Gargamel is the name Dudley gave himself.
Because Dudley's impression of Gargamel was that he basically didn't cast spells and just kept brewing potions. Dudley felt that this was very similar to him.
Although he has more thick and luxuriant hair than the real Gargamel, he is still physically strong enough to beat up twenty such skinny guys at once.
Do you think this is a gathering place for wizards?
No! Dudley couldn't get into that kind of place.
This is the gathering place for the Squibs.
The Squibs were unable to cast spells, so the room was not cast with a traceless stretching spell. The image of the fallen wizard was not very good, let alone the image of the Squibs.
Squibs have a hard time in the wizarding world because they don't know magic, which means they can't engage in magic-related professions, which means they have no source of income. After all, not every squib is like the administrator of Hogwarts. Mr. Filch is so lucky.
If Squib wants to live in the magical world without relying on family support, he must find another way out and think of other ways.
They are the lowest level of the wizarding world...
Therefore, Squib often travels between the Muggle world and the wizarding world in order to survive. He is also the person Muggles are most likely to have contact with about the magical world.
After all, those wizards who pride themselves on being superior will never look directly at Muggles.
The attendant had the best appearance among the group of squibs. Even so, his clothes looked greasy and dirty.
Except for a few Squibs like Mrs. Figg, don't expect most Squibs to be hygienic. They refuse to use Muggle washing powder and detergents, but they don't know how to use the 'Clean Up' spell.
There's only one word to describe it...sloppy.
The wizards have Hogsmeade, but the squibs don't have that strength. They can only live in houses built by Muggles.
While passing by a room, Dudley vaguely heard a few words coming from inside...such as magic, quick...
The attendant led Dudley into the deepest room in the house with a flattering look on his face.
That was the agreed place for the transaction.
Dudley was their big customer, so he had to be treated with caution.
In the room, there were several Squibs who had been waiting here for a long time. After Dudley entered the room, they all stood up and looked at Dudley with flattering faces.
"Where are the things?" Dudley got straight to the point as soon as he entered the room.
The main reason is that the smell here is so bad. As a person with a normal or even superior sense of smell, he doesn't want to stay there for a moment longer.
"Dear Mr. Gargamel, this is what you want."
A Squib in the room who looked a little cleaner handed Dudley a small satchel he was carrying.
Dudley took the small satchel and opened it to take a look. The satchel had obviously been cast under a traceless stretching spell. The space inside was much larger than it looked on the outside, but the space was also extremely limited and could only store a lot. something.
Jumping root, gillyweed, scurvy, lovage, sneezeweed... and other common medicinal materials that are familiar to the magic world are neatly placed in glass bottles. In addition, there are several magic books. books.
'It's enough to last you a while. '
Dudley took a cursory glance and found that although the quality of these potions was not of the highest quality, it was not too bad either.
The main reason is that he can't go to the wizard's world to buy it himself, so it's good to be able to get these.
"The stuff is correct, but next time I hope to get some slightly rarer materials. For example, fire ash snake eggs, jumping mushroom hats, troll snot, sap grass, African tree snake skin, etc."
"Those things you mentioned are not easy to get." The squib said this first, then rubbed his fingers and said: "But if the price is right, it will be no problem. Since you are satisfied with the things this time, you see... "
The squib just said casually that many of the materials Dudley wanted were contraband, which would be difficult for even normal wizards to obtain, let alone them.
In fact, Dudley also wanted some bicorn horn powder, but that stuff was one of the contraband items, and it was impossible for Squib to get it.
"As long as you can get it for me, money is no object."
Dudley said as he placed the small bag on the table and poured it out.
The group of squibs in the room stared straight at him, their eyes full of greed.
Under the dim light, it was so bright and golden that it blinded your eyes.
It's all gold inside.
Naturally, the currency Dudley and Squib traded could not be pounds, they only accepted gold.
It's not that squibs are all antiques, but because gold can barely be used as currency in the magical world.
Without the magic stone that turns everything into gold and disrupts the market, gold is hard currency.
After all, one of the main raw materials of Galleons is gold.
In fact, Gringotts in the wizarding world provides a business of exchanging pounds for gold galleons. 5 pounds can be exchanged for 1 galleons, but the upper limit is one hundred gold galleons per year, and it is only for young wizards studying at Hogwarts.
Ordinary people simply cannot take advantage of the price difference loophole to make profits. Don’t think that those goblins are fools. Their desire and greed for money are far beyond your imagination.
I went to Gringotts to exchange this bag of gold, but I could only get a pitiful amount of gold galleons.
Galleons are gold, but gold is not equal to Galleons. It also requires special processing methods and numbering by the fairies.
Excluding the cost of magic materials, the squibs only made a hard-earned profit, and the goblins made most of it.
I have to say that wizards are really crazy, and they actually put their own economic lifeline in the hands of a defeated race.
“A pleasure to work with.”
Dudley was in a good mood after getting a small bag with the Traceless Stretching Charm. Without even looking at the gold on the table, he carefully put the bag away and said to the Squib.
Now he doesn't lack money, he only lacks potion materials.
And he discovered that as long as the potion is well prepared, it is not much worse than ordinary wizards.
The power of some potions is actually quite extraordinary.
"Happy cooperation." Needless to say, the Squibs felt happy after winning the gold.
As for robbing Dudley to get back the potion materials... I never thought about it. As squibs, it was useless for them to get the potion materials, and it was hard to find a master who was as generous as Dudley these days.
If you offend him, the loss will be huge.
Besides, the squib can't cast spells, so what's the point of robbing it? Melee?
Seeing Dudley's unattractive and strong figure, any thoughts he had had were extinguished.
Dudley went out from the alley, and soon got into the car at the agreed place. Then the driver drove to a property, which was a place Dudley bought specifically to store potions. There was still some time before noon. , he has to put things away first.
There is no need for Petunia and the others, who are averse to magic, to see it yet.
At least it's not the time yet.
