Hermione, Be the Minister of Magic with Me!

If you can be as indifferent to this as other young wizards from Muggle families, or pretend to sympathize with you, then it is understandable, because it has little to do with you, and even this social system helps For you, let you enjoy a delicious meal.

But you chose to intervene, which means that you decided to raise it to the political level to solve it, rather than sit idly by.

Congratulations you have finally taken that step - from a bystander in a society to a reformer, from now on, you must learn to use your own influence to \"convince\' this society to change the existing system , make it better."

Writing here, Lockhart paused for a moment.

He should have used more words here, but he suddenly felt that if he did this, he would be no different from Dumbledore and Voldemort, and he was trying to impose his will and values ​​on others. , even if Dumbledore was well-intentioned.

He decided to leave the choice to Hermione himself, so after complimenting her, he simply began to guide her specific questions:

"I see confusion in your letter, because you are dealing with a deeply ingrained ideology in society and the stubbornness of vested interests, and you don't know how to change it.

To this end, I am willing to act as your mentor along the way, providing you with a ladder of progress and a solution to doubts.

There are various techniques of social influence, but in the end they can all be boiled down to several very basic influence processes, such as interpersonal, communication and persuasion, media promotion, etc. The techniques contained in each of these influence methods can be written separately. a book out

I know you may be a little confused when you see this, but don't worry - these all depend on the way humans think, remember, feel and make decisions, and ultimately affect human attitudes, behaviors and cognition. These skills I will use in the future will always teach you.

Of course, as a textbook, I'm going to give you a book called "Attitude Change and Social Influence", which was written by Philip Zimbardo in 1970, maybe a little esoteric for a 14-year-old girl, But that's okay, you can do it - and understand it as you go, and I'm sure there are people in the wizarding world right now who will gradually be as eager to change the status of house-elves as you are.

I folded a corner where I suggested you read it first, and if you promise to learn this, I hope you will read it. Then I'll leave you a homework one

—I hope you use the above techniques to convince your two friends that it doesn’t matter if they don’t get involved in the end, just get them to change their attitude toward your career. "

After writing the letter, Lockhart smiled at the owl who had been waiting impatiently, stuffed a piece of meat in it, then sealed the letter, and took out an old book from the cabinet behind him and let the owl go with him took it back.

To what extent can we do next, we can only see Hermione's own creation.

Because Sirius woke up for several days in a row, he was making up for sleep during the day. Lockhart ignored him, but got up early and went to climb the mountain by himself.

Hogsmeade, as the "village under the city" of Hogwarts Castle, although the terrain is not as dangerous as Hogwarts, it is still a key point in terms of location, otherwise Hogsmeade would not have been chosen as the goblin rebellion in 1612. stronghold.

Aside from military use, Hogsmeade is actually pretty good in terms of scenery, but it is really too biased, and wizards do not have the desire and energy to consume, so the villagers here live like the 17th century. the exact same life.

However, according to the demand-market theory, sometimes it is not necessary that there is demand before the market. If the market supply is sufficient, the potential demand of people can be easily created.

Therefore, in order to make the wizarding world prosper and abandon the primitive self-sufficiency and backward production methods, we must first find a market, then introduce currency, and then use sufficient currency and moderate consumerism to stimulate the potential demand of wizards.

However, creating demand is risky. As long as it fails, the loss will be borne by the creator, so there are not many people who dare to innovate.

But Lockhart is not afraid, because he has a very good market to learn from, that

Muggle market

Muggles and wizards are both human beings. Muggles are indulgent and indulgent. They never sit when they can lie down, and they never stand when they can sit, and wizards are not much better. It can be said that as long as he is human, he cannot escape the **** of nature.

Lockhart has made two attempts so far, one with mixed reviews, and the other with a hit movie.

The reason why the tap water has a mixed reputation is mainly because Hogsmeade is too close to the water source, so everyone feels a little baffling.

But then the fact that everyone was filling up with tap water told Lockhart that they probably didn't hate it that much.

As long as people are accustomed to comfort, they will definitely not want to go back to the past.

It's just that Lockhart has never understood why the upper wizards turn a blind eye to these things.

If only a pure-blood wizard could teach him this.

Returning to the Screaming Shack, he found that his wish was immediately granted.

A female staff member dressed in a Ministry of Magic robe, but replaced by high-grade bright velvet, has been waiting for him for a long time.

"Hello, Mr. Lockhart, and I hope you will have a good time together," she said.

Chapter 192 The purpose is not simple

Looking at the intern that the magic part was given to him, Lockhart felt weird.

Because the person who came here is still an acquaintance of Lockhart, Gemma Farley, a female prefect and female student council president who graduated from Slytherin, and one of the twenty-eight pure-blood families.

