Chapter 216 Lockhart's Special Hobby

That afternoon, Mike contacted a special construction team to come here to discuss the construction of the factory.

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

This construction team named Geno Construction is composed of wizards and house elves. Compared with ordinary Muggle construction teams, their fees are higher, but they are truly worth the money.

Because their construction speed is quite magical, the quality of the things they build is also very good, and they also have a warranty! In the future, if the building is damaged to a certain extent within a certain period of time, they will come to repair it for free.

The most important thing is that they can also add spells to the building according to the customer's requirements.

There are all kinds of spells that can be selected, including the most common Muggle expulsion spells and concealment spells, as well as quite rare counter-attack magic mechanisms and traceless extension spells. Even the person in charge of this construction team told Mike very obscurely that they can also add the strongest guarding spell to the house, the Fidelius Charm!

What is the Fidelius Charm? I believe that friends who have read the original book carefully know that it is the spell that Harry's parents added to their house to protect Harry.

This is an extremely complex magic that can hide a secret forever in the soul of a living person, and the living person who is selected to hide this secret is called a secret keeper.

When the secret hidden by the Fidelius Charm is the location of a house, unless the secret keeper actively discloses it, you can't find it even if the house is right in front of you.

This effect looks similar to the effect of the Concealment Charm, but the effect of the Fidelius Charm is much stronger than the Concealment Charm.

You must know that even Voldemort was able to find Harry because the secret keeper leaked the secret.

After learning that the construction team could cast the Fidelius Charm, Mike chose to let them build his own factory without hesitation.

Although his factory does not need to be protected by such advanced magic as the Fidelius Charm, being able to arrange the Fidelius Charm can already prove the strength of this construction team.

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

The first is a fully wooden shed-roofed factory building.

This kind of factory building is extremely poor in both livability and sturdiness, but it is cheap.

Since it is surrounded by dense jungle, most of the materials for building the factory building can be sourced locally. The price quoted by Geno Construction for this construction plan is 1,000 gold galleons.

The second one is slightly better, made of bricks.

The third one is the best, a mixture of bricks, stones and wood, a super large factory building plus collective staff dormitories. The plan also includes a protective magic package and a fine decoration package, including a large version of several commonly used protective magic such as the Muggle Expulsion Spell. However,

the third plan is also the most expensive, with a price of up to 10,000 gold galleons.

Mike decided on the third and most expensive plan without blinking an eye.

This is not because Mike is too rich, but because the construction fee can be paid in installments, and the interest rate is pitifully low.

After signing the contract on site, the person in charge who came to negotiate was very happy. In fact, the business situation of their construction team was not optimistic. First of all, the market of the British wizarding world was too small. Secondly, the wealthy old aristocrats generally had their own ancestral homes, while ordinary wizards would choose to build their own houses or buy ready-made Muggle houses.

Based on this situation, their main customers were actually only those newly rich upstarts, who were the type who would not open a business for three years and would make a living for three years after opening one.

Mike and Lockhart contributed two orders in less than a year. How could they not be happy?

After saying goodbye to Mike and others, the person in charge immediately used the door key to return to the company to arrange work. When Mike and the Weasley brothers and others were about to leave half an hour later, they found that many black spots had appeared in the sky in the distance. After a closer look, they found that the person in charge had come to the scene again with a group of construction workers.

So, 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 traceless stretching spell bags they carried with them, and then quickly built a fireplace.

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

The three Weasley brothers were stunned, because ordinary fireplaces cannot be teleported. If you want to teleport in, you must connect to the Floo Network. And the application of the Floo Network is extremely slow. Now the construction team has built a fireplace and can teleport immediately, which surprised them.

Mike was not surprised at all. A wizard construction team like theirs must have its own complete logistics system to be able to operate for so long, and the inexpensive Floo Network is of course the best choice. As

for why they don't need to apply for a new fireplace, it must be a classic power-for-money transaction.

The construction team is very efficient. In just one hour, a rectangular foundation with a depth of 10 meters was dug out on the vacant land burned by the Weasley brothers. This surprised Mike a little. You know, this amount of work may not be done in half a month in the Muggle world.

It was the first time for the three Weasley brothers and Arthur to see such a large construction site, so they watched with relish.

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

Mike was not idle after returning home, he had to go to Lockhart again.

Lockhart still had a novel about him. Since he wanted to promote the Dolphin Magic Drink that would be on sale soon, he had to do it all at once. He not only relied on the influence of the Daily Prophet, but also asked Lockhart to mobilize his crazy fans to buy it. However, when Mike used the

fireplace to teleport directly to Lockhart's house, he unexpectedly found that Lockhart did not give him the right to teleport.

The disadvantage of the fireplace teleportation of the Floo Network is that except for the fireplaces in public places like the Leaky Cauldron, you need the other party's consent if you want to teleport to a private fireplace.

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

...

When Mike arrived at Lockhart's house according to the address given by Lockhart before, it was already evening. Mike

looked at the large villa with bright lights and the music and women's laughter faintly coming from the villa, and the blue veins on his fist slowly emerged.

Although Lockhart's house was big, it did not have many defensive facilities. Mike didn't even use his wand and kicked open the door.

