Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 102 Ally Strength
Although the Greenglass family is low-key, they actually own a lot of property.They are the second largest shareholders in Ogden Distillery (the largest being the Ogden family), and they also have many business partnerships with the Wizarding Stew Company.But when it comes to their biggest business, it's their Fantastic Beast Farm.

Ogden Distillery is a supplier of high-end whiskey, and Professor Lockhart's favorite Ogden Flame Whiskey is their signature work; the main business of Wizard Stew Pot Company is kitchen utensils for wizard families, and they are also the largest sponsor of all concerts of Celestina Warbeck.

The wealth and social influence of the Greengrass family is also among the top among many pure-blood families.Gareth himself is a member of the Wizengamot, and also replaced Lucius as one of the 12 Hogwarts trustees after he lost power.With the support of the Greenglass family, Schelling has more confidence in his future plans.

[The "Allies" Greengrass family got it! 】

For the next five days, Schelling spent time with the three girls.

Schelling would sometimes give them instructions on Occlumency, and sometimes explain to Astoria what they needed to pay attention to in the next semester.

In addition, Gareth sometimes takes him out to make some new contacts, such as Oska Rigibit, the big boss of the dragon breeding area in Romania.The Romanian dragon breeding area is the world's largest dragon breeding area, which has at least eight species of dragons: Chinese Fireball, Welsh Green Dragon, Hungarian Horntail, Norwegian Ridgeback, Peruvian Vipertooth, Romanian Longhorn, Swedish Short-nosed Dragon, and Ukrainian Ironbelly.

This dragon breeding area was founded by Oska's father, the famous dragon scientist, Harvey Rigibitt in the early [-]th century. In just a few decades, it surpassed the dragon breeding area in Sweden and became the largest breeding area in Europe.In the next few decades, it became the leader of the dragon breeding industry in the world; and the Greengrass family, the leader of the magical animal breeding industry, can be said to be bright for a while.

Oscar was not satisfied with sticking to the achievements his father had left him. Recently, he planned to expand the business of the dragon breeding area again, so he raised funds in his small circle. Strictly speaking, Gareth, who can be regarded as a colleague, was one of the people he invited.Gareth also gave Xie Lin a hand and asked Xie Lin to join this small circle.

Xie Lin invested [-] Galleons in exchange for one-fifth of the stock in the breeding area, becoming the second largest shareholder of the breeding area. At the same time, his arrogance was also recognized by the circle, allowing him to take the opportunity to expand more contacts.

No, another big man in the circle took the initiative to find Xie Lin to make friends with.

Philbert Devrier, manager and big boss behind Puddlemere United.

Founded in 1163, Puddlemere United is the oldest team in the British and Irish Quidditch League (referred to as the Anglo-Irish League).This team has won the Anglo-Irish League 22 times and also won the European Champions Cup twice.

But Puddlemere United's title status and popularity have been seriously challenged since Gwenog Jones, the dangerously powerful woman, became captain of the Holyhead Harpies a few years ago.

Gwenog Jones was an excellent batsman, but what is even more memorable is her personality. She once publicly stated that witches are better for Quidditch than wizards. No one dared to disagree with this view;

Her flamboyant and self-centered personality has actually attracted a lot of fans for her.

It's not that no one thought of dealing with her, but the Jones family she was born in was not easy to mess with. Her aunt, Hestia Jones, had a close relationship with Dumbledore, and she herself was a lover of potion master Horace Slughorn. Not only was she a member of the innermost circle in the legendary "Slug Club", but she also gave Horace free ball game tickets every year, and the two kept in close contact.

This season, Devrier plans to do something.His primary plan is to poach corners, a lot of corner poaching, and poach outstanding players from other teams with high salaries.To accomplish this, he needs financial support.The transfer fee for the Holyhead Harpies' ace Chaser Verda Griffith alone was as high as a thousand Galleons.

Therefore, after hearing about Xie Lin's large investment in the fire dragon breeding area, he approached this financial backer who had become famous in the business world.

Xie Lin was quite surprised, this is the first person who took the initiative to seek investment from him, it seems that his reputation in the business world has been completely opened up.At the same time, he couldn't help thinking that he would finally be able to own his own team like the rich Muggles in his previous life. (Several major teams in the Premier League have been bought by rich people)

Schelling was not overwhelmed by the excitement. After carefully reading the prospectus, he added a few more conditions to the prospectus to ensure that his own interests would not be damaged by accidents, that is, the team management must buy insurance for players in case of accidents.

He didn't remember the plot of Quidditch very clearly. After all, this plot was not mentioned in the original book, but appeared in an official Prophet's Daily. He only vaguely remembered that the poaching behavior of Puddlemere United seemed to have caused public outrage, and then it seemed that some players had an accident in the end.

After several discussions, Schelling finally bought a quarter of Puddlemere United for [-] Galleons.

[Acquisition of shares in the Romanian dragon breeding area! 】

[Pudmiller United's shares are obtained! 】

The cash in Xie Lin's hands shrank sharply.However, Schelling's own expenses were not large, Hogwarts campus life did not require much expense, and obviously he did not need to use his own money when living at home.Although he is living in the Green Manor now, it is obviously impossible for Gareth to charge him living expenses.

Of course, Schelling's money has been continuously coming into the account from the publishing house, Miracle Alchemy, Ellerbee and Badmore Broom Company, that is, the artificially cultivated mushroom trading house. The profit may not be much, but there are still small sums of Galleons coming into the account regularly. The total return on all investments is about [-] Galleons per year.

All in all, even if the investment in Dragon Breeding Area and Puddlemere United ends up losing money, it will only take a few years for him to recover his financial strength.

