Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

Candy Factory, inside Charlie's office.

Russell stood by the desk and carefully handed the envelope in his hand to Charlie's hand.

"Master Charlie, is this a letter from Hogwarts?"

"Letter from Hogwarts?"

Charlie took the letter, looked at the familiar paint mark on it, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

But judging from his expression, there was not much surprise, as if he had already expected the arrival of this letter.

He carefully opened the envelope, gently pulled out the folded letter, and skillfully unfolded it from his hands.

Suddenly, Charlie's nose moved, and he gently put the letter paper close to him, smelling the faint sweet smell of his own candy coming from it, and couldn't help but laugh.

He did not read it immediately. Instead, he raised his head, smiled and teased Russell at the desk.

"Think about it, Russell. I remember it seemed like it had been more than ten years since I last received a letter with the Hogwarts paint seal on it..."

Russell also laughed and nodded sincerely, his huge ears like bat wings also raised.

"Russell had not followed in your footsteps at that time."

"yes……"

Charlie couldn't help but sigh after listening to Russell's words, and a little melancholy that only belongs to middle-aged people could not help but arise in his heart.

But this emotion did not last long in his body. Soon, he adjusted and returned his attention to his eyes again.

To be honest, this letter actually surprised him a little.

Because in his original thought, according to Albus Dumbledore's character, the letter he received should be a personal letter from him as usual, and it would not have the Hogwarts logo stamped on it.

The fire seal is a lifelike phoenix.

You should know that although both were written by Dumbledore, the meanings expressed in them are quite different.

Compared with the private identity represented by the phoenix mark, the school emblem of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a "official business" in the true sense...

Generally, letters stamped with this kind of paint seal will only appear on notices involving specific school matters, such as admission notices issued every year, the college's internal purchase list, and college professor appointment notices, etc...

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Thinking of this, even though he hadn't read the letter yet, Charlie's expression couldn't help but become a little weird.

What's going on? Could it be that Draco showed amazing abilities just after arriving at Hogwarts, which made Dumbledore so impressed that he insisted on dragging his uncle over to become a professor...

If that's the case...it's not impossible...

However, if Dumbledore wants him to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor... then forget it

But then again, besides Defense Against the Dark Arts, what else can he teach? Transfiguration spell? Then I have to ask Professor McGonagall if he can answer...

At the desk, Russell raised his head and watched the expressions on his master's face change several times. He couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and he couldn't help but start to have random thoughts like Charlie.

"What's going on? Is there something wrong with the channel? I remember there is nothing wrong with the channel at Hogwarts."

"Is it possible that the supply of weird exploding candies is insufficient? Principal Albus Dumbledore wrote a special letter to condemn Master Charlie's reduction of the assembly line..."

After a while, after suppressing all the random thoughts in his mind, Charlie finally began to read the letter in his hand seriously...

As time went by, the office became increasingly quiet.

Charlie's expression became more relaxed as he had read most of the contents of the letter, and there was still a bit of strangeness in his eyes.

But this was a pain for Russell who didn't know anything. Watching his master's expression change several times and finally relax again, the originally silent office became even more uncomfortable for a while.

His brows furrowed tightly, and he subconsciously took out the small notebook that he never left behind again. He lowered his eyelids and began to think about how to meet the needs of American suppliers and Albus Dumble.

A perfect compromise between bullish needs.

This letter from Hogwarts, apart from the formulaic greeting that was different from a personal letter at the beginning, actually contains only about 300 words of really useful content.

So it didn't take long for Charlie to read it thoroughly.

When he slowly put down the letter and placed it on the desk again, his expression became clear and the corners of his mouth subconsciously raised slightly.

Compared with the original expectation of the arrival of this letter, Charlie's eyes now showed real surprise, and even this unabashed surprise was slightly mixed with a bit of excitement.

"Russell..."

He took a deep breath, his eyes cleared, and he looked again at his right-hand assistant who was standing quietly in front of his desk, and shouted

However, just when he opened his mouth and before he could say anything, Russell suddenly raised his head, looked at Charlie with an excited expression as if he had thought of some wonderful idea, and said happily

"!!Russell has thought of a way!!! We can first move the production line originally planned to produce violet candy to Bingmei Sweet Candy! Then after dealing with those Americans, we can find time to expand the original production line to make up for the violet candy.

The output...but in that case, the violet sugar will be delayed from our original date by about...one to three weeks!"

"?????"

The words Charlie was about to instruct Russell were suddenly stuck in his throat, and he was speechless. Listening to this series of sudden plans, the expression on his face gradually became complicated, and finally turned into confusion again.

For a moment, one person and one elf fell into an eerie silence again.

After a while, Charlie, who fully understood what had happened, finally pressed his temples and helplessly threw the letter on the table in front of Russell.

"You'd better stop thinking so much in the future, you're not very smart to begin with..."

Russell listened to Charlie's lesson, shrunk his neck, quickly took the letter, and scanned the entire letter at a glance, starting from the beginning.

"To dear Charlie Black..."

"At the beginning of the new school year..."

"...In the name of the current principal..."

"...I invite you to return to Hogwarts to attend the opening ceremony and the freshman sorting ceremony..."

"Your regards: Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Albus Dumbledore."

When the last line and Albus Dumbledore's signature came into view, Russell's eyes widened and he suddenly raised his head.

"Master... you are going to Hogwarts!?"