Chapter 585: All Horses Are

Silent When Felix returned to school in the evening, he was in a very good mood.

That afternoon, he and Winnie went to the law firm where she worked and handled a legal consulting business as a friend. After Winnie's boss, a middle-aged man in his early forties, learned that the consulting fee would not be discounted, he readily agreed to hand the matter over to Winnie, who was still an intern assistant.

"The content of the work is not troublesome, but it is a bit trivial and requires time to run around." Winnie's boss whispered, "I will check your work progress regularly."

"Understood." Winnie said nervously with a tense face.

She knew that her boss was worried that she would ask friends for help and would just muddle through the work. . . But in fact, he had completely misunderstood - her work was much more than what was put on the surface. In addition to the legal issues of several gold and silver jewelry stores, she also had a secret project: analyzing the wizard society from the perspective of the modern social system.

Winnie could talk about the difference between the two for three days and three nights, but Felix denied the analysis angle she proposed.

"Law--"

"You don't need to worry about it. There is no need to take care of everything in a small society of tens of thousands of people.

" "Finance--" "You don't need to worry     about it

either." "Then what do you want me to do?" Winnie looked at him angrily.     They were in the coffee shop downstairs from the law firm. Felix scooped ice cream with a small metal spoon. Valen preferred the strawberry flavor. It sat swaggeringly on the table by the window. Pedestrians came and went on the street, but no one noticed it.     "Use your brain, Miss Valentine. You have received a complete and comprehensive higher education. There are very few people among the Squibs who have similar experiences as you. You are a rare talent with a complete social system behind you. By the way, you have dealt with many companies, right?"     "They are all cases taken by the firm," Winnie said weakly, "I am responsible for collecting information, and sometimes I will write a decent report according to the requirements."     "That's it." Felix nodded and waved the small spoon in his hand. "Here's a suggestion: you can think of the wizarding world as a large company that is actively seeking transformation, and it just happened to find you."     Winnie stared at him, feeling curious about this metaphor, but she held a different opinion.     "We are discussing a serious topic, right?" Winnie looked at Felix as if to confirm, and he nodded. She continued, "If that's the case, using a company as a metaphor is inappropriate. From what I've observed, the various systems in the wizarding world are still stuck in the past few centuries. There may be reasons for the Statute of Secrecy, but you can't deny that wizards can't be like real companies: with clear goals and unified actions."     "...If you have to compare it to a company, it's also a company with a loose structure, full of internal and external troubles, and has no future at all."     Winnie finished speaking in one breath, feeling inexplicably happy, and she felt like she had gotten revenge. Who made the wizarding world abandon her back then! Felix smiled at her, "I can't control you thinking this way, but now this company with no future has hired you, you have to come up with a solution."     Winnie's hand holding the spoon froze, and she shook her ponytail irritably.     "I can't think of it - you tell me."     "Internal and external troubles? Naturally someone will solve them; loose structure? You don't need to think about it." Felix said softly: "What I want you to do is to think about what in the wizarding world is attractive enough to form a new industry from your own perspective? In simple terms, if I want to embed the wizarding world into Muggle society, like a gear, what points can be connected? Forestry, industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, science..."     "Why do you want to do this?" Winnie said holding her breath, "Do you know any inside information? The wizarding world is planning to reform..."     "You can think of it as a plan reserve, a plan for the future."     Winnie looked at him puzzled.     "There is no large-scale war at the moment, but has mankind given up developing weapons? The wizarding world has no plans to revise the confidentiality law for the time being, but in the long run, change is necessary... You know mobile phones, right?"     Winnie nodded.     "What about cameras?"     Winnie nodded again.     "Then have you seen a product that combines the two?"     Winnie nodded first, then shook her head quickly.     "Never seen it before."     "Then you can look forward to it. It is estimated that similar products will be born in a few years." Felix said: "Try to imagine that if everyone has a mobile phone that can take pictures in the future, will wizards still hide well like they do now?"     Not to mention the Internet. But Felix did not mention this.     "Do you think wizards will be exposed to the public?" Winnie couldn't help asking. She felt a little terrified.     "It's just a matter of probability and time. With the development of technology, the number of accidental leaks handled by the Ministry of Magic has increased year by year. They are facing new challenges." Felix said: "I think there are two possibilities in the future: either the Ministry of Magic is exhausted and has to cooperate more closely with the Muggle government to let more people - at least some government workers know about the existence of wizards."     Winnie imagined the scene: an ordinary person discovered a wizard, took out his mobile phone to take pictures, and then broke the news to the TV station... Faced with this situation, it is indeed difficult for wizards to completely block the news. At that time, it is very likely that wizards will have to make compromises and use more adequate government agencies as Mr. Hepp said.     But she soon realized a problem. This method is only a temporary solution.     "Perhaps you have also realized that there is more than one Ministry of Magic and more than one Muggle government in the world. When the day comes when the two societies must work together to keep the secret, it is normal for mistakes to occur." Felix said to himself, "What's more..."     He did not continue, but Winnie followed his thoughts and thought: What's more, it is impossible for all countries to be willing to cooperate. As long as there is an accident in one link, the talks will fail... The result is that the whole secret will be destroyed.     "So it is necessary to make a plan in advance?" Winnie understood Felix's thoughts to some extent. This matter is indeed necessary. She just didn't expect that she would have the opportunity to participate in such a big event, but thinking about Mr. Hepp's status in the magic world, she was relieved.     "That's right." Felix said briefly.     This is also one of the reasons why he hopes that the war will end as soon as possible: the Ministry of Magic is now struggling to maintain normal operations. If they are distracted by other things, especially the big things that concern the future fate of the magic world, Ms. Bones will probably explode with anger.     But it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Magic to ensure that the entire magic world is not discovered.

