A day at Hogwarts

On the same weekend, Charles trained for half a day at the fencing club, had lunch at a nearby restaurant, and then came to Diagon Alley.

During this time, there were many more people in Diagon Alley than before. Many wizards from all over the world were attracted by the first Decryption Challenge reported in Hogwarts.

So much so that when Harry ran away from home and came here, there were no rooms left in the Leaky Cauldron.

"So you live here?" Charles had a black line on his face when he saw Harry.

Harry said with some embarrassment: "Mrs. Finnigan is very easy to talk to. Let me help look after the store here. Three meals a day will be provided and wages will be paid."

Seamus' mother had a shop in Diagon Alley that sold products such as shower gel and shampoo. Seamus often came to help during holidays. Harry was picked up by Seamus and brought back to the store when Harry had no place to live in the Leaky Cauldron.

So Harry started working part-time, looking after the store and doing homework during the day, and living upstairs at night so Seamus could run around and play.

Charles smiled and said, "Well, you can be considered as returning to the Potter family's old business."

There are a lot of Potter shampoos on the shelves, invented by Harry's grandfather.

Harry smirked and said, "I'm going to give Snape a bottle of shampoo this Christmas."

Charles just said "hehe" twice.

At this time, a customer came to the door, it was Johnson from the Gryffindor Quidditch team. She was first surprised that Harry worked here, and after telling her what she wanted to buy, she asked excitedly: "Potter, have you gone to see Firebolt?" "

"Oh my God, it's so charming!"

"But it's too expensive and I can't afford it."

Harry said while getting money for the goods: "I look at it every day. That broom is so beautiful."

"But I already have Nimbus 2000, and it's working well. I don't want to buy a new one."

Johnson nodded and said, "That's right. Our brooms are very good now. They are from the same company as Firebolt."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Charles. This guy was very annoying. He was obviously good at broomsticks and had good skills, so why didn't he join the Quidditch team?

Charles just smiled and said nothing.

At this time, a red head appeared at the door of the store. Ginny came, and Charles ran away in a hurry.

He did not go through the main entrance, but went to the alley at the back, entered another shop dozens of meters away, and went directly to the second floor.

This store is owned by Hogwarts and specializes in selling oil paintings and answers to the Decryption Challenge.

Such oil paintings are as big as a palm, and most of them are landscape paintings. The pictures are relatively simple, otherwise the painters would be exhausted.

It's just that the painters are not tired, but the professors are very tired.

Charles and Dumbledore initially expected that dozens of people would participate. They initially ordered 500 oil paintings, prepared 100, and left the rest for next year.

As a result, no one expected that on the first day, all the famous magic schools in the world would come to play, and many old wizards would also come out for activities. Diagon Alley was almost filled to the brim with so many wizards.

The professors had to work overtime to complete the encryption of the remaining four hundred oil paintings, which was probably enough.

There is a registration fee to participate in the competition, which is 20 Galleons for an oil painting. The threshold is set to discourage those who join in the fun.

Charles did a simple calculation and found that he now earned 10,000 Galleons. After excluding the 3,250 Galleons bonus and the 5,000 Galleons cost of the oil painting, he actually earned more than 1,000 Galleons.

When Professor Flitwick saw Charles coming, he complained: "You are really good at making money. We are exhausted, so you just use your brain. Almost two thousand Galleons are close to the treasury."

Charles found a chair and sat down. He did not answer the question, but asked: "Professor, has anyone cracked the firewall?"

This time the firewall took a lot of effort from professors including Dumbledore. The core was an upside-down Shakespeare's sonnet. At first Dumbledore patted his chest and said it would take a month for others to unblock it.

"Alas..." Professor Flitwick suddenly became frustrated, "The top three showed up at noon that day."

He was full of confidence at first, but the facts gave him a blow and he couldn't accept it.

Charles asked in surprise: "Oh, who untied it so quickly?"

