Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 420 Provoking Conflict
If the Spring Festival travel rush is not counted, the East African animal migration that begins in June every year is the largest animal migration in the world, attracting countless tourists.

Animals such as zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, African elephants, lions, serpents and leopards travel 3,000 kilometers to where there is food.

A light plane flew over the vast grassland, and the passengers in the cabin kept killing the film in the camera.

After the plane landed, tourists came to the hotel's service center, where they could develop and dry photos.

However, one young tourist did not go there, but decided to do it himself because the photos he developed were in GIF format.

The hotel offers a variety of rooms, from local-style wooden houses to tree houses, which are popular with British tourists.

The Queen of England was on vacation here. One day, when she climbed up the tree house, she was still a princess, but when she came down, she was already the queen.

After dinner, someone who looks exactly like Eleanor walks into the tree house, and someone who looks exactly like Charles, who has been staying there, is about to go into the bathroom.

"The blue bottle in the nightstand drawer, thank you."

An hour later, Charles and Eleanor returned to their original state.

Charles asked curiously, "Have you developed a potion to crack the Polyjuice Potion?"

Eleanor, who was drying her hair with a hair dryer, replied, "There are many ways. They are all in Gringotts. It's not difficult."

After she finished blowing her hair, she took a can of beer and a bottle of happy water from the refrigerator, sat on the sofa, handed the happy water to Charles next to her, and asked, "Can you tell me what you did?"

Eleanor was very curious. This time, Charles suddenly called her from London to Africa, thousands of miles away, to help him prove his alibi. There must be something big going on.

Charles took a sip of happy water, sighed, and said, "It's a just thing, and it's very dangerous. People will die."

This incident offended the American No-Maj and Wizarding governments. If they knew who did it, they would definitely hunt them down.

It was for this reason that Charles went to Moscow for help.

Eleanor smiled, took a sip of beer, and said helplessly, "You make it sound like I won't die."

"Since you don't want to say it, forget it."

Charles could understand her feelings; being an undercover agent was not something that most people could do.

Eleanor took another sip of beer and continued, "We have control over most of Gringotts' channels in the UK, and are now lobbying European countries to take joint action."

Charles didn't want to comment on the matter, as it was the job of the old man and Grindelwald.

Eleanor said as she drank, "The International Statute of Secrecy is not as useful as many people think. The goblins have a monopoly on the grain trade."

She smiled and continued, "But this monopoly is a joke. Only pure-blood wizard families would go to them and spend a lot of money to buy food."

“So, we decided to increase the price.”

Charles understood a little.

Traditional wizards in the UK are path-dependent when purchasing food. They just keep buying from the same place they bought it before, which gives the goblins room to maneuver.

But wizards like Harry have intersections with the Muggle world. If the goblins sell it at a higher price, they might as well buy it at the supermarket. No one's money comes from the wind.

Charles asked Eleanor, "You control the previous family?"

To raise prices, we have to control the upstream channels. It seems that those people have found someone to cooperate with the goblins.

Eleanor replied: "Yes, there are several very old families that once produced wizards."

"They don't have much power and have been hiding in the local area."

Charles curled his lips. Is this the iron fist of capitalism beating old feudalism?

Eleanor continued, "Since before Easter."

Charles rubbed his chin and thought.

This action has limited impact on the wizarding community as a whole. The trouble is concentrated on pure wizards such as the Weasley family and the Longbottom family, and they have the loudest voice in this society. If their interests are damaged, they will definitely jump out, so who will the spearhead be directed at?

The answer is self-evident, it's the goblin.

Once the conflict between wizards and goblins is aroused and a way out is created, future work will be easier to carry out.

Other areas are different, but when it comes to being a troublemaker, Charles believes in the level of traditional British craftsmanship.

This matter may take several years. Considering that Eleanor has been undercover for so many years, those people probably won't be in a hurry.

Charles' brows suddenly frowned and asked, "Does this matter require my cooperation?"

Eleanor was not a person who did not know the seriousness of the matter. Logically speaking, there was no reason for her to tell a small fry like her about such a big thing. Now that she had told them, it was obvious that she had a purpose.

"Yes," Eleanor said seriously, "we plan to let you take over this part of the business in the future."

Charles immediately refused.

The purpose of those people was very clear. While fighting the goblins, they also set an example for wizards, telling everyone that cooperating with goblins is bad and that wizards should cooperate with wizards.

Now that the Dancing Grass Restaurant has established a firm foothold in the catering industry, it can open up a breakthrough from this point and occupy the food market in the wizarding society.

Charles would definitely not agree. He couldn't handle the food issue on his own and he didn't have the energy for it.

Don't even think about looking for an agent after you get it yourself. There is no one you can trust who is suitable for this job.

There is no need to think about Harry and Hermione, they have their own ideals and will not do it.

Fleur is trustworthy, but she is French, and the British will never allow the French to control their food supply.

Seamus was even more unlikely than Fleur, for the simple reason that he was Irish.

In Charles' plan, the Dancing Grass Restaurant can sell take-out, pre-prepared dishes and semi-finished products. It is impossible to sell agricultural products directly, and no restaurant will do that.

Eleanor shrugged when she saw Charles refused, she was just passing on a message.

"Oh, right." Eleanor remembered something. "Someone sent you an anonymous letter with a Gringotts check in it. It was written by you."

"I came in a hurry and put it in the safe in the office."

Charles thought about it and realized that he had only written a check to Malfoy recently. Did this kid not want to do it anymore?
He doesn't care. If he doesn't want to do it, then he doesn't have to do it.

Then Charles asked about the Centaur Liaison Office.

Eleanor was silent for a moment, then said, "I have a feeling that the ministry may take action against our office."

"Now our business network is all over the world. The ministry has begun to ask us to gather information. It is very likely that we will become an intelligence organization in the future."

Charles was a little puzzled as to why the ministry had suddenly become so smart as to set up an intelligence organization.

He suddenly thought, could it be Grindelwald's doing?

"It's up to them." Charles shook his head. "At worst, they can give up this department and the business. You can go to another less busy department."

Eleanor lowered her head, squeezed the beer can with both hands, bit her lips tightly, and whispered after a few minutes: "I want to take charge of this department."

Charles raised his eyebrows, turned his head, and found that she was looking at him seriously.

The work of the intelligence department is not something that ordinary people can do. There are political struggles internally and foreign forces externally. If you are not careful, death is a luxury.

How to lead work for subordinates and how to gain the trust of leaders are both difficult technical tasks.

"Just do it if you want." Charles patted her shoulder.

He knew very well what kind of person Eleanor was, and she would not easily change her mind once she had made a decision.

(End of this chapter)