Since Albert returned from Hogsmeade, he has been helping his three roommates to do their homework better.
Fred and George had been complaining for a long time, saying that Wood had completely turned into a training fanatic.
"Stop complaining. When you finish your homework, I'll tell you good news." Albert flipped through the book and urged the three to continue doing their homework.
"What's the good news?" Lee Jordan asked curiously as he threw a cocoa bean into his mouth.
"Finish your homework first." Albert pointed at their parchment and reminded them, "Wouldn't it be better to finish it earlier and get out of trouble earlier?"
"He must have sold the formula." Fred had obviously guessed what the good news Albert was talking about was.
At the beginning, when Albert said he wanted to sell the formula of the redness and swelling reducing agent, he did not think he would fail. After all, Albert seldom did anything without certainty, so successfully selling the formula was completely normal.
"Yes, it has been sold." Albert nodded and admitted, "For 500 Galleons."
"It's Albert indeed." George couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, concentrate on your homework. I'll tell you another good news later." Albert said with a smile. After that, he continued to focus on the book.
The three of them continued to do their homework, except for Ron, who was playing wizard chess with his roommate. He seemed a little absent-minded and seemed to be muttering something under his breath.
An hour later, the three of them finally couldn't help it and asked Albert to tell them the so-called good news. Albert smiled and took them back to the dormitory to show them the results of today.
George grabbed a handful of Galleons and let the gold coins fall from his fingers into the pile of Galleons. Listening to the crisp clinking sound, he couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect it would be so easy to get 500 Galleons. It still feels a little unreal."
"But there shouldn't be 500 Galleons in this bag, right?" Fred asked. "There should be at most a little over 100 Galleons in this bag."
"Well, no." Albert looked at his three roommates with a half-smile and said, "There are indeed only 100 Galleons in this bag. I prepared this for you."
Albert then stuffed the bag of Galleons into George's hands and said, "I have prepared a hundred Galleons for each of you."
The three of them were stunned, unable to believe what they had just heard.
George suddenly started to giggle. After a long while, he stammered, "Are you going to give me this bag of Galleons?"
"To be precise, I'm giving it to you for safekeeping. This is the start-up capital for our future store." Albert smiled and stuffed the purse into Fred and Lee Jordan's hands respectively. "There's not much difference between letting me keep it and letting you keep it, right?"
The three of them started grinning foolishly at the money bags in their hands again.
After an unknown amount of time, Fred came to his senses and suddenly asked, "Aren't you afraid that we will spend all the Galleons?"
"Will you spend your hopes of opening a store in the future?" Albert asked in return.
Fred and George both shook their heads. They knew very well that their family's situation would not allow them to realize their dream of opening a joke shop in the future. Just as Albert said, this money was their hope for opening a joke shop in the future. If they spent it, where would they get the money to open a shop
The two of them will definitely hold on to their pockets tightly and not spend their hopes for the future.
"Thank you. But I'll keep the Galleons with you for now." Fred handed the bag of Galleons back to Albert. "We don't need them for now."
"You need to learn how to keep accounts and how to manage Galleons." Albert said with a smile, "This is what we need to do when we open a store in the future. You also need to learn these things."
George shook his head. He would never take Albert's money. After all, the Galleons belonged to Albert. Even if Albert said that he would keep them with him for safekeeping, such trust really touched them. However, the three of them would not keep the money no matter what, even though it was the largest sum of Galleons they had ever come into contact with.
After some mutual refusal, Albert successfully persuaded the three and gave them fifty Galleons each. Fred and George also needed this research fund to buy raw materials for their research on joke props, while Lee Jordan was responsible for organizing this year's wizard card competition and preparing related matters for the prizes. Albert also taught them how to keep accounts, using the excuse that they needed to know how to keep accounts to open a store, and asked them to record every Knut they spent.
Albert's assignment of tasks made all three roommates extremely excited, as they had already seen the prototype of a company.
Although it seemed like they were just playing house, Albert knew that the three of them would do their jobs seriously.
In their excitement, Fred, George and Lee Jordan had no idea that Albert had sinister intentions. This guy was simply preparing himself to be a hands-off boss in the future.
Isn't the reason why Albert trained them so that his three good friends could help him manage the company in the future so that he could be lazy and do nothing
The excuse is to give them a chance to train themselves.
Well, no one can be more reliable than him, right
Moreover, this small group formed by friendship and interests will be very stable in the future. After all, wizards do not have as many cunning minds as Muggles.
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In the evening, in the Gryffindor common room, Harry, who was doing his homework, suddenly heard Ron talking about the news he heard this afternoon.
"You said Albert sold a potion formula and made 500 Galleons?" Harry himself had no idea about Galleons, and had no reaction when he heard Ron talk about this.
"Earned five hundred Galleons from selling the formula?" Hermione was very surprised. Although she also didn't have much idea about Galleons, she knew that it was a huge sum of money.
"What formula did he sell?"
"I don't know." Ron wished that the person who sold the formula was himself. Sometimes he would dream that he used the Philosopher's Stone to create a pile of gold and spent money to buy a Quidditch team.
"Don't think about those things, eat some candy!" Hermione shared the candy in her pocket with Harry and Ron.
"It tastes good. Where did you buy it?" Harry ate one and wanted to spend money to buy some.
"It should be bought by Hogsmeade." Ron said depressedly, "When Charlie was still in school, he would send some candy to me and Ginny every year as Christmas gifts."
"Albert gave it to me when I met him in the library this afternoon," Hermione explained. "He said it was a return gift for a Christmas present."
"Afternoon? Albert was reading in the lounge all afternoon, and helping Fred and George with their homework. I was right next to him." Ron raised his eyebrows.
Hermione frowned slightly. She had indeed met Albert in the library. The candy was the best proof. Ron obviously didn't seem to be lying. Could it be... there were two Alberts
But how is this possible