Kyle was reading a book when a bulging bag fell from the sky and landed on the pages of the book in his hands.

"What the hell."

Kyle was startled. He turned his head and looked at Cedric who was baring his teeth. He said with disgust, "What's wrong with you? Did you pick up money? Why are you smiling so obscenely?"

"This is much faster than picking up money."

Cedric squeezed onto Kyle's sofa and said excitedly, "Guess how much we sold the Ravenclaw map for...

52 Sickles, 52 for each person! "

Although Cedric used a question, he did not wait for Kyle's answer and continued:

"A few five-knut pieces of parchment and a few spells can actually make so much money..."

"etc."

The more Kyle listened, the more confused he became. He could only interrupt Cedric, who seemed to have drunk fake wine, and asked in confusion: "52 Sickles, shouldn't there be only 40? And what's with the parchment?"

"It's like this..."

Cedric explained: "I went to the Ravenclaw Tower at noon and revised the route according to their needs. After Qiu saw it, he thought the price could be increased appropriately, so in the end it became this much.

As for why parchment is used... This is actually a little trick of the copying spell.

For things like notes and maps, removing the most complicated part of the parchment and only copying the contents will make the spell much easier and the copy will last much longer."

After listening to this, Kyle understood why there were 12 more Sikkos. The quality of the map has improved, so the price will naturally increase as well.

But the parchment was a bit redundant. In Kyle's opinion, those maps would be useless in a month at most, so Cedric's actions were really unnecessary.

Fortunately, the parchment was not that expensive, and the total cost was less than two cents, which was nothing compared to the final profit.

Not to mention that Cedric paid for it himself, which is the most important thing.

Kyle put away his Nashiko and asked casually, "By the way, what is your impression of Qiu?"

"Qiu?" Cedric thought for a moment and said, "I think she is a very smart little witch. She is very honest and has a good personality. She should be a good friend."

"No more?" Kyle frowned.

"Hmm... big, generous?" Cedric asked tentatively.

"Forget it, don't say anything."

Kyle rubbed his forehead. Although it was a bit early, he never expected that Cedric's first impression of Qiu was that he was a very upright person...

Who the hell describes a girl as honest?

That's it, I'm tired.

Kyle closed the book, stood up and walked towards the common room corridor.

"Are you going out?" Cedric asked.

Kyle responded, "I'm going to feed the cat."

"good."

Cedric responded and then stopped caring. He lowered his head and began to count his Sickles. While counting, he muttered quietly, "Haha, I didn't expect that I could actually earn some pocket money. This feeling is great. I must write a letter to tell my dad about this news."

Kyle, who had just walked into the wooden passage, heard this and silently sympathized with the Ministry of Magic staff for a second.

It looks like Mr. Diggory has something new to show off. I just hope they can get used to it soon.

…

Leaving the Hufflepuff common room, Kyle deliberately made a lot of noise in the corridor.

He was a man of his words. Since he had said that he would bring dried fish for Mrs. Norris, he naturally could not go back on his word.

Although Kyle had tried hard to convince himself, and was well aware that this was impossible to accomplish, he still felt that the idea was not making sense after all he had been looking forward to it for so long.

No matter what, he had to feed the cat today, even if Dumbledore came.

Although Mrs. Norris is not a tabby, at least they are both cats, and they look similar, so they can barely be considered a substitute.

In less than three minutes of Kyle's continued noise, Mrs. Norris came over, and with her was Filch.

"Ahaha, I caught you, the little wizard making noise in the corridor." Filch tilted his head and looked at Kyle with ill intent: "I'm going to put you in detention!"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Filch. I think you may have remembered it wrong." Kyle said calmly, "Rule 22 of the school rules clearly states that if you make loud noises in the corridor outside of curfew hours, you will be punished with a verbal warning. You will be put in detention only if you make three such violations."

"I know, you don't need to remind me!"

Filch looked furious. He said gloomily, "Are you good at memorizing school rules? No matter how good you are at memorizing them, you will still break them knowingly!"

I'll be watching you, and you better never make a mistake, or I'll catch you."

"That day won't come." Kyle said with a smile, "Also, Mr. Filch, the reason I did this is just to find Mrs. Norris.

You know, Hogwarts is so big, it's not easy to find a cat, this is the fastest way."

"What do you want to do!" Filch's eyes instantly became alert. "I warn you, you'd better not do anything bad to my cat, otherwise I will make you pay the price at the risk of my life!"

"You're overthinking it. I just wanted to thank it." Kyle explained, "My roommate had an accident this morning, and it was it that took me to the school hospital. This is my thank you gift."

As he spoke, Kyle took out the bag of dried fish and took out a fish from it and tried to feed it to Mrs. Loris.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Norris didn't even look at it.

Filch sneered, "Don't waste your energy. It only eats the food I feed it."

"Then you can feed it." Kyle handed the bag to Filch and said, "Don't worry, it's just dried fish. You can ask the professor to help check it."

"No, we don't need this!" Filch said coldly.

"Don't be so quick to refuse. This is a thank-you gift from a little wizard." Kyle said casually, "Besides, dried longbearded barracuda is a high-end product. One bag costs ten Galleons, and it's in short supply. It's the top cat food in the wizarding world. I got it with great difficulty."

Filch hesitated.

If it was ordinary dried fish, he would definitely not dare to risk giving it to Mrs. Norris, but if it was long-bearded pike...

Kyle was right. This dried fish was indeed the best cat food. Filch had once thought of giving Mrs. Norris a gift like this at Christmas.

But he couldn't buy it.

It's not that he has no money. Although the salary of a janitor is not high, Filch lives in Hogwarts, with free food and accommodation, and he doesn't have any daily expenses, so he has some savings over the years.

But the problem is that this kind of dried fish is always out of stock in Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade, and you can't buy it even if you have money.

Filch smelled the dried fish in his hand carefully, and after making sure there was no strange smell, he looked up at Kyle and said, "You'd better not lie to me."

"Poisoning the janitor's cat is no small matter." Kyle said frankly, "I'm only a first-year student. I don't want to be expelled so early."

Filch thought about it and it seemed to be true. If something happened to Mrs. Norris, Kyle would definitely not be able to escape.

"Go away, and I'll pretend I didn't see you this time."

"Thanks."

Kyle walked straight forward, and when he passed Mrs. Norris, he threw the dried fish in his hand to her.

"By the way, I'll leave this to you as well."

This time, Mrs. Norris did not refuse. After seeing Filch nod slightly, she stood up and took the dried fish, and ate it all in just a few bites.

(End of this chapter)