Felix has been gaining fame in recent years just so that one day, when he formally raises this serious question, everyone - including foreign wizards - must take it seriously and not treat his words as the ravings of a fool.

He doesn't want to do all the work alone. Even if there is a "future world" now, this power is still too small.

Winnie asked softly: "Has the wizarding world always been paying attention to the progress of science and technology? I know about the sound transmission mirror and have seen people use it. At that time, I just thought that magic was magical, but now I think it is the direction of future mobile phones: small and convenient, in addition to making calls, it can also transmit pictures, but there is a distance limit."

"The problem of distance limitation is already improving." Felix said. "In fact, there are ready-made methods to replace it, such as two-way mirrors, but its manufacturing process is a bit complicated and not suitable for mass production. We are considering using magic photos as a substitute." "

Can you tell me more about it?" Winnie asked with great interest. This knowledge is completely out of her reach.

Felix moved his fingers, and two roses in the cafe jumped down and transformed into two photos. Winnie stared at her face in the photo, then looked at Felix Hepp in the other photo, and was amazed.

"You have seen moving photos in the newspaper, so you are not unfamiliar with this... There is also a more advanced magical portrait in the magic world, which can not only talk to people, but also retain some of the wisdom of the portrait owner before his death. It depends on how much memory you give it. The inspiration I mentioned comes from this."

"If you want to see each other, the easiest way is not to transmit real-time images, but to hold each other's photos and use magic to copy your current actions on your own photos. Just like this."

Felix waved his hand, and the image in his photo also waved his hand.

"This method is relatively simple, but it also needs to be customized. At present, only the predecessor of the sound transmission mirror, the inventor of the couple mirror, Fred and George Weasley, accept this service, which is specially tailored for couples."

Winnie's head was dizzy and she felt very conflicted now. On the one hand, she knew that the magic world lagged behind the real world in many aspects, and could even be said to be lagging behind for several centuries; but on the other hand, the magic world almost predicted the future technological trend.

Not only this product, but many products of Future World Company have similar shadows.

She tried to attribute this phenomenon to the particularity of magic, but it didn't make sense. She stared at Felix again, and suddenly realized it.

"You are the most outstanding inventor of this era, Mr. Hep. There are too many antiques in the magic world."

Felix waved his hand, "I dare not admit it."

He was not refusing, but the more he studied magic, the more he understood one thing: any magic master is a potential inventor.

If the Weasley twins can make a couple's mirror, then can Dumbledore not make it?

As far as he knows, Dumbledore was able to communicate alchemy with Nick Flamel when he was young, and he himself made some practical magic tools, but Dumbledore never thought about starting a company, nor did he think about converting his wisdom into money.

Dumbledore's approach is actually very representative of those outstanding wizards in history.

These people don't really have much business thinking in their heads, and are bound by traditional wizard concepts, but they are not short of money, so it is enough to meet the needs of themselves and those around them.