Although he had thought in advance that the pure-blood family would put a lot of chips on him, the weight of this chip was still beyond his expectation. He thought that the Snake faction would only randomly choose a young man from a small family. Come and be a liaison.

It seems that they do take the oil well business seriously and decide to put a beer on themselves?

Although his mind was still cranky, Lockhart didn't let himself be rude.

He immediately went up to meet him, and M wiped his hands on the handkerchiefs in his pockets, then looked at each other's eyes, and swept her hands from the corner of his eye. Is the eldest lady willing to shake hands with him?

"Miss Farley, long time no see!"

Although the other party was his own student in school, in society, a person is a person, he is not your student, nor your relative, Lockhart can still find his own weight.

Gemma was obviously well-bred as well, and when Lockhart approached, she raised her right arm slightly, indicating that Lockhart could shake her hand.

Lockhart quickly reached out his hand, as if he had offered to shake hands.

Okay, at least an educated man—the idea crossed both Lockhart's and Gemma's minds.

Unsure of the other party's behavior, Lockhart decided to be business-like:

"Miss Farley, the conditions here are poor, and the office environment that can be provided may not be very good. I want to apologize first..."

\"This is an official business." Gemma Farley replied to him also solemnly, "Considering the limited time away from the competition, a temporary office space really shouldn't take comfort as the first requirement."

Lockhart didn't expect this Slytherin lady to talk so well, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

"Okay... Dobby, take out our second desk! I'll accompany Miss Farley to find a place to stay, and then go check on the progress of the work.

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Then he was politely stopped again by the other party: "Thank you very much for your kindness, but there is one thing I need to tell you - this is Hogsmeade, my father has a country house here, just in Padre Next to Madam Fu Teahouse…”

Lockhart suddenly realized, no wonder Mr. Crouch told himself that he didn't need to worry about the other party's life problems. It turned out that people brought their own dry food to work in the front line, and he was really worried about it.

Now that he knew that the other party only came here to gild it, Lockhart felt a lot easier. As long as the other party didn't take his credit, he didn't mind adding a lot of color to the other party's credit book.

"Then ask Miss Farley to rest for a while. After I've dealt with it, I'll take you to see the projects that have been completed and my plans for the future."

He pointed to the morning dew that was still on his body, indicating that he had to deal with it.

Gemma nodded: \"I'll be waiting for you at Three Broomsticks.\"

When she was done, she turned and walked out of Lockhart's office.

A few steps after she walked out of the office, she couldn't help but lift her right hand to her nose and smell it. Then she realized that it didn't seem very elegant, so she pretended to take it out from her mouth.

The way he wiped his face with the handkerchief in his bag concealed his actions.

After arriving at Three Broomsticks, Gemma came to the front desk with ease, and said to the sleepy bartender that she wanted a quiet corner seat.

Uh, Miss Farley? "The waiter didn't expect to meet her here," I remember you have graduated? Revisiting the old place? "

Gemma's expression became a little displeased.

\"That's right, so can I order a drink now?"

She didn't even bother to explain to him that she was already a staff member of the Ministry of Magic, because it seemed to her that it was a complete waste of time.

The waiter then remembered that even after graduation, the one in front of him was still a Slytherin.

"I'm sorry, Miss Farley... May I ask what kind of wine do you want?" He hurriedly corrected his attitude.

"A glass of canyon water, add ice pucks..." Gemma thought for a while, then asked in her calmest voice, "In addition, the staff of the Ministry of Magic who is resident here - what is Mr. Lockhart's favorite drink? Give it to him too. Have a drink."

The waiter said without hesitation, "Ogden Aged Fire Whiskey, with honey, cherry juice and ice... But he usually doesn't drink alcohol in the morning, only a little breakfast tea with lemon juice."

\"Breakfast tea?" Gemma repeated, "What tea?"

Her words stopped the waiter - he really didn't remember the variety, and every time he randomly mixed several old teas together, it was called "mixed tea", who knew what was in it.

But Gemma misunderstood what he meant: "Why, even this recipe has to be kept secret?"

Rosmerta heard the conversation from inside and had to stand up to save the scene

\"Uwo tea accounts for one-half: Zhengshan Souchong for one-half, Huoli purple tea for one-half, Ms. Farley." She said with a smile on her face.

Gemma nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you... Please give me a seat in the middle, and my canyon water is cancelled. Just give me a pot of breakfast tea."

Then she took out a Galleon and threw it on the bar, and followed the waiter to the corner.

Rosmerta stared at her back thoughtfully—a gold coin to buy a pot

Tea, this is obviously not water.

A few minutes later, Lockhart washed his face, wiped the sweat and dew from his body, and came to the Three Brooms in high spirits.

Unlike Gemma, Lockhart greeted everyone at the bar, including diners, owners and waiters.

