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"Harry, I heard you seem to have your own little treasure?" On the morning we left school, Fred and George discreetly approached Harry, one of them whispering in his ear.
Harry was eating his favorite breakfast of bacon and eggs. He raised his eyes when he heard this and looked at the twins, still chewing, but nodded nonetheless.
This year, he also learned more about his father and his own family, the Potter family.
The Potter family has a long history in the British wizarding world, but it is not one of the so-called "twenty-eight pureblood families," because the Potters have had several ancestors who married Muggles, and there were also some squibs in the family.
In fact, there are only a handful of British wizarding families that have never produced a squib. However, most so-called pureblood families exclude from their family trees those members who cannot become wizards, thus maintaining the so-called purity and nobility of their supposed lineage in a misleading way.
Of course, such words would not be found in formal books. However, besides the books bought by the school and donated by various headmasters, Hogwarts' library also contains some books left by students. These books are usually not very serious.
And Harry and Ron, well, they simply enjoy reading these less serious books.
Because of this, Harry and Ron made fun of certain families, such as the Blacks and the Malfoys, who removed family members from their family trees to maintain the so-called purity of their lineage.
The Weasley family is also one of the twenty-eight pureblood families, but they never acknowledged this. Ron said that his father told him that, although there were no records of squibs among their ancestors, there definitely were cases of marriages between their ancestors and Muggles.
However, other pureblood families always disagreed with this point. Rumors are just rumors.
Why does this happen? This brings us to a very interesting phenomenon, the Weasley family is extremely fertile!
Ron's family is a direct descendant of the Weasley family, but the Weasley family is not the only one in the British wizarding world. In fact, there are several other families with the surname Weasley. And all members of the Weasley family seem to have one thing in common, they have many children and grandchildren.
To maintain the so-called purity of their bloodlines, pureblood families can only marry other pureblood families, which leaves them with very few options. In this situation, no family would want the Weasleys, a family with many children and grandchildren, to lose their purity.
Therefore, although the Weasley family has always claimed that there are cases of marriages between their family and Muggles, other families simply pretend not to see this.
Similar situations exist with the Greengrass, Prewett, and Shacklebolt. Although these families did not emphasize that they did not fit the characteristics of a so-called pureblood family, like the Weasleys, they never denied that their families had close ties with Muggles.
However, the pureblood clans chose to ignore this in order to preserve their lineage.
The Weasley family wanted to distance itself from pureblood families but couldn't. The Potter family was once a pureblood family, and they also tried to separate from it, and succeeded.
This probably happened because the Potter family had always been small.
By the time of Harry's father's generation, James Potter, there were barely any members left. Harry's grandparents, Fleamont Potter and Euphemia, were quite old when they had Harry's father, even in the wizarding world.
It's worth noting that the Potter family has always been quite wealthy, and under the leadership of Harry's grandfather, Fleamont Potter, the family's wealth increased several times. This happened because Harry's grandfather, who clearly held the title of Master of Potions, actually researched shampoo.
Even more than half a century later, the quick-smoothing hair spray and magical shampoo invented by Fleamont Potter are still the best-selling hair care products in the entire wizarding world.
Although a hair care product called Violet Series has had strong sales in the last two years, it still hasn't threatened the dominance of the former in the wizarding world.
So, the Potter family is super wealthy! Harry wasn't sure how rich his father was, but from information provided by his teachers and Hagrid, he learned that his father had never worked and spent money like water. However, the vault Hagrid took him to still contained hundreds of thousands of Galleons.
Harry also discovered that the Potter family had other properties, but they were temporarily held in trust by Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic.
Well, Harry could rest easy if left in Dumbledore's care. After all, it was hard for him to imagine someone with Dumbledore's status and skill being greedy for money. If he wanted to, many people would be begging to give him Galleons.
This could be seen by the fact that Hogwarts' accounts had always been very sound.
The twins didn't know that their words would make Harry think so much. One of them lowered his voice and said shamelessly, "Harry, we want to collaborate with you... um, yes, collaborate."
Harry swallowed the fried egg in his mouth and looked at the speaker with disdain. What a ridiculous collaboration. They're just here to borrow money and probably won't be able to pay it back.
Harry often asked the twins to help him buy things in Hogsmeade, and they were very generous. Added to other behaviors at school, almost everyone knew that he was very rich.
