Chapter 39 Material Clues
"sell things?"
After listening to Levin's words, the old man's face immediately showed an expression of interest.
"Aren't you a Muggle? Where did you sell these things? Don't tell me there are Muggle things in them, I won't accept them."
"Don't worry about who I am." Levin patted his chest carelessly, "I can be considered an old customer. I know your rules. They are all products of the magical world."
"As for where it comes from...we follow the rules, and you must follow the rules too."
"I know, I know, don't ask where it came from." Strakey waved the hand holding the cigarette and muttered in a low voice, "Forget it if you don't tell me, I can see it myself."
Having said that, he stepped forward and opened the box.
But he immediately stopped moving.
"Oh, I didn't realize it. This box is also a good product."
The old man looked at the box and carefully stroked the lines on it with his fingers.
"This style, this processing technique, this old leather, these traces of time...wait a minute, you made these traces today! A handmade leather suitcase from the Victorian era, you actually let you bump it like this!"
Halfway through touching it, Strakey became annoyed with Levin's carelessness with the antique, and glared at the boy angrily.
But the boy was obviously not afraid of him, and just said in a casual tone: "Since you cherish the antique so much, then buy it quickly, lest it fall into the hands of an ignorant person like me."
"Hmph! Of course I will buy it," the old man snorted, "but before that, I want to see what good stuff you have, and you actually want to put it in an antique box."
As he spoke, the old man carefully opened the buckle of the box and opened the lid.
There was a whole box of old books neatly stacked inside.
Cow and sheep leather covers, pages bound with glue and thread, paper full of gaps, and classic printed and handwritten letters...
Straky read them one by one and was surprised to find that most of these books were more than 100 years old:
"Toadstool Stories", "Oops, I Deformed My Feet", "Why Didn't I Die When the Oracle Wailed", "The Magic of Chadwick (Volume 1-7)", "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration", " Jigli Bokley and Hawkes Pokes", "Hogwarts: A School History"...
They are all wizarding books, and more than half of them are Hogwarts textbooks from a hundred years ago. For example, "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" and "Hogwarts: A School History" are revised versions a hundred years ago, with students written on them. notes.
These books, including the Victorian chest, were carefully selected by Levin from the Room of Requirement using the [Appraisal Technique].
The box is naturally for the convenience of loading things.
As for why I chose a box of books,
That's because Levin believes that selling books is the safest and most cost-effective way.
Looking at the large garbage dump in the Room of Requirement, there are all kinds of waste products in it.
Without making it known to everyone, what Levin has to do is to transport the highest value goods through the smallest space and weight.
There is an explanation for this,
First, of course, magic items are worth more than normal items.
However, [Repair Spell] can usually only repair ordinary items. If you want to repair magic items, you must be proficient in magic patterns and alchemy.
This is currently something Levin can't do.
In this case, Levin can only settle for the next best thing and choose the more expensive ordinary items.
In this way, things like furniture, bottles and cans are eliminated. They are large and difficult to sell.
Apart from jewelry and luxury goods, the best-selling items are books.
However, it is not easy for ordinary people to give luxury goods like jewelry to the Room of Requirement.
Even if you insist on picking some out, it’s difficult to sell them—it’s easy to be regarded as stolen goods.
But antique books are different.
First of all, antique books are widely available, so they are not stolen by thieves and are easy to sell.
Secondly, in the world of Harry Potter, books are not cheap and are much more cost-effective than furniture.
Thirdly, Levin has a massive database and copywriting skills, so even if these books have missing pages, they can be easily repaired.
The door of the junk shop,
Straky read these old books from beginning to end, and from end to end,
He looked at it several times until Levin became impatient, then raised his head and looked at the boy with admiration.
"Oh, I didn't see it. Your repair technique is really good."
After a pause, he continued: "We are all acquaintances, so let me tell you straight away, your books are well restored, but most of them are old textbooks, so the market is a bit narrow."
"Therefore, a book can only give you a purchase price of 8 Galleons, and the box will count you 50 Galleons. What do you think?"
8 galleons?
After hearing the price, Levin thought secretly.
The price is actually similar to that of new books. For example, a fifth-grade Potions textbook costs 9 Galleons.
If these books are sold as used books, then the price is very high.
And if these books are regarded as antiques, the price is lower.
But considering that these books are shipped in batches, it is difficult to find buyers, and the sources are somewhat...it is not unacceptable to lower the price a little.
Levin thought for a while and counter-offered: "I don't think so. There are 67 books in total. Each book is worth 10 galleons. If you add the box, you can give me 700 galleons."
"A copy actually sells for 10 Galleons, why don't you go and grab it?" Straki suddenly became angry.