Another example is the pure-blood family. They would rather hold the magic notebooks of their ancestors and let them rot and be lost, rather than let this knowledge spread to the outside world.

...

After Valentine's Day, Felix returned to school and attended classes as usual.

In the ancient magic class -

"Welcome back, classmates," Felix walked around the classroom and said slowly: "I believe you have had a great weekend. Yes, the Valentine's Day package at Madam Puddifoot's Tea House is very cost-effective, and the collapsed mountains in the suburbs are also eye-catching enough. Even... I heard that going to the Hog's Head Bar has become a new trend?"

The students winked at each other, and Harry saw Hermione secretly mouthing: Nonsense. He grinned.

"But I hope you can concentrate."

"Easter is less than two months away. You will receive employment counseling after the holiday, but it may be a bit late by then."

Felix was stuck in the middle of his speech. The students stared at him as he took out a small piece of paper from his pocket. "Uh, let me see, the next thing is the importance and significance of the OWLs exam, and the review plan... These things are really a headache."

He threw the small piece of paper neatly and turned it into a paper airplane before it fell to the ground.

The students stared at the paper airplane flying out of the window with their necks stretched.

"Okay, the above is what I recorded in the teaching meeting, just to let you feel how bored I was at that time..." Felix strode back to the podium and said to the dumbfounded students below, "Let's talk about something practical."

"If you enter the sixth grade, what will be taught in the advanced class of the ancient runes?"

The students listened attentively to the professor's explanation.

"First of all, the course content is not fixed. Currently, this subject is changing with each passing day, and new things are constantly being proposed. If you are interested, you can read the magazine "New Interpretation of Magic Runes" from beginning to end. There are many cutting-edge or interesting articles in it, and many of them are written and published by you...

I plan to spend a few years to sort out a clear context, but no matter what, the advanced class will focus on the teaching of practical magic runs, there is no doubt about that."

"What I want to say is another thing. In the fifth grade, especially after the employment consultation, you must carefully consider your future."

"I can let you enter the thinking classroom and learn hundreds of translation magic runs in one class. Then, naturally, each of you can get excellent results in the OWLs exam..." Felix said calmly: "Yes, I can do that."

"Grades are not the problem, interest is the key."

"In the advanced class, my requirements for you will become higher and higher as the ancient magic literature subject continues to improve, and the teaching content will vary from person to person. You will spend a lot of time on cutting-edge explorations. If you are not really interested, this process will be very torturous."

"So think carefully about what this course means to you. Perhaps your thinking today will lead to the birth of a new interdisciplinary field..."

Throughout March, students were busy.

But outside the campus, or outside the UK, the order of the international wizarding world was turned upside down by Voldemort alone.

From Valentine's Day to early March, Felix and Lucius met several times and found that Voldemort seemed to have completely disappeared. Felix could only think that he was preparing for a duel with Dumbledore.

But it turned out that Voldemort was hard to settle down.

On March 12, a letter caught Felix's attention. Attached to the letter was a clipping from a foreign newspaper, which mentioned that Voldemort broke into a foreign auction house and stole a precious magic cloak.

But according to the guards on the scene, he just said "rubbish" after taking it, and then disappeared.

On March 17, he appeared in the underground vault of the Gringotts branch in France and took away a very famous goblin sword.

On March 25, Voldemort broke into an ancient wizard ruins that was being excavated in Brazil. He pried open a coffin and threw the burial objects inside to the ground like garbage. The lifelike body of the ancient wizard quickly decayed.

During this period, a pursuit team composed of Aurors from multiple countries was established.

They were ordered to capture Voldemort, but they got nothing after more than half a month. The newspapers were full of reports that the Minister of Magic of a small country publicly issued a declaration, claiming that Voldemort was a clown who could only hide from the enemy.

The next day, Voldemort broke into the Ministry of Magic of that country and slaughtered more than fifty wizards. Then he appeared at the base of the cobbled-together pursuit team and killed the flies that had been following behind him for a while.

For a time, everyone was silent and no one dared to speak.

Even the British mainland seemed very negative. The pages of the newspapers seemed to be occupied by Voldemort alone. Many old people were forced to recall the terrible war more than a decade ago. The tense atmosphere lasted until before Easter.

The Ministry of Magic finally finalized and announced the trial time of the dark wizard.

At the same time, Felix also received a letter from the Supreme Wizard Court, the Wizengamot.