Chapter 44 Exam
It turns out that there are still a lot of rich people in the wizarding world.
The Dolphin Magic Drink is like a plug-in. After using it, the study time can be almost doubled. This is an irresistible temptation for those who want to get good grades.
Even if Mike raised the purchase price of Dolphin Magic Drink to a sky-high price of 3 gold galleons per bottle, it is still in short supply. The final retail price of each bottle of Dolphin Magic Drink basically ranges from 5 gold galleons to 9 gold galleons, which makes the middlemen who have obtained the authorization of Dolphin Magic Drink earn even more than Mike.
But Mike does not envy them. He knows that if a brand wants to become bigger and stronger, it must maintain a good reputation. Increasing the price without restraint for profit is a behavior of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
And don't look at these middlemen who are now prosperous. When the exam is over and the demand for Dolphin Magic Drink decreases, it will be their time to suffer.
Who can afford Dolphin Magic Drink now is not a wealthy family? Will these people let others take advantage of the fire and rob without revenge? Mike would never believe it.
The huge sales of Dolphin Magic Drink naturally attracted the attention of some people. From the name of the magic drink, it can be guessed that this magic drink should be related to Dolphin, so people came to Dolphin in an endless stream these days.
However, Mike had warned Dolphin long ago that if he dared to reveal the formula of Dolphin Magic Drink to others, he would be in a dilemma. Of course, Mike still understood the principle of giving a sweet date after a slap. After scaring Dolphin to tremble, Mike promised to give him 5% of the dividends as patent fees. After this set of operations, Dolphin, the cowardly kid, finally began to be grateful to Mike.
Mike didn't care whether Dolphin was born with this character or had a Stockholm psychosis attack, as long as the final result was in Mike's interest, it was enough.
Days passed, and the sales of Dolphin Magic Drink also increased steadily. On the day before the exam, when Mike and the Weasley brothers gathered together to calculate the income, everyone was stunned by the exaggerated amount. After removing the decimals, the net profit of the past few days actually reached 12,000 gold galleons!
Excluding the 5% profit dividend promised to Dolphin, the Weasley brothers and Mike divided the remaining 11,400 Galleons equally.
Looking at the full 5,700 gold galleons in front of them, which was enough to crush the two of them to death, the Weasley brothers were both in a dream. Such a large sum of money is enough for them to open a large-scale toy joke store in Diagon Alley. They even have the urge to drop out of school immediately to fulfill their dreams, but after thinking about how their mothers would react after finding out about this, they decisively gave up this idea.
After completing the division of the spoils, Mike finally ushered in his first final exam at Hogwarts. Mike
didn't care about this exam. The questions for the first grade were not difficult. Besides, Mike didn't have a family, so even if he didn't do well in the exam, he didn't have to worry about being mixed doubles with his parents when he went home. But at least passing the exam is still required. I heard that people who fail too many courses are likely to be expelled from school, but I don't know if it's true or not.
The first exam was Professor Flitwick's Charms. There was nothing much to say about it. As Professor Flitwick's favorite student, Michael's Charms class was definitely the best among all his subjects.
The practical exam of Charms was to cast a levitation spell on a pineapple and control it to tap-dance across a desk.
To be honest, this was quite difficult. Most young wizards could only make the pineapple float. If they could make the pineapple fly across the desk steadily, they would be considered to have learned well. As for tap-dancing? That required very precise spell control.
But this was not difficult for Michael. After a year of meditation, his spell control was far beyond the reach of young wizards of the same grade. With a gentle wave of the wand, the pineapple seemed to be alive and performed various difficult flying movements in the air. In the end, the pineapple jumped across the desk like a juggler.
Although it was not tap-dancing, Professor Flitwick was still very happy.
After the exam, he asked Michael why he could control such a complex flying movement but could not make the pineapple tap-dance?
Mike was speechless about this. He couldn't say that he was a rough man in his previous life and didn't know how to tap dance.
The practical test of Transfiguration was to turn a mouse into a snuff box. When Mike heard the question, he was confused again. What is a snuff box?
In the end, Professor McGonagall demonstrated it to Mike. After she turned out a snuff box inlaid with emeralds, Mike knew what a snuff box looked like.
Unfortunately, even if Mike knew the appearance of a snuff box, the snuff box he turned out couldn't be as exquisite as Professor McGonagall's. He only turned out an ordinary snuff box after he had enough strength.
Looking at Professor McGonagall's not-so-good-looking face, Mike felt that his Transfiguration grade was probably in jeopardy.
Unlike the previous two exams, Professor Snape was obviously a more rigid person. The test content of Potions was to make a bottle of forgetfulness potion, which was not as weird as Charms and Transfiguration.
Mike secretly said that it was stable. He learned Potions well. It was just a bottle of forgetfulness potion, which was a piece of cake for him.
After checking Mike's forgetfulness potion, Professor Snape not only did not mock him as per his character, but even nodded with satisfaction. Mike was overjoyed to see the old bat's reaction. His potion score would definitely not be too bad this time.
Other subjects like History of Magic need not be mentioned. Mike felt that he would be lucky if he could pass those subjects.
Finally, with the end of the last exam, the little wizards of Hogwarts were liberated.
Laughter and joy returned to the campus of Hogwarts, and the faces of the little wizards were filled with bright smiles again. The exam was over, and they could have fun for a whole week until the exam results were announced.
Mike walked quickly in the corridor leading to the Ravenclaw Tower, surrounded by cheerful little wizards.
He was not smiling like the others. He decided to sneak into the restricted book area of Hogwarts tonight. Whether he would get rich overnight or be caught and expelled from school would depend on tonight.
Just now, he saw the savior trio hurriedly walking towards Hagrid's hut. According to the plot, tonight should be the time for the trio to go to the trapdoor to play the game.
The original book mentioned that when the trio went to the trapdoor, Dumbledore went to London because of a letter. This was undoubtedly the best time for Mike to sneak into the restricted area.
However, according to Mike's guess, Dumbledore probably did not go to London, but stayed near the trio to prevent his little savior from having an accident. If Mike's guess is true, then this invasion will be discovered by Dumbledore if there is any mistake.
But now Mike can't care so much. The slow collapse of the plot and the terrifying green light of Voldemort in the forbidden forest all put a lot of pressure on Mike. He knows that he must use all his strength as soon as possible, otherwise there is only one way to die.
Thinking of this, Mike's pace quickened a bit.
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