At the same time, Schelling thought about the upcoming Quidditch World Cup. It seemed that he would make good use of this World Cup to earn some money.

Under Gareth's instruction, Daphne also took Schelling to visit Greengrass's family property during this period of time. Apart from expressing the family's trust in him, it also meant to show the family's strength and value.

As expected of the leader in the magical animal breeding industry, the Greenglass family's magical animal farm really opened Schelling's eyes.

The stables contained all breeds of Pegasus: the gray Graling Pegasus, the gigantic rune horse, the sorrel Iseron, the extremely rare Thestrals, and crosses between the breeds.

"Is it okay for us to breed hybrid species like this? Isn't there the 1965 "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments Act?" Although Schelling knew the power of the Greengrass family, he didn't think it was a wise idea to keep track of these things.

Daphne smiled and said, "Of course it's no problem. Our family's farm is one of the few companies in Great Britain that holds a license. In fact, Hogwarts also has one...so don't be surprised if there are any strange and dangerous new species in Hagrid's magical creatures class next semester."

(Note: Hagrid's snails can be used openly in the Goblet of Fire project, apparently perfectly legal)
Schelling suddenly remembered the original story of the Riversley twins using the Pygmy Puff to breed Pygmy Puff, and then selling it publicly in their joke shop, apparently with a license in advance.Later, Pygmy Puff became the best-selling product in the "Wonderful Witch Series" products of the joke shop.

When Schelling mentioned the inspiration for growing pygmy cattails, Daphne tilted her head and thought for a while, "We also have an area dedicated to cultivating cattail cattails here, which are mainly supplied to the major pet stores in Diagon Alley and sold as wizard pets. Let's go! I'll show you there!"

The two walked to the area where the velvet was cultivated. It was a velvet nest surrounded by a low fence, filled with leftovers, and the velvet of different colors were happily licking with their slender, pink tongues.

"That's Appaloosa Puffskein," Daphne pointed to a relatively large puffskein with silver-white hair. "It has the ability to expand and shrink. Since the breeder in New York was banned by the Magical Congress of America in 1925, our family is the only one in the world that still has this breed of puffskein."

"I think that there is still a lot of space for the cattail as a pet. If we can breed more pink and lavender cattails that are more attractive to women, and then shrink the size, it will definitely be very popular." Schelling put forward his opinion, "I can also help in this regard, and I have also dabbled in the transformation of species."

Daphne stared at Xie Lin with sparkling eyes, "Is there anything you don't know?" After that, she smiled sweetly, "Let me tell my father about this, it can be a cooperative project between you and our family, and if it succeeds in the end, you can also get a share."

Then the two visited the horse-shaped water monster in a large pool.The horse-shaped water monster is a deformed creature. They do not necessarily appear in the form of a horse. The most famous horse-shaped water monster "Nessie" appears in the image of a plesiosaur in the Jurassic period (similar to Laplace in Pokémon).

There are also a large group of cats and swallow-tailed dogs in the garden. They are running around and making various dexterous movements under the instruction of the breeder.

There are hundreds of employees in this breeding farm, all of them are professional magical biologists, and each breeder only needs to take care of and train one kind of magical animal specified in the employment contract.They have a deep understanding of their respective fields of magical animals, and can often tell Schelling a lot of little knowledge that cannot be learned in books.

Walking to the area where the unicorns were kept, Xie Lin saw a group of horse-shaped creatures with snow-white bodies and long spiral horns on their foreheads, walking gracefully.

There are also two little unicorns in the group of unicorns, whose whole body is golden yellow, as if cast of gold, and their signature long horns have not yet grown on the top of their heads.Little unicorns generally don't start to turn their fur into silvery white until they are two years old, they start to grow horns around four years old, and when they reach adulthood around seven years old, their hair will turn into beautiful pure white. Even the purest white snow will look gray and pale around them.

Not far from the group of unicorns, there stood a unicorn creature with its head held high, which looked a bit out of place. It was covered with jet-black hair, its eyes were piercing, and it was extremely majestic.Even with Schelling's knowledge, he couldn't identify it.

"This is?" Schelling asked.

Daphne is very satisfied with the effect of this creature. "This is the legendary Oriental unicorn. It is known as a puppet in China. European unicorn can easily distinguish the good and evil in people's hearts, so only the purest women are close to them; while 獬豸 have another very different ability. Very popular, can raise them as pets are generally clean and fair public officials. "

The two spent most of the day in the farm, and finally came to the last corner that they hadn't visited yet.

This is a towering mahogany tree, and you must take a special magic elevator to go up.In a certain branch, Xie Lin actually saw a phoenix nest!

"Don't think too much. Even with the strength of our family, we have not been able to obtain a phoenix. As far as I know, only our principal Dumbledore can own a phoenix in the whole of Great Britain." Daphne paused, and continued to explain: "This is actually a subspecies of the phoenix. It is a hybrid of a phoenix and a peacock. It cannot be reborn from the ashes, but its feathers and tears are still precious raw materials."

Even if it is only a subspecies of Phoenix, it is quite remarkable.Schelling's evaluation of the strength of the Greenglass family has once again raised a level.

Time passed in such a rare leisurely way, and August 8 came soon.

Gareth took the butler Morgarden, Sherin and their three daughters to use the Portkey assigned by the Ministry of Magic to the venue where the Quidditch World Cup was held - Devonshire, Dartmoor Wilderness.

　Hestia Jones is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and one of the nine advance guards (the advance guards are selected for their aerial combat capabilities and must be able to cast spells while flying).

　　The Appaloosa Poodle is a rare species of Poodle. In 1926, Newt tried to enter the United States on the grounds of going to New York to buy it, but was told by Tina that the breeder had been forced out of school by the Magical Congress of America a year ago.

　　
　
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