Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Facing Dumbledore, who was a little out of control, Mike neither comforted nor explained, but just looked at him silently.

After about five minutes, Dumbledore took a deep breath, finally raised his head, looked at Mike with a complex expression, and said:

"I'm starting to regret leaving this matter to you."

"What? You have an affair with the Avery family?"

"It's just some trivial friendship." Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "I just think that you are too extreme in handling these things. It's not good, very bad."

"Got it, I'll change it." Mike replied insincerely, "So now can you tell me about this pendant box?"

Dumbledore's expression was a little helpless. He knew that Mike was completely perfunctory, but in the end he picked up the pendant box and said while looking at it:

"First of all, this is indeed a real Slytherin Pendant."

Mike's brows furrowed, which was the last answer he didn't want to hear.

"In addition, I found some remnants of familiar smells on it. I can be sure that it is definitely the smell of Voldemort. This also shows that your guess is correct. This pendant is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore frowned and said, "At least it used to be a Horcrux, because the smell on it is very light now, which means that someone removed the Voldemort's soul attached to it one step ahead of us, and did it without damaging the body of the pendant box. !"

Hearing that Mike first breathed a sigh of relief, but then his expression became solemn again.

The fact that the Slytherin Pendant has been removed from the Soul Separation Box is definitely good news for Mike, because it means that Voldemort's Horcrux is now the only one left in Harry Potter.

But at the same time, Mike also smelled a conspiracy.

Who else is destroying Horcruxes besides them?

What is the purpose of that person or group of people?

...

Countless questions kept popping up in Mike's mind, which made him miserable.

Reason told him that the guy who eliminated the soul of the pendant box was probably Chris, but Mike couldn't think of the reason why the other party did this.

You must know that Chris is a pure-blood wizard, and the existence of Voldemort is good for them. If so, why would they do such a thing?

After thinking for a moment, Mike, who was still puzzled, finally raised his eyes and looked at Dumbledore.

"Do you think that person would be Chris? Why would he do that?"

Compared to Mike's dignified expression, Dumbledore's expression was much more relaxed.

Facing Mike's question, he slowly spread out his hand to persuade him:

"Anyway, from the results, we still succeeded, right? Although we don't know what those people think, at least another Horcrux has been destroyed. You have done a good job, and the rest is left to Me, I'll take care of it. As for you, I suggest you take a good rest for a while, or review Potions. After all, when Snape was there, neither of you liked this class very much, so your grades weren't very good. But this year is different, I'm going to hire a new potions professor, this new professor is different from Snape, he is very friendly and strict."

While talking, Dumbledore seemed to remember something happy, and suddenly laughed.

But Mike, who was opposite him, was obviously not in a good mood. He just narrowed his eyes and continued to stare at Dumbledore.

Mike knew very well that Dumbledore's words meant that he should stop worrying about these things.

It is believed that this was a decision made by Dumbledore after he misunderstood that Mike had slaughtered the entire Avery family.

Dumbledore would rather drag his half-dead body around than let the tragedy of the Avery family repeat itself!

In this regard, Mike still did not make other excuses.

Afterwards, Dumbledore began to talk to Mike about the matters needing attention in the new semester of Hogwarts. He seemed to want Mike to focus on school and study again, and kept telling Mike about Hogwarts. Interesting things happened in Tsiri.

To be honest, the events he tells are very interesting and the level of narrative is very high.

However, this is really not difficult for Dumbledore. After all, he has stayed at Hogwarts for nearly a hundred years. Mike even doubts that if necessary, he can talk endlessly and never repeat it for a day. overnight.

It's just that this is of no use to Mike.

To be honest he had no interest in Hogwarts, because the Hogwarts classes were no longer helpful to him.

The reason why Mike continued to go to school was to monitor the movements of the Harry Potter trio. Mike never let his guard down for a moment regarding the protagonist trio of the original novel.

In addition, his men at Hogwarts are also an important reason.

It's just that most of his subordinates are now graduating, and Voldemort is about to launch a more violent attack. Mike is even ready to leave Hogwarts at any time in the next school year as long as the opportunity is right. !

Naturally, Dumbledore didn't know all of this, and when Mike saw that the other party was no longer willing to reveal more information, he got up directly, bowed to Dumbledore expressionlessly, and then turned around and left the office before leaving. He didn't even forget to take the Slytherin Pendant Box in his arms.

Mike left the forest villa at a very fast speed. When he walked out of the villa, the house elf, who didn't know whether it was called a small teacup or a small teapot, greeted Mike attentively again.

Of course, Mike still ignored him, and directly teleported away with the door key with a dark face.

On the balcony of the villa in the forest at this time, Dumbledore looked at Mike's distorted figure leaving and the somewhat lost house-elf in the garden, and shook his head helplessly.

...

After leaving the villa in the forest, Mike was busy again.

As I said before, the mining of resources in Avery's secret realm is an extremely tedious and huge job, and Mike is not a black-hearted capitalist. He will not let Benjamin do it alone with such a huge workload.

Of course, this is only a superficial reason, but in fact it is because it is too inefficient to let Benjamin handle it alone.

After a few days of hard work with more than a dozen business elites from the Los Santos Group, Mike finally figured out the specifics of the Avery family property.

The production cost of Avery Magic Cloth and Avery Magic Liquid is actually very low, and it can even be said that there is no cost at all. After all, labor and raw materials are completely free.

And their output is amazing.