When Mike followed the sound to a huge room on the second floor, the scene that appeared in front of him made even this old driver sigh that Lockhart really knows how to play.

On the ceiling of the room, the magic lamp that was supposed to emit soft white light was now flashing colorful lights, and directly below the magic lamp were dozens of men and women dancing to the music of the automatic musical instruments suspended in the air.

On the floor of the room, a large number of empty bottles and clothes were scattered on the ground, and the air was filled with the unpleasant smell of alcohol and body deodorant.

All of this was very similar to the bars and discos in the Muggle world, the only difference was the people who were dancing.

Or rather, the creatures who were dancing.

In the center of the room, a number of "female" magical creatures in revealing clothes and shapes were twisting together with several wizards.

The largest of them was a female centaur, who was carrying a thin wizard with his ribs exposed, dancing to the music, and making shameless sounds. The wizard on its back only held his hands below the neck, as if he was holding on to the saddle.

In addition, Mike also found a veela with silver hair like Fleur on the dance floor. Its silver hair shone brightly under the colorful lights of the magic lamp, and the two wizards were almost drooling.

Strangely, there was no sign of Lockhart. Mike walked in the dim room looking for Lockhart, and finally found him at the bar in a corner.

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

Due to the perspective, Mike did not see who was sitting opposite Lockhart, but based on Lockhart's constant touching of the other person, it can be inferred that it should be a woman.

However, when Mike went around to the side, he found that the person flirting with Lockhart was actually a short, pointy-eared, big-headed, and gray-skinned female fairy!

Looking at the heavily made-up face of the female fairy and Lockhart's obsessed expression, Mike couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

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

Fairies' night vision is much stronger than humans, so when Mike walked around to the side of Lockhart, the female fairy sitting opposite him had already discovered Mike. After the female fairy asked, Lockhart suddenly turned his head and looked at Mike, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Mike! Why are you here!"

Faced with Lockhart's question, Mike felt a little embarrassed.

After all, he didn't come here with malicious intent this time, but he ran into Lockhart when he was doing his special hobby.

"I have something to talk to you about, but the access to your fireplace doesn't seem to be open to me, so I came directly to your house."

"Dear Mr. Mike! You should know, right? When you are the only one who refuses your application for Floo Network transmission, it means that he does not welcome you now." Lockhart slammed the table and roared, "Can't you send me a letter first so that I can prepare a little?"

The noise made by Lockhart was so loud that it even drowned out the noisy music next to him, so it attracted the attention of the "knight" next to him.

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

Mike looked at this room that was decorated in pink and hung various "heavy toys" on the walls. He tried his best not to laugh out loud, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

"Laugh if you want to! A well-known best-selling author, a handsome man with countless female fans, and a winner of the third-level Merlin Badge! He actually likes to be with goblins in private! How funny! Right!" Lockhart's face turned dark, and he walked around the room, gesticulating and saying, "If this gets out, I'll be the laughing stock of the entire wizarding world, and it's all your fault! Mike!"

Mike almost couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard the first half of the words, but after hearing the second half, especially when Lockhart began to point his finger at him, the expression on his face suddenly sank.

"Don't point your finger at me. If you do it again, I guarantee you won't be able to use it again!" Mike knocked Lockhart's hand away and said gloomily, "Please understand the current situation! I am the one who has the upper hand!"

Lockhart took a breath and shook his hand that was hit by Mike. He wanted to talk back, but after seeing Mike's cold eyes, his body immediately stiffened, and finally collapsed on the huge bed with a pale face.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?" Lockhart said desperately.

"It's nothing, just your novel. It should be finished now, right?"

"Yes, what do you want to do?"

Mike walked to the bedside, looked down at Lockhart and said, "Revise it for me, and add more advertisements about Dolphin Magic Drink. You know what advertising is, right? If you don't, forget it. Anyway, you just need to praise Dolphin Magic Drink to death. Then, wait for me to notify you when to send the book. You can only send it when I tell you to, understand?"

After Mike finished speaking, Lockhart's expression suddenly became dull, and he lay on the bed and stared at Mike blankly.

Suddenly, Lockhart sat up suddenly and raised his voice by eight degrees and said, "Is it just for this?"

"Yes."

"Then why did you come here in person?" Lockhart looked at Mike with his eyes fixed, "Wouldn't it be enough to write me a letter?"

"I just want to ask if you can do it!"

Seeing that Mike's expression was getting more and more distorted, Lockhart quickly reacted and nodded in answer.

Seeing that Lockhart was so obedient, Mike stopped talking. It was getting late and he needed to hurry home to have dinner with Professor Flitwick and the others. So

under Lockhart's guidance, Mike deliberately bypassed the 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 beside the fireplace and walked into the fireplace. "You can still go find your goblin girlfriend, but make sure you finish the manuscript for me before the day after tomorrow. Do you understand?"

"Yes! I understand." Lockhart replied to Mike weakly, and then the expression on his face became awkward. He lowered his head and struggled for a long time before slowly saying, "That... this thing today... you won't tell anyone, right?" Lockhart lowered his head

and waited for a long time without receiving Mike's response. He looked up and found that there was no one in the fireplace in front of him. Mike had already teleported away.