"Good morning, Ike! Good morning, Rosmerta! And Lambert... how's the harvest going?"

"Fortunately, I got more than a dozen fox skins." The person who was greeted also greeted Lockhart as if they were talking at home.

It can be seen that he is very popular here.

When he was at the bar, the waiter couldn't help but talk to him, saying that it would be better for him in the future, and Lockhart just thought he was the eldest lady who couldn't hold back Gemma's temper, so he didn't care.

"It's been a long wait..." Lockhart sat across from Gemma. "It's breakfast tea, great! I'll add a little lemon juice..."

\"Here." Gemma pushed the small cup aside.

\"thanks."

Because of other things, Lockhart ignores why there is the most

The thing about tea that suits his taste, but after taking a sip, he took out his wand.

"Then Miss Farley, let's get started! Close your earbuds and listen!"

With Lockhart's spellcasting, the surrounding people could only hear a loud hum, and no more conversations in this corner.

Chapter 193 Bought

Because he believed Gemma Farley was here to gild, Lockhart was also very direct.

He first introduced himself to tap water and the cinema, and then explained his purpose and the reason for doing so. Tap water belongs to material transformation, while movies belong to the construction of spiritual civilization. A series of follow-up series The transformation must rely on these two foundations

Gemma listened very carefully. She had heard a little about these projects recently, but she didn't know much about the details and the way they were. With Lockhart explaining it personally, she was naturally like seeing the sun through the clouds.

But I don't know why, when Lockhart showed off with a hint of bragging that he actually did these two things without spending a penny, and even had a surplus to continue, Gemma Farley's expression seemed Somewhat cramped.

"Excuse me, how far do you plan to transform Hogsmeade?" Gemma couldn't help asking.

It is simple to write, my plan for Hogsmeade is a "resort", and it is ready for long-term operation, and providing services for the holding of the Triwizard Tournament is only incidental. And the open customers are not only wizards, but also in the future. There will be some Muggle 'elites' being introduced, so some Muggle-style modernization is bound to happen - of course, that I haven't told the residents of Hogsmeade. "

Gemma didn't show any objections: "I understand that if I told them in advance, they would just dismiss it again."

Talking to smart people is comfortable, and Lockhart continued: "Yes, but more importantly, we have to maintain the medieval style of Hogsmeade, while adding some modern, full of technology without leaving a trace. The taste of the facilities, so that the Muggles who come here to recuperate will not only have a fresh feeling, but also not because of the medieval life.

dissatisfied with the inconvenience.

"Um... How far should it be?" Gemma acted like a good student with a modest heart.

"For example, it's fun to use a natural gas stove for ignition, but now it's a firewood, but it must not be without fire. Oh, by the way, you probably don't know about natural gas stoves.

"No, I know." Gemma Farley was calm. "In fact, it was installed in the house in Farley Village, just like other Muggle homes."

"Really, that's great, save me a ton of words...but why do you want to install a gas stove?" Lockhart became interested.

Gemma took a deep breath: "In fact... although our pure blood family does not know much about Muggles, but..."

She hesitated a moment when she said this, as if hesitating whether she should tell Lockhart something.

Lockhart saw her dilemma: "If there is anything that needs to be kept secret, then I am willing to show my gentlemanly demeanor, you don't have to force yourself."

Gemma shook her head and turned to another thing: \"\"It's not something you need to hide from you, but we hope that after you reform Hogsmeade, you don't extend these reforms to other wizards Go to the village. "

Lockhart was a little surprised: "Why? Although not every wizard settlement can be transformed like this, it shouldn't hurt to promote some successful experiences, right?

Under Lockhart's astonished gaze, Gemma hesitated again.

\"My God, it seems that the transformation I thought I was able to manage actually caused some people's troubles. It's incredible." Lockhart shook his head repeatedly.

Gemma knew that if she really didn't say anything about it, Lockhart might have a real misunderstanding, which was exactly what she didn't want to see.

So she finally spoke up: "...If we can help you get more project funding, can you let the pure-blood family take a stake in these new facilities you run?"

Lockhart showed a strange expression: "You are going to tell the Ministry of Magic, Miss Farley, these are the assets of the Ministry of Magic."

Hearing the word "Ministry of Magic", Gemma expressed a sort of elitist dismissive: "Don't worry about it at the Ministry of Magic, they will agree.

Lockhart said in his heart, man, even the Ministry of Magic you can play, so why bother to ask my opinion.

"Looks like you really look up to me," Lockhart said mockingly.

Hearing him say this, Gemma didn't know why she seemed a little anxious: "My father wants you to know that although everything we do has our own considerations, it doesn't mean that we are willing to do anything against your will, We have great respect for you, sir."

Yes, at least I was notified. "Lockhart sighed and let me guess... do you want to buy Hogsmeade properties early?"