroused Dumbledore's strong interest.

His white and thick eyebrows were raised slightly, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

Indeed, as a person with an extreme sweet tooth, it is difficult not to be curious and interested in Charlie's so-called limited holiday edition... After all, this has never happened before.

"Can I open this box and take a look?"

But even though he was so curious, Dumbledore did not rush to open it immediately. Instead, he looked at Dabu again and asked politely.

"certainly!"

Dabu nodded hurriedly, then took two steps back, returned to the stool from the desk, and continued.

"This is a sample specially prepared for you by Mr. Charlie. If you think it's good, on Halloween, we will fill the candy vending machine with new products according to this pattern!"

"That's great...Thank you Charlie for me for being able to meet my almost unreasonable request at this time."

Dumbledore said as he opened the box with full expectation.

The box is the same as before, using the most common brown cardboard box from Charlie's Candy Factory, so it doesn't take much effort to open it.

When it was slowly opened, a dazzling array of candies appeared in Dumbledore's eyes.

"This is... licorice stick, iced plum candy, hazelnut chocolate, melon juice, and fruit sorbet?"

As the loyal user who is most familiar with Charlie's products besides the employees of Charlie's Candy Factory, Dumbledore just scanned the shapes and colors with his eyes slightly and was able to see the products without wrapping paper.

It was easy to tell their respective names.

After hesitating for a moment, Dumbledore finally chose the classic hazelnut-flavored chocolate among the candies as the first candy he tasted.

Slowly pick up the chocolate that was carefully cut into pieces and put it in your mouth.

His eyes also closed slightly, and he began to control his tongue, quietly savoring the differences between this piece of hazelnut chocolate and the past...

When entering the mouth, the burnt aroma of roasted hazelnuts emerges first and quickly fills the mouth.

The corner of Dumbledore's mouth curled up into a smile. He didn't say anything, but instead looked forward to the next taste in his mouth.

Immediately afterwards, he was not disappointed. As the chocolate began to melt in his mouth, the smell of honey that was supposed to be mixed with the flavor of burnt hazelnuts suddenly changed and turned into a unique and indescribable taste.

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The originally heavy and cloying sweetness was weakened to the extreme, replaced by a light bitterness mixed with a faint sweetness, and you could even taste a faint fragrance.

"Um?"

Dumbledore made a sound of doubt and frowned slightly, apparently beginning to think about where this smell came from.

However, what he didn't expect was that until the piece of chocolate completely melted in his mouth and disappeared without a trace, he didn't think about what the strange taste came from.

The eyes that had been closed reopened and he looked at the candies in the box. After pondering for a moment, Dumbledore gave his evaluation.

"It's very interesting... This seems to be completely opposite to the original taste of hazelnut chocolate. But I don't hate it. This other taste is very distinctive. I know that Charlie must have changed the honey added in it, but instead of

What has become, I have no idea..."

After listening to Dumbledore's words, Dabu also laughed happily, but he didn't say anything. He seemed to be planning to keep it secret and tell the other party what was added in it at the end.

Dumbledore smacked his lips and felt the lingering taste of hazelnut chocolate. It seemed that Dumbledore was still a little unfinished.

Soon, he stretched out his hand for the second time, took out the most distinctive licorice stick from the candies, and then slowly put it into his mouth like before.

Sweet. This time, Dumbledore felt the sweetness that originally disappeared from the hazelnut chocolate...

Also changing the previous characteristics of the licorice stick, Charlie added extra honey to it, completely covering up its original fragrance and refreshing taste.

It can be said that if Dumbledore could still barely find the connection between him and previous candies from the hazelnut when eating a candy, then by this time, except for the similarity in appearance, the two are really gone.

Half a connection.

Compared to licorice sticks, honey sticks or toffee sticks seem to be more suitable for it...

When he chewed and swallowed the licorice stick, the smile on Dumbledore's lips became brighter.

This time he didn't speak, but continued to pick up the third one and put it in his mouth.

By this time, he was able to guess what made these five candies unique as Halloween specials.

The taste they have now is a completely different experience from what they originally gave people before!

The originally caramel and sweet hazelnut chocolate is given the opposite sweetness and bitterness.

The refreshing licorice stick is full of sweetness like honey toffee.

Dumbledore's interest has been completely piqued.

It has to be said that most people, including himself, actually like this kind of unknown feeling, just like tasting strange-flavored beans, knowing clearly that it contains "snot smell" and "vomit smell"

This weird taste, but I still can't help but pick one up and put it in my mouth, hoping that I can taste "strawberry flavor" or "pineapple flavor"...

Are the strange-flavored beans really delicious? To be honest, they are very average. Just pick out the most delicious flavors in them, and none of them can compete with the products of the same flavor in the Charlie brand. But it is

It is one of the few candy products that can achieve good sales under the cover of the behemoth Charlie brand.

The key to its success is this unique sense of expectation...

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Dabu didn't say anything, he just stood next to the stool and waited quietly with a smile on his face.

It wasn't until Principal Dumbledore swallowed the last honeydew melon with joy and showed a satisfied look that he finally explained the flavor that Dumbledore had not tasted in the hazelnut chocolate at the beginning.

"Mr. Black said that he specially added osmanthus powder to the hazelnut chocolate to neutralize its original sweetness, and also mixed some unique special flavors based on the original hazelnut aroma."

“Very interesting…”

Dumbledore's eyes sparkled like a child's, and he admired sincerely

"I even think that this should not just be a special candy for Halloween...even on ordinary days, it will definitely be very popular."

As he spoke, Dumbledore once again picked up a broken licorice stick, put it into his mouth, and began to experience the extremely sweet honey toffee taste again.

"Then..." Dabb paused, raised his head and looked at Dumbledore, and asked tentatively

“Is this how you’re going to make your next Christmas candies?”

"Um"

Dumbledore smiled and nodded.

"Just do it like this! I believe the little wizards will like these candies very much..."

After receiving a positive answer, Dabu breathed a sigh of relief as if he had completed a difficult task.

"Don't worry! Dean Dumbledore, I'm going to talk to Mr. Black right away. On Halloween, there will be enough candies to ensure that the little wizards will be given a surprise that matches the atmosphere!"

After saying that, without waiting for Dumbledore to say anything more, Dabu turned his head away, excitedly raised his legs, rushed out of the principal's office, and disappeared in front of Dumbledore's eyes.

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Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Shaking his head, he slowly stood up from his seat, picked up another piece of hazelnut chocolate, put it in his mouth, and tasted the taste that he had never tasted before.