Chapter 213： Lockhart's special hobby

In the afternoon, Mike contacted a special construction team and came here to discuss the construction of the factory.

This construction team is actually the construction team that built the round arena for the duel competition before. Mike had asked Lockhart for their contact information long before the holiday.

This construction team called Jeno Architecture is composed of wizards and house elves. Compared with ordinary Muggle construction teams, they charge higher fees, but they are truly worth the money.

Because their construction speed is quite magical, the quality of their products is also very good, and they have a warranty! After a certain degree of damage to the building within a certain period of time, they will come to repair it for free.

The most important thing is that they can also enchant the building according to the client's requirements.

The curses that can be chosen are all sorts of strange, including the most common Muggle expelling curses and concealment curses, as well as quite rare counter-attack magic organs and non-mark extension curses. Even the person in charge of this construction team told Mike very vaguely that they could also add the strongest guarding spell to the house, the curse of loyalty!

What is the Curse of Courageous Faith, I believe those who have read the original carefully know it, it is the curse that Harry's parents put on his house in order to protect Harry.

This is an extremely complicated magic that can hide a secret in the soul of a living person forever, and the living person selected to hide the secret is called the Secret Keeper.

When the secret hidden by the Courageous Faithfulness Mantra is the location of a house, unless the secretaries take the initiative to disclose it, you will not be able to discover the house even if the house is in front of you.

This effect looks similar to the effect of the concealment spell, but the effect of the Courageous Faithfulness spell is much stronger than that of the concealment spell.

You must know that even Voldemort was able to find Harry because the secretaries revealed the secret.

After learning that the construction team could cast the Red Loyalty Charm, Mike didn't hesitate to let them build his own factory.

Although his factory does not need to be protected by such high-level magic as the Red Loyalty Curse, the ability to deploy the Red Loyalty Curse is already able to prove the strength of this construction team.

After referring to the terrain and environment of the site, the construction team gave three construction plans.

The first type is an all-wood roof workshop.

This kind of plant is extremely poor in terms of livability and robustness, but the advantage is that it is cheap.

Due to the dense jungle all around, most of the materials used for the construction of the factory buildings can be obtained locally. The price given by Jeno Construction for this construction plan is 1000 gold gallons.

The second type is slightly better and is made of bricks.

The third type is the best, with a mixture of brick, stone and wood, a large factory building and a collective staff dormitory. The plan also includes a protective magic package and a fine decoration package, including a large version of commonly used protective magic such as Muggle expulsion spells .

But the third option is also the most expensive, with a price of up to 10,000 gold gallons.

For this, Mike settled on the third most expensive plan without blinking.

This is not because Mike is too tyrant, but because the construction money can be installed in installments, and the interest is low.

The person in charge who came to negotiate after signing the contract on the spot was very happy. In fact, the operating conditions of their construction team are not optimistic. First, the market in the British wizarding world is too small, and secondly, the rich old brands. Nobles generally have their own ancestral homes, while ordinary wizards choose to build their own houses or buy ready-made Muggle houses.

Under this circumstance, their main customers are actually only the newly rich upstarts, who belong to the type that does not open for three years and eats for three years.

Mike and Lockhart contributed two orders in less than a year. How could this make them unhappy?

After bidding farewell to Mike and the others, the person in charge immediately used the door key to return to the company to arrange work, and just as Mike and the Weasley brothers and the others were about to leave after half an hour, they found that a lot of blackness had appeared in the distant sky. After a closer look, it turned out that the person in charge and a group of construction workers had come to the site again.

Ever since, under the gaze of Mike and others, the person in charge directed the wizards in blue uniforms to take out various building materials from the non-marking stretch curse bag they carried with them, and then quickly built a fireplace.

Immediately afterwards, a team of wizards began to level the ground, and more wizards continued to walk out of the fireplace, carrying building materials back and forth.

The three of the Weasley brothers were dumbfounded, because ordinary fireplaces cannot be teleported, and they must be connected to the Floo network to be teleported into. The application of Floo Network was extremely slow. Now the construction team has built a fireplace at hand and can transmit it immediately, which surprised them.

Mike is not surprised by this. Wizard construction teams like them must have their own complete logistics system if they have been able to operate for so long. Of course, the cheap and high-quality Floo network is the best choice.

As for why they don't need to apply for a new fireplace, it must be a classic trade of power and money.

The efficiency of the construction team is very high. In just one hour, a rectangular foundation with a depth of 10 meters was dug out in the open space burned by the Weasley brothers. This made Mike feel a little surprised. You must know This amount of homework may not be able to be done in the Muggle world for half a month.

It was the first time that the three Weasley brothers and Arthur saw such a large construction site, so they watched them with relish.

But Mike was not interested in this, so he directly asked Shuke to take him back to his home.

Mike did not relax when he returned home, he had to go to Lockhart again.

Lockhart still has a novel about him. Since he wants to promote the Dolphin Magic Drink, which will be on sale soon, it must be in place at one time, not just relying on the influence of the Daily Prophet. Let Lockhart also mobilize his fans to buy.

However, when Mike used the fireplace to directly teleport to Lockhart's house, he unexpectedly discovered that Lockhart didn't even grant him the teleport permission.

This is not good for the Floo Net fireplace transmission. Except for fireplaces in public places like the Broken Cauldron Bar, you need the consent of the other party to transmit to a private fireplace.

So Mike could only come to Lockhart's house in person.

...

It was evening when Mike arrived at Lockhart's house at the address Lockhart had given earlier.

Mike watched the faintly radiated music and women's laughter in the large and brightly lit villas, and the blue veins on his fists slowly emerged.

Although Lockhart's house was large, it didn't have too many defensive facilities. Mike didn't even use his magic wand and kicked the door of his house directly.

