Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

Lucius was finally taken away.

And because of the lynching of Gringotts staff, he was again fined a thousand galleons and sentenced to two months in prison.

Murphy expressed deep sympathy for this and hoped that he could get along with the dementors in Azkaban and reform.

As for Lucius's accusations against Murphy, they were all overturned due to insufficient evidence.

At the same time, Murphy's vault has returned to normal use, and no one will question the so-called source of funds.

In return for defecting in Locke Court, Murphy hired this goblin as his sole agent to help him manage funds in the wizarding world.

Later, Murphy honored the donation to the Ministry of Magic and the "small" gift from the Minister's Madam with great integrity as promised, and received a lot of praise.

In the days following the Wizengamot Trials, Murphy became virtually the most popular person in the Ministry of Magic.

Millicent personally applied for a VIP visit permit for him. From now on, he will be able to apparate into the Ministry of Magic at any time without applying in advance.

Thinking about the situation a few months ago when he had to use a temporary passage to work, Murphy couldn't help but feel a little ironic.

I work hard, so I am wronged.

I have nothing to worry about, so I move freely.

Since this is the rule of the world, can you blame me if I become like this?

A few days later, the "Supreme Potion" shop opened in Knockturn Alley.

The total cost of renting the store, decorating it, purchasing raw materials, and buying some potions to show off the store was less than a thousand Galleons.

Because it was so cheap, Murphy opened another branch in Diagon Alley.

He didn't care about the money from selling potions, but it was nice to be able to disgust Malfoy.

On the first day of opening, there is a big discount on Supreme Potions. All potions are only 30% off, and top-up members are only 10% off.

And the campaign will continue until Slug and Giggs pharmacies go out of business.

Isn't it just burning money? I can afford it.

With the current profitability of umbrella companies, it is no problem to keep burning for a year or two, or even keep burning.

Murphy felt that Internet marketing methods developed more than thirty years later were a bit overkill when used against a small wizard pharmacy.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as it works.

At the same time, the Supreme Potion Store began to recruit, and it wanted to recruit thirty potion makers.

Of course, these clerks are not here to look after the store for him. They will go deep into the production line of beautiful potions and start their own brick-moving career.

At present, Murphy has not found a non-magical method of making beautiful potions, so he can only use this method to increase production.

Murphy isn’t worried about not being able to recruit people.

The employment pressure in the wizarding world was too great. Even if he cut the offered salary in half, applicants could still queue from the Leaky Cauldron to Ollivander's Wand Shop.

Looking back at his failed job search from the perspective of a capitalist, Murphy now believes that it was inevitable.

The existence of magic means that most stores do not need to recruit clerks at all.

Things like washing dishes and clearing tables can be done with magic, and they're pretty good, so why hire a waiter?

Magic is so convenient that some low-skilled jobs have completely lost their value.

Looking at the entire Diagon Alley, almost every shop is managed by the owner alone, because tasks such as sorting goods and cleaning can be easily solved by magic.

In fact, the omnipotence of magic does more than just reduce jobs.

From a broader perspective, this omnipotence also inhibits the great division of labor in society.

A wizard who has mastered magic can easily meet all his needs in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Not to mention things like cooking a meal, cleaning, and tailoring clothes. For Muggles, building a house may require the cooperation of many people and many days to complete. Wizards only need to wave their wands. Completed easily.

Wizards only need to master a little more magic to achieve the productivity jump that Muggles achieve through social division of labor and standardized production chains.

This leads to the fact that wizards have far less need for material exchange and exchange of needs than Muggles.

Therefore, wizards are far less in need of society than Muggles. They do not need to be social beings. They are closer to and more willing to live a self-sufficient life as a family unit like in the farming era of the Muggle world.

This is why wizards seem so strangely casual, so innocent, and so independent.

Because society's restraint on them is really not that strong.

This is why Diagon Alley, a shopping mall in the British wizarding world, only has a few streets.

Because they don't need so many stores, they don't have that much demand.

This is why the Ministry of Magic's control over wizards seems so lax.

Because it was more like a commune than a government, there was not so much reason for coercion.

This is why wizards would hand over the right to mint coins to goblins who they had nothing to deal with.

In the eyes of Muggles, this is like giving a gun to one's enemy, but in the eyes of wizards, it is not the same.

Because even if the wizarding world's economy collapses, it's not that terrible for them.

They will not be out of clothes, nor will they go hungry.

This is a utopia.

A society based on magic, very different from the Muggle world.

In contrast, Murphy, who is used to being involved in the Muggle world, seems to be somewhat out of tune with this society.

In the original book, Hermione who works hard will be regarded as a freak, and the same is true.

Like him, she came from Muggle society and was used to it.

"I was still too naive at the time."

No wonder the owner of the potion shop disliked his methods. He obviously used more advanced and accurate measurement methods, and the potions he prepared were more effective.

But progress is not the first value of this lax society.

Stability and tradition are.

That's why Ollivanders is the best wand shop because it has the oldest standing.

So Hogwarts is second to none because it has the longest history.

That's why some wizards pursue pure blood, because that is the orthodoxy.

A potions shop doesn't need an unconventional clerk.

So...his job search at that time was doomed to failure.

This also explains Dumbledore's conciliatory attitude toward Lucius and himself in the Inquisition.

He is a moderate reformist. He is kind at heart and has his own perseverance, but he does not promote his own ideas. He is wary of evil and fights against it, but he does not hate evil, so his behavior sometimes seems to be : "Just passable."

This may seem strange to Murphy, but this is actually the overall style of wizard society.

Everyone upholds a kind of gentry-like harmony and lives according to some agreed upon and subtle rules.

Here, there is actually no ground for reformers.

Therefore, Grindelwald was doomed to fail, and Voldemort later looked like a joke.

However, now Murphy is here.

He is not a child like Hermione and Harry who only spent their childhood in Muggle society, so he is not as able to assimilate the values ​​​​of wizard society like them.

He is a time traveler, and he was already an adult when he came to wizard society.

His three views have long been formed and are indestructible.

So after having to bite the bullet and try to adapt to the world in the past few years without success, Murphy has now discovered that if he wants to continue living and live comfortably, he must change the world.

He cannot be assimilated, so he can only transform the world into what he likes.

He pulled out the wand he had at this time.

That was his wand.

Aspen, fourteen inches, phoenix core.

This is the wand of revolutionaries.

From the moment he traveled through time, it was actually destined that he would do something big in this world.

(End of Volume 1)

(There will be another chapter in the afternoon)

The first volume is over. I put the summary of the first volume in the work related section. If you want to read it, you can take a look.