Professor Flitwick waved his wand, and three documents flew into Charles's hands, and said: "The first place is Cordos Dorez. Because Madam Maxime can't walk fast, Beauxbatons won the second place, and the third place was The name is an American named Moss Jeff, and he did it himself."

After hearing the top ten, Charles was a little surprised. Except for the third place, all magic schools cracked it with the whole school's efforts, and this Moss Jeff actually won the third place by himself. His level is very high.

He specifically studied Moss Jeff's cracking process, failed to understand it, and then compared it with the cracking processes of Kodosdorez and Beauxbatons.

After some research, Charles came to the conclusion that Moss Jeff required fewer steps than the other two schools.

Next, he stopped paying attention to those magic schools and focused on finding the correct answers for individual contestants. If nothing else, it just depends on the number of steps.

An idea gradually took shape in Charles' mind.

That evening, Charles invited Moss Jeff to have dinner at an Italian restaurant near Diagon Alley.

Moss Jeff just graduated from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is a young man who likes challenges. When he was traveling around after graduation, he happened to come across the first Decryption Challenge, so he participated.

"I've heard of your name!" Moss Jeff recognized Charles. "That day, your self-introduction was written in many languages ​​on the friend wall!"

Charles smiled, not expecting anyone to remember that incident.

He said: "This decryption challenge is funded by me and is part of a plan of mine."

Charles outlined his plan to set up a logistics company based on the GIF oil painting network.

"Cool!" Moss Jeff looked excited. "I've always been curious as to why there is such a strange competition. It turns out it was prepared for this."

"That's really cool. If your plan succeeds, it won't just be the UK, but the whole world!"

Charles struck while the iron was hot: "I invite you to join this huge plan. Are you interested?"

Moss Jeff thought for a while and said with a little embarrassment: "I have loved breaking all kinds of magic spells since I was a child, and I was almost expelled for breaking the spell in Ilvermorny."

"However, I'm not very good at business. I almost bankrupted my family's store when I was looking after it."

Charles smiled and said: "This is not a problem. In fact, I am still studying at Hogwarts. There is no way to complete this plan. If you join our team, there are only two people."

"The security of communication networks is extremely important in my plan. I would like to invite you to serve as the chief security officer and form a professional team."

"This team is specifically responsible for system security and can cooperate with magic schools including Hogwarts. I plan to host future decryption challenges by this team, and it can also run related businesses."

"Awesome!" Moss Jeff's eyes suddenly lit up, "This means that in the future Decryption Challenge, we will fight against the wizards of the entire world!"

"Haha, we can also provide security consulting services to various countries. I really want to see the expressions on the faces of those Kuchikis at the Magic Congress when the curses they are proud of are broken!"

Moss Jeff had the pioneering and adventurous spirit of the old Stars and Stripes in his bones. Charles just mentioned it and he immediately regarded himself as one of them.

Charles feels that talking to young people is easy, he doesn’t have so many worries, and he just does what he sees right.

He told Mos Jeff: "There are many independent contestants in this decryption challenge, and their level is not bad. I want to invite them too."

"That's right!" Moss Jeff nodded repeatedly, "I think so too. I think there are many wizards who are willing to challenge the world."

Charles said: "I will compile a list after this competition."

Moss Jeff said cautiously: "Can you give me their answers? I plan to build a team with no shortcomings."

Charles nodded and said, "No problem."

"By the way." Moss Jeff remembered something, "What is the name of our company?"

Charles said: "How about calling the security department the Fire Dragon Guards Bureau."

Moss Jeff thought the name was quite awe-inspiring.

The two raised their glasses and clinked them together to celebrate the establishment of the Fire Dragon Guard Bureau.

Charles then discussed salary, company structure, office space and other matters with Moss Jeff.

Charles will be busy next. The first thing is to prepare the office space.

He planned to arrange the place in Hogsmeade and go to the Hog's Head Bar to ask Aberforth, a local bastard, about it another day.