And when Mike came to a huge room on the second floor looking for a voice, the scene in front of him made him, an old driver, couldn't help but sigh that Lockhart is really good at playing.

The magic lamp that was supposed to emit soft white light is flashing colorful light on the too flower board of the room. Just below the magic lamp are dozens of men and women who are floating in the air and playing automatically. The music is dancing.

On the floor of the room, a large number of empty wine bottles and clothes were scattered on the ground, and the air exuded an unpleasant smell of alcohol and deodorant mixed together.

All this is very similar to the bar and disco in the Muggle World, the only difference is the dancing people.

In other words, a dancing creature.

In the center of the room, ‘female’ magical creatures with different clothes and different shapes were twisting together with a few wizards.

The largest of them is a female horseman. At this moment, it is carrying a thin ribbed wizard who is constantly beating with the music, and there is still a shameless voice in her mouth. The wizard on its back can't be described by just grabbing the neck with both hands, as if grabbing a saddle.

In addition, Mike also found on the dance floor a Veeva with silver hair like Fleur. Its silver hair was shining under the shining light of the magic lamp, and the fascination was about to flow out of the two wizards.

The strange thing is that Lockhart is not there. Mike walked in the dim room looking for Lockhart, and finally found him on the bar in a corner.

Lockhart was holding a goblet of red wine and was talking to someone.

Due to the perspective, Mike didn't see who the person sitting opposite Lockhart was, but based on Lockhart's constant movement of hands and feet, it can be inferred that it should be a woman.

However, when Mike walked to the side, he discovered that the one who was flirting with Lockhart turned out to be a short, pointed ear, big head, and gray-skinned female goblin!

Looking at the female goblin's heavily makeup face and Lockhart's obsessive expression, Mike couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

It turns out that Lockhart's taste is so unique!

The night vision ability of the goblin is much stronger than that of humans, so when Mike walked around Lockhart not far from him, the female goblin sitting opposite him had already spotted Mike, and after the female goblin’s inquiry, Lockhart He suddenly turned his head and looked at Mike, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Mike! Why are you here!"

Facing Lockhart's question, Mike felt a little embarrassed.

After all, he didn't come with malice this time, but he ran into Lockhart's special hobby.

"I have something to find you, but your fireplace doesn't seem to have permission to open it to me, so I went straight to the door."

"Dear Mr. Mike! You should know that? When you reject your Floo network transmission application alone, it means that he doesn't welcome you now." Lockhart roared, "Couldn't you Send me a letter first so I can prepare a little?"

Lockhart made such a great movement that it even overwhelmed the loud music on the side, so it attracted the attention of the ‘knight’ on the side.

Obviously Lockhart also noticed this, so before Mike could reply, he took him to a bright room next door.

Mike looked at the room where the whole was decorated in pink and there were all kinds of ‘heavy toys’ hanging on the walls. He tried his best not to laugh, but the corners of his mouth still twitched.

"Laugh if you want to laugh! A well-known best-selling author, a handsome guy with countless female fans, and a third-level Merlin badge winner! He actually likes to be with fairies in private! How funny is this! Right!" Loha Te's face turned dark, and he walked around the room, dancing and saying, "I will be the laughingstock of the whole wizarding world if it spreads out, and you are to blame for all this! Mike!"

Mike almost couldn't help laughing when he listened to the first half of the sentence, but after listening to the second half, especially when Lockhart started to point his finger at him, the expression on his face suddenly sank. .

"Don't point at me with your finger that doesn't know what disgusting thing you have touched. If there is another time I can guarantee you will never use this finger again!" Mike knocked Lockhart off. Sullenly said, "Please figure out the current situation! I am the one who has the advantage!"

Lockhart shook his painful hand, which was beaten by Mike, inhaling the cold air. He wanted to talk back, but after seeing Mike's cold eyes, he immediately stiffened, and finally collapsed with a gray face. That huge bed.

"Let's talk, what do you want me to do." Lockhart said desperately.

"Actually, it's nothing, it's your novel. It should be finished by now?"

"Yes, what do you want to do?"

Mike walked over to the bed, looked at Lockhart condescendingly, and said, "You can modify it and add some more ads about Dolphin's magic drink. Do you understand the ads? Don't understand. Forget it, anyway, you just need to boast the Dolphin Magic Drink to death and it's over. Then, I will notify you when the book is published. I told you to send it before you can send it, understand?"

After Mike finished speaking, Lockhart's face suddenly became sluggish, and he was lying on the bed and staring at Mike.

Suddenly, Lockhart sat up abruptly and raised his voice by an octave and said, "You are just for this?"

"Yes."

"Then why do you come here in person?" Lockhart looked at Mike with straight eyes, "Can you just write a letter to me?"

"I just ask if you can do it!"

Lockhart quickly reacted when he saw that the expression on Mike's face was getting more and more distorted, and quickly nodded and answered yes.

And when Mike saw that Lockhart was so obedient, he didn't say much anymore. Now it was late and he needed to hurry home to have dinner with Professor Flivy.

So under Lockhart's guidance, Mike deliberately bypassed the previous room that looked like a bar and disco, and came to a room with a fireplace on the side.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Mike grabbed a handful of Floo powder from the jar by the fireplace and walked into the fireplace. "You can still go looking for your fairy girlfriend, but make sure to give the manuscript before the day after tomorrow I'm finished. Do you understand?"

"Yes! I understand." Lockhart replied to Mike weakly, and then the expression on his face became embarrassed. He lowered his head and tangled for a long time before slowly saying, "That...this thing today... …You can’t tell you?"

Lockhart lowered his head and waited for a long time without waiting for Mike's response. When he looked up, he found that there was no one in the fireplace in front of him. Mike had already teleported away.