But that didn't mean he was willing to be a fool. He had known the twins' personalities for a year, and anything they did was definitely unreliable.
Despite Harry's disdainful look, the twins didn't give up and whispered their plans.
At first, Harry wanted to refuse after hearing them superficially, but as he listened, he suddenly felt that it was quite trustworthy.
The twins wanted to ask Harry for some startup capital and then research some gadgets. Similar to the gadgets sold at Zonko's Joke Shop, but more sophisticated and funny.
The twins explained to Harry that they currently had two products they were researching that were almost finished, and the only thing left was to test them. One was Canary Cream, and the other was Ton-Tongue Toffee.
The first could turn the eater into a canary, a very pretty canary. The latter, as the name suggested, would make the tongue swell and grow larger.
Additionally, there are several products that already have ideas and an approximate theoretical foundation but still lack some theoretical perfection, such as the Headless Hat, the magic wand, and the magical quill pen.
The Headless Hat is quite simple. When you put it on, your head disappears. It could be said that it's a partial version of an invisible hat. In fact, this is the main product they are currently researching, and it has even been put into practice, but it hasn't been very successful.
What the twins couldn't understand was why it worked as a hat but never as a piece of clothing. Yes, what they really want to invent is an invisibility cloak.
The magic wand is purely theoretical and could cause all sorts of strange accidents when used.
The magical quill pen is even more amazing. It can write automatically, check spelling, and even complete sentences automatically under certain conditions.
Harry was a victim of the huge amount of homework at Hogwarts. Other things were fine, but he was really interested in the magical quill pen.
"How many Galleons will it take, and how long will it take for you to produce these things you mentioned?" Harry asked, intrigued.
Seeing that Harry was interested, the twins immediately became more enthusiastic. They pulled Harry into a quiet corner and began to describe their beautiful future endlessly.
If Harry had been more mature or talked more about Uncle Vernon's work when communicating with him, he would have known a term called "empty promises."
Yes, now the twins were promising Harry a lot, but in reality, apart from an unstable Headless Hat, they hadn't invented anything else. All these things were still in the imagination stage.
Well, Canary Creams were still in the theoretical stage, but crucial knowledge was still lacking. After all, the twins were only in their third year now.
But Harry didn't know this, and the two were trying to deceive him, making him think that if he gave them some money now, he would get to see things during the summer holidays.
So, Harry was tempted.
However, he still made his own request. He asked the twins to prioritize developing the magical quill pen project.
At that moment, Harry, without any guidance, emphasized to the twins the importance of the magical quill pen project:
"Think about it, it takes time for you to study these things, right? But with so much homework, how can you have time to research? So, the magical quill pen is useful right now. As long as you can study it, you can improve the efficiency of completing homework, so you won't have as much time for research?"
The mutual deceit and empty promises made the three mischievous kids, from both sides, increasingly excited, as they didn't suffer any social punishment.
So, Harry invested two hundred Galleons of gold to help the twins turn theory into practice. The twins also promised to send Harry a sample of the magical quill pen during the summer holidays, at the latest by August, and then Harry's summer homework would be a breeze.
Harry nodded repeatedly, without really believing them. He was grateful that the two boys had figured this out before the end of the year. Harry just hoped that the days after next Easter would be a little easier, the huge amount of homework during this year's Easter holiday had left Harry with some psychological trauma.
In the midst of all the fun and games, the time to leave had arrived.
After hugging Hagrid, Harry boarded the Hogwarts Express back to London.
He didn't know it when he boarded the train, but at a tower atop the castle, Dumbledore was standing at the window, looking at the platform.
Only when he saw white smoke in the distance did Dumbledore look away and walk to the fireplace in the room.
A large sofa sat in front of the fireplace.
Dumbledore sat on it, tapping the armrest with his slender fingers, and muttered:
"Well, it's better than expected, but I'm still a little worried. It would be better if he could be a bit more mature. How can I avoid being noticed? The boy is too sensitive. Ah, right, I need a newcomer, this might be an opportunity…"
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When Harry happily got off the train and ran toward his older cousin Dudley, who was waving at him, a pair of eyes opened in the endless void.
"Huh? Are you leaving?" a voice slowly sounded.
The next moment, a slender figure slowly condensed in the void and eventually turned into a human figure: "Which little lamb took my treasure again? Hehe, it seems like I slept for too long."
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