But in order to maintain a stable market price and high profits, the Avery family has been controlling the number of Avery's magic liquid and magic cloth circulating on the market over the years.

The most direct result of this is that the hoarding of goods in Avery's Secret Realm has reached an eye-popping amount.

Since what Mike wants is to squeeze all the profits in Avery Secret as soon as possible, he intends to directly sell all these goods at one time.

Only in this way, the profit that can be harvested from buying and selling is very low, because the flow of such large quantities of goods into the market is bound to saturate the market, resulting in a drop in commodity prices.

This is almost an unsolved problem for the original Avery family, because their market basically only exists in the mainland of the country, and the number of wizards in the country is not too many.

But for Mike, it's a lot easier to fix the problem.

You know, they started planning overseas markets several years in advance, and major wizarding areas such as the United States and France even have Los Santos Group stores.

Although these stores have been losing money, Mike has never given up on them, and now, Mike's investment has finally paid off.

Through the international Floo network, a large number of goods, which have been renamed Los Santos Mob cloth and Los Santos Mojo, were directly transported to Los Santos stores in various wizarding places around the world.

These highly effective materials directly conquered all the local dressmakers and potions.

Not only that, Mike also referred to the low-price zone policy in the Muggle world when selling these products. When facing the black witch shamans on the African land, the price of Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth will be much lower. , At the same time, it also continuously launched preferential activities, and constantly discounted the original price, which made the price of the high-priced area drop, and the price of the low-priced area that was not high also became lower.

In comparison, the prices of European countries such as France and the United Kingdom are more expensive. Of course, the prices of these countries in the United States are still relatively cheap, because Mike directly increased the prices of these two goods in the United States. nearly twice as much!

There is no way to do this. At this stage, the wizards in the United States are the richest in the entire wizarding world, just like the United States itself. How could Mike miss such an opportunity to be slaughtered.

As for you talking about Asia, Mike didn't give them much discount.

Especially the wizards or immortals in the huge ancient country, the price given by Mike is almost exactly the same as that of the country.

This is because the group of wizards who call themselves immortals are all rich, and the economic conditions of the wizarding society are no worse than that of the country!

Due to the existence of the low-price zone policy, a new profession has emerged, that is, overseas purchasing.

They usually go back and forth between the low-priced area and the high-priced area, and help wizards such as the high-priced area to buy cheaper goods through smuggling and other methods.

To deal with these people is actually very simple, it is enough to limit the products sold in the low-priced area.

But Mike didn't do that. He didn't want to strangle all these purchasing agents directly. Therefore, although he also limited sales in the low-priced area, the scope of this limited amount of goods was tightly controlled by him in a range where the purchasing agents made money, but not much.

The main reason for this is to make the Los Santos Group's name more widely known!

Facts have proved that this policy is very effective. Under Mike's connivance, the European market, which had become somewhat gloomy because of Voldemort's return, became lively again. Products flow into the market.

For a while, Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth became famous, and as the producer and seller of these two kinds of goods, the name of Los Santos Group also rang throughout the wizarding world.

And all of this happened in just half a month.

In the past half month, Mike directly cleared all the inventory in Avery Secret!

Due to the effect of the low-price area and continuous preferential activities, although there are continuous subsidies from the high-price area, the profit from the sale of this batch of goods is still less than expected.

But these are just small issues, Mike's original goal - to drain the profit quickly and achieved.

And now that the market all over the world has been opened, the reputation of Los Santos Group and Mobu Magic Liquid should also be spread!

The needs of the current global market can never be satisfied by a small Avery Mystery.

Then what Mike has to do next is to raise the price as it should!

Those who are used to the magic cloth and magic liquid will gradually find that the goods they need will become more and more expensive, and eventually become more expensive than they were originally in the country.

This is the long-term development plan that Mike made as a backup. The original Avery family was too conservative, and they dared not open and drag overseas markets, causing a large amount of goods to be hoarded.

In Mike's view, this is really a waste, and now that he is here, this cannot be allowed to happen again.

If his plan can go ahead smoothly, the output of Avery's secret realm in the future will be several times the original!

Of course, the reason why Mike can make so much money is also due to the hard work of the giant ants in the secret realm.

Mike originally thought that Lilith, the queen of the ants, would still defy him for a while. After all, in the eyes of the other party, his behavior may have some meaning of revenge.

But in fact, after observation, Mike found that those ants not only did not slack off, but they worked harder!

This made Mike a little puzzled.

However, Mike still likes the way they try to make money for themselves, so Mike relaxes some resource blockades for the queen.

Begin to allow Lilith to ask for some food and belongings within a certain range.

Mike swore that his original intention for doing this was to compensate and reward Queen Lilith, but Lilith obviously took it as a reward for work or something.

As a result, on the second day after the gifts were delivered, all the ants in the secret territory of Avery went crazy, and they began to cut down those mushrooms frantically, even the soldier ants who did not need to work in the past. They've all been sent out to carry the supplies!

Mike, who was in the secret office of the Freemasonry, was a little stunned after listening to Penello's remarks.

But after reacting, he smiled, and he smiled very happily.

"Hahaha, it looks like she likes my gift. That's great. If they can keep up this passion for work, they'll double the ration for Lilith next month."

"understood."

Penello smiled and took down Mike's words, ready to convey them later.

And the Mike in front of him finally returned to normal, smiled and said:

"Help me gather all the Freemasons, I'll have a small meeting later."