"A copy only costs 8 Galleons, you are trying to steal it!" Levin said tit for tat, and he was not false at all.
After the two of them blew their beards and stared at each other for a while, Levin finally said: "Hey, Mr. Abraham, you can think about it. If this deal is completed, I will come to you again when I have new business in the future."
"And there's new business!?"
Straki's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded after silently calculating.
"Okay, deal, you kid. You've got a big advantage this time."
"Just say so."
Levin took the dragonhide bag containing 700 galleons and turned to leave.
Now that the deal has been concluded, he doesn't mind letting the other party gain some leverage.
"See you next time, Strakey, and Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas Grimm!"
After leaving the junk shop for a hundred steps, Levin's face burst into a satisfied smile.
This time I am really rich.
Whether in the Muggle world or the wizarding world,
Money couldn't be more important,
He didn't want to experience the tight life during the summer vacation again.
Even if he doesn't care about external objects, studying magic is the most expensive thing.
Having some money on hand is good for both life and research.
With the money, the first thing Levin did was to change his entire outfit.
The wizard robes, crucibles, experimental equipment...all were replaced with new ones.
He even went so far as to buy Hemmer a brand new cage and a pack of delicious (for a Scottish round-faced chicken) rat jerky.
Then came Christmas, and he was rich again,
This means that Hemer, who has been idle for half a semester, will have to work hard for a few days.
He spent the next time wandering around Diagon Alley, trying to find out information that was always the key ingredient in the elixir.
The blood of Riam cattle, the claw powder of ocelot, the tail tip hair of nine-tailed fox, the beak powder of griffon, the bear paw of bear bear and the head feathers of owl beast.
In the end, several old acquaintances, Miss Hayden, the female clerk at the Magical Creatures Shop, and the two owners of Slugjigs' Pharmacy came to help him.
As the largest magical animal shop in Diagon Alley, Miss Hayden's shop is inevitably associated with poachers.
Miss Hayden revealed that there are indeed several groups of poachers in the East trying to find mysterious creatures like the nine-tailed fox, and they claim to have clear information.
Hayden didn't think the other party could really catch the nine-tailed fox.
This magical creature has the ability to use its tail to cast mysterious spells.
No matter what kind of desperate situation, as long as one tail is sacrificed, the nine-tailed fox can escape.
The sacrificed tail will take decades to grow.
But as long as that group of poachers can push the nine-tailed fox to this point, it will be easy to get some tail hairs.
So Levin left Miss Hayden 50 Galleons and asked her to pay attention to the news in this regard.
As for the shopkeepers of Slugjigs Pharmacy, they brought news of Reem Ox Blood.
Although the annual output of this kind of blood is very small, they do have suitable channels.
After all, they also have backgrounds.
"Magic Potions and Potions" written by Arsene Giger is the Potions textbook at Hogwarts.
Horace Slughorn was the Potions Professor at Hogwarts for 50 years (his successor was Snape).
So Levin left 100 Galleons as a deposit, and he would be able to get a copy of the blood of the Reem cow during the summer vacation.
Levin was very happy to receive the news of two rare materials in one go.
But the remaining four are relatively slim.
Among them, the head feathers of the moonkin are not considered for the moment. This thing has never been a native creature in the Harry Potter world. Levin can't expect the moonkin to suddenly cross the world and come here like the water ghost.
The ocelot is a famous magical creature in America.
It can walk upright, run faster than an arrow, and its eyes are said to have hypnotic and Legilimency powers.
A school at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is named after it, and its hair is also the material for the core of American wands.
The claws of ocelots are not a mainstream potion material.
But since wizards in America can get hair, they may not be able to get claws.
I will consider this when I have time to go to the United States.
The Bear is a magical creature from the East, also known as the Bear. It is a terrifying creature that looks like a giant bear.
This thing comes from the far east, so Levin can't get his hands on it yet.
The only one that seems slightly easier to deal with is the gryphon.
The griffon, also known as the griffon, is a magical animal native to Greece.
This is an ancient magical creature. They have the forelimbs, wings and head of a giant eagle, while the body, hind legs and tail are like a lion. They mainly feed on raw meat and have a ferocious temperament, but skilled wizards can also fight with them. It makes friends.
Gryphons once spread all over Europe and were widely found in the records of wizards at that time.
But today few people have heard of them.
Instead, their descendants from horses—hippogriffs (also called hippogriffs)—were widely bred by wizards as their substitutes.
But magic materials are another matter;
The hippogriff can replace the griffin as a mount, but it cannot replace the griffin as the medicinal ingredient for elixirs.
Compared with ocelots, bear bears and owl beasts, griffons are rare, but at least they are a native animal.
So next, Levin decided to start looking